Dance Classes Galore

Fall registration is under way at various dance studios catering to the younger set, among them the Hampton Ballet Theatre School in Bridgehampton and Montauk, Dancehampton in East Hampton, and the Creative Edge Studio in Montauk.

At Dancehampton, on Lumber Lane, classes for children 2 and up are given after school and on weekends, with offerings ranging from ballet, tap, and jazz to lyrical, musical theater, and hip-hop. Registration is online at dancehampton.com. Classes begin on Sunday.

The Hampton Ballet Theatre School begins its fall semester on Monday at its two locations in Bridgehampton, on Butter Lane and at the Bridgehampton Community House, and on Tuesday at its satellite studio at Yoga Lila in Montauk. The studio offers a classical ballet track of study as well as a contemporary track. Auditions for a “Nutcracker” workshop, which culminates in Dec. 9, 10, and 11 performances of the Christmas classic at Guild Hall, will be held on Sept. 24.

At Creative Edge, which has classes at its studio at 710 Montauk Highway in Montauk, registration will be on Sept. 17 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sept. 18 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The studio teaches ballet, tap, lyrical, jazz, and hip-hop. A schedule can be found online at creativedgedance.com.

About Brain-Healthy Snacks

A Wellness Foundation nutrition program for kids about snacks to support brain and heart health and protect the body from disease will be held next Thursday at 4 p.m. at the East Hampton Library. Intended for ages 8 to 13, it will involve preparation of a nutritious snack. Advance registration has been requested with the library’s children’s room.

For Budding Authors

Budding authors, mark your calendars. A writing workshop aimed at helping middle schoolers find their voice and enjoy the creative writing process outside of the classroom will begin at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor on Sept. 17. The workshop will meet weekly from 10 to 11 a.m. throughout the year. Snacks will be provided. Advance registration is not necessary.

Kids Cast a Seine Net

In a program led by Ashley Federici of the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton, families will pull a seine net from the beach on Saturday to see what sort of tropical fish they might haul in. Participants will look out for juvenile tropical fish that make their way north from the Gulf of Mexico this time of year. Those who sign up for the 9:30 a.m. program should dress to get wet.

East End Arts, a nonprofit organization in Riverhead founded in 1972 to promote music, theater, and other forms of art on the East End, has announced that it is launching a satellite location of its East End Arts School this fall at the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center.

East End Arts will begin offering private lessons in voice, violin, guitar, piano, and band and orchestra instruments on Sept. 12, according to a release. Group guitar classes will be offered on Saturday mornings, with other group lessons to be added in the future, the organization said. Both children and adults can sign up for lessons and classes. Scholarships will also be available.

The child care center launched its own music curriculum in 2015 after the first Jazz for Jennings fund-raiser successfully raised enough money. Bonnie Michelle Cannon, the center’s director, said in a statement that she and the staff “are very excited to be able to expand to instruments beyond our keyboards with our new partnership with East End Arts.”

“This is a fabulous opportunity to bring music into the lives of children and their families on the South Fork,” Ms. Cannon said.

Michael Clark, the longtime owner of the Crossroads Music, an Amagansett store and lesson center that closed at the end of 2015, said the East End Arts satellite location will be a great way to support music here.

“We learned at Crossroads Music that some enjoy a centralized location as opposed to in their home or at the teacher’s location,” he said in an email. “So there is room for everyone. What East End Arts can provide, in my opinion, is not just lessons but community support such as workshops, concerts, and similar events to show that music is so much more than teaching and practicing. It is a part of everyday life.”

The Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center is at 551 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike. More information on the music program is available by emailing East End Arts at [email protected] or by calling 631-369-2171.

Library Programs Galore

The end of summer vacation may be near, but the fun for kids hardly seems to be winding down next week at the East Hampton Library. In addition to the regular story times and other activities, there will be yoga, face painting, a circus act, sculpture and collage-art workshops, and family movies.

Susan Verde will lead a yoga and story session just for kids 5 and up (no adults) on Monday at 11 a.m. From 2 to 4 p.m. that day, kids 3 and up can stop by the library to have their faces painted. A performer from the National Circus Project will entertain all ages on Tuesday at 1:30 p.m.

On Wednesday at 4, children 4 and older will make kinetic sculptures that will “come to life through movement,” according to the library. Next Thursday there will be two family movies: “The Jungle Book” at 2 p.m. and “How to Train Your Dragon 2” at 4. Finally, on Friday, Sept. 2, at 3 p.m., children 4 and up will use animal-print paper to make their own beach scenes. Advance registration is required for all library offerings.

Like Mr. Rogers, Only Hip

Joshua Holden, described as “a modern-day Mr. Rogers with hipster appeal,” will bring “The Joshua Show” to the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 11 a.m. A production geared toward ages 4 and up, with puppetry, tap dancing, live music, and comedy, it touches on the themes of “friendship, confidence, and the value of being yourself.” Tickets cost $15. The show is a presentation of the Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre.

Punch and Judy Are Back

Puppet shows are also on the schedule tomorrow and Friday, Sept. 2, at the Southampton Arts Center. Tomorrow, Liz Joyce and a Couple of Puppets will present “Punch and Judy in the Kitchen.” Ms. Joyce is the founder of the Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre. For next week’s outdoor show, Talking Hands Theatre will present “Bugaboo Review,” a show about eating well, caring for helpful bugs, and gardening organically. Both shows are free and will begin at 4:30 p.m.

Conscience Point Outing

There’s plenty going on at the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton this week and next. The weekend will begin with a 10:30 a.m. family nature walk at Conscience Point in North Sea on Saturday. Ashley Oliver will help families identify flora and fauna and share a bit about the history of the point, where a group of English settlers sailing from Massachusetts landed on June 12, 1640.

Later on Saturday, Ruby Jackson will lead a fish-mobile workshop at 2 p.m. There is a $3 materials fee. On Sunday, after a reading of Richard and Amy Hutchings’s “When the Wind Blows,” kids 5 to 7 will learn about how wind affects the environment and make a wind spinner. There’s a $3 materials fee for this one.

On Friday, Sept. 2, two pond adventures are planned. Participants will make a net and use it to collect samples from the ponds behind the museum that they will then examine up close. The program for kids 5 to 7 starts at 10:30 a.m. and has a $6 materials fee; one for kids 8 to 12 will start at 2 p.m. and has a materials fee of $7.

Summer Reading Celebration

An end-of-summer celebration for all the young bookworms who signed up for the Amagansett Library’s summer reading club will be held on Saturday from 3 to 4 p.m. On Tuesday, folks from the Suffolk County Farm will visit the library to talk about small pets like rabbits, guinea pigs, and hamsters, some of which will be on hand. The program is for kids 5 to 12 years old. It starts at 11. Advance sign-up is required for all library programs.

Video Camp at CMEE

I-Camp, a weeklong session for kids 7 to 10 exploring design, video editing, and music production, will take place at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton from Monday through Friday, Sept. 2. Tech professionals will be on hand for three of those days, and there will be arts and science activities the other two. The camp will run from 9:15 a.m. to noon. The cost is $625, $575 for museum members. Campers must be signed up in advance.

“Mutts Gone Wild”

Dogs will take center stage for the last of Guild Hall’s summer Kidfest programs on Wednesday. The fun begins at 4 p.m., when kids 5 and up can paint ceramic dogs to take home, but things really get going at 5, as Scott and Joan Houghton take over the John Drew Theater stage with “Mutts Gone Wild.” The comedy dog show features Frisbee games, canine tight-wire walkers, magic mutts, and a talking dog, or so they say. Tickets cost $18 for adults and $14 for kids. Museum members pay $16 and $12. The workshop costs $10, $8 for members. It’s a good idea to secure tickets in advance.

Sidewalk Art and Circus Skills

Kids can learn to make their own sidewalk chalk paint using ingredients commonly found around the house on Saturday at the Montauk Library. After making their chalk paint, they’ll take it outside to try it out. Ice pops will be served. The program, which starts at 3, is best for kids in kindergarten and above.

The same is true for a circus workshop at the library on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. Kids will be taught the basics of juggling, devil-stick manipulation, plate spinning, and stilt walking from a circus pro. Spots should be reserved in advance.

East Hampton School District officials have turned their attention back to the idea of building a maintenance depot and bus parking lot on the high school campus after learning that the property where the district leases a bus barn is in contract to be sold.

The one-acre site, at 41 Route 114 in East Hampton, is zoned for commercial or industrial use. It was listed at $3 million and had been on the market for only one week, Hal Zwick of Town and Country Real Estate said. He said he could not yet release the name of the buyer or the final price. J.P. Foster, president of the East Hampton School Board, is also a broker with Town and Country but has said he had no part in the sale.

  According to Richard Burns, the district superintendent, the bus barn lease, which runs through October 2017, will be honored. Mr. Burns plans to meet with the buyer this week, but neither he nor Mr. Foster would disclose who it is. Mr. Burns said the sale puts further pressure on the district for an on-campus facility, which would require financing through a bond referendum.

During the district’s school board meeting on Aug. 16, Mr. Foster said it had not been “prepared to move fast enough” to scoop up the property, which is owned by the Schaefer family, who used to operate the buses that transported East Hampton’s students. The district bought its own buses after the Schaefers closed their company in 2006, and it began leasing the property to park and maintain them. The lease costs just over $100,000 a year.

“Our process is more cumbersome than an individual buyer’s,” Mr. Foster said. “It would take us a good eight to nine months to get public approval, get the funding, and get it appraised. . . . and we can only pay for appraised value. That’s a cap for us. We are out of that arena. The public asked us to look, we did, and unfortunately, it’s not going to work. We have to look at plan B.”

School officials had been publicly debating whether to build a bus barn somewhere on district property since the fall, though the discussion was put on hold as they considered off-campus locations, including the East Hampton Town Airport. That option was ruled out because the airport is in Wainscott, outside district boundaries.

The district has projected that a facility could be built for about $4.75 million, and the school board has already evaluated several potential sites at the high school. Discussing the possibilities at school board meetings brought out some critics, however, including John Tarbet, who lives near the high school. Reached by phone Monday, Mr. Tarbet said he remains opposed to the district’s siting the bus depot directly on Long Lane, which was one of the sites discussed. “Any type of commercial building there would be out of place,” he said. With regard to a bond referendum, Mr. Tarbet said he was “less concerned about the financial aspect than the aesthetic aspect” of the project.

Students entering the 7th and 12th grades in September will be prevented from attending classes unless they can prove they have had the vaccine for meningococcal meningitis, a rare but serious bacterial infection.

The requirement, adopted by the state a year ago, has at least one school district scrambling to get parents to hand in the necessary paperwork for their children.

Lorraine Talmage, the East Hampton High School nurse, reported during the district’s school board meeting Tuesday that there are about 85 students — 65 at the high school and 20 at the middle school — for whom proof was missing. Classes begin Sept. 7 in East Hampton, but the vaccination paperwork is due at the nurse’s office by Sept. 1. School officials in Springs, Bridgehampton, and Sag Harbor had not responded to requests for information by press time.

Ms. Talmage said she had sent three letters beginning in March, in English and Spanish, to parents. Email notifications have also been sent via the district’s Google Groups system. “In all my years of school nursing, I’ve never had parents ignore something like this,” she said.

 According to the East Hampton School District’s website, on which the state rules are posted, students entering 7th grade need to have had one dose at any point before they begin school this year. Students entering 12th grade generally need a booster shot if they had a first shot previously. A third dose is needed if the booster was given before the student’s 16th birthday, however.

Ms. Talmage said it was possible parents believed their doctors had faxed proper paperwork to the school, but that was not the case. She suggested parents check with them if they thought this was done.

“Most of the time, the state just eases the new immunization requirements in. This year? Uh-uh. . . . It’s really tricky. Since my first letter went out . . . we’ve been fighting this constantly, trying to get parents to get it for their children.”

In Montauk, Jack Perna, the district superintendent, said by email the school nurse did “not foresee a problem” since half of the incoming seventh grade received the meningococcal meningitis vaccine last year. A notice has gone out, however, and a second notice is in the works, he said.

Children’s Book Fair

On Sunday, the day after the East Hampton Library’s big Authors Night event, the library will have nearly a dozen children’s book writers on hand at its annual Children’s Fair. In addition to the authors, there will be carnival rides and games, a raffle, crafts, performers, and tasty treats.

Among the authors slated to attend is Katharine Holabird, creator of the Angelina Ballerina series. Also on the list are Susan Verde, Adam Osterweil, Frank Sofo, Emma Walton Hamilton, Cynthia Bardes, Liz Doyle Carey, Jason Edwards, Sandra Elaine Scott, and Valerie Pfundstein. Books will be available for purchase, and the authors will sign copies. The free fair runs from 2 to 5:30 p.m. on Maidstone Lane, off James Lane, in East Hampton.

Also on the library’s schedule this week are nutrition classes presented by the Wellness Foundation, a soap-making workshop, and a garden art program. The nutrition classes, the fourth in a series at the library this summer, will focus on whole-grain and gluten-free snacks. A program for ages 4 to 7 with an adult will meet on Tuesday at 11 a.m.; one for kids 8 to 13 meets next Thursday at 1 p.m.

In the soap-making workshop on Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., kids 4 and older will fill soap with glitter, toys, and other fun stuff while learning about the history of soap making. On Friday, Aug. 19, that same age group will be guided to create a summer garden scene using tissue paper and other decorative papers starting at 3 p.m.

Comic Ventriloquist

Guild Hall’s KidFest programs on Wednesday will begin with a puppet-making workshop at 4 p.m. for ages 5 and up. At 5 p.m., Lynn Trefzger, a comic ventriloquist, will entertain kids 2 and up in the theater. Ms. Trefzger has performed around the world, including on the Disney Cruise Line. The cost of the workshop is $10, or $8 for museum members. The performance costs $18 for adults and $14 for children, $16 and $12 for members. Advance purchase has been recommended.

Making 3-D Droids

Robotics and 3-D printing workshops this week at the Montauk Library will build on kids’ science, technology, engineering, and math skills. In the 3-D printing workshop on Saturday, tweens in grade four and up will watch behind-the-scenes footage about the making of BB-8, a droid from “Star Wars: The Force Awakens.” Then they’ll have a chance to add their own touches to 3-D printed BB-8s that they can take home. The program will run from 3 to 4 p.m.

On Wednesday, the library will offer a Lego WeDo Robotics program or grades two through five. Kids will “work together to build Lego projects and use the computer to make them come alive,” according to the library. The workshop will run from 2 to 4 p.m. Advance sign-up is required for all library programs.

Shockwave Beat Box

Chris Sullivan of “The Electric Company” will show families why he’s earned the nickname Shockwave when he presents his “Shockwave Beat Box” program at the Southampton Arts Center on Job’s Lane next Thursday at 4:30 p.m. On Friday, Aug. 19, Wonderspark Puppets will present “Foxes Fables,” a retelling of classic fox stories, also at 4:30 p.m.

And a reminder, Josh and the Jamtones will rock out at the center today at 5:30 p.m., and Liz Joyce and a Couple of Puppets will present “The Doubtful Sprout” tomorrow at 4:30 p.m. The puppet shows will be outside. All programs are free, but spaces can be reserved at the center’s website.

Old-Fashioned Flea Circus

Speaking of puppets, today at 11 a.m. Goat on a Boat at Bay Street Theater will present “Punschi,” part puppet show, part “old-fashioned flea circus,” according to the theater. Tickets cost $15.

SoulGrow Activities

Camp SoulGrow in Montauk has a range of fun activities planned this week for kids 7 and up, from sign language to a salon visit to a boat cruise and pizza making.

Tomorrow it’s yoga and vocal expression at 10 a.m. and sign language at 11:30. At 5:45 p.m., campers will visit Pamela’s New Beginnings salon. Monday brings pizza making at Primavera Italian Specialties at 10 a.m. and a boat cruise on the Tomoka at 11:30 a.m. On Wednesday there will be s’mores and lunch at Rick’s Crabby Cowboy Cafe at noon, and next Thursday it’s gardening at 10 a.m. and a class in German cuisine and some foosball playing at Zum Schneider at 11:30 a.m. There’s yoga and vocal expression again on Friday, Aug. 19, at 10 a.m., and at 11:30 that day kids will meet the musicians performing in the Music for Montauk concerts, watch them rehearse, and make some decorations for their productions.

Workshops are by a suggested donation of $10 and up. A $75 donation has been requested from kids new to the nonprofit camp. Sign-up for individual programs is online at campsoulgrow.org, with space in most limited to just 15 participants.

Master Classes for Teens

Bay Street Theater has two teen master classes coming up in Sag Harbor — one on Shakespeare’s soliloquies, the other a musical theater class on acting and staging the song. Tristan Vaughan, the artistic director of Round Table Theater, will teach Speaking Shakespeare on Monday. Participants will learn to “engage with the character’s emotion” as they deliver one of the Bard’s soliloquies.

Bay Street’s artistic director, Scott Schwartz, will lead the musical theater workshop on Aug. 29. Participants will get one-on-one coaching and group coaching. Both workshops, which are for 13 to 18-year-olds, will run from 1 to 4 p.m. The cost is $125 for one class, $200 for both. Each will culminate in a showcase for friends and family on the Bay Street stage. Advance registration is required.

Chessfest at CMEE

The Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton will hold a Chessfest on Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon with Chess NYC. The morning will include crafts, activities, and games for players at all levels. What’s more, the museum promises a match between a group and “an internationally ranked grandmaster.” Admission is $12; members get in free.

On Insects and Arachnids

At the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton on Saturday, Andrew Blaurock, a 17-year-old insect enthusiast and budding entomologist, will lead kids 8 and older on a search for insects and arachnids at 10:30 a.m. Participants have been asked to wear long pants, closed shoes, and long-sleeve shirts.

An insect-drawing workshop for girls 6 and up will be held at the museum that afternoon at 2. Crystal Possehl will introduce girls to “the beauty of insects and the much-needed jobs they perform,” according to the museum. Then they’ll collect some live specimens in sample jars and sketch what they find.

SoFo has a family nature paddle planned at Napeague Harbor on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mike Bottini, a naturalist and author, will talk about natural coastal processes and how people have shaped the harbor’s shoreline. Kayaks, canoes, and paddleboards are available to rent starting at $40. On Wednesday, Ms. Possehl will lead a family beach exploration at Mecox Bay starting at 6:30 p.m. Advance registration is required for all museum events.

Bubblemania

Bubbles will be the focus of Wednesday’s Kidfest programs at Guild Hall. The fun begins with a bubble-painting workshop for ages 5 and up at 4 p.m. and continues at 5 with “Bubblemania: Comedy . . . With a Drip,” presented by Casey Carle, who can make just about anything with a bit of sudsy water. The workshop costs $10, $8 for Guild Hall members. Tickets to the performance are $18 for adults and $14 for kids, $16 and $12 for members.

Next Thursday at 2 p.m. at Guild Hall, Ruby Jackson will take kids 7 and up on a tour of the “Aspects of Minimalism” exhibition and then lead them in an art project inspired by it. The workshop costs $10, $18 for members.

Puppetry Alfresco

Outdoor puppet shows are scheduled for tomorrow and Friday, Aug. 26, at the Southampton Arts Center on Job’s Lane. Next Thursday, representatives of the Quogue Wildlife Refuge will pay a visit with animals. Tomorrow’s puppet show is “Fox Fables,” three tales about clever foxes presented by Wonderspark Puppets. Next week, it’ll be Liz Joyce and a Couple of Puppets with “Punch and Judy in the Kitchen.” All programs begin at 4:30 p.m. and are free.

Block Island Day Trip

Camp SoulGrow in Montauk is planning a big adventure for kids 7 and up on Monday: a day trip to Block Island aboard the Viking ferry. The boat will depart at 9:30 a.m. The cost of the trip is $60, and participants must sign up in advance at campsoulgrow.org.

The same is true for the shorter programs, for which a $10 donation is requested. On the schedule tomorrow are a Tick Wise program with Southampton Hospital presenters at 10 a.m., a behind-the-scenes look at Music for Montauk at 11:30, and tie-dye designs at 1 p.m.

On Tuesday, there’s hip-hop at 4 p.m. and sunset-inspired poetry at 6:30. On Wednesday, kids will have a chance to cook with Jeremy Blutstein, the chef at East by Northeast in Montauk, at 11 a.m., and on Friday, Aug 26, it’s yoga and vocal expression at 10 a.m., water fun at 11:30, and Beauty 101 at Pamela’s New Beginnings at 5:45 p.m.

Programs are held in various locations, including the camp’s downtown Montauk studio on Carl Fisher Plaza and its headquarters at Third House in Montauk County Park.

A Lot at the Libraries

There will be lots for kids to do at the local libraries this week. In East Hampton, Susan Verde will lead her Story Time kids-only yoga session on Monday at 11 a.m. for ages 5 and up. There’s a wait list for a flipbooks art program on Tuesday at 4 p.m. for ages 4 and older. Wednesday brings “123 Sesame and Me,” a puppet show for all ages at 1 p.m., and on Friday, Aug. 26, kids 4 and up will make things with wood in an art program at 3 p.m.

At the Montauk Library, the “Turtle Dance Music Head-to-Toe Movement Show” will get kids 2 and older making and moving to music on Saturday at 3:30 p.m.

Story times with a potato focus and a chance to make potato prints are on the agenda at the Amagansett Library on Saturday at 1 and 3 p.m. On Tuesday, kids 7 to 10 will make puppets from recycled materials at 3 p.m. Children 3 to 7 have been invited to wear their pajamas to an evening story time next Thursday at 6:30.

Advance registration is required for all library programs.

The Montauk Observatory and the Ross School have come together to build a permanent astronomy observation space on the Upper School campus in East Hampton, the two entities have announced.

The observatory will house a 20-inch Meade telescope, similar to those used at universities and community observatories around the world. While priority use of the telescope will be given to teachers and industry professionals, members of the public will have access to observation time.

“When we began the Montauk Observatory 10 years ago, we had two goals: to host [astronomy events] on the South Fork for people of all ages, and to build a permanent observatory to give students and professionals access to the dark skies of the East End,” Terry Bienstock, president of the Montauk Observatory, said in a statement. “With the Ross School partnership, we will finally reach our second goal and house the largest professional telescope on Long Island.”

The observatory is expected to be a boon to Ross School students, whose science and history lessons will benefit from access to the telescope. Through the school’s Innovation Lab program, students will be able to conduct original scientific research using it. The Montauk Observatory will continue to host its public lecture series at the Ross Tennis Center, with each free event accompanied by guided observation sessions.

“Community and innovation are key tenets of the Ross School philosophy, so partnering with Montauk Observatory to create a permanent home for their telescope was a natural fit,” Courtney Sale Ross, the school’s founder, said in a statement. “Having the observatory on the Ross campus provides a great resource to our students and faculty, adding another layer through which students can interact with our integrated curriculum. We also hope that this addition will inspire the wider community to come onto campus and experience the opportunities at Ross.”

East Hampton High School’s cool roof may get cooler, man.

The reflective rooftop surface already helps control the building’s interior temperature by deflecting sunlight, and the school district has plans to install solar panels up there, too. The rooftop may soon also be home to a high-tech weather detection station. East Hampton is being evaluated by the State University at Albany as one of 17 sites around the state to receive enhanced weather equip­ment as part of the New York State Early Warning Weather Detection System, also known as the New York State­wide Mesonet.

“Once implemented, this advanced weather observation network will improve the accuracy and reliability of weather prediction, especially during extreme weather events,” Jerald Brotzge, Mesonet’s program director, said in announcing the plan last month. “We also anticipate that these weather stations will provide a broad array of community benefits including new educational, research, and discovery opportunities and better weather forecasts for local residents.”

East Hampton school officials are looking forward to the potential installation, which, they said this week, would open up a world of research possibilities for students and community members.

“Usually we’re saying, ‘How can we get to Cold Spring Harbor [Laboratory]? How can we get to Brookhaven [Laboratory]?’ We’d have it here,” Robert Tymann, the assistant superintendent, said during Tuesday’s school board meeting.

The weather equipment requires a space measuring 20 by 20 feet, capable of holding 500 pounds. Administrators of the Mesonet program are also reportedly considering the Emergency Services Building in East Hampton Village as the recipient.

School District officials said the high school rooftop could easily accommodate the equipment. While it requires electricity and ethernet, the state will pay those costs, so nothing will come out of taxpayers’ pockets.

The enhanced weather station setup includes a light detection and ranging sensor, known as a LiDAR, which emits short pulses of laser light into the atmosphere and measures their scattering in order to observe radial wind speed and other variables. The station also includes a microwave radiometer, which collects data on temperature, humidity, and cloud profiles, and a sun photometer, which tracks the path of the sun during the day to measure its direct radiance.

Dinner at Bhumi

The Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton has invited families to enjoy dinner, games, a craft, and farm tours at Bhumi Farms in East Hampton on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m.

The menu will include dishes prepared with organic produce grown and harvested at the farm, but families who simply want to enjoy the setting can take their own picnics. The cost is $30 per person for those buying dinner, $25 for members, or $20 and $15 for those taking their own meals. Reservations have been requested with the museum by Monday.

Lighthouses, Yoga, Magritte

At the East Hampton Library on Saturday, teens entering 9th through 12th grades can take a practice ACT from 9 a.m. to noon. The practice test and results are free, but space is limited and advance registration is required for this and other library programs.

On Monday at 11 a.m., Susan Verde, a children’s book author and yoga instructor, will lead Story Time Yoga for ages 5 and up. Adults should plan to busy themselves elsewhere in the library; this one’s for kids only.

While learning about Long Island’s many lighthouses, kids entering second through fifth grade will make mini ones of their own that can be illuminated with a battery-powered tea light in a program on Tuesday at 2:30 p.m.

Also on Tuesday, from 4 to 5 p.m. kids in fourth grade and above will use hemp string to wrap or macramé bracelets or key chains that they can decorate with beads if they like.

Teen readers have been invited to talk about what they’re reading in the library’s Any Book Club on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m.

On Friday, Aug. 12, kids 4 and older will make magazine paper collages inspired by the work of René Magritte from 3 to 4 p.m.

“Pinocchio” Marionette Show

The National Marionette Theatre will present “Pinocchio” on Wednesday at 5 p.m. at Guild Hall. Before the production, kids 5 and up can make their own marionettes in a workshop that runs from 4 to 4:45 p.m. Tickets to the performance cost $18 for adults and $14 for children, or $16 and $12 for museum members. The workshop costs $10, $8 for members. Advance purchase has been suggested as programs often sell out.

We’re Jammin’

Josh and the Jamtones will jam out in a free concert for kids at the Southampton Cultural Center on Job’s Lane next Thursday at 5:30 p.m.

Tomorrow the Puppet Company will present “Al E Gator and Friends,” a marionette show, at 4:30 p.m. The outdoor puppet show on Friday, Aug. 12, will be Liz Joyce and a Couple of Puppets’ “The Doubtful Sprout.”

Family Fun

Hot dogs, shave ice, music, and dancing will be on offer at the Hampton Library’s Family Fun Day on Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. on the back lawn. Also on the schedule this week is a 3-D printing workshop for ages 7 to 12 on Tuesday at 3 p.m. The library is on Bridgehampton’s Main Street.

Of Moths and Meteors

Whether you want to be inside or out, the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton has a busy weekend planned for kids and families.

Saturday begins with a movement program for ages 3 to 5 at 10:30 a.m. After reading Eric Carle’s “The Very Busy Spider,” kids will do some animal-themed yoga. Later in the day, at 6:30 p.m., families can join in a beach cleanup while also learning about the various sorts of trash we dump in our oceans, how long it takes to break down, and its effects on the marine ecosystem.

A program for families on two hallmarks of August — moths and meteors — will be held on Saturday night at 8. Families will search for and identify insects of all varieties using magnifiers and microscopes. Then, weather permitting, they’ll scan the night sky for signs of the Perseid meteor showers.

On Sunday, kids 2 to 6 can learn about soil in a workshop at 10:30 a.m. with Melanie Meade. Advance registration has been requested for all museum programs.

Scream for Ice Cream

Kids 2 to 5 can listen to a story and make their own ice cream on Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Montauk Library. On Tuesday the library will screen “Kung Fu Panda 3” at 3:30 p.m. The Lego Builders Club will gather on Friday, Aug. 12, at 4:30 p.m.