Third, fourth and fifth grade enrichment students in Ms. Levy’s class at South Bay Elementary School shared their three-dimensional creations with kindergarten students during a bubble wand celebration on June 13. 

The enrichment students created bubble wands using the school’s 3D printer. They explained to the kindergarteners what a 3D printer is and how it prints 3D models using plastic filament. They also shared how the printer can take hours to create each of the bubble wands, as it lays down very thin layers of plastic. It must print over the same spot – sometimes 50 or 100 times – just to get the design right.

The bubble wands were designed using a program called Tinkercad. Using the program for the first time, Ms. Levy’s students enjoyed watching how-to videos, experimenting with different settings and shapes and figuring out how to create the bubble wands on the blueprints they had drawn. 

Third, fourth and fifth graders also shared how their designs did not always work out. As a solution, they brainstormed new ideas, reworking and redesigning them to have successful prints. The kindergarten students were happy to spend the morning playing with their many different 3D creations.

Date Added: 6/17/2025

Dressed in their caps and gowns, the members of the Class of 2025 took one last walk through their elementary school halls on June 16. The seniors were greeted with cheers and applause, as the younger students lined the hallways and held up congratulatory signs. The students had time to reconnect and reminisce with former teachers as they paraded through their respective elementary school.

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Date Added: 6/18/2025

Christina Delaney, third grade teacher at South Bay Elementary School, has been named a winner of the Applebee’s Above & “Bee”yond Teacher Essay Contest. Ms. Delaney’s student Kaylee Labriola submitted an essay to Applebee’s nominating her teacher for the award. In her essay, she wrote about how her teacher is “kind, patient and always makes learning fun.” Ms. Delaney will receive a $500 sponsorship check to be used toward her classroom and a special end-of-year class party. Only four teachers on Long Island – two from Nassau County and two from Suffolk County – receive the award each year.

Date Added: 6/13/2025

Third graders at South Bay Elementary School became paleontologists for the day when they participated in a hands-on fossil digging lesson on May 15. As part of their “lessons from the past” science unit, students have been learning about the four different types of fossils. To get ready for their big dig, students created cast molds out of salt dough and made impressions and animal prints using small dinosaur figures. To recreate amber fossils, the third graders used Jell-O and gummy sharks to observe the fossils. Students recorded their observations and findings in their science journals. 

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Date Added: 5/28/2025