April 21, 2026 5:15-7 PM

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

The season opener at Katonah-Lewisboro Schools was full of good feelings. Superintendent Ray Blanch led the team-building pep rally for all the employees of Katonah-Lewisboro Sch...

It felt as though you could almost touch the sparks of ideas flying in Katonah Elementary’s fifth grade classrooms. It was exciting enough that Lisbeth Arce’s eighth grade student...

Parents began bouncing babies on their knees and siblings started swinging their feet … it was hard not to, when a third-grade recorder ensemble at Increase Miller Elementary bega...

Kindergarteners prepare for precipitation. Third graders ponder penguins molting and elephant matriarchs. Fifth graders consider the concept of entitled in relation to the First A...

Katonah Elementary’s fourth graders had time to slow down, look closely, and pay attention to their thoughts and feelings through a private visit to the Katonah Museum of Art. Th...

“I’m really glad we’re doing this,” said one of the parents to Superintendent Raymond Blanch. “We’re feeling heard.” Others around the table nodded. Feedback like this drove home...

From the joys of swapping outgrown Spirit Wear and books to taking a student-run tour of John Jay High School to learn about low-e glass, see on-site solar and feel the breeze of ...

Ask any of the fourth graders at Katonah Elementary about Mozart’s life and greatest works, and chances are – they'll know. Their April 3 performance of “Of Mice and Mozart” was ...

The elementary students were so familiar with what the hungry caterpillar ate on Saturday they could practically say it along with the actors: A piece of chocolate cake, an ice-cr...

From the moment the students quietly sat down, the drums called out from the stage and got them moving! The children spontaneously clapped and bopped in time to the rhythms—the fa...

“One of the biggest celebrations in Poland is the Harvest Festival.” “Haiti is in the Caribbean, it shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic.”“Portugal bull f...