School News, February 10

Hampton Bays Elementary School second-graders worked on their writing skills in preparation for Valentine’s Day. The students each wrote about the things they love most on colorful hearts and strung them together to create a Valentine’s Day decoration to be displayed outside their classroom.

Hampton Bays Elementary School second-grader worked on their writing skills in preparation for Valentine’s Day. The students each wrote about the things they love most on colorful hearts and strung them together to create a Valentine’s Day decoration to be displayed outside their classroom.

Jillian Stellato’s seventh grade science class at Pierson Middle School has been studying states of matter and phase change. On January 28, in anticipation of the expected weekend's blizzard, the students made ice cream for a hands-on demonstration of phase change, thermal energy and freezing point depression.

Second-graders in Lauren Mikelinich's and Elizabeth Scott’s class at Hampton Bays Elementary School celebrated Groundhog Day on February 2. They used educational websites to learn about groundhogs. They also made predictions on whether there will be six more weeks of winter based on the groundhog seeing his shadow.

Southampton Elementary School third-graders in Colleen Henke's and Kathryn Calarcco’s class recently penned and illustrated their own fairy tales as part of a writing unit. To prepare their compositions, they first read and studied a variety of classic fairy tales. They then shared their original tales with their peers and school staff during an in-class “publishing party” on February 2.

Southampton Elementary School third-graders in Colleen Henke's and Kathryn Calarcco’s class recently penned and illustrated their own fairy tales as part of a writing unit. To prepare their compositions, they first read and studied a variety of classic fairy tales. They then shared their original tales with their peers and school staff during an in-class “publishing party” on February 2.

Second-graders in Lauren Mikelinich's and Elizabeth Scott’s class at Hampton Bays Elementary School celebrated Groundhog Day on February 2. They used educational websites to learn about groundhogs. They also made predictions on whether there will be six more weeks of winter based on the groundhog seeing his shadow.

Our Lady of the Hamptons School students from grades three to eight took to the stage and offered their speeches on topics ranging from their hopes for the future to contemporary social concerns. First-place trophies were awarded to fourth-grader Addison Cinelli and Prep 7 student Lucy Tillotson. Olivia Caruso and Alessandra Paccasassi took second, with Edward Cabrera-Brooks and Ruby Boeding in third.