Freaky Pets

    “Freaky Pets Live,” a show for kids, is coming to the Hampton Racquet Club in East Hampton this afternoon. Using fun, music, and silliness, the show explores how it’s okay to feel what you feel and the importance of following rules and being polite. It kicks off at 2:45 p.m.

Stories, Movies, Art

    Every Saturday afternoon, families are invited to the Amagansett Library to participate in stories and make crafts. This Saturday, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., participants will read books with rhythm and make a drum.

    On Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., children entering kindergarten through sixth grade will discover how Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner expressed their feelings with Abstract Art. Afterwards, they’ll create colorful abstract collages by ripping, cutting, and drawing. Offered by the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, the event is limited to 25 children.

    That evening, tweens ages 8 to 12 are invited to a screening of “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days” from 6 to 8 p.m. Kids may be dropped off for the program. The library will provide snacks.

    Next Thursday, “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted” will be shown from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., as part of a family-friendly movie series every Thursday throughout the summer. Today’s movie is “Wreck-It Ralph.”

    Advance registration is required for all events.

Ross Carnival

    The Ross School will hold its first annual summer camp carnival, complete with rides, games, barbecue, and drumming, including a performance by the Dan Bailey Tribe on Wednesday from 5:30 to 8 p.m.

    The carnival will be held on the Ross School’s athletic field on Goodfriend Drive in East Hampton. Admission is $300 for a family of four. Additional individuals (adults or children) are $25 per person. Proceeds will benefit the Ross School Cafe and the student-run garden. They are available in advance by calling the school or by e-mail to [email protected].

Outdoor Movie Night

    Next Thursday, Citizens for Access Rights, a local not-for-profit that promotes public access to the beaches, and Hamptons Drive-In will host a family outdoor movie night at the Maidstone Park ball field in Springs. The featured movie will be “Despicable Me.”

    Gates will open at 7:30 p.m., with the movie beginning at 8:30 p.m. The cost is $5. CfAR members get in free. People have been encouraged to take beach chairs and blankets. Snacks and refreshments will be available for purchase. The rain date will be Aug. 30.

Twirlygig Tuesdays

    Bari Koral will play an interactive show for her young fans on Tuesday night at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton.

    Of the New York performer’s latest album, “Anna and the Cupcakes,” Nickelodeon’s Parent’s Connect said, “The music is as good as any top-notch alternative band, but with super kid-friendly lyrics.”

    The event starts at 6 p.m., with doors opening at 5:30. Tickets are $17 in advance, $15 for museum members, and $20 at the door.

Children’s Fair

    The East Hampton Library will hold its annual children’s fair, featuring carnival rides and games, a book fair with children’s book authors signing their books, a raffle with prizes, book-themed crafts, performers, community information booths, and delicious treats on Sunday, from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. The event will take place at Gardiner Farm on James Lane In East Hampton and is free.

    On Wednesday, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., children 4 and up can make a glowing firefly necklace and lantern. Sign-up is required, and children under the age of 7 should be accompanied by an adult.

    And next Thursday from 1 to 2 p.m., children ages 8 and up can create a “rockin’ ” craft by gluing a variety of different stones together to make different characters and creatures.

    Sign up is required for both programs.

Puppets Galore

    Nappy’s Puppets will present “Shadows Around the World” today, tomorrow, and Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre in Sag Harbor. Tickets cost $12, $10 for members and grandparents, and $5 for kids under 3.

    The puppets will appear in a free show tomorrow at 5:30 p.m. in Amagansett Square.

    Barefoot Puppets will present “Galapagos George” next Thursday and Friday, Aug. 16 and Aug. 17, at 11 a.m. at Goat on a Boat. Based on the story of “Lonesome George,” the show is the tale of a one-on-a-kind tortoise from the Galapagos Islands. Barefoot Puppets will skip over to Amagansett Square for a free 5:30 p.m. show on Friday, Aug. 16.

    Next Thursday, families with children 3 and up can join in a finger puppet-making workshop at Goat on a Boat from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. The workshop costs $25 per family.

Peter and the Wolf

    The National Marionette Theatre will take its production of “Peter and the Wolf” to Guild Hall on Wednesday at 5 p.m.

    Set during turn-of-the-century Russia, the production tells the story of how Peter, along with his animal friends, captures the wolf. It is recommended for children 4 and up. The cost is $16 for adults, $13 for children, and $14 and $11 for members.

    Prior to the performance, during an art workshop from 4 to 4:45 p.m., kids can make their own puppets based on the characters in “Peter and the Wolf.”

Circus Skills Workshop

    The Montauk Playhouse Community Center will host a circus skills workshop with the National Circus Project this afternoon at 4 p.m. The cost is $15.

    And starting at 8 o’clock, the National Circus Project will perform, featuring audience participation. Tickets are $15.

Calling Young Naturalists

    On Saturday morning, from 10 to 11:30, the South Fork Natural History Museum will hold the second part of its Girls Who Looked Under Rocks program for young female naturalists. This part will focus on salt marshes.

    Participants aged 9 to 15 are encouraged to take a sketchbook or notebook to use as a nature journal. Every child will go home with a copy of “Girls Who Looked Under Rocks.” There is a one-time, $5 material fee. Prior reservations are essential. The group will meet at a salt marsh in Southampton.

    On Aug. 17, the series will conclude with an exploration of local wildlife from 7:30 to 9 p.m.

Kid-Friendly Fishing Expedition

    Now in its second season, the Montauk Chamber of Commerce’s Take a Kid Fishing program hopes to instill an interest in fishing in kids 6 to 16, by getting them out on the water on a fishing trip.

    Expeditions will take place on various dates during the month of August, with the program starting on Monday. Kids will learn to bait, hook, and clean their catch. Fishing equipment, bait, and personal flotation vests will be provided and the trip is free for kids who have never been on a fishing boat before. There is a $10 fee for adults.

    Sign-ups are being accepted only on Monday afternoons at the Montauk Chamber of Commerce or by e-mail to [email protected].

    Two construction projects are under way at Springs School.

    One will expand the front parking lot to add more spaces and improve traffic flow. The parking lot, which now has 20 spaces, will get an additional 10 to 12 spots.

    The second project, the creation of a walkway along Ed Hults Lane near the back of the school, will improve safety for walkers, a particular concern during morning drop-off.

    Elizabeth Mendelman, the school board president, said both projects would be complete by the start of school on Monday, Sept. 9.

    “No trees will be removed,” said Ms. Mendelman. “We are working around the trees.”

    Both projects were included among a list of capital improvements the board approved in the spring at a cost of nearly $300,000. While the parking lot and repairs along Ed Hults Lane were budgeted at approximately $80,000, a front vestibule and ramp, expected to cost around $75,000, will be delayed until the following year.

    Construction on the vestibule, which required a more rigorous approval process, will likely begin next summer.    

    After much hemming and hawing, the East Hampton School Board meetings will be televised, a decision reached on Tuesday night following a presentation by LTV, which has agreed to broadcast the bimonthly meetings on Cablevision at no cost to the district.

    Patricia Hope, the board’s recently elected president, inquired as to the cost of including Spanish subtitles. According to the most recent New York State report card, the East Hampton Union Free School District is now 41 percent Latino.

    Seth Redlus, the executive director of LTV, said the cost of including subtitles depended on how quick a turnaround is desired and can run anywhere from $60 to $300 an hour. Also at issue, presumably, is the length of each broadcast. Tuesday’s meeting lasted for more than two and a half hours.

    “It’s a great service to the community and would enhance the community as a whole,” said Ms. Hope. LTV officials said they would report back concerning the final cost for Spanish-language transcription, a cost the district would front. “We can’t be the first district in America to have had this idea,” Ms. Hope said.

    Ana Nunez, the district’s community liaison, who was hired last December to increase communication between the district and Spanish-speaking parents, said her goal for the coming year was to expand her work in each of the district’s three buildings: the John M. Marshall Elementary School, East Hampton Middle School, and East Hampton High School.

    Come September, she has planned for four meetings at each of the three schools, though topics are subject to change depending on the needs of her constituents.

    In other news, the board accepted the resignations of five employees: Alida Delacruz, a bilingual clerk typist; Mary Ellen Hess, a paraprofessional; Christopher Reich, a technology education teacher; Robyn Mott, a junior varsity head field hockey coach, and Jonathan Krupp, a social studies teacher. The board also accepted the retirement of Priscilla Campbell, a social studies teacher and longtime teacher’s union leader, who, after 22 years, is taking a position with New York State United Teachers, a 600,000-member teachers’ union.

    On July 30, the seven-member board met for an executive session to discuss matters related to a recent security audit. The private meeting lasted more than three hours. In the wake of last year’s school shooting in Newtown, Conn., many schools on the East End have reviewed their security and safety protocol, though most have yet to enact sweeping changes.

    “Some things are more simple to correct than others,” said James P. Foster, a board member. “We are working on fixing the things that we need to fix up front.”

    “After changes have been put in place, we will be able to share with the community the changes and updating we have done,” concluded Ms. Hope, who declined to reveal any specifics.

    Finally, the board updated audience members about the Sandpebble lawsuit, which has haunted the district for more than six years. At issue is a multimillion-dollar contract for a school construction project dating back to April of 2002. Sandpebble Builders, a construction company based in Southampton, initially began negotiations with the district when the project was slated to cost $18 million. Eventually, it ballooned to upward of $80 million.

    “There are two more outstanding depositions,” said Richard Burns, the superintendent. “As soon as those are completed, we’re ready for the next recommendation from our counsel. I don’t want to go into specifics, but there’s a definite strategy that we’re moving forward with.”

    Meanwhile, legal fees continue to mount. Pinks, Arbeit, and Nemeth, a Hauppauge law firm representing the district’s interests as it relates to Sandpebble, charges an hourly rate of $375.

    Going forward, rather than meeting in the cramped quarters of the district office, the East Hampton School Board meetings will now be held in the high school’s library. The next meeting is scheduled for Sept. 3 at 6:30 p.m.

    For about as long as Sam Hamilton can remember, he’s been obsessed with cars.

    As a young boy, his collection of Hot Wheels provided endless hours of amusement, as did wandering the streets of Sag Harbor in search of dump trucks.

    But for the past four years, he’s had his sights set firmly on someday acquiring a 1960s-era American muscle car. Finally, that day has arrived.

    Earlier this summer, Sam spotted a 1966 Ford Mustang coupe on the Craigslist Web site. After talking the owner down to $6,000 (from an original listing of $7,000), the car was soon sitting in his parents’ driveway — a childhood dream, fulfilled.

    “I’ve been saving up to buy it all my life,” said Sam, now 16, who has put his birthday and Christmas money aside, in addition to regular paychecks from GeekHampton, an Apple computer store in Sag Harbor, where he works part time.

    But the car, with its British racing-green exterior and white vinyl roof, is nothing if not a fixer-upper. Though in decent working condition, it still requires a fair amount of work.

    The car’s restoration is now part of Sam’s senior project, required of all students at the Ross School in East Hampton, where he is soon to begin his senior year. He said the senior projects are something that most Ross students start thinking about — and start planning for — as soon as they begin high school.

    Akin to a college thesis, the project is “a way for students to experience an adventure of their own and set out to do a project all on their own and combine their likes and different areas of interest into a singular project that takes several months,” he explained.

    In addition to the senior project, high school students at Ross also participate in something called M-term, during which time many crisscross the globe for three weeks each March. During his freshman year, while several of his classmates were off exploring China and Indonesia, Sam spent the three weeks interning at Joe’s Garage in North Sea, learning alongside Joe Frizell, its owner, everything from mechanics and engineering to the entrepreneurial skills necessary to run a small business.

    Besides Mr. Frizell, Dean Silvera, who owns Aventura Motors in Southampton, has also lent his expertise, helping Sam get a handle on all that needs to be done.

    As the grandson of Julie Andrews, show business, not car restoration, runs through Sam’s bloodline. His mother, Emma Walton Hamilton, writes and edits children’s books. His father, Stephen Hamilton, is a producer, actor, and director.

    Nevertheless, starting in September, while his classmates are busy learning taxidermy and falconry, Sam will be replacing leaking parts, refinishing the car’s trunk, redoing its carpeting, and possibly even saving up enough for a new paint job, among several planned improvements. The hands-on dirty work will take much of the fall, as he works on a restoration that combines his love of cars, engineering, computers, filmmaking, and entrepreneurship, while also applying to college.

    Sam has already created a blog to document the restoration of the Mustang, which he tentatively named Pony, complete with pictures and videos of his work-in-progress. He also recently launched an Indiegogo campaign, which will help to raise money for the rest. With slightly less than 50 days left in the campaign, he has already raised a little more than $3,200 of his ultimate $10,000 goal.

    No matter the final amount raised, Sam is enthused by the challenge ahead.

    “This is the beauty of the senior project. I don’t have a whole lot of experience,” he said. “But it’s all really doable.”

See more at www.mustangsam.net.

    The Child Development Center of the Hamptons, a public, tuition-free charter school in East Hampton, will have an open house on Wednesday for prospective students and their parents in kindergarten through fifth grade.

    From 4 to 7 p.m., people can tour the school, which also offers day care and preschool programs for a fee.  The school has differentiated instruction, offering positive behavior analysis and occupational, physical, and speech therapy. It is at 110 Stephen Hand’s Path.

Downward Dog, Upward Lizard

    Yoga Ugo, Paddle Diva, and KamaDeva Yoga have invited kids and their parents to a midday yoga session on the beach, followed by a visit with some unusual animals, courtesy of Jungle Bob. It happens on Wednesday at the Paddle Diva headquarters at Shagwong Marina on Three Mile Harbor Road, East Hampton. During the event, donations will be collected for I-Tri, an East Hampton organization that promotes self-empowerment for girls through triathlon skills. The fun will kick off at 11 a.m. At noon, Jessica Bellofatto of KamaDeva Yoga will lead yoga on the beach. After that, until the program ends at 1, kids can meet and hold some of Jungle Bob’s collection of reptiles.

    Yoga Ugo is a socially conscious clothing company founded by Susi Lacoff Resner of Centerport. Lisa Harris Pantry will provide snacks. 

Graffiti Painting

    On Saturday morning, from 10:30 to noon at the Children’s Museum of the East End, the graffiti artist Angel Ortiz, a k a LA ROC, will help kids 4 and up “find their inner artist” by guiding them as they design their own graffiti tag and helping them create a graffiti painting using paint pens and watercolors. The group will also work on a large-scale canvas that will be displayed later in the museum. The cost is $25 including museum admission, or $15 for members. On Tuesday night, the City Kids Repertory Company, comprised of students in New York City middle and high schools, will present a lively mix of music, dance, and drama as part of the museum’s weekly Twirlygig Tuesdays series. The performance starts at 6 p.m., with doors opening at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $17 in advance, $15 for members, and $20 at the door for everyone. The rain date is Wednesday.

Movies, Ice Cream, Story

    This afternoon families are invited to the Amagansett Library for a 3:30 showing of “Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted.” The library will provide snacks. Next Thursday, the family movie will be “Rise of the Guardians.” And Wednesday night at 6, tweens ages 8 to 14 are invited for an evening showing of “Brooklyn Castle.” Parents can drop them off for the film. On Saturday at 3:30 p.m., the library will host a fish-themed story and craft time. Families will make ice cream together on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. Mittens are optional. Registration is requested for all programs, which are free.

Magic, Crafts, Pastels

    Children 4 and older can enjoy a magic-themed afternoon at the East Hampton Library on Tuesday with Amore, a children’s performer who will visit from 2 to 2:45 p.m. On Wednesday, kids 4 and older can use their hands and feet to make crab paintings from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. A pastel painting session inspired by the art of Mary Cassat will have participants creating portraits of their parents on Friday, Aug. 23, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Kids are encouraged to wear paint clothes or take a smock. Children under 7 should be accompanied by an adult for the above programs. Sign-up is required for each.

Puppets Everywhere

    Over the coming week, the Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre in Sag Harbor will host several puppet events from Southampton to Amagansett.

    Today, tomorrow, and Saturday, Barefoot Puppets, a Virginia puppet touring company, will present “Galapagos George” at 11 a.m. at the Sag Harbor theater on East Union Street. The cost is $12, $10 for members and grandparents, and $5 for children under 3. There is also a free show in Amagansett Square tomorrow at 5:30 p.m.

    Next Thursday, a “Wild West Mystery” will be staged in Sag Harbor at 11 a.m., and on Friday, Aug. 23, and Aug. 24, at 11 a.m., Steve Petra and Petra Puppets will present the “Wacky Friends Show,” starring Tick-Tock Owl, Gargle the Great, Jerry J. Penguin, and Krusty the Stale Donut. The show also features magic, music, and audience participation. The show will head to Amagansett Square on Friday, Aug. 23, at 5:30 p.m.

    Next Thursday at 12:15 p.m., families can make sock dragons to take home during a family puppetry workshop in Sag Harbor. Children 5 and up are invited to attend. The cost is $25 per family.

    Goat on Boat will lead kids in a free scarf marionette outdoor workshop at the Southampton Center on Job’s Lane in that village today at 4 p.m. and a free outdoor puppet show on Sunday at 5 p.m.

Pirate Fun

    Guild Hall’s KidFest fun continues on Wednesday when the Story Pirates visit the John Drew Theater at 5 p.m.  The Pirates will present a musical sketch comedy show for kids 3 to 12 adapted from stories written by elementary school kids. In each show, there is an improvised portion where Story Pirates actors solicit suggestions from the kids in the audience to create a new sketch on stage.  The cost is $16 for adults, $13 for children, and $14 and $11 for members. Before the show, at 4 p.m., kids 5 and older can make their own treasure map during an art workshop at the museum. The workshop costs $10, or $8 for members.

Sculpture at Parrish

    Next week, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will host a workshop on sculpture techniques for children ages 10 and up. Participants will spend time in the galleries, learning a variety of techniques for each medium, and then will create their own works of art in the studio. The four-day workshop will take place Monday through next Thursday from 4 to 5:30 p.m. The cost is $120, or $90 for Parrish members. Advance registration is a must.

Nature Exploration

    The final session in the South Fork Natural History Museum’s three-part Girls Who Looked Under Rocks program for aspiring female naturalists will be held on Saturday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. and will introduce girls to the wildlife living in the museum’s vineyard field. The program is for girls ages 9 to 15. Participation in the prior two programs is not required, but reservations are necessary as space is limited. Participants will watch as the vineyard field comes alive with the evening movement of animals and record what they see and hear in their nature journals. On Sunday at 1 p.m., children ages 7 to 12 can work on songs about nature during a songwriting workshop with Tyler Armstrong. Prior music experience is not required, but reservations are. The museum is on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike in Bridgehampton.

Sag Harbor Sketch Tour

    The Custom House will sponsor a “walk, talk, and sketch tour” of historic Sag Harbor, for ages 9 to 13, on Monday from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Architecture and other features of historic buildings will be highlighted by Janet Sygar, an architectural educator.

    The cost is $10 per person, and the Custom House, at the corner of Main and Garden Streets, is the meeting place. Reservations and information are at 725-3229.

    At the Springs School, the hunt for a new assistant principal continues.

    During Monday night’s school board meeting, Dominic Mucci, the district’s superintendent, updated audience members concerning the administrative opening — a position that has gone unfilled since its previous occupant resigned in early May.

    “We’ve received 166 applications for the position and we’ve gone through them once, twice, and three times. We’re not time-binding ourselves to say we have to have someone here by Sept.1,” Mr. Mucci said.

    “We’re still on the hunt, but we haven’t found that match as of yet,” he said.

    In early May, Katherine Byrnes resigned from her position as assistant principal. Dr. Byrnes, who was hired for a three-year probationary period a year ago at an annual salary of $120,000, not including benefits, oversaw special education, managed issues related to discipline, and evaluated teachers, among other duties. Louis Aiello, a former Springs administrator, has stepped in to fill her duties since she left.

    Dr. Byrnes’s resignation coincided with a troubled time for the school. Less than a week after she left, the school reported that it had turned over information to the Testing Integrity Unit of the New York State Education Department concerning a possible irregularity related to a recent state assessment. The district has not said which staff member was implicated, and a final report has yet to be released.

    Filling the assistant principal’s position has proved more difficult than some had initially hoped. Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, the former board president, said in an earlier statement that the school leadership was confident that it would will have the position filled by Aug. 1.

    In other news, Eric Casale, the principal, discussed the school’s performance on the most recent New York State assessment, the first set of tests tied to the Common Core, a new, national set of learning benchmarks intended to promote higher-order critical thinking. At Monday night’s meeting, about eight audience members were present. Two board members, Timothy Frazier and Jeffrey Miller, were absent.

     “Like every other district, when the scores came out, we were disappointed,” said Mr. Casale.

    “But I’m confident in our program here and we’ve made tremendous strides and we will continue to make efforts. We do have a long way to go, but I am confident that we will continue to make progress in the years ahead,” he said.

    With the start of school approaching, Mr. Casale said that enrollment is up. Come Sept. 9, he anticipates that about 712 students will walk through the front doors — roughly 40 more than at the same time last year. The increase, Mr. Casale said, is evenly distributed from pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. In the meantime, improvements to the both the interior and exterior of the buildings and grounds are under way.

Puppet Show

    Katie’s Puppets will pay a visit to the Amagansett Library on Saturday afternoon at 3:30. After a puppet show, families will make their own puppets to take home. Advance sign-up is requested with the library.

Nature Nick, Jester Jim, and More

    Nature Nick, an animal handler, will take animals such as a miniature kangaroo, a squirrel monkey, an armadillo, and a python to the East Hampton Library on Tuesday from 2 to 3 p.m. The program is for kids 4 and older.

    On Wednesday, children 4 and older can decorate cupcakes from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. A program next Thursday from 2 to 2:45 p.m. will have kids 7 and up learning to twist balloons into animal shapes with Jester Jim.

    Kids 4 and up will explore different facial expressions during an art program on Friday, Aug. 30, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

    Children under 7 should attend programs with an adult. Sign-up is requested for all programs.

Animal Fun

    Young animal lovers and budding zoologists might want to stop by Guild Hall on Wednesday when the Wild World of Animals takes its creatures to the John Drew stage for a live show at 5 p.m. Reptiles, birds, and mammals will be featured.

    The International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions voted the show one of the top five education-oriented entertainment shows. It is geared to kids 4 and up and costs $16 for adults, $13 for kids, and $14 and $11 for members. Before the show, there is an animal arts and crafts workshop for children 5 and up, 4 to 4:45 p.m. The cost is $10 and $8 for members. Advanced registration is suggested for both events.

Building Blocks

    A program on DNA, the building blocks of life, will give kids 7 to 9 the chance to explore things too small to see with the naked eye — atoms, molecules, and compounds — on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the South Fork Natural History Museum. There is a $4 materials fee.

    The museum is in Bridgehampton on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike.

“Godspell”

    The young thespians of Stages, a Children’s Theatre Workshop, will take “Godspell” to the Pierson High School tomorrow through Sunday.

    The musical, by Stephen Schwartz, is directed by Helene Leonard, and stars participants in the workshop’s Summer Stages program. Performances are at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow and Saturday and at 3 p.m. on Sunday.

    Tickets are $15 and can be reserved by e-mailing [email protected].

Puppets Galore

    It’s another busy week for the Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre in Sag Harbor.

    This morning at 11, there’s a “Wild West Mystery,” featuring Western songs, clues, and a cattle chase. Then tomorrow and Saturday at the same time Petra Puppets will present “The Wacky Friends Show.” Finally, next Thursday through Aug. 31, “The Chicken Show,” featuring Henrietta, the singing chicken, will be in the theater.

    Shows cost $12, $10 for members and grandparents, and $5 for children. Petra’s Puppets will offer a free show in Amagansett Square tomorrow at 5:30.

    Other events at the Sag Harbor theater this week include a family sock dragon workshop today from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. for kids 5 and older. The cost is $25 per family.

More Puppets — and Music

    On Sunday, Goat on a Boat and MusicWorks are sponsoring a family day at the Southampton Center, the former home of the Parrish Art Museum on Job’s Lane.

     The fun begins with an interactive music workshop for kids 5 to 12 at 4 p.m. Liz Joyce and a Couple of Puppets of Goat on a Boat will present “The Princess, the Frog, and the Pea,” a puppet show for all ages at 5 p.m., and at 5:30, MusicWorks will perform a family concert.

    All three programs are free.

Jazz Class

    Children 2 and up are invited to the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor for a jazz-themed art class with Shenole Latimer tomorrow at 5 p.m. Children will learn about jazz through dynamic storytelling, listening games, live music, and group participation.

    A dragonfly craft time for kids 3 to 9 is planned for Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

    Registration is required for both programs.

Family Fun Day

    The Max Cure Foundation’s Family Fun Day will bring face painting, inflatables, and a temporary tattoo artist to the Ross School in East Hampton on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and is preceded by a 3 on 3 charity basketball tournament that starts at 9 a.m.

    The fun day includes a picnic lunch. Tickets cost $75 for adults and $50 for children. Kids under 3 get in free. Proceeds support the foundation’s work combating pediatric cancer and helping those dealing with it. The rain date is Sunday. The Ross School is on Goodfriend Drive. 

    A Tempting Tabletops benefit for the East Hampton Day Care Learning Center on Saturday will give ticketholders a chance to win a variety of “unique and whimsical” table settings on display during the 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. affair.

    The party will be at the center on Gingerbread Lane Extension near East Hampton Village’s long-term parking lot. Savory hors d’oeuvres and drinks will be served. The price of entry, starting at $20 for a single ticket, includes a chance at winning a favorite table setting. For $100, guests will get 12 raffle tickets, $300 buys 20, and $500 buys 30 tickets.

    Proceeds will benefit the nonprofit center, which serves preschool students with full and half-day programs geared toward meeting the needs of working parents. Tickets can be reserved by calling the center or e-mailing [email protected].

    The Montauk School is all spruced up and ready for classes to begin on Sept. 4. There are new teachers, new equipment, new programs, and a new security system. Lee White, the newest school board member, was elected in May and has already taken his place on the board for several meetings this summer.

    Mary Jo Walker, whose position was eliminated three years ago, has been reinstated as promised and will teach kindergarten, first and second-grade math, reading, and language arts. She is replacing Richard Larsen, who will teach fifth grade, replacing Sue Nicoletti, who retired in June.

    Louis Guzman has been hired to teach Spanish, replacing Kathleen Byrd, who also retired in June. Will Collins of East Hampton replaces John Salmon, the physical education teacher, another June retiree.

    During budget meetings in March and April, Jack Perna, the school superintendent, pitched a plan for tighter security at the school, especially after the Sandy Hook shootings in Newtown, Conn. The new system, still under construction, features a set of glass doors that can only be accessed by staff when they swipe an identification card. The new doors are set back from the entrance doors, leaving a glass vestibule for visitors to wait until they are identified and buzzed in by a staff member. All other entrance doors will be retrofitted in the fall, but are always locked during school hours.

    There are new laptop computers in the library/media center to replace the older models. The laptops can be moved around to classrooms as needed, which could free up the computer room throughout the day, said Mr. Perna.

    The Spanish program has been expanded in grades one and two. In other grades, in addition to the two regular Spanish classes per week, there will be two computer classes and one library class run by Spanish teachers in cooperation with the school librarian, Rachel Kleinberg. Some classes will be bilingual.

    Finally, new hanging light fixtures have been installed in the school entrance hall; the library has new and different fixtures.

    Everything will be ready on the first day of school, Mr. Perna promised. It might take a while for the staff to adapt to the new security system, but adapt they will, he said.