Students at Hampton Bays Elementary School recently celebrated the completion of the first 100 days of school with a variety of activities. Second grade students created 100th day of school projects that were adorned with 100 items, while other classes enjoyed participating in counting lessons.

 

Date Added: 2/20/2025

Hampton Bays Elementary School students celebrated Valentine’s Day and P.S. I Love You Day on Feb. 14 by participating in activities surrounding kindness. They penned caring notes to their peers and family members, read books about kindness and created artwork.

 

Date Added: 2/19/2025

Continuing its mission to foster a culture of kindness, Hampton Bays Middle School held a weeklong initiative that ended in P.S. I Love You Day on Feb. 14. The day aims to raise awareness about bullying and suicide while promoting kindness.

Students embraced the theme by showing kindness to their peers throughout the week through a variety of activities. They wrote positive messages on Post-it notes that are displayed throughout the school and took part in a No One Eats Alone Day. They also participated in an assembly with HUGS Inc., where they engaged in discussions surrounding the importance of health, wellness and empowerment. Additionally, they raised funds for OLA Eastern Long Island through a P.S. I Love You Day sticker sale.

Date Added: 2/14/2025

Hampton Bays Elementary School kindergartners in Megan Kappers’ class gained new skills through an author study of Eric Carle. The students worked on their repetition and rhyming skills and learned how Carle creates unique animal illustrations by creating his own paper and making collages. The class then made their own animal collages and penned Carle-inspired stories about their creations, which they presented to the class.

Date Added: 2/11/2025

To culminate a unit where they learned how to interpret graph data, the second graders in Erin McDermott’s class at Hampton Bays Elementary School created their own Super Bowl graphs. The students voted on who they thought would win the Super Bowl, the Kansas City Chiefs or the Philadelphia Eagles, and organized the data from the votes into graphs, including a tally chart and a bar graph. They then analyzed the data to answer questions about findings that the Chiefs will go for a three-peat.