PDS Blog

Next Parents Association Meeting – November 12

The next PDS Parents Association meeting is on Thursday, November 12 at 8:15 am in Gilkeson Room 18A. Agenda will include: Poughkeepsie Mini Maker Faire Budget High School Parent-Teacher Dinner New Book Sale Is there anything you’d like to discuss?  …

Halloween with All the School

Our well loved, Halloween tradition: Gather in All School Activity groups Dress your senior(s) in recyclable materials Carve a few pumpkins Move to the theater Have a senior fashion show Oooh and Aaah over the pumpkins Middle schoolers get an…

Grade 1 Explores Market Street and Learns about Community

By Rachel Silverman, grade 1 teacher Recently, the first grade visited Market Street in Poughkeepsie to explore this key component of our yearlong study of community. With the support of several parent volunteers, we broke up into small groups to…


Bring in your Box Tops by October 30!

The Fall Box Tops for Education Campaign will end on Friday, October 30.  Bring those Box Tops you’ve been collecting to PDS now! You can deposit them in the Box Tops For Education boxes at the front desks in Gilkeson…

I Wish You More

By David Jordan, grade 4 teacher This blog post shares its title with a popular children’s picture book created by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld. The premise of the story, I Wish You More, is a parent sharing with…

Order Adams Gift Cards by October 28

Adams gift cards are back!  Earn cash for PDS while you shop at Adams! Order by October 28th (for delivery on November 4th) Why buy Adams gift cards? The PDSPA receives 10% of every Adams Fairacre Farms gift card purchased…

Service Learning: Making in Many Ways

This week will bring the end to a series of days that the middle school has spent in service learning this fall. Service has had a long tradition in the middle school. Five years ago, we began making connections with…

Next Parents Association Meeting – October 22

  The next PDS Parents Association meeting is on Thursday, October 22 at 8:15 am in Gilkeson Room 18A. Agenda items are: Spirit Day Recap Poughkeepsie Mini Maker Faire High School Parent-Teacher Dinner New Book Sale Class/Advisory Rep Coordinators Volunteer…

Monarchs in the pre-K/K

By Amy Miklos, pre-K/K teacher As the children entered the classroom on those early September days some special friends were there to greet them; three tiny monarch caterpillars. The children watched with great amazement as our caterpillars transformed before our…