Soon to be a new Blind Brook student in Gerri Fisher’s class, Matthew Dancona’s eye is on the prize as he zips through an egg race at the PTA’s annual pre-school year Kindergarten Social on Wednesday, Aug. 28. (Sarah Wolpoff/Westmore News)
Sebastian Schwartz (left) and Chase Nuzie got lucky—they’ll be starting their Blind Brook Schools career together on Tuesday, Sept. 3, in Christina Mangiaracina’s class. The best buds giggle at each other’s jokes while doing crafts at the PTA’s annual Kindergarten Social on Wednesday, Aug. 28, an event hosted at Ridge Street School to ease the newest Blind Brook students into school by giving them an afternoon to meet each other. (Sarah Wolpoff/Westmore News)
Ready to tinker like a young engineer, incoming kindergartner Lada Sidelev works to piece together two plastic tubes she found at a toy station. (Sarah Wolpoff/Westmore News)
Ruby Noymer goes slow and steady to transport a magenta ping-pong ball on a spoon across the lawn. The egg & spoon race at the Kindergarten Social was a source of great excitement, despite the 90-degree heatwave. (Sarah Wolpoff/Westmore News)
Soon to be kindergartner Niam Nayi almost goes cross-eyed as he fixates on his freeze pop. On such a hot day, he’s sure to enjoy every last drop. (Sarah Wolpoff/Westmore News)
When the day is done, some students, such as Colton Bailey, stick around to check out the playground at the school they’ll soon be attending. (Sarah Wolpoff/Westmore News)
PTA-hosted Kindergarten Social prepares new Ridge Street School students for the 2024-25 year
