The kids enjoyed the Budding Author's program at Bridgehampton Library on Monday. Author and illustrator, Michael Praskevas shared stories about his development as an illustrator and writer that were interesting and hilarious. We asked the kids to read through their work and to select a favorite sentence from their submissions

In the past few weeks, our local Sea Change experts have been making a splash in the classroom! We were excited and delighted to welcome several new and existing Hayground community members into our room to share their stories!

March has certainly come in like a lion this year! We've been enjoying the end of a snowy winter at Hayground. The playground has been covered in the fluffy white stuff making it perfect for snowman building, fort construction and of course, snowball fights.

It was a busy February for our class. We learned about the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” for our Soul Food Night performance and began the Senior Learner Projects. Each student was asked to chose a topic, or area of study, and set a learning goal for themselves. After meeting with a mentor, they have spent the past 6 weeks reading, watching videos, experimenting, investigated, drawing and

The Friday before our break, we had cookies and conversation with documentary filmmaker, Susan Lacy. Susan pioneered the biographical documentary series, American Masters, and has directed numerous biographical documentaries, most recently, Spielberg for HBO, and Jane Fonda in Five Acts. She discussed her emergence as a filmmaker which began after receiving her Ph.D. in American Studies. Susan shared that she wanted to tell stories of real people

The children have been busy creating one-of-a-kind Valentine's Cards for one another. We read Roses are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink by Diane de Groat to get ideas for thoughtful Valentine's messages. We got ideas for some not-so-kind messages as well! Don't worry, we won't be using those!

We finished our epic read aloud, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle. In his summary of the novel, Charlie Troy wrote, “A girl named Meg has a missing father. She must journey with two boys and three mysterious figures into the darkness of space and time and survive. But they know nothing of what's to come in this wonky wrinkle." We are extremely interested in seeing how Ava De Vernay, the director of the film, adapted the novel to the screen.

Earlier this week we launched Black History Month with a successful book fair and “read-in”. Classroom displays and shelves have been spruced up for February with an assortment of wonderful new books, by and about African Americans. We are presently in the process of planning a presentation for Soul Food Night. In keeping with our “Sea Change” theme, we read

Even with sickness and snowstorms,we have had a fantastic two weeks! We know that Hayground students are extraordinary, but so are their parents! We had the privilege of having two such Hayground parents visit our class over the past couple of weeks. Paul Gartside, master Boat Builder has visited our class twice to work on drawing objects to scale, as well as

2018 has gotten off to a great start with our residency at the Watermill Center. There, we are working hard to produce an original work of theater based on the novel Seedfolks, by Paul Fleischman. Each student has selected a chapter from the text and has crafted some work of Theater inspired from it. You are invited, as are friends of the school, to attend a performance of our work at the Watermill Center on Wednesday, January 31, between 1:30-2:30 PM.