Hooray for our Pine Bush Elementary School fifth-grade students! They are moving up to middle school and had a wonderful celebration with family, friends, teachers and staff. These students have accomplished so much in the classroom and beyond. They’ve strengthened their social skills, learned an instrument, and covered a tremendous amount academically. Interim Superintendent of …
Continue reading “PBE students are heading to middle school”
Summer sales for school supplies will be popping up soon! Here is the general list of supplies for each grade at Pine Bush Elementary School for the 2022-2023 school year! Enjoy your summer!
We celebrated our PBE fifth-grade students at their moving-up ceremony. Have a look at the video!
Three Pine Bush Elementary School students had very special rides to school recently. Chloe Idsall, Ella Harget and Zoe Taenzer, all fifth-grade students at PBE, had the honor of arriving at school in a Pine Bush Fire Department fire engine, driven by their future principal, John Boyle, of Crispell Middle School. Chloe, Ella and Zoe …
Continue reading “Exemplary fire exit plans earn three PBE students a spectacular ride”
Here are some future ecologists, for sure! Amy Sherwood’s fifth-grade class at PBE had a Mystery Science lesson about decomposers. They used earthworms in a two-day, hands-on experiment to see what earthworms prefer as their living environment and what they like to eat. They first set up compost bags in the class – they are …
Continue reading “Mystery Science experiment gives students hands-on experience with composting”
Students in Patricia LoPresti’s fifth-grade class at PBE recently saw first-hand how oil spills hurt our environment. After learning about oil spills and their effects, they created their own oil, using vegetable oil and cocoa powder. They poured it on feathers, to represent birds. The students brainstormed different methods for cleaning up the oil and …
Continue reading “Fifth graders at PBE learn about cleaning up an oil spill”
Second grade students in Christine Erickson’s class at PBE are studying matter in science. Their task: build a tower out of index cards and tape. The bigger challenge – build it as tall as you can but so that it can support a stuffed Olaf. Not an easy task at all. The students had a …
Continue reading “PBE students aim to build a strong tower of index cards”
Pi Day was celebrated in so many ways throughout the district on March 14. For Leilah Austin’s fifth graders at PBE, they had the opportunity to mark Pi Day by combining math, writing and art in a very creative way. Ms. Austin’s class created math story books. They each chose a math topic – fractions, …
Continue reading “PBE fifth-graders celebrate Pi Day with creative math books”
Happy Pi Day! Yes today, March 14, is the celebration of the mathematical symbol pi, which of course is written as 3.14 for short. Pi Day was first celebrated in 1988 at San Francisco’s Exploratorium, a museum of science and technology. It was physicist Larry Shaw, an employee of the museum, who decided Pi Day …
March 2 is a very special day – it’s a day to celebrate reading and the birth of Dr. Seuss! National Read Across America Day focuses on reading, especially for our youngest students. The tradition here in Pine Bush includes many reading activities for students. However, one of the most anticipated events is when the …
