Third grade student artists from Forest Avenue Elementary School recently examined and created their own sparkling gemstones. To begin, art teacher Janice Dougherty shared the book “Sam and Dave Dig a Hole.” In the story, the characters are determined to find something “spectacular” but keep missing the buried gemstones as they dig in the ground. Students examined real geodes and made educated guesses of what could be discovered inside the cracked rocks. Once opened, the sparkling gemstones were excitedly observed. Artists created their own versions using a combination of analogous markers, cut paper and metallic paint pens.

Date Added: 3/10/2025

Dressed as centenarians, kindergarten students in the West Babylon School District celebrated their 100th day of school on Feb. 26 with activities centered around the number 100.

To commemorate the milestone, students used 100 blocks to create various patterns and 10 different colors to create 100 dots in a gumball machine. They worked as engineers to try and stack 100 cups as high as possible. As part of their math lesson, they counted in 10s to the number 100.

During physical education, activities had students complete 100 different exercises in 100 seconds. Other literacy lessons including writing about what they would buy with $100, what they would eat 100 items of and what they learned in the last 100 days. Using their creativity, kindergartners made necklaces out of 100 beads and designed patterns using 100 pieces of pasta and buttons. West Babylon’s kindergarten students are now 100 days smarter.

Click here to view the West Babylon Kindergartners Celebrate 100 Days of School 2025 slideshow.

Date Added: 3/6/2025

The junior high school Science Olympiad team, coached by Linda Kronenbitter, participated in the regional competition on March 2 and placed eighth out of 33 teams.  

A second-place medal was won by seventh graders Brody and Tommy Eglin for Fossils. Brody and Tommy also took home a second-place medal for Microbe Mission. Seventh grader Michael Arzoumanidis earned a fifth-place medal for Air Trajectory.

Eighth graders Jack O’Dougherty and Tommy Donovan took home a seventh-place medal for Write It/Do It, and sixth graders Lucas Cuglietto and Sebastian Sherbin earned an eighth-place medal for their tower.

Other top 10 places were earned by Natalie Barahona and Kristen Skibiel for Metric Mastery; Nick Cardenas for Mission Possible; and Chris Hurst and Austin Nettuno for Reach for the Stars. Other team members include: Aariz Chaudry, James Ford, Thomas Mulligan and Jack Huggins. 

Date Added: 3/4/2025