Computer Lab

Grades 4-6 Works Featured at the PES Music and Arts Festival.

We will begin our year with a review of school and classroom rules. Students will help develop a class constitution that we will use all year to guide the way we learn. We will use an online class blog to share our work with you, especially our writing. As soon as the blog is ready for…

Note: Author Katie Bass is a second-grade classroom teacher, who also serves as PES’s Responsive Classroom Lead Teacher. She taught grade four for her first four years at PES. In looking back at my five years here at Pittsfield Elementary, I can easily say that I have come a long way in my communication with parents….

In Everyday Mathematics (EDM) students are introduced to many different methods for subtraction. As they get older, they are introduced to subtraction algorithms. Some are easier to learn, but not as efficient as others. EDM picks one algorithm as its focus algorithm. Focus algorithms are powerful, relatively efficient and easy to learn and understand. The…

The New Hampshire Department of Education and Governor Sununu have ordered that every student is assessed this fall. The results provide teachers with solid guidelines for instruction. Students in pre-school, kindergarten, and high school will be assessed by classroom assessments. Students K-8 will complete the NWEA MAP assessment. Our teachers like this assessment because it…

[nggallery id=3] As part of our Year of the Book year-long celebration, children’s author and illustrator Marty Kelley met with the students at PES.