HUGE congratulations to our top-reading classes in the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins RoboReader Program! 📚🐧
These amazing students went above and beyond — and earned themselves a well-deserved pizza party sponsored by our amazing PTO and organized by our Reading Specialist, Mrs. Chaump! 🙌❤️
📘 2nd Grade Super Readers – each with over 1,000 books read!
👏 Mrs. Melvin
👏 Mrs. Montalvo
👏 Mrs. Hughes
📗 1st Grade Reading Champs
👏 Mrs. Flynn
👏 Ms. Richards
📕 Kindergarten Reading Stars
👏 Mrs. Gubitoso
We are SO proud of all your hard work and dedication to reading. Keep turning those pages! 🤩📚
#RoboReader #PenguinsProud #ReadingChampions #PizzaPartyCelebration #ThankYouPTO
🎄 Congratulations to Our First Grade Performers! 🎶
A big round of applause to our amazing first grade students who performed tonight at their Christmas concert! You all shined on stage and made us so proud! ✨
📢 Schedule Update for Upcoming Concerts
Due to expected weather, Wednesday’s concert has been postponed and rescheduled to Friday, December 12, 2025.
Thursday, December 11th remains unchanged.
📅 Updated Schedule:
Thursday, Dec. 11 – As scheduled
Friday, Dec. 12 – Rescheduled concert
Student arrival: 6:00 PM
Performance: 6:30 PM
Dress: Holiday best 🎁✨
If you have any questions, please email Mr. Naples at:
📧 Robert.naples@pittstonarea.com
Thank you for your flexibility, and we look forward to celebrating the season together! 🎄❤️
⛄️🎶The Christmas concert scheduled for Wednesday night will be postponed to Friday, December 12.
We apologize for any inconvenience and hope you can join us on the new date for a wonderful evening of holiday music! 🎶🎅🏽🤶
Get ready for a magical encounter as Santa Claus himself pays a visit to spread holiday cheer! Bring the whole family for a special visit where little ones can share their Christmas wishes, snap festive photos, and soak in the joy of the season. ✨📸
Keep an eye out—some extra special guests may make an appearance too! 👀🎄
📅 Sunday, December 21st
⏰ ALL DAY – 15-Minute Time Slots
📲 Please register for your visit using the QR Code or the link below:
👉 https://form.typeform.com/to/zOtCzzZH
💲 $40 per visit – Venmo only
All proceeds will benefit the Patriot Football Program. 🏈❤️
Come celebrate the season and support a great cause!
We are excited to welcome families to our upcoming First Grade Christmas Concerts with our wonderful music teacher, Mr. Naples!
📅 Date: December 9th , 10th, and 11th 🕕 Student Arrival: 6:00 PM 🎤 Concert Begins: 6:30 PM
Please check below to see which night your child’s class is performing:
✨ Tuesday, December 9th Classes Performing:
* Mrs. Flynn
* Mrs. Lampman
* Mr. Nedimeyer (McKernan)
* Mrs. Walski
✨ Wednesday, December 10th Classes Performing:
* Mrs. Litchkowski
* Ms. Richards
* Miss Imbrogno
✨ Thursday, December 11th Classes Performing:
* Ms. Boylan
* Mrs. Klem
* Mrs. DiGregorio
* Mrs. LoPresto
* Mrs. Ranieli
We can’t wait to celebrate the season with beautiful music and our talented first graders! 🌟🎵 See you there! 🎅🎁
We are pleased to share that our PTO will be hosting this year’s Santa Sale at the Pittston Area Intermediate Center.
Our primary students are welcome to shop with their families on:
📅 Monday, December 8th
⏰ 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
📍 Pittston Area Intermediate Center (Grades 3–5 Building)
110 New Street, Pittston, PA 18640
We look forward to welcoming our families for a festive evening of holiday shopping!
As we wrap up this part of the school year at the Pittston Area Primary Center, we’d like to give a huge shout-out to two outstanding student teachers who have completed their field experiences with us!
🎨 Mr. Jon Weber from Keystone College spent 7 wonderful weeks in the art room with Mrs. Davis. His creativity, enthusiasm, and dedication brought so much joy to our young artists!
📚 Miss Brooklyn Pedana from Wilkes University completed her semester in Mrs. DiGregorio’s First Grade classroom. Her kindness, hard work, and passion for teaching made a meaningful impact on our students every single day.
We are so grateful for their commitment and the positive energy they brought to our school. 💙❤️
Best of luck as you continue your journey toward becoming exceptional educators — we know you’ll do great things!
#PittstonAreaProud #FutureTeachers #FieldExperience #ThankYou 🎓✨
Be Our Guest....
❄️☃️On Saturday, December 20th, the Pittston Area School District Title 1 Program will be hosting the Reading Winter Wonderland to all of our Patriots Birth-5th grade and their families. The event will be held at the Pittston Area High School from 9:00am to 1:00 pm. ⛄️❄️
🎅🏽🤶The event will include photos with Mr. and Mrs. Claus-hands on activities-games-holiday crafts-Christmas music-and a Special Surprise....Winter tractor/hayrides🚜❄️
Please complete the form being sent home this week, and return one to your oldest child’s teacher by December 12th. 📚❄️
The event is free to all Pittston Area Patriots Birth-5th grade who reside in the district accompanied by an adult.
We are excited to celebrate a fantastic accomplishment from our students during the fall session of the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Penguins' ROBO Readers Program! Together, our students read an incredible 6,420 books! 🙌📖
We are so proud of their hard work, dedication, and love for reading. As a reward, hockey ticket vouchers were sent home today. Please follow the directions provided to redeem your tickets. 🏒🎟️
📅 Save the Date:
On Monday, December 22nd, we will host a school-wide assembly, where we’ll recognize and award our top readers! 🏆✨
🍕 PTO Pizza Parties:
Our amazing PTO will be sponsoring Pizza Parties for the classes that read the most books. More information will be sent home soon!
Congratulations to all of our ROBO Readers! Keep up the great work! 💙📚✨
Today, all of our Primary Center students enjoyed an incredible magic show! The PTO provided this special assembly as a reward for everyone’s amazing participation in our recent Cherry Hill fundraiser — thank you for your support! 💙
Students were wowed by the Michael Mage Experience, featuring mind-blowing card tricks, rope illusions, disappearing tricks, and even some mind reading! 🎩🪄
It was an afternoon full of laughter, surprises, and pure magic. ✨
We’re celebrating the season with Christmas concerts, festive dress-up days, and holiday-themed activities! Students will enjoy things like Winter Wonderland outfits, Candy Cane colors, cozy PJ day, Grinch green day, and plenty of Christmas spirit. There will also be brunches with Santa, story time, caroling, and lots of cheerful classroom celebrations! 🎄❄️🎅
This week, our students marched into the holiday spirit by reading Balloons Over Broadway and learning all about the history of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! After discovering how the iconic giant balloons came to be, our young creators designed and crafted their very own parade balloons.
Today, we proudly held our first-ever classroom balloon parade—and it was a huge hit! 🎉 The creativity, color, and excitement were truly something to be thankful for.
Wishing everyone a warm, joyful, and festive Thanksgiving! 🍁🧡
Mrs. Klem’s first grade class turned into master detectives this week!
Our students discovered that the turkey they invited to Thanksgiving dinner had mysteriously disappeared. Working in pairs, they completed task cards that reviewed reading, phonics, grammar, and math skills. With each task they solved, they earned a new clue to help crack the case.
After some clever detective work, the mystery was finally solved…
Squirrel took Turkey to the bakery at sunrise to get a pumpkin pie! 🥧🌅
Great job, detectives — case closed! 👏🕵️♂️🕵️♀️
