Throughout the West Babylon School District, Red Ribbon Week was celebrated from Oct. 23-31 with various lessons and activities. Red Ribbon Week highlights the importance of living a drug-free life. It presents an opportunity for parents, educators and communities to reinforce the drug-free messages throughout the year. This year’s theme was “Life Is A Movie: Film Drug Free.”

To kick off the week, students throughout the district took the Red Ribbon Week oath and pledged to be drug free and make healthy choices. Elementary students dressed in different themed days to show their support including Crazy Sock Day, Pajama Day and County Day. Students also showed their support by creating posters and writing stories about how they could live a healthy lifestyle.

Click here to view the West Babylon Pledges to Stay Drug Free 24-25 slideshow.

Date Added: 10/30/2024

The first graders at South Bay Elementary School are getting into the fall season by reading “Creepy Carrots!” by Aaron Reynolds. Students worked on opinion writing by forming ideas about whether they thought the carrots were creepy. The first graders supported their opinions in their writing and shared ideas with classmates. After discussing their writing, students created their own version of creepy carrot art.

Click here to view the South Bay First Graders Get ‘Creepy’ slideshow.

Date Added: 10/25/2024

West Babylon School District kicked off a weekend full of homecoming festivities with a pep rally to close out the school day at West Babylon Senior High School on Oct. 18. Continuing the celebrations, members of the school community lined up to march down Little East Neck Road to begin their parade to the West Babylon Junior High School football fields. 

Across the district, students and staff from each of the school buildings marched together to show their West Babylon pride. Led by the marching band, cheerleaders, youth football players, student organizations and clubs flashed their blue and gold colors for the community. The homecoming floats were themed for the four seasons this year, showing off winter, spring, summer and fall looks for each of the classes.  

Back on the football field, senior members of the football team, cheerleaders and marching band were honored. For the big Friday night lights game, the Eagles took on the Centereach Cougars and dominated the game from the start. They took the lead early on with a score of 20-6 going into halftime and closed out the game with a 33-12 victory.  

Varsity cheerleaders led the halftime routine, sporting their pink pompoms for Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October. The marching band wowed the homecoming crowd with their routine. The celebrations continued the following night for the annual homecoming dance at West Babylon Senior High School.  

Click here to view the Friday Night Lights Win for West Babylon’s Homecoming slideshow.

Date Added: 10/22/2024

In celebration of International Dot Day on Sept. 15, South Bay Elementary School students engaged in hands-on activities during their library classes with library media specialist Ms. Levy. Each grade level began class with a story that focused on adopting a growth mindset.

In kindergarten, students used the Quiver app, which features artificial intelligence technology, to turn students’ simple dot creations into amazing 3D wonders that jumped off the page.

In grades one, two and three, students challenged their minds by completing a STEM project. Each student was given 12 dots and 12 pieces of cardstock to construct the tallest possible tower using only those supplies. Students were creative with how they used the materials to build their structures.

Fourth and fifth graders chose a pre-printed quote about growth mindsets they felt most connected to. Then, they discussed how graphic design could be utilized to turn the quotes into images, using Canva to create visual representations. When finished, the quotes and graphics lined the hallway.

Click here to view the South Bay ‘Connects the Dots’ for Dot Day slideshow.

Date Added: 9/30/2024