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[nggallery id=6] On Thursday, December 6, Duncan McDougall from the Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF) presented a workshop on reading to children, while the PES PTO sponsored a Family Crafts event, which kept kids engaged having fun.  The combined events drew more than 30 PES families.  Parents were able to select two books for each of their children…

Thank you for the time, energy, and materials you contributed to your children’s extremely successful Rube Goldberg projects.                                                                          …

In the primary grades at Pittsfield Elementary School, our Everyday Mathematics curriculum includes many counting activities that use number grids. For example, we might have children count by 10s starting at 17 (17, 27, 37, 47, 57) or count backward by 10s starting at 84 (84, 74, 64, 54). Parents can use number grids at…

Note: The following article summary is shared with permission from Kim Marshall, a former Boston principal, author, and nationally recognized educator. This is from his weekly educator e-newsletter, The Marshall Memo. In this New York Times article, sixth-grade teacher Sara Mosle says some parents are overly intrusive, which robs children of the opportunity to solve…

PES third graders worked the week of March 15  with artist in residence “Dancing” Bob Gundy and performed to an audience of peers and parents.