Lemonade stands have long been an outlet for ambitious kids to learn real-life lessons on how to run a business, but this weekend the lemonade stands that pop up in Montauk, Amagansett, East Hampton, and Sag Harbor will have a somewhat different purpose.

Twelve teens and tweens will split up into teams and take to the beaches and streets with lemonade stands aimed at raising $300,000 for the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter through a program called Leaders and Lemonade. The money will support a few different causes, including programming for senior citizens, a newly revamped area for teen recreation at the RECenter, scholarships for children to attend the Y’s summer camp, and support for the LiveStrong organization to benefit cancer survivors.

“The overall goal of the event is to take the simple concept of a lemonade stand and use it to empower our kids to evoke social change,” Glenn Vickers II, the executive director at the Y.M.C.A. RECenter, said.

The event will span Saturday and Sunday at Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett, Sweet’Tauk Lemonade in Montauk, Halstead Real Estate in East Hampton, and the Variety Store in Sag Harbor. There will also be a lemonade stand on Saturday at Gurney’s Spa and Resort in Montauk and on Sunday at Candied Anchor in Montauk. On Aug. 15 and 16, the lemonade stands will return, with new locations to be announced. Sweet’Tauk, a Montauk company, is donating the lemonade.

The fund-raiser is the culmination of a series of workshops led by local business owners and community leaders as mentors for the kids, who are ages 12 to 14. Among those participating were Sylvia Overby, an East Hampton Town councilwoman, and Donna McCue, an entrepreneur who appeared on the TV show “Shark Tank.” The adults worked with the kids to develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills, communication techniques, hospitality and marketing strategies, and other real-world lessons.

Tia Weiss, 13, of East Hampton, is one of the members of the red team, which will set up its lemonade stand at Indian Wells Beach. She said she really enjoyed the workshops.

“The best part was learning about different jobs that people do, how they do them, how they work with people, and what good habits to have,” she said.

Ms. Weiss said the Leaders and Lemonade program is a great one for kids like her and her friends.

“It’s a good program to be part of,” she said. “We are raising money for the Y.M.C.A., which a lot of people go to. We’re supporting people who don’t have enough money for programs but need them, and I get to be with my friends and be happy.”

On Tuesday, the kids got together to paint the lemonade stands in bright colors they hope will attract customers.

“It’s been a heck of a group effort with all the mentors in the community, the staff at the Y.M.C.A., the kids,” Mr. Vickers said. “It’s been fun to watch. . . . They have really done a great job.”

After this weekend, the kids will regroup to talk about what went right and what went wrong, and make any adjustments necessary before their August lemonade stand dates.

“I think that’s the biggest challenge they’ll face,” Mr. Vickers said. “They’ll learn from any experiences they acquired or mistakes they made, and come back bigger and better in August. You take a life experience, learn from it . . . and move on from there.”

In the East Hampton School District, the 2015-16 school year will begin on Tuesday, Sept. 8, with a two-hour delay for students. That has had parents asking school officials for an explanation, and during the June 2 school board meeting, the district’s superintendent, Richard Burns, addressed their questions.

Due to the late date on which Labor Day falls this year, as well as state and district requirements for professional development for employees, Mr. Burns said the district opted to set up a meeting for staff members in the morning on Sept. 8. Teachers and support staff will report at their regular starting times, but with student arrival on a two-hour delay, Mr. Burns said there will be enough time for a three-hour conference session with the employees.

“It’s a really tight calendar next year. . . . It was a creative way to get in part of that responsibility,” he said. “We collaborated with the East Hampton Teachers Association and the non-instructional unit to come up with that solution.”

Liz Pucci, a school board member, called it “a significant change that’s never been done before, so we wanted to let parents know about the situation.”

“It was not ideal but it was the best of the options,” added Christina DeSanti, the school board vice president.

The state requires school to be in session for at least 180 days. The 2015-16 school year for students is 182 days long, with two snow days built in. In case more than two snow days are used, the school district designated the week of April 25 through 29 for potential makeup days.  

Visitors to the Montauk School grounds may soon be able to buy peanuts, Crackerjacks, and more at Montauk Mustang baseball games, but it might be wise to stay off the playground, the Montauk School Board learned on Tuesday.

Lee White and Jason Biondo, two of the newer and more outspoken members of the board, reported to their colleagues on two issues facing the school. Mr. White sought the board’s agreement to have food vendors on site during the baseball games. The trucks, one per game, would park in the lower lot near the playground.

The Montauk Mustangs are a collegiate team that visited last summer, staying in host-family homes and drawing larger crowds to the games. It operates on a shoestring budget, and Mr. White thought it nice to provide a little extra cash for the team.

A member of the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals, he said he had spoken to Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell about it, and that Mr. Cantwell was more concerned about possible complaints from immediate neighbors than by the school’s allowing vendors within 500 feet of its grounds, as prohibited by the town code.

At Mr. White’s request, Jack Perna, the school superintendent, said he had cleared the proposal with the school’s attorney, William Cullen, who told Mr. Perna that as long as the school had no written policy prohibiting food trucks, there would be no problem.

    “I’m all for it, as long as we have one truck per game,” said Mr. Biondo. He was assured that that was the plan.

Mr. Biondo told the board that parents, especially those with small children, have been complaining about the new surface of the school playground. The board voted earlier this year to resurface the playground from ground-up rubber tires to a fine wood chip. The old surfacing had been there since the playground was built and there have recently been some health-related questions about the use of the old rubber tires in the media. “We thought we would get ahead of it,” said Mr. White.

The ground-up wood is getting into students’ eyes and on their clothing, and making a mess of the area, Mr. Biondo said. “It’s not what I thought it would be,” he said, not the type of wood chip he’d expected when the vote was approved. “I think we should explore coming up with a better finished product,” he said.

Rather than take a loss on the product, which Mr. Biondo said cost the district about $30,000, the wood could be used as mulch elsewhere on the school grounds. “It would be an expensive mulch,” he said, “but we could use it.” Another option was to put something else over it. “We’ve got to make it right.”

Mr. Perna said that rain had been expected to compact the material and make it tighter, but that has not happened. The board will continue the discussion with the school custodians.

After the general meeting the board went into a closed session, reportedly to discuss contract negotiations. Mr. Perna reported yesterday that members had also discussed the summer school program in math and reading, and decided to reinstate it. It will begin in July.

East Hampton High School has invited community organizations needing student volunteers this summer to let the school know what kind of work is available. The school will post the information on its website for students and their parents to see.

Organizations should send their requirements, including dates, times, and contact information, to Debbie Mansir, the high school’s program coordinator, at [email protected].

Students must complete at least 30 hours of community service in order to graduate, but Ms. Mansir said there were many benefits for both students and their employers beyond the requirement. “I think the most important aspect is how it affects the individual student in terms of confidence, a sense of accomplishment, a feeling of fulfillment,” she said in an email. “In some cases, it can dramatically change the direction of a young person’s life.”

The end of the school year is quickly approaching, and that means local schools will hold their graduation ceremonies in the coming week.

East Hampton’s high school graduation will be Friday, June 26, at 6 p.m., while the middle school graduation is set for 7 p.m. on Wednesday. The fifth-grade moving up ceremony for John M. Marshall Elementary students will be at 9 a.m. next Thursday. Kindergarten graduation will be at 9 a.m. on Friday, June 26. Prekindergarten graduation for students at the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center will be at 10 a.m. on Friday, June 26.

The Springs School’s eighth grade graduation ceremony is scheduled for next Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at East Hampton High School.

In Bridgehampton, preschool graduation is set for 10 a.m. next Thursday. The moving-up ceremony for kindergarten through fifth grade will be at 9 a.m. on Friday, June 26, and high school graduation will be at 4 p.m. on June 28.

In the Sag Harbor School District, the eighth-grade moving-up ceremony will be Wednesday at 10 a.m., while the Pierson High School graduation will be June 27 at 5 p.m.

At the Sagaponack School, moving up and graduation ceremonies will be held next Thursday at 9 a.m. Wainscott School’s graduation ceremony is set for 8:30 a.m. on Friday, June 26.

Amagansett School’s preschool graduation is scheduled for Wednesday at 9:15 a.m., and its sixth-grade graduation ceremony is scheduled for Friday, June 26 at 9 a.m.

At the Montauk School, the preschool graduation ceremony will be Tuesday at 1 p.m., and eighth-grade graduation will be at 6 p.m. next Thursday. C.S.

Kids looking to fill their summer calendars with swimming, sailing, basketball, and more might want to check out the many classes and clinics offered through the East Hampton Town Department of Parks and Recreation starting on June 29.

Free swimming lessons for children 4 and older will be given at Havens Beach in Sag Harbor from June 29 through July 10. Children will be grouped according to swimming ability and can sign up at the beach at 10 a.m. on the first day of lessons. Looking ahead, lessons will be offered at Maidstone Park in Springs from July 13 through 24, at East Lake Beach in Montauk from July 27 through Aug. 7, and at Albert’s Landing in Amagansett from Aug. 10 through 21. Swimmers should take goggles and water shoes.

A two-week sailing program for kids 12 and older and adults will run from June 29 through July 10 at Fresh Pond in Amagansett. Sessions are from 9 a.m. to noon or from 12:30 to 3:30 p.m. and cost $200 per person. Space is limited. Advance registration is at the Recreation Department offices behind Town Hall. The program will be offered again from July 12 through 23, July 27 through Aug. 6, and Aug. 10 through 20.

Tennis and basketball lessons will be given at the East Hampton Youth Park on Abraham’s Path, also starting June 29. The eight-week session costs $40 per child, $55 if children do both tennis and basketball. Tennis lessons will be on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6 to 7 p.m. for second and third graders and from 7 to 8 p.m. for sixth graders and up. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, play for kindergartners and first graders will be from 6 to 7 p.m. and fourth and fifth graders will take over the courts from 7 to 8 p.m.

Basketball will be offered on Mondays and Wednesdays from 5 to 6 p.m. for kindergartners and first graders and from 6 to 8 p.m. for fourth and fifth graders. On Tuesdays and Thursdays second and third graders will be under the net from 5 to 6 p.m. and those in sixth grade and above will have the ball from 6 to 8 p.m.

Looking ahead a few weeks, Monday evening volleyball and lacrosse programs for girls 10 to 14 will start on July 6 at the Sportime Arena across the street from the youth park in Amagansett. Lacrosse will be offered from 6 to 7 p.m. and volleyball from 5 to 6 p.m. The cost is $125 per person. Registration is at the Sportime Arena.

Girls volleyball clinics will also be given at the Montauk Playhouse Community Center on six Wednesdays starting on July 8. Fifth through eighth graders will be in the gym from 5 to 6 p.m. and 9th through 12th graders will take over from 6:30 to 8 p.m. The cost is $40 per person. Registration is at the playhouse or at the Parks and Recreation Department.

An idea originating with the East Hampton School District’s athletics committee made its way into open discussion during Tuesday’s school board meeting: a pilot program that would allow student-athletes to opt out of gym class and instead take a study hall, giving them more time for schoolwork.

Athletes spend a lot of time at practice and at games, often far more than their UpIsland peers because of the long distances involved in traveling to and from away games.

According to Jackie Lowey, a school board member who sits on the athletics committee and strongly supports the idea, athletes often leave their teams in order to focus more on academics.

  Specifically, Ms. Lowey said, when it comes time to choose classes, especially as juniors and seniors, athletes are increasingly choosing academics over sports, and fewer are participating in sports during all three seasons.

Ms. Lowey said the idea also has the support of some parents, including one who spoke up at the meeting to say her daughter “finds it difficult to get through the year, keep those grades up, and get enough sleep. . . . I don’t think she needs her P.E. class as much as she needs to put the time back into her studies.”

However, East Hampton’s athletic director, Joe Vas, said he was generally opposed to the idea, saying that gym classes and the phys ed curriculum covered more than just working out.

“I think athletics and P.E. are not the same, Mr. Vas said. “You get something completely different from phys ed classes. I understand it’s tough, especially if you have teams that go late into the season. But I’m not convinced it’s the way to go.”

He questioned whether other Long Island schools were doing the same. “I don’t really find people doing it,” he said. “Middle Country tried it and walked away from it.”

Mr. Vas did say, though, the idea “warrants more discussion,” based on research.

The discussion included a brief debate over how the athletes’ study halls would be staffed and supervised, although one high school official said the staff could probably make it work. Another official, Bob Tymann, assistant superintendent, suggested athletes could choose to take a study hall instead of gym only on days when their teams have away games.

Claude Beudert, a middle school teacher who is also a coach, told the school board that such a pilot program should be offered to both varsity and junior varsity athletes. “I think kids would get a great deal out of it,” he said.

JP Foster, the school board president, suggested that a separate initiative the board has been discussing — one that would add wi-fi internet access to the school buses used to transport athletes to away games — could have a more profound impact on the athletes’ ability to get their homework done.

The superintendent, Richard Burns, said it may be too late to arrange such a pilot program for next year, and suggested a formal presentation on the topic be scheduled in September or October.

CMEE Music Fair

Kids will get to make music, create instruments, and sing and dance along with live performances during a free music fair at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton on Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon. The museum and grounds will be filled with interactive stations where children can learn about music and sound, make rain sticks and tin drums, and get their faces painted.

All day Sunday, the museum will celebrate fathers with games like soccer, a beanbag toss, and more for dads to play with their kids. The fun is included with museum admission.

Library Wind-Up

As school winds down, the East Hampton Library is gearing up for a summer full of activities for kids in its still-new children’s room. On Tuesdays at 4:30 all summer, the library will screen movies for teens adapted from young-adult novels. Afterward, the audience can discuss the differences between the movie and the book. The first screening is this week.

Wednesday, families can drop in for game time from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. A Sensational Science program next Thursday from 7 to 8 p.m. will have kids 5 and older building their own ant farms as they learn about the life cycles of ants. Parents, be warned, kids will be able to take home those farms, ants included.

Children 4 and older will make their own “story picture” about a superhero of their own design on Friday, June 26, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Registration is required for all but the drop-in program.

The Goat Is Back

The summer season at the Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre in Sag Harbor will begin next Thursday. The Crabgrass Puppets will pull into town for three shows of “The Princess, the Pirate, and the Pea,” next Thursday, Friday, June 26, and June 27 at 11 a.m. Tickets, which are available at the door, are $12, $8 for children 3 and under and additional siblings, and $10 for grandparents and theater members.

Ratboy Jr.

The Hampton Library in Bridgehampton will kick off its summer reading program with music and fun on Saturday at 1 p.m. Ratboy Jr., a rock duo that plays family-friendly songs like “High Five Your Shadow” and “How to Eat a Cloud,” will perform.

On Tuesday, tweens can make clothespin wreaths to display photos from 4 to 5 p.m. Bubble painting is on the agenda for ages 4 and up on Friday, June 26, from 4 to 5 p.m. Advance registration is requested for all.

Butterflies and the Point

At the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton on Saturday Nicole Cummings will read to kids 3 to 5 years old from Robert O. Bruel’s “Bob and Otto” at 10 a.m. The book is about the friendship between an earthworm and a caterpillar-turned-butterfly. Afterward, children will learn about the life cycle of the butterfly and search out some live examples in the museum’s butterfly garden. There is a $3 materials fee for the program.

Teen scientists can explore the geology and the marine, plant, and animal life at Montauk Point on Saturday starting at 11 a.m. The museum will provide each participant with a backpack of tools to study and measure what they find. Notebooks for observations will be available for $2, or people can take their own. There is an $8 fee to park in the Lighthouse lot.

Advance registration with SoFo is required.

Theater Camp

FamilyFest, the Montauk Playhouse Community Center’s summer program that provides a mixture of theatrics, dance, and circus fun in July and August, will start with a theater mini camp for children 8 to 10 from July 6 to July 10 and July 13 to July 16 from 3 to 5 p.m. Kate Mueth of the Neo-Political Cowgirls will help campers create their own skits, which they will perform on July 16. The cost per child is $200, which includes two tickets for the performance. Additional siblings cost $150. More details and the rest of the summer schedule can be found at montaukplayhouse.org.

The Springs School superintendent has a full-time contract and contracts for the superintendent and two assistant superintendents have been extended by the East Hampton School Board.

Richard Burns, who was appointed as East Hampton’s superintendent in the spring of 2012 after serving as interim superintendent, received a contract extension through June of 2018 by unanimous school board vote.

“We are really, really happy that Rich has agreed to extend the contract for three years,” Jackie Lowey, a school board member, said. “He’s done a fantastic job.” Mr. Burns’s salary will be $205,000 next year, $209,100 during the second year of the contract, and $213,282 during the third year.

The contracts of East Hampton’s assistant superintendent, Robert Tymann, and assistant superintendent for business, Isabel Madison, also were extended through June of 2018. Ms. Madison will earn $198,000 during the first year, $199,000 during the second, and $200,000 during the third. Mr. Tymann will earn $187,000 during the first year, $190,000 during the second, and $193,000 during the third.

The East Hampton School Board also lowered the number of years of employment required for an assistant superintendent to receive health benefits in retirement, making it 9 years rather than 10.

In Springs, John J. Finello, who has been part-time since September of 2013, will now be full-time, earning $215,000 during a three-year contract ending in July of 2018. He will no longer receive a monthly stipend of $3,000 for rental housing and is expected to purchase a house in the district. The contract was approved unanimously during the school board’s June 8 meeting.

John Grant, the Springs School Board vice president, explained during the meeting that it had always been the board’s intention to hire Mr. Finello as full-time superintendent.

“This is just a continuation of our strategy,” Mr. Grant said. “There was a search process previously, but that was kind of on hold until Jay could definitely commit to three years and become a resident of the area. This has been an ongoing process. We’re trying to keep Jay here.”

“A Night at the Movies”

The young dancers of Dancehampton in East Hampton will treat audiences to “A Night at the Movies” tomorrow and Saturday at East Hampton High School. The studio’s spring show is the culmination of months of hard work by more than 100 dancers, who will perform over 30 numbers across a range of genres.

Audiences will recognize many of the songs, drawn from popular movies from today and years past, among them “Pitch Perfect,” “Beetlejuice,” “Risky Business,” “Star Wars,” and, of course, quite a few Disney favorites.

Dancehampton, which has a studio on Lumber Lane, offers ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop, Irish step, musical theater, and lyrical dance classes from September through June for students 2 to 18, with classes for adults and children in the summer as well. Kelly Hren, the studio’s founder, teaches along with Krystal Lamiroult, Melissa Knight, Lia St. John, Anita Boyer, and Kasia Klimiuk.

This weekend’s performances are the students’ main recital of the year, but some company dancers participated in a December production at Guild Hall with Our Fabulous Variety Show, founded by Ms. Boyer and Ms. Klimiuk. Summer workshops, including some intensive courses to prepare for an Our Fabulous Variety Show take on “Alice in Wonderland” in September, will begin on July 6.

“A Night at the Movies” will be presented tomorrow at 6 p.m. and on Saturday at noon and 7 p.m. Tickets cost $15 in advance and can be purchased at the studio or online at eventbrite.com by searching “Dancehampton.” Tickets will be $20 at the door for adults and $15 for students.

Kindergarten Bound

Youngsters preparing to enter kindergarten in September can get an idea of what’s ahead in a free kindergarten readiness program at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton. The museum will set up a model classroom and offer a number of activities typical of the kindergarten experience, including riding on a school bus, on the third Tuesday in June, July, and August from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. The first session is this coming Tuesday.

Parents will also get an education, with information on hand about how to help their children prepare for school and developmental milestones children will reach during the kindergarten year. Advance registration is required.

At the museum on Saturday, Brian Kelly, the owner of East End Tick and Mosquito Control, April Nill-Boitano, an early childhood and elementary teacher, and a representative from Southampton Hospital’s Tick-Borne Disease Resource Center will train kids and their families how to prevent and deal with tick bites. The program runs from 10 to 11 a.m. and is free with museum admission. Advance registration is requested for this one as well.

Pop-Up, Light-Up

Pop-up books aren’t just for kids, as many a parent has discovered. On Saturday, Ellen G.K. Rubin, a k a the Popuplady, will lead a workshop on the history and art of pop-up books for adults and children 8 and older at the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton. The class will run from 10 a.m. to noon, and attendees will leave with a pop-up card of their own creation. The cost is $3 per family in addition to museum admission. Reservations are required.

On Sunday at 10 a.m. children 4 to 6 and their parents will explore electrical circuits in an unexpected way — by using dough, wires, and LED lights to build working circuits that light up and sound a buzzer. This one has a $6 materials fee and also requires reservations.