Our second graders welcomed Carol Amos from the SPCA to the Primary Center for a powerful presentation that brought their learning to life!
After finishing an informational text about dogs and reading Can I Be Your Dog?, each student wrote a persuasive piece encouraging someone to adopt a dog. They put their writing skills to work for a cause with plenty of heart—and a few wagging tails! 🐶✏️
Thank you, Carol Amos, for helping our students connect reading and writing with compassion. These young authors are learning that their words can make a difference! 🏡🐾
After finishing an informational text about dogs and reading Can I Be Your Dog?, each student wrote a persuasive piece encouraging someone to adopt a dog. They put their writing skills to work for a cause with plenty of heart—and a few wagging tails! 🐶✏️
Thank you, Carol Amos, for helping our students connect reading and writing with compassion. These young authors are learning that their words can make a difference! 🏡🐾
🎶 Math and music are hitting all the right notes in Mr. Naples’ kindergarten classes!
After playing a four voices sorting game, students used egg shakers to graph their results—with the four spaces on the music staff serving as their graph! 📊🎵
We’re making math connections in music this month, bringing counting, sorting, and comparing to life through hands-on musical fun!
After playing a four voices sorting game, students used egg shakers to graph their results—with the four spaces on the music staff serving as their graph! 📊🎵
We’re making math connections in music this month, bringing counting, sorting, and comparing to life through hands-on musical fun!
🍂 Mrs. Antal’s class is FALL-ing into learning! 🎃
Today’s fall centers were full of seasonal discoveries! Students observed acorns, hickory nuts, winged seeds, and different kinds of leaves—including a BIG elephant ear leaf! 🌿🔍
They also graphed colorful leaves, made pumpkins, and listened to a fall story before drawing their favorite part. 📊🖍️📖
From nature discoveries to math and storytelling, these little learners are turning over a new leaf with every activity! 🍁
Today’s fall centers were full of seasonal discoveries! Students observed acorns, hickory nuts, winged seeds, and different kinds of leaves—including a BIG elephant ear leaf! 🌿🔍
They also graphed colorful leaves, made pumpkins, and listened to a fall story before drawing their favorite part. 📊🖍️📖
From nature discoveries to math and storytelling, these little learners are turning over a new leaf with every activity! 🍁
❤️🤍💙 LET’S SHOW OUR PATRIOT PRIDE! ❤️🤍💙
Get ready for a fun-filled Pittston Area Primary Center Spirit Week from Monday, October 26 through Friday, October 30! 🎉
Each day brings a new way to show our school spirit:
🏈 Monday, 10/26 – Team Logo Day
Wear a jersey or T-shirt representing your favorite team!
🤪 Tuesday, 10/27 – Crazy Hair, Hat & Sock Day
Rock some crazy hair, a fun hat, silly socks—or all three!
🌈 Wednesday, 10/28 – Tie-Dye Day
Fill the Primary Center with color in your favorite tie-dye!
❤️🤍💙 Thursday, 10/29 – Cheer on the Patriots!
Wear red, white and blue and show your Patriot pride!
🎃📣 Friday, 10/30 – Pep Rally & Halloween Celebration
End the week with lots of school spirit and Halloween fun! Students may wear their Halloween costumes.
📸 REMINDER: This is also Picture Week!
Please be sure to dress appropriately for school pictures on your child’s scheduled picture day.
We can’t wait to see our Primary Center filled with Patriot pride, creativity, color and lots of fun! ❤️🤍💙
Go Patriots! 📣
Get ready for a fun-filled Pittston Area Primary Center Spirit Week from Monday, October 26 through Friday, October 30! 🎉
Each day brings a new way to show our school spirit:
🏈 Monday, 10/26 – Team Logo Day
Wear a jersey or T-shirt representing your favorite team!
🤪 Tuesday, 10/27 – Crazy Hair, Hat & Sock Day
Rock some crazy hair, a fun hat, silly socks—or all three!
🌈 Wednesday, 10/28 – Tie-Dye Day
Fill the Primary Center with color in your favorite tie-dye!
❤️🤍💙 Thursday, 10/29 – Cheer on the Patriots!
Wear red, white and blue and show your Patriot pride!
🎃📣 Friday, 10/30 – Pep Rally & Halloween Celebration
End the week with lots of school spirit and Halloween fun! Students may wear their Halloween costumes.
📸 REMINDER: This is also Picture Week!
Please be sure to dress appropriately for school pictures on your child’s scheduled picture day.
We can’t wait to see our Primary Center filled with Patriot pride, creativity, color and lots of fun! ❤️🤍💙
Go Patriots! 📣
🚒🔥 Sound the Alarm! Our Little Fire Marshals Are on the Job! 🔥🚒
👩🚒🧯 Fire Prevention Week was a BLAST in Ms. Chromey and Mrs. Walski’s class!
Our little firefighters participated in The Hartford’s Junior Fire Marshal® Program, learning all about fire safety and how to help keep themselves and their families safe! 🏠❤️
🚨 The students were able to learn important fire safety rules, tour a virtual fire house, see what kind of equipment firefighters need and discover what it takes to be a Junior Fire Marshal. Our students had so much fun becoming fire safety SUPERSTARS! 🌟
🔥 Big lessons for little learners! We are so proud of our future fire safety heroes! 🚒❤️
#FirePreventionWeek #JuniorFireMarshal #FireSafetyHeroes #KindergartenFun #LearningIsFun
👩🚒🧯 Fire Prevention Week was a BLAST in Ms. Chromey and Mrs. Walski’s class!
Our little firefighters participated in The Hartford’s Junior Fire Marshal® Program, learning all about fire safety and how to help keep themselves and their families safe! 🏠❤️
🚨 The students were able to learn important fire safety rules, tour a virtual fire house, see what kind of equipment firefighters need and discover what it takes to be a Junior Fire Marshal. Our students had so much fun becoming fire safety SUPERSTARS! 🌟
🔥 Big lessons for little learners! We are so proud of our future fire safety heroes! 🚒❤️
#FirePreventionWeek #JuniorFireMarshal #FireSafetyHeroes #KindergartenFun #LearningIsFun
📸 Say cheese, Primary Center! 📸
Save the dates! Pittston Area Primary Center Class Photo Days are October 27–29, 2026, with Photography by Andy!
🎒 Watch for the flyer/order form coming home with your child. It will include the specific photo date for each class and ordering information.
Get those smiles ready! ❤️🤍💙
Save the dates! Pittston Area Primary Center Class Photo Days are October 27–29, 2026, with Photography by Andy!
🎒 Watch for the flyer/order form coming home with your child. It will include the specific photo date for each class and ordering information.
Get those smiles ready! ❤️🤍💙
🦋 A Spring Science Lesson… with a Fall Surprise! 🍂🔬
Sometimes the best learning experiences aren’t on the lesson plan!
Mrs. Antal happened to find a monarch butterfly caterpillar in our parking lot and brought it into the classroom just in time for her students to witness an incredible transformation. What is typically a science investigation planned for the spring quickly became an impromptu fall science study!
Students were able to observe the caterpillar stage before watching it forme its chrysalis. Then came the hardest part—waiting! After nearly two weeks of observation and anticipation, the class arrived at the exciting finale today: their beautiful monarch butterfly emerged! 🦋
After getting one final up-close look at their classroom visitor, students released the monarch outside to continue its journey.
From caterpillar ➡️ chrysalis ➡️ butterfly, this unexpected visitor turned an ordinary fall day into a hands-on lesson about life cycles, change, patience, and the wonder of nature.
Sometimes science finds us! 🍂🦋🔬
Sometimes the best learning experiences aren’t on the lesson plan!
Mrs. Antal happened to find a monarch butterfly caterpillar in our parking lot and brought it into the classroom just in time for her students to witness an incredible transformation. What is typically a science investigation planned for the spring quickly became an impromptu fall science study!
Students were able to observe the caterpillar stage before watching it forme its chrysalis. Then came the hardest part—waiting! After nearly two weeks of observation and anticipation, the class arrived at the exciting finale today: their beautiful monarch butterfly emerged! 🦋
After getting one final up-close look at their classroom visitor, students released the monarch outside to continue its journey.
From caterpillar ➡️ chrysalis ➡️ butterfly, this unexpected visitor turned an ordinary fall day into a hands-on lesson about life cycles, change, patience, and the wonder of nature.
Sometimes science finds us! 🍂🦋🔬
🍁 Fall Learning Is Coming to Life at the Primary Center! 🍁
Our classrooms are full of hands-on learning this fall! Students have been rotating through small-group fall learning centers, practicing important skills through seasonal activities, and using our new math program, Waggle, on their computers to build math skills in a fun and interactive way. 💻➕🍂
In Mrs. Walski’s class, the fall fun even got a little spooky! 👻 Mrs. Ignatovich and Mrs. Scalese read There Was an Old Mummy Who Swallowed a Spider, and then students brought the story to life during their speech and occupational therapy group by following a recipe to create edible spiders! 🕷️🍴
From math and literacy to speech, fine motor skills, technology, and a little tasty creativity, our Primary Center students are proving that the best learning happens when we can see it, make it, explore it—and sometimes even eat it! 🎃🍎📚
Our classrooms are full of hands-on learning this fall! Students have been rotating through small-group fall learning centers, practicing important skills through seasonal activities, and using our new math program, Waggle, on their computers to build math skills in a fun and interactive way. 💻➕🍂
In Mrs. Walski’s class, the fall fun even got a little spooky! 👻 Mrs. Ignatovich and Mrs. Scalese read There Was an Old Mummy Who Swallowed a Spider, and then students brought the story to life during their speech and occupational therapy group by following a recipe to create edible spiders! 🕷️🍴
From math and literacy to speech, fine motor skills, technology, and a little tasty creativity, our Primary Center students are proving that the best learning happens when we can see it, make it, explore it—and sometimes even eat it! 🎃🍎📚
🔬✨ STEM Starts with Science! ✨🔬
Our STEM Coordinator, Mrs. Luvender, has created a brand-new display outside of the STEM Lab to help our Primary Center students build a strong understanding of what STEM really means!
Before jumping into STEM challenges and larger projects, our classes will take a deeper look at each area of STEM—Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics—one at a time. As each area is introduced, students will also begin making connections between them.
First up: SCIENCE! 🧪🌎
At the Primary Center, we want our students to understand that:
Science is how we find answers to the questions we have.
Scientists are people who study the world and universe around us. They observe, wonder, ask questions, investigate living and nonliving things, and work to discover answers.
Mrs. Luvender’s new display introduces students to ideas like:
🔎 What is a question?
🌱 What are living and nonliving things?
👩🔬 What does a scientist do?
💭 Why do scientists ask questions?
By breaking these big ideas into kid-friendly concepts, our students can begin to see that science isn’t just something we learn—it starts with wondering about the world around us!
🔬 Ask. Explore. Discover. That’s Science!
Stay tuned for next week’s STEM installment… all about TECHNOLOGY! 💡⚙️
Our STEM Coordinator, Mrs. Luvender, has created a brand-new display outside of the STEM Lab to help our Primary Center students build a strong understanding of what STEM really means!
Before jumping into STEM challenges and larger projects, our classes will take a deeper look at each area of STEM—Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics—one at a time. As each area is introduced, students will also begin making connections between them.
First up: SCIENCE! 🧪🌎
At the Primary Center, we want our students to understand that:
Science is how we find answers to the questions we have.
Scientists are people who study the world and universe around us. They observe, wonder, ask questions, investigate living and nonliving things, and work to discover answers.
Mrs. Luvender’s new display introduces students to ideas like:
🔎 What is a question?
🌱 What are living and nonliving things?
👩🔬 What does a scientist do?
💭 Why do scientists ask questions?
By breaking these big ideas into kid-friendly concepts, our students can begin to see that science isn’t just something we learn—it starts with wondering about the world around us!
🔬 Ask. Explore. Discover. That’s Science!
Stay tuned for next week’s STEM installment… all about TECHNOLOGY! 💡⚙️
✨🪄 A Magical Day at the Primary Center! 🪄✨
Our Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade students enjoyed a special magic show today presented by Joe Romano!
The show was filled with fun, laughter, and amazing tricks, but it also shared an important message about positive behavior, making good choices, believing in yourself, and using positive affirmations.
Students learned a very special “magic word” to take with them:
🌟 “Aknowican I know I can!”! 🌟
Thank you to Joe Romano for reminding our students that sometimes the most important kind of magic is believing in yourself! 💫
#PrimaryCenter #TheMagicInYou #PositiveBehavior #IKnowICan #SchoolMagic
Our Kindergarten, First Grade, and Second Grade students enjoyed a special magic show today presented by Joe Romano!
The show was filled with fun, laughter, and amazing tricks, but it also shared an important message about positive behavior, making good choices, believing in yourself, and using positive affirmations.
Students learned a very special “magic word” to take with them:
🌟 “Aknowican I know I can!”! 🌟
Thank you to Joe Romano for reminding our students that sometimes the most important kind of magic is believing in yourself! 💫
#PrimaryCenter #TheMagicInYou #PositiveBehavior #IKnowICan #SchoolMagic
🎃🍂 October is full of magic, memories, and fall fun at the Pittston Area Primary Center!
From our “Magic in You” assembly and Patriot Dash to Roba Family Farms, Picture Days, Spirit Week, and Halloween, there is plenty to look forward to this month! 🍁📸👻
Be sure to check the calendar for our no-school days, special events, and early dismissal times so you don’t miss a thing.
Here’s to a wonderful October at the Primary Center! 🧡
From our “Magic in You” assembly and Patriot Dash to Roba Family Farms, Picture Days, Spirit Week, and Halloween, there is plenty to look forward to this month! 🍁📸👻
Be sure to check the calendar for our no-school days, special events, and early dismissal times so you don’t miss a thing.
Here’s to a wonderful October at the Primary Center! 🧡
🍎 October Breakfast & Lunch Menus 🍂
A reminder to our Pittston Area Primary Center families that breakfast and lunch are FREE for all students! 🥞🥪
🍳 Breakfast is offered each morning during arrival. Students arriving after 8:50 AM should first go to their classroom to check in with their teacher. They may then return to the cafeteria to eat breakfast.
🥗 Lunch is also provided at no cost to all students each school day.
Please check out our October 2026 breakfast and lunch menus to see what’s being served this month. 🎃🍎
A reminder to our Pittston Area Primary Center families that breakfast and lunch are FREE for all students! 🥞🥪
🍳 Breakfast is offered each morning during arrival. Students arriving after 8:50 AM should first go to their classroom to check in with their teacher. They may then return to the cafeteria to eat breakfast.
🥗 Lunch is also provided at no cost to all students each school day.
Please check out our October 2026 breakfast and lunch menus to see what’s being served this month. 🎃🍎
🌱 Our Primary Center is growing something special!
Mrs. Flynn’s class kicked off our hydroponic farm stands by planting lunchbox peppers, dwarf cherry tomatoes, green beans, lemon balm, orange thyme, garlic chives, and oregano. These seedlings went in first because they take a little longer to grow! 🫑🍅🌿
Mrs. Reza, our technology education teacher, is overseeing the project. The hydroponic system gives students a hands-on look at how technology can help grow food without soil. Two more first grade classes will plant seedlings in a few weeks. 🌿
It was a wonderful Johnny Appleseed Day across our school! 🍎
From kindergarten through second grade, apples inspired learning in reading, math, science, and history. Kindergarten students counted and measured apples, and Mrs. Kugler’s class made applesauce! Students throughout the school also made tin pot hats as they learned about Johnny Appleseed.
All of our second graders joined in with apple themed stories, riddles, and activities. They explored why cut apples turn brown at STEM stations and enjoyed caramel apples as a special snack.
What a sweet way to learn together! 🍏
From kindergarten through second grade, apples inspired learning in reading, math, science, and history. Kindergarten students counted and measured apples, and Mrs. Kugler’s class made applesauce! Students throughout the school also made tin pot hats as they learned about Johnny Appleseed.
All of our second graders joined in with apple themed stories, riddles, and activities. They explored why cut apples turn brown at STEM stations and enjoyed caramel apples as a special snack.
What a sweet way to learn together! 🍏
A classic game with a learning twist! 🔴🟡 Mrs. Melvin’s students teamed up for Connect Four, using chips to practice hard and soft C sounds and long A and long I sounds.
At another station, students used place value mats to draw numbers and write them in expanded form. Small groups also worked with Mrs. Melvin to practice the four types of sentences: statements, questions, commands, and exclamations. So much learning in one day! 📚✨
At another station, students used place value mats to draw numbers and write them in expanded form. Small groups also worked with Mrs. Melvin to practice the four types of sentences: statements, questions, commands, and exclamations. So much learning in one day! 📚✨
Mrs. Walski’s friends had a hand in welcoming the first day of fall! 🍂🌳 They turned their hands into colorful fall trees and practiced their fine motor skills as they peeled and placed stickers for the leaves. What a fun way to watch creativity grow! 🍁
📚🏒 Robo’s Readers Program 🏒📚
Students who read 10 books during each session can earn a free ticket voucher for a select Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins game!
🏆 There will also be individual prizes for the top readers and class prizes for each grade level!
Reading logs are color-coded by grade level and may be turned in to Mrs. Chaump. Additional reading logs are also available from Mrs. Chaump.
Let’s get reading! 📚🐧
Students who read 10 books during each session can earn a free ticket voucher for a select Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins game!
🏆 There will also be individual prizes for the top readers and class prizes for each grade level!
Reading logs are color-coded by grade level and may be turned in to Mrs. Chaump. Additional reading logs are also available from Mrs. Chaump.
Let’s get reading! 📚🐧
🍎 September is “apple-solutely” full of fall fun in Mrs. Kugler’s kindergarten class! Students colored bright red apples and glued tissue paper to create colorful apple crafts. They also made adorable scarecrows to welcome the fall season. Both activities helped strengthen the children’s fine motor skills while they cut, colored, and glued. What a sweet start to September! 🍂✂️
LAST DAY! Do you want your student chromebook protected from the following:
Accidental damage (includes drops, spills, liquid damage, cracked screens),
Theft, Fire - Flood - Natural disasters, Vandalism, and Power surges due to lightning?
If the answer is “YES!”, please visit the insurance portal to purchase OPTIONAL insurance for your child’s device. Insurance is $33/device for the 26-27 school year. Insurance needs to be renewed each school year.
Insurance Portal: https://gpo.worthavegroup.com/gpo/pittston/
**The insurance portal will close on September 20, 2026.**
🎤➕ Mrs. McKernan’s class had a great time singing the Doubles Rap!
Doubles facts—such as 3 + 3, 5 + 5, and 7 + 7—are important building blocks for first-grade math. Learning these facts helps students strengthen their number sense, solve problems more quickly, and rely less on counting with their fingers. Doubles also help children solve “near doubles,” understand related subtraction facts, and prepare for multiplication by two.
Songs, rhythm, and movement make math facts easier to remember. Singing the Doubles Rap gives our first graders a fun and engaging way to practice while building confidence and fact fluency! 🎶🧠
Doubles facts—such as 3 + 3, 5 + 5, and 7 + 7—are important building blocks for first-grade math. Learning these facts helps students strengthen their number sense, solve problems more quickly, and rely less on counting with their fingers. Doubles also help children solve “near doubles,” understand related subtraction facts, and prepare for multiplication by two.
Songs, rhythm, and movement make math facts easier to remember. Singing the Doubles Rap gives our first graders a fun and engaging way to practice while building confidence and fact fluency! 🎶🧠
