As Camp SoulGrow prepares for its second annual Mardi Gras fund-raiser in Montauk on Tuesday, it has a lot to celebrate. For starters, the camp has a new used bus, which is in the midst of a major makeover, and, second, it is planning to again pitch its proverbial tent at Gurney’s Resort and Spa during the February school break.

 The 23-seat bus has already had a peppy exterior paint job with help from some professionals, and London Rosiere, the camp’s founder, is continuing its transformation. The inside ceiling will be painted to look like the sky, the floor like the grass.

 “It looks so pretty already,” Ms. Rosiere said Tuesday. “It’s vivacious and happy. We’re taking something and making it even better by putting love into it. That’s what I want to show the kids.”

The nonprofit camp offers workshops, adventures, and community activities for kids 7 and older in partnership with local businesses and organizations, tapping into their expertise to teach kids about their town and their place in it. The camp has a base at Third House in Montauk County Park, but has plans to take more programs to kids in East Hampton and Sag Harbor, something the bus will help facilitate.

Tuesday’s fund-raiser will be at the East by Northeast restaurant in Montauk and will include all-you-can-eat Cajun food, like jambalaya and boiled crawfish, and open taps of beer from the Montauk Brewing Company, as well as silent and paper auctions. Hopefully Forgiven will lay down the dance music, and Ms. Rosiere, who is from New Orleans, said “everybody will feel like they’re actually in Mardi Gras.” Tickets will be $25 at the door. People will also be able to check out the bus, which will be parked outside.

Looking ahead to the February school break, Camp SoulGrow will offer workshops from Feb. 15 through 19 from noon to 4 p.m. The afternoons will begin with movement classes from noon to 1:30. Lunch, with food provided by Gurney’s, will be each day from 1:30 to 2:30, and late afternoons, from 2:30 to 4, will be given over to creative endeavors like painting and cooking.

Workshops are free, but a suggested donation of $10 per program will support the nonprofit’s work. Advance sign-up online at campsoulgrow.org is required for each hour-and-a-half offering each day and can be done seven days in advance.

Jason Biondo, who was elected to the Montauk School Board in May 2014, has resigned his position effective Jan. 23.

Mr. Biondo said on Friday that with the growing demands of his two businesses, the Antique Lumber Company of Montauk and Hammerhead Construction, two young boys whose Little League teams he coaches, and a teenage daughter in East Hampton High School, he found he did not have the time he would have liked to dedicate to the board.

“I’m the type of guy who says yes to everything and I didn’t realize how much time it would take,” he said.

He ran in May 2014 against Cynthia Ibrahim, who has a daughter in the school, and won with 132 votes versus Ms. Ibrahim’s 78 votes.

Jack Perna, the school superintendent, said that Mr. Biondo sent an email message to the board saying that he does not have the time to do the job properly and wants to spend more time with his family. “It’s too bad. I felt he was a good board member.”

The board is deciding now on the proper approach to replace him, said Diane Hausman, the school board president. The district could hold a special election, which is costly, or it could appoint someone until the next election in May.

Mr. Perna said the board could operate with just four people until May, but since one one board member, Kelly White, is married to a school employee, Rick White, a computer resource teacher, some parents have raised objections about her voting on certain matters.

The board meets again on Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the school library, but after that will not meet until March, when it begins to gather weekly to work on the district’s 2016-17 budget.

School officials in the Town of East Hampton announced early Friday morning that schools will be closed Friday due to the weather. 

"Freezing rain changing over to snow this morning, slippery and hazardous road conditions expected," the East Hampton Town Police Department posted on its Facebook page, warning motorists to use caution as they headed to work. Closures and cancellations are also being announced. 

The Amagansett, Bridgehampton, East Hampton, Montauk, Sag Harbor, Springs, Southampton, and Wainscott School Districts will be closed on Friday. The Ross School was also closed, a result, it said on its Twitter page, of "road conditions and our coordination with local districts." 

Some special school-related activities slated for Friday night may still be held. Springs School officials said on the district's website that they will post information on the evening's ice-skating night as soon as it is available. Bridgehampton was supposed to hold a tribute to its former basketball coach John Niles, who died earlier this year, during the Bridgehampton Killer Bees' home game on Friday night. No information yet on when that game would be played. 

A winter storm warning remains in effect until 3 p.m. According to the National Weather Service, snow accumulations of 4 to 7 inches are expected on the East End. Rain will mix with snow and turn to all snow later Friday morning, creating "hazardous travel due to significant snowfall . . .  and reduced visibilities." 

Music, Drama, Dance

The weather may have another plan for Saturday, but if all goes according to schedule, Guild Hall will hold a reception that afternoon from 2 to 4 for the first part of its Student Arts Festival, which features the work of students in kindergarten through eighth grade. The afternoon will feature performances by the Amagansett School chorus, the school’s recess drama club, and the East Hampton Middle School dance team as well as individual musicians.

The show is up through Feb. 21, and the museum is open Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 5. Admission is free. The downstairs studios will be open all day for children up to eighth grade to work on projects after touring the show.

To the Stage!

Kate Mueth and the Neo-Political Cowgirls will gallop into Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater to offer a monthlong performance workshop for girls 8 to 12 and 13 to 15 starting on Feb. 2.

Participants will create their own site-specific dance theater pieces while also using journal work and theater games to get comfortable on the stage. The class, according to a release, “will focus on monologues and creative physical staging.”

It will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays through March 3 from 4:30 to 6 p.m., with a final performance planned for March 7 at 7 p.m. The cost is $230, $220 for members, and advance registration is required by phone or with [email protected].

Family Yoga, Computer Coding

Families can stretch their muscles and calm their minds during a family yoga class at the Amagansett Library on Saturday at 2 p.m. with Leigh Anne Eberle. A computer coding class on Tuesday at 4 p.m. will have kids in second through sixth grade learning the basics of Scratch programming. Advance sign-up has been requested for both programs.

Clay Arts to Teen Nights

Ruby Jackson, a Sag Harbor artist, will lead 2 to 4-year-olds as they make their own homemade clay and then create what they will on Wednesday from 11 to 11:45 a.m. at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor.

Wally the dog will be on hand at the library to help young readers 5 to 12 practice their skills on Saturday at 11 a.m. Advance registration has been requested.

Friday nights are teen nights at the library, and tomorrow from 6:30 to 9 John Jermain kicks off its first monthly teen trivia night. Pizza and snacks will be offered, and computers will be available for use.

SoFo’s Starry Night

The South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton has a family exploration and scavenger hunt planned for Poxabogue Park in Sagaponack on Saturday at 10 a.m., weather permitting.

A night-sky program at the museum on Sunday at 10:30 a.m. will include a reading of Steve Tomecek’s “Stars” and a starry night craft for ages 3 to 5. There is a $3 materials fee in addition to museum entry. The museum has asked that people sign up in advance for both programs.

The Ross School recently announced it has earned accreditation from the New York State Association of Independent Schools and reaccreditation from the Middle States Association Commissions on Elementary and Secondary Schools.

In a news release, school administrators said the recognition “provides external validation of an accredited school’s accomplishments in specific areas of expertise and enables schools to take accreditation to the next level.”

In both instances, the accreditation was the culmination of initial self-review and then comprehensive external review and on-site visits. Accreditation was based on many criteria, including curriculum, student life and activities, health and safety, school organization, faculty and leadership, and facilities.

The Middle States Association also recognized the Ross School as a “program of distinction in global literacies,” which is an updated version of the Middle States Association’s previous “international credential,” which Ross first received in 2005.

The Parrish’s Student Show

The Parrish Art Museum’s Student Exhibition, featuring work by more than 1,000 students, will open with a reception for younger children on Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. There will be comedy, juggling, balloons by Jester Jim, and hot cocoa and cookies to enjoy while exploring the show, which will be on view through Feb. 28. Admission is free, as are a number of family activities offered while the exhibition is up.

It will include collaborative works by students from 38 schools and original field drawings by participants in Parrish workshops with the artist Alexis Rockman. The first of these is a stop-motion animation workshop with artists from the Good School on Friday, Feb. 5, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Participants will design sets and characters and create a plot for their own short films. Reservations are required. A reception for high school artists will be held on Feb. 6.

Looking ahead to the February break, the Parrish will offer art workshops in a range of mediums from Feb. 15 through 19 for children 4 and older. Workshops for ages 4 to 6 will run from 10 a.m. to noon; those for kids 7 and up run from 1 to 3 p.m. The cost is $40, $30 for members, and advance registration is a must.

Guild Hall Reception Redo

A reception for Guild Hall’s Student Arts Festival Part I has been rescheduled from last Saturday to this Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. Student performers will take the stage in the John Drew Theater, and visitors can explore the show of work by students in kindergarten through eighth grade. Admission is free.

February Theater Camp

Registration is under way for My Life: The Musical, a theater camp for ages 8 to 12 that will run at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor during the February school break.

Ava Locks, the theater’s director of education, will oversee the five-day camp, which will be taught by Emily Selyukova and Paul Hartman. Ms. Locks has worked Off Broadway, in regional theater, and in television and film. Ms. Selyukova, a Pierson High School graduate, is pursuing an acting career. Mr. Hartman, also a graduate of Pierson, is headed to Berlin in the spring to study and pursue a career in musical theater.

Campers will work on acting, singing, dance, and performance skills while also learning some musical theater history. The camp will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. from Feb. 15 through 19 and will culminate in a performance for family and friends that Friday. The cost is $425; advance sign-up is required.

Paper Projects

Still have holiday wrapping paper hanging around? Ruby Jackson will show kids 6 and older how to turn wrapping paper or shiny magazine paper into paper beads and collages in a workshop on Saturday at the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton. The program begins at 10:30 a.m. There is a $5 fee for materials in addition to the price of museum entry. Advance sign-up is required.

SoulGrow in East Hampton

Camp SoulGrow, which has offered workshops, adventures, and community volunteer opportunities for kids in Montauk since 2014, will be spending some time in East Hampton. 

SoulGrow’s first foray here will be on Wednesday, when kids 7 and up have been invited to help oversee the dessert tables at the East Hampton Clericus’s community soup dinner at the Most Holy Trinity Parish Hall from 5 to 7 p.m. Children must be signed up in advance at campsoulgrow.org. There is a suggested donation of $10 for each camp activity. Parents of young helpers need not stay on Wednesday. 

Family Yoga

Leigh Anne Eberle will lead a family yoga session on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Amagansett Library. Grandparents have been invited, too. On Sunday at the library, kids in kindergarten and above can drop by at 2 p.m. to make mobiles.

Student Art Show Opens

The first part of Guild Hall’s annual Student Arts Festival, featuring work by students in kindergarten through eighth grade, will open on Saturday. The colorful showcase of student talent will be on view through Feb. 21.

The museum is open Fridays, Saturdays, and Mondays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays from noon to 5. There will be free open studio time for children up to eighth grade all day on Saturdays and Sundays. A reception is planned for Jan. 23.

PechaKucha for Teens

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill is planning a teen version of its popular lightning-round PechaKucha talks in February and is accepting applications through tomorrow from teens interested in presenting 20 slides, each of which they can discuss for 20 seconds.

Ten teens will be chosen to present talks on Feb. 26. To submit an entry, prospective speakers have been asked to send three sample images in JPG format, along with a one-paragraph description of the presentation topic, by email to [email protected]. Applicants must include the name of the school they attend and their grade level.

Live From the Red Planet

Families can get an inside look at Martian landscapes and the work of NASA’s Curiosity Rover during a presentation this afternoon at 4 at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton. Horton Newsom, a professor of geochemistry and Mars Science Laboratory researcher, will join participants via Skype for a discussion about the Red Planet, and kids will get to watch a live video feed from the planet’s surface. The cost is $10 and includes museum entry. Members get in free.

On Saturday at the museum, kids 3 to 7 can listen to a reading of Wong Herbert Yee’s “Tracks in the Snow” at 10 a.m. and then learn how to make air-dry clay “tracks.” The program costs $17 including admission, $5 for members.

Reservations are required for both.

Yellowgold Alights

Morgan Taylor’s “Gustafer Yellowgold,” a multimedia performance centered on a creature who comes to Earth from the sun, will land at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 11 a.m. The production is part of the Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre productions and is ideal for children of all ages. Tickets cost $15 through the Bay Street box office.

On Sunday at 2 p.m., the theater will screen the 2015 animated film “Inside Out,” about a girl whose emotions are all conflicted after a move to a new city. Tickets cost $5.

Library Action

Fiorella Vassallo, a local artist, will work with kids at the Montauk Library on Saturday at 2 p.m. to create a kid-size winter wonderland mural that will be displayed through the rest of the season. Those wishing to take part must register in advance with the circulation desk and wear painting clothes.

At the Amagansett Library, kids can speak up and speak out during a Lions Roar story time on Saturday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. After a reading of Michelle Knudsen’s “Library Lion,” kids will work on a craft celebrating Martin Luther King’s Birthday. Materials for a drop-in paper flower craft will be on hand at the library all day on Sunday.

The East Hampton Library has three movies on the schedule for the younger set this weekend. The classic “Mary Poppins” will be screened for families this afternoon at 4:30. On Tuesday there will be a teen screening of “Avatar” in 3-D at 4 p.m. Next Thursday, families can get lost in “Tangled” at 4:30 p.m.

Kids in grades six through eight can enjoy cupcakes while chatting about new books during a book club gathering on Wednesday at 4:45 p.m.

A Dec. 31 article in The Star, “A Garden Grows in Bridgehampton,” and a subsequent correction inaccurately stated the ownership of property that may soon be leased to the Bridgehampton School.

A parcel to the east of the school, at Montauk Highway and Lockwood Lane, is owned by Francis J. Francese, Susan Nanovic Flannery, Paul J. Pinto, Nancy M. Flannery, and John M. Flannery. It is managed by the Hampton Classic, which has the authority to maintain it or find someone to do so, which led to its offer of a three-year lease to the school, which is interesred in expanding its gardening program.

The owners of a parcel to the west, more adjacent to the school, is owned by two trusts, the Anthony S. Babinski, Jr. Revocable Trust and the Theresa G. Babinski Revocable Trust. The school district initially announced during a recent school board meeting that it would be leasing that parcel, too, but was in error. It was discovered that that property is not manged by the Classic and was not part of the lease offer.

Previously, it was leased to Small Potato Nursery, which sells topiary and Christmas trees and recently planted sunflowers. Small Potato has expressed concern that it would lose its space if the school obtained a lease, and it has consulted an attorney. A follow-up article will be published in a future issue.

A $2,000 donation from the Springs School PTA has enabled the school district to expand its library media program with the purchase of a three-dimensional printer and a related set of learning materials.

“It’s going to be awesome,” William Hallman, the library media specialist, said at the Dec. 14 meeting of the Springs School Board, when the PTA’s donation was announced. “The great thing about the printer is that it comes with a curriculum. It’s fun, but it’s not going to be just for fun.”

The printer is a Konica Minolta brand with a curriculum called STEAM Trax, which refers to “science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics.” STEAM Trax includes kits for students in grades three through eight. Mr. Hallman said Springs will begin with kits for eighth graders and then add one grade per year after that. Examples of printer projects tied to lessons include making shells for hermit crabs and modeling coastal barriers such as seawalls for topographical maps.

“There are so many things you can do other than making figurines or covers for your phone,” he said.

Springs isn’t the first local school to acquire a 3-D printer. East Hampton has a MakerBot, and Bridgehampton owns two CubeX printers. Judiann Carmack-Fayyaz, who teaches robotics at the Bridgehampton School, said she has found that such printers “have been tricky to use” but are ideal for programs in design and robotics.

Mark Lappin, the president of the Springs PTA, said the money for the printer came from the recent book fair held in Springs. The district is contributing $1,200 toward the printer from its library budget. While Mr. Lappin said he himself has never had the opportunity to try out a 3-D printer, he said his son has done so at East Hampton High School and found it enjoyable.

“I think it’s a good thing,” Mr. Lappin said. “It’s also going to teach the kids coding. That’s one of the highest-paying jobs for kids once they get out of college these days.”