
December 10, 2025
Increase Miller’s annual third-grade balloon parade is inspired by “Balloons Over Broadway” by Melissa Sweet, the nonfiction picture book about Tony Sarg, the puppeteer who invent...

December 10, 2025
Thank you to the Westchester County Police Department, School Resource Officer Brett Schlosser and STOP DWI for bringing the Westchester County Police DWI Simulator to John Jay’s ...

December 9, 2025
Adam Choper, Director of Westchester County’s Hilltop Hanover Farm, passed out pappus, white fluffy seed heads, from Showy Goldenrod for the seventh-grade students in Christina Co...

December 9, 2025
First graders were bursting with excitement! They walked into the school assembly, glanced towards their fourth-grade buddy classes who were already seated and, with little waves ...

December 8, 2025
Teams of sixth graders sat at tables throughout the library, immersed in planning the worst Ancient Mesopotamian pilgrimages, ever. A herd of cows blocks the travelers’ way, a dus...

December 8, 2025
Midway through Jonathan Kruk’s storytelling, the action shifted. He called students to the front, and they became a king, a princess, princes-turned trees, and a magical bird … sl...

December 4, 2025
Imagine gaining an inside look at the construction and design of modular homes—in a factory space the size of several football fields! That’s what John Jay’s third year architectu...

December 1, 2025
The smiles on the fifth graders faces, as they paraded around the gym with floats they’d created to tell the American story, said it all. Pride, accomplishment and pure fun. The ...

December 1, 2025
When the student Ambassadors took the stage at Meadow Pond to run the all-school Community Meeting, they ad-libbed, hammed it up and had fun—hallmarks of their growing confidence ...

November 24, 2025
Bonds of love crisscrossed Increase Miller Elementary’s cafeteria this morning. The room was packed with parents and other important people, all gathered to enjoy the first grade ...

November 19, 2025
The lights dim, and the spare appearance of a barn, with clean lines and a hayloft, where a group of tradespeople have been gathered, is transformed. A soft violet glow sets off a...

November 19, 2025
Fifty Days of School! Second graders at Katonah Elementary celebrated the milestone with a trip to the 1950s. The fun began the moment they walked into their classrooms, many wear...

November 18, 2025
Watching bowing technique from just a few feet away, noting how musicians use eye contact and head motions to communicate with each other, listening to a world-class performance i...

November 13, 2025
The mood was jubilant as the Wolves celebrated three student athletes on November 12, National Signing Day—the first day that a high school senior can sign a binding National Lett...

November 11, 2025
A brisk wind whipped the formation of flags into 2/4 time, as if they, too, were following conductor Jared Henderson. With the backdrop of marching stars and stripes, the music te...

November 10, 2025
James Polos, Army, who served in Korea, reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a carefully folded napkin. Inside was a Purple Heart. “This was my dad’s,” he said. “I never ...

November 10, 2025
Standing up for what’s right. Caring for other people. Being someone who people trust and count on. Listening to everyone and being open to other perspectives. These are some o...

November 6, 2025
While students had the day off on Tuesday, teachers and staff spent a productive Professional Learning Day discussing elementary math priority standards, exploring project based l...

November 3, 2025
The finishing touch—putting shoes on the bunched ankles of the scarecrows—made the kindergarteners dissolve into giggles! The students scrambled onto the bench alongside the hay-s...

November 3, 2025
Stella and Penny estimated there’d be 100 seeds in their pumpkin. To their surprise, when they carved it open, they counted 465 seeds! Grace thought her pumpkin would be 12 inches...
