Safe Routes to School

[nggallery id=7] Artist in residence, Erin Sweeney worked with the third grade students the week of February 11-15 to create hand-made pop-up accordion books based on the arctic animals they are studying in their classrooms.

The USDA has extended free meals for all children 18 and under (or up to 21 with an IEP) to December 31, 2020 (or until the funds run out). USDA Press Release Our food services program will begin on Thursday, September 10. Full remote students can also opt into the program by returning the Fresh Picks…

[nggallery id=11] PES students commemorated Earth Day on Wednesday, April 17, at their monthly whole-school morning meeting.

[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…

Second graders are expected to spend 30 minutes on homework each night. Fifteen of these minutes are for reading. What the children reads is up to her/him. The other fifteen minutes will usually be a short math assignment based on that day’s math lesson and a written paper in reading or writing literacy. We encourage…