Author and psychotherapist Tom Kersting will be speaking here in Pine Bush to students, parents and staff about technology and how it is impacting teaching, learning and our kids’ mental health. It is an important message all should consider. Kersting, who is based in New Jersey and lectures throughout the country on raising …
Second-graders in Demitra Bowen’s class at PBE spent some time this week learning about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Students know they have a day off from school on Monday to honor Dr. King. Ms. Bowen helped them discover why. Ms. Bowen discussed with the students just who Dr. King was and what …
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Pine Bush Elementary School hosted a winter AIS (Academic Intervention Services) evening with lots of fun activities, all promoting learning! The reading activities focused on the phonics skills the students have been working on in their AIS groups. The youngest learners played matching games to focus on letter identification, while students in grades 1 through …
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STEM coaches Alyson Callahan and Leilani Howard worked with fifth-graders at all four of our elementary schools on the cloud in a bottle experiment, ultimately giving them a better understanding of air pressure, temperature, clouds and their effects on each other. The students worked in pairs, all with their safety goggles intact. They …
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Pine Bush Elementary School partnered with Bethel Woods Center for the Arts for an eight-week program bringing mindful art into three of its classes, including Sue Johnson and Leanna Ponsolle’s kindergarten class. Each 30-minute session had Candace Rovela, lead teaching artist and senior program manager of Museum Education and Creative Programs at Bethel …
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Not only are breakfast and lunch free to all students at all schools here in Pine Bush, there are some new offerings available as well as grab and go breakfast carts coming to all elementary and middle schools! That’s right, students in our elementary and middle schools won’t have to go to the cafeteria for …
Jennifer Laubach, Catherine Stevens and Jessica Fobert[‘s fourth-grade students at PBE celebrated Native American Day on Nov. 21. The students learned about the Native American tribes from New York through making crafts and playing games. They made wampum belts of their own design and learned that these belts were used as a sign of good …
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Fourth-graders at Pine Bush Elementary rotated between classrooms doing some very cool science experiments. They used the power of persuasion in the “sewer lice” experiment. They used inferencing and math task cards with feely boxes too. They were amazed with the inflating “ghost hand” experiment with baking soda and vinegar. Students …
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Stacey Venzel’s fourth grade class and Tricia LoPresti’s fifth grade class at Pine Bush Elementary, along with the help of ENL teacher Tricia Becker, celebrated Day of the Dead – Dia de los Muertos – by making and drinking Mexican hot chocolate. After learning the history of the holiday, the students analyzed a …
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Dr. Bill Bassett and members of the Wallkill East Rotary Club brought smiles to the faces of many Pine Bush third-graders recently as they distributed dictionaries to each one of them. Dr. Bassett handed out dictionaries to all third-grade student at all four of our elementary schools: EJ Russell, Pakanasink, Circleville and Pine …
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