Pine Bush Elementary School partnered with Bethel Woods Center for the Arts for an eight-week program bringing mindful art to three of its classes – Kindergarten ICT, CASTLE grades 3-5 and CASTLE grades K-2. The Mindful Art program introduced students in these classes to the world of expressive art making while teaching mindfulness skills …
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PBE celebrates the 100th day of school in style! Students in grades kindergarten through 2 participate in so many activities all centered around the number 100. One of the activities for students in kindergarten was bowling, knocking down 10 pins at a time and counting them each time a student bowled, with the goal of …
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Hey PBE families! The February newsletter is available here. Have a look at what is in store for your children during this very busy month!
We have some future architects and engineers here in Christine Erickson’s second-grade class at PBE! Ms. Erickson had her students work in teams to do a tower building activity for their science unit: material matters. The students were instructed to build towers with index cards and paper clips. They put their engineering hats on …
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Aaron Judge, Abraham Lincoln, Sally Ride and Dolly Parton shared the same stage at Pine Bush Elementary School as fourth-grade students participated in their annual Living Museum just before the December break. Students chose an array of historical figures, from our nation’s history, to sports and entertainment, science and space, as well as those …
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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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