Kindergarten is wrapping up the bubbles and 3D printing unit. They will be going outside to test their custom bubble wands before the end of the month. 

First grade is wrapping up the bubbles and 3D printing unit. They will be going outside to test their custom bubble wands before the end of the month. 

Second Graders are practicing their touch typing and Chromebook Mouse skills in STEAM. They are focusing on keeping their fingers in Home Row while using the keyboard. 

Third Grade is finishing the dinosaur unit. They will be moving on to 3D printing after Spring Break. 

Fourth Grade is completing the Earth Day and sustainability unit. They are making recycled paper from scraps and recycling broken crayons. 

Fifth grade is wrapping up the 3D printing unit. They will choose one of their three projects to send to the printer. 

Sixth Grade is wrapping up the 3D printing unit. They will choose one of their three projects to send to the printer. 

6th grade: Manipulating sentences by replacing names with subject pronouns. 

5th grade: Asking classmates who complete household chores in their homes. 

4th grade: Locating and examining Spanish-speaking countries. 

3rd grade: Complimenting classmates’ clothing. 

2nd grade: Discussing popular foods of Spanish-speaking countries. 

1st grade: Locating, connecting and naming a variety of farm animals. 

Kindergarten: Identifying nine colors. 

Date Added: 4/9/2025

Kindergarten – Grade 2: 
Students have been enjoying fun spring stories in the library. We’ve read about gardens growing, baby animals, and rainy-day adventures. These books helped students practice listening and understanding, while also connecting to the changes they see outside during spring. 

Grades 3–5: 
Students are learning about different types of libraries around the world to celebrate World Library Week. It is also National Poetry Month, and students in grades 3–5 will be reading and writing poetry. Poems selected are inspired by what the students are learning in class, such as how the government works (grade 3), how to take care of our planet (grade 4), and helping out at home (grade 5). 

Grade 6: 
Sixth graders are continuing their Digital Citizenship lessons. This month, we’re focusing on how to stay safe online, talk kindly to others, and tell if a website or source is trustworthy. These lessons help students become more thoughtful and responsible when using technology.

Date Added: 4/9/2025  

Music: Students in grades K-3 are working on St. Patrick’s Day songs and games while fourth graders compose music for an old Mickey Mouse Cartoon.The choruses are in full swing and are gearing up for the spring concerts.World Music has been working on songs for the performance in June.SCMEA vocal students just finished two weekends of intensive rehearsals and performed a fantastic performance this past Sunday. The Drama Club finished up a fabulous performance.

Spanish: The students are currently working on the following:

Grade 6:Analyzing class school schedules from a variety of Spanish speaking countries.

Grade 5: Dissecting family trees and giving verbal descriptions of relationships.

Grade 4:Retelling telephone numbers in a culturally authentic manner (grouping instead of single digits).

Grade 3: Investigating the weather through Latin America.

Grade 2: Labeling and matching various popular food vocabulary.

Grade 1: Naming farm animals.

Kindergarten: Counting from 1-10.

Art:

Kindergarten: Working on self-portraits and how to draw the parts of the face.

Grade 1: Learning about implied texture and how to use lines to make spring animals appear soft and fuzzy.

Grade 2: Learning about hot and cold colors and using them to symbolize a mood. Drawing and painting traditional Mexican suns and moons.

Grade 3: Learning about the Baroque period of art and recreating Johannes Vermeer’s famous painting,“Girl With a Pearl Earring.”

Grades 4 and 5: Working on designing agenda book covers for next year's agenda books. The theme this year is STEAM or science. The winning designs will be revealed the week before spring break.

Grade 6: Learning about figure drawing and illustration. Choosing a figure from Greek mythology to create an illustrative drawing and connecting with their recent reading of“Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief,” which was read in ELA.

Garden:

Students have started to plant seeds in the greenhouse for the summer garden. All classes have started tomatoes, eggplant, onions and peppers.

Kindergarten: Will soon start seeds for their Mother’s Day gifts. 

Grade 1: Has wrapped up a unit learning about seeds. 

Grade 2: Learned about bugs and has spent a class period observing worms in the worm composter. 

Grade 3: Finished learning about soil and has had their soil station day sifting, forming and mixing soil for our seed starting efforts.

Grade 4: The worm composting bin arrived, and students had a lab day working on experiments similar to Charles Darwin’s study of worms. Did you know worms don’t have eyes or ears? Don’t worry no worms were harmed in the experiments!

Grade 5: Completed their study of composting in their group project of compost jars and have recorded their results. 

Grade 6: Brought home last month's successful plant propagations and conducted Darwin’s worm experiments in the greenhouse during science period.

STEAM:

Kindergarten: Students are learning about 2D and 3D shapes. They are preparing to make and test bubble wands using TinkerCAD and the school’s 3D printers.

Grade 1: First grade is reviewing 2D and 3D shapes. They are preparing to make and test bubble wands using TinkerCAD and our 3D printers.

Grade 2: Second Graders are learning about how 3D modeling and printing works. They will make backpack tags using TinkerCAD and our 3D printers.

Grade 3: Third Graders are researching a dinosaur of their choice. They will learn about their dinosaur and create a model of its skeleton.

Grade 4: The class is beginning a mini-golf unit. They will learn about simple machines and then work in groups to create mini-golf holes out of cardboard.

Grade 5: The fifth grade just wrapped up an Engineering Challenge Competition. Students will continue with 3D modeling and printing.

Grade 6: Sixth Grade is beginning a 3D modeling and printing unit. Students will create three unique projects and choose one item to send to the printer.

Library: This month marks the kickoff of Pick A Reading Partner (PARP) Month and our Beanstalk Reading Challenge, where students track their reading, earn badges, and participate in a school-wide challenge. Every grade has been introduced to the program, and we encourage families to join in by reading together at home and to reach out with any questions. Here’s what each grade has been up to in the library:

Kindergarten – Students have been enjoying fun, interactive read-alouds.

Grade 1: ELA lessons are supported by focusing on characters and settings in stories.

Grade 2: Students’ exploration of animal stories continues as they investigate how animals are portrayed in different literature genres.

Grade 3: After completing an illustrator study, the class has moved onto an author study, focusing on writers who have adapted traditional tales or drawn inspiration from folktales. One example is“The Gruffalo”by Julia Donaldson, which is based on a Chinese folktale.

Grade 4: Students are celebrating Women’s History Month by exploring biographies of inspiring women, including“Shark Lady”by Jess Keating and“The Oldest Student”by Rita L. Hubbard.

Grade 5: Students are being introduced to different reading tools and resources, while also discussing media balance as part of their digital citizenship lessons.

Grade 6: Students are creating book trailers using iMovie and Canva. This exciting project will wrap up with a book trailer showcase during the school’s upcoming book fair.

Physical Education:

The students participated in a fun game called Cageball. A giant ball is inflated, and students are arranged in a big square. Each student is assigned a corresponding number with peers from three other teams.When their number is called, students crab walk to the middle of the square and try to kick the ball over one of the other teams’ lines. The kids loved it!The circus is also back in town. Each grade will participate in two circus sessions, run by the National Circus Project team.The fifth and sixth grade will perform in the circus show at the conclusion of circus week.

Date Added: 3/13/2025

MUSIC:

• * Fifth and Sixth grade music classes with Ms. Russo have been learning about musical form and the musical elements melody, harmony, and rhythm. They were introduced to the App “Incredibox,” whereby students can create their own “beatbox style” song.

• * Using AB musical form and including ostinato patterns, harmonic rhythms, and various other loops, students were to create their “Final Project” and turn in their work during the first week in February, with a focus on rhythms and the rhythmic roots from African American beat styles.

• * Thank you to the PTA for providing such an incredible opportunity for our students in having Michelle Quigg spend the last two weeks here. Our students learned songs, games, and played instruments from all over the world and put on a showcase at the end of the two weeks to demonstrate what they learned. Everyone had a great time and learned so much.

• * Ms. Clemensen’s music classes, worked on closing up units from Ms. Quigg and learning Valentine’s Day songs and games.

SPANISH

• *6th grade: Composing a poem to describe themselves using the verb “ser,” physical adjectives, and personalityadjectives. 

• * 5th grade: Composing a 100-word essay of their home and its furniture.

• * 4th grade: Listing, matching, and recognizing numbers 1-100. Asking and answering, ¿Cuál es tu número favorito? (What is your favorite number?)Asking and answering ¿Cuántos años tienes tú? (How old are you?).

• * 3rd grade:Stating weather conditions in Columbia, Costa Rica, East Quogue and various locations throughout the world.

• * 2nd grade: Labeling and matching various food vocabulary. Expressing verbally and conveying their love of food with culturally appropriate phrases.

• * 1st grade:Identifying the 5 senses.

• * Kindergarten: Identifying family members through drawings, labeling, singing, and writing.

ART: 

• * Kindergarten and first graders are learning monochromatic color schemes. Kindergarteners read Harold and the Purple Crayon and then chose a single color to draw their favorite place Harold has visited, or a place they think Harold will go next. First graders drew a self- portrait using only one color. They based the color they chose on how they were feeling that day.

• * Second graders learned about artist Jim Dine and his famous paintings featuring hearts. They learned an oil pastel smudging technique to make their hearts appear more three-dimensional.

• * Third grade students worked hard to finalize their artwork for their upcoming exhibition at the Quogue Public Library. They are collaborating on signs and labels for the gallery space, as well as adding finishing touches to their artwork. The opening reception for the gallery was on Thursday, February 27th from 3:30-5pm. The artwork hung in the library throughout the month of March.

• * Fourth and fifth grade students finished learning about color values. They added silhouettes to their monochromatic works of art using tints and shades to add dimension.

• * Sixth grade students wrapped up learning about value using graphite. They learned about the spectrum of drawing pencils and how to use pencils that have harder graphite to create lighter shades of grey, as well as pencils that have softer graphite to make darker shades. They are used this knowledge to create a still life drawing of an apple.

GARDEN:

This month, we’ve been caring for the greenhouse plants and getting ready for seed starting time. Kindergarten and 1st grade continue to learn about seeds and how they travel.Second grade is learning all about predator and prey in the garden and what bugs are important for our garden environment.Third grade continues their exploration of soil, with soil testing and evaluations to prepare our garden beds properly for the growing season. Fourth grade is getting ready to care for our earthworms and learning all about vermicomposting. Fifth grade has made experimental compost jars to compare and explore the best ways to make our outdoor compost bins as successful as possible.Sixth grade spent time in the greenhouse learning about propagation and the different methods to propagate a plant. Every student propagated their own plant in hopes of having their own piece of the school greenhouse.

STEAM:

• * Kindergarten is wrapping up learning about using devices, technology, hardware, and software. They are learning to use QR codes to access websites, reinforcing letter recognition skills.

• * First graders are using devices to practice using Chromebook keyboards and trackpads to give input to computers. They’ve been practicing introductory drag-and-drop and touch-typing skills using the Keyboarding without Tears program.

• * Second graders are wrapping up their LEGO Spike Essential Unit. After the Winter break, they will be practicing some basic touch typing skills before moving on to 3D printing in March.

• * Third grade is finishing up their LEGO Spike Coding unit. After the winter break, they will review basic touch typing skills and typing from home row before moving on to their Dinosaur unit.

• * The fourth grade is the middle of their Stop Motion Animation using. They are telling stories about electricity, using paper to create their Stop Motion Animation.

• * The fifth grade is participating in the annual Science Buddies Engineering Competition. They will use the Engineering Design Process, cardboard, paper, and tape to engineer a rocket catcher that will catch their paper rocket at an angle of 45 to 90 degrees. Their work will be completed in March.

• * Sixth Grade is wrapping up a LEGO coding unit. After break, they will practice their touch typing skills before moving on to their 3D printing unit in March.

LIBRARY:

• * Kindergarten– WithNational Tell a Fairy Tale Dayon February 26, kindergarten readers are celebrating fairy tales this month. We’re exploring both classic and contemporary stories, includingThe Knight Owland Mac Barnett’s retelling ofThe Three Billy Goats Gruff.

• * First Grade– As we wrap up ourEndangered Animalsunit, students are transitioning intoCommunity Helpers.Through read-alouds and engaging activities, we’re learning about the important roles people play in our communities.

• * Second Grade– Our second graders have been exploringNonfiction Bug Booksand are now moving on toNonfiction Animal Books.We’re learning to navigate nonfiction text features while discovering fascinating facts about the animal world.

• * Third Grade– After completing theMock Caldecottand illustrator study, third graders are shifting their focus toInventions! We’re exploring how creative ideas turn into real-world innovations and reading books about young inventors who changed the world.

• * Fourth Grade– This month, we’re exploring books in different formats to spark new interests. Students have been readingChoose Your Own Adventurebooks and discoveringmagic booksthat can seemingly read their minds. These unique formats help us think about storytelling in new and exciting ways.

• * Fifth Grade– Our focus has been onbuilding library skillsand becoming more familiar with our library’s collection of over 20,000 books. We’ve watchedbook trailers,learned how thelibrary catalogworks, and even participated in abook tastingto sample new genres. Soon, we’ll transition intoresearch skillsanddigital citizenship.

• * Sixth Grade– Students have been hard at work creating their ownbook trailersusing iMovie. Once finished, we’ll be sharing them with all classes to inspire new reading choices. As we move into late February and March, we’ll be diving intoresearch skillsanddigital citizenshipto prepare for responsible online learning and inquiry.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION:

Students were working on their basketball skills. Last Friday was our annual Kids Heart Challenge (AKA as Hoops for Heart).So far we have raised over $9,000 for the American Heart Association. We are really thankful for everyone's support.

Date Added: 2/12/2025