
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...

November 3, 2025
I got it!" "Good job!" "Let’s play again!" Black and Orange Math, a Katonah Elementary fall tradition for first graders, gives a seasonal twist to math games that reinforce stude...

November 3, 2025
Pairs of kindergarteners eagerly fist bumped. Others waved to each other. Some young students even did high fives with fifth graders! There are all sorts of ways to say hello, t...

October 29, 2025
"Won knight I sore a pear of men buy the see." When Gloria Miller’s fifth graders came in from recess, they found a paragraph riddled with errors displayed on the class screen....

October 29, 2025
Antonio pulled an orange pumpkin sticker out of the sensory bin with a smile. Ben showed off the temporary tattoo of a lion on his hand. Mateo carefully put eyes and nose stickers...

October 27, 2025
Look closely –there are moose cooking in the play kitchen, taking a rest on the beanbag, playing around on the playground, staying out of the way on the painting table. Kindergar...

October 24, 2025
October 22 was Sport Business Day at MetLife Stadium and John Jay was in the house! Students enjoyed conversations with Jets executives about marketing, sales, luxury box suites,...

October 21, 2025
Sustainability. Collaboration. Design. Persistence. Not many projects fold in all these lessons. The mural in John Jay Middle’s library certainly does. The 16-foot work was fabri...

October 21, 2025
“Cocoa was so excited when we got here this morning,” said John Jay Middle School’s social worker Ray DiStephan. “Her tail was wagging up a storm.” We were sitting in his office,...

October 20, 2025
Creative challenges that feel like play, and problem-solving quests that are solved with a coding mindset … along with a lot of laughs, ah-has, and wows! That’s what happening in ...

October 20, 2025
Students learn about cultures around the world—and of their classmates—through picture books, class discussions and the arts. Kindergartens have fun singing “Aayi Diwali” with mus...

October 17, 2025
Smiling children strolled, skipped, rolled and ran to Katonah Elementary School today. It was a sidewalk takeover, an all-school bonding experience and an invigorating beginning t...

October 16, 2025
The middle school's Makerspace is off to a great start! Students pop into the relaxed recess option, slip into creative mode and come back again and again because they’ve found an...

October 16, 2025
Creating identity webs with parents and caregivers is a kindergarten tradition at the Pond. Loved ones prompt, then listen, as kindergarteners name what is important to them. Soon...

October 16, 2025
Congratulations to John Jay’s Area All-State musicians — your hard work truly shines! AREA ALL-STATE CONCERT BAND Emma Iamiceli Kalyan Ganesan Brook Volpicella AREA ALL-STATE OR...

October 16, 2025
The fifth graders pulled carrots that were smaller than their pinkie fingers, and one that was fatter than their wrist! First graders found the celery and picked green and red tom...

October 8, 2025
The word was out. Students headed to B-Wing today for their study hall, for lunch, for class … and just to check it out! Their eyes widened as they walked into the spacious and we...

October 7, 2025
It’s a big day in Lina Foncello’s kindergarten class. The students are writing independently, applying what they've learned about sounds and letters to spell new words! “Mat,” th...
