Several hours before its budget workshop was set to begin at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, the Montauk School Board called a special meeting to approve a five-year tuition agreement with the East Hampton School District.

This year, the district pays for 113 students to attend the high school, at a cost of $24,942 per student. Next year, 134 students from Montauk will go there, at a decreased cost of $24,693 each.

East Hampton High School offers a 5-percent discount to feeder districts that agree to send all their students there, exclusively, after they graduate.

During the budget workshop the board agreed to reinstate the Montauk Afternoon program, pending budget approval. The program was one of several cut a few years ago when the school was forced to remain within the state-mandated tax levy cap. Without the program, many working parents were left scurrying to find after-school care.

The program, which is for all grades, begins immediately after the school day and runs through 5 p.m. During that time the students first finish homework and then are allowed free time to play outside, use the computers, read, or get crafty.

The program costs parents $7 per child, $5 for each additional sibling. The fees help offset the cost of the program, roughly $32,400, said Jack Perna, the school superintendent.

The decision a few years ago to hire two maintenance employees has paid off for the East Hampton School District.

During Tuesday night’s school board meeting, Mark Field, head custodian, said those two crew members have enabled the district to scale back dramatically on the sum it would pay contractors for the same work. Mr. Field said the savings amounts to approximately $109,000 in the proposed 2015-16 school budget.

“This is the first year that we’ve been able to put it on paper,” he said. “They have been able to save us incredible amounts of money.” The pair’s skills, he said, span several trades: heating and cooling systems, plumbing, electrical, locksmith work, and more.

Isabel Madison, East Hampton’s assistant superintendent for business, said this has meant the district had to turn to capital improvement funds less frequently.

“Usually, school districts go to a large capital improvement, because the maintenance is very poor,” Ms. Madison said. “We tried for this to not happen. They look after every penny. They are wonderful.” C.S.

Goat on a Boat Presents ‘The Joshua Show’

Joshua Holden, a puppeteer and performer whose production “The Joshua Show” won best performance and audience favorite awards at the Puppeteers of America’s National Festival in 2013, will perform at the Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Mr. Holden brings a combination of puppetry, live music, tap-dancing, and physical comedy to “The Joshua Show,” which is a story about friendship and the importance of being yourself. Tickets cost $12, $10 for members and grandparents, and $8 for siblings and children under 3.

Pasta, Pizza, and Pajamas at CMEE

Special offerings starting tomorrow at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton will keep kids busy during the April break. Fresh pasta making is on the menu for a drop-off program for 4 to 7-year-olds tomorrow from 10 to 11 a.m. The cost is $24 including museum admission, $12 for members. Tomorrow night is Pizza and Pajama Night, with a reading of Frank Asch’s “The Earth and I,” watercolor landscape painting, and pizza, of course, starting at 6 p.m. It’s free for members, $10 for others.

Children of all ages can plant seedlings on Saturday at 10 a.m. in a program that is free with museum admission. Kids 4 to 7 have can make soda bottle planters with parents’ help on Monday and up-cycled birdfeeders in a drop-off program on Wednesday. Both cost $24, or $12 for members. Finally, next Thursday all ages are invited to work on a community mural at 10 a.m. The fun is included with museum admission; reservations are recommended for all CMEE events.

Creative Writing for Teens

Older students who like to write can fine-tune their skills during a weeklong creative writing workshop for teens with the Young Artists and Writers Project at Stony Brook Southampton. It runs Monday through Friday, April 10, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day.

Participants will work with professional writers on poetry, fiction, memoir, and dialogue skills and end the week with a completed piece of writing. The cost is $525 for the week, with some scholarships available. Registration is at stonybrook.edu/yawp or by email to [email protected].

Spring Break Week at SoFo

The South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton will have special April break programs all week. The first is a story time at 1 p.m. on Saturday that will include a reading of Alan Baker’s “Two Tiny Mice: A Mouse-Eyed Exploration of Nature,” and a walk in the field behind the museum. Nature and science programs for all ages are planned each morning at 10 a.m. Monday through Friday, April 10. Monday they’ll explore pond life. Tuesday it’s birding in the field behind the museum. Children will learn about insects on Wednesday, study the basics of electronics next Thursday, and take a spring field walk on Friday, April 10.

After ‘Wormy Cakes’ Comes ‘Frozen’

A solar printing workshop for kids 4 and older will be held at the East Hampton Library on Tuesday from 2 to 3 p.m. Kids 5 and older can make edible “wormy cakes” on Wednesday at the same hours. Don’t worry, no ­real worms will be used. Next Thursday, there’s a family movie night at 5 p.m. with a screening of the wildly popular “Frozen.”

Bridgehampton School officials, heeding a suggestion made at a March 11 public forum, recommended, at a March 25 meeting of the school board, tapping into reserves to avoid having to make $176,000 in budget cuts. The recommendation, which was met with agreement from members of the board, enables the district to keep its proposed budget increase within tax levy limitations.

Board members also took a look that night at the administration’s updated 2015-16 budget proposal. According to Bob Hauser, assistant school superintendent, the proposed budget now stands at approximately $12.82 million, down from about $12.9 million, which was the amount originally proposed on March 11. He called the new figure “a good, conservative budget.”

In an email on Tuesday, Bridgehampton’s superintendent, Lois Favre, explained that “the amounts in each of the budget presentations differ slightly, as we are not yet done with this school year, and we are guessing/projecting revenues and state aid amounts . . . so until we adopt, we continue to make adjustments.”

The $12.82 million figure would mean a tax levy increase of 3.51 percent, the maximum allowed for Bridgehampton. Tax levy increases must stay within a state-imposed cap, which varies from district to district. The tax rate would rise from $1.67 to $1.73 per $1,000 of a home’s assessed value. For example, a house valued at $400,000 would see taxes increase by about $23, while a house valued at $750,000 would see taxes increase by about $44.

Mr. Hauser said New York State will soon announce how much financial support Bridgehampton will receive. Official adoption of the budget is expected at the next school board meeting, set for April 22.

Rookie robotics students from the Bridgehampton High School are getting ready for national competition after an eighth-place finish at last week’s FIRST Robotics Competition, while students from Pierson High School and East Hampton High School are savoring a creativity award they received for their efforts at the same event.

Dubbed Team Supreme, the 11 robotics students from Bridgehampton were not sure what to expect when they entered their first-ever competition. They competed against about 50 other teams from across Long Island and from as far away as Brazil, Israel, and Canada, and were ranked as high as fourth during the various rounds before finishing in sixth place in the general tournament and then eighth in the final round. The team also took home an All-Star Rookie Team Award. Claudio Figueroa, a senior, and Dylan Breault, a junior, the Bridgehampton captains, said the results exceeded their expectations.

“It was awesome. Our first year, I wouldn’t have expected it,” Claudio said. “We all feel really accomplished.”

“Just to be there was a great experience in itself, and then to come out in the top six was unbelievable,” Dylan added.

Jamari Gant, a junior who is the team’s operator and mechanic, was named the team’s most valuable player.

“I’ve never been in a room full of people who also love what I do, too,” Jamari said.

FIRST, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, challenges teams to build a working robot — in many cases weighing more than 100 pounds — over the course of six weeks using a standard set of parts.

With 38 members, the combined team from Pierson and East Hampton finished 29th and earned the Xerox Creativity Award from the judges.

“We used a vacuum system with suction cups that we made on a 3D printer that the program won earlier in the year. People were impressed with how well it worked and how simple it really was,” said Clint Schulman, coach of the Sag Harbor and East Hampton team, along with Trevor Gregory.

Sag Harbor’s team has been competing since 1995. Mr. Schulman said the competition emphasizes not only critical thinking and engineering and computer skills, but also concepts like teamwork and overcoming adversity.

“We definitely had our problems during the competition, and were able to fix the majority of them,” he said. “I hope they take the time to reflect on all the skills they have acquired throughout the year.”

Judiann Carmack-Fayyaz, a Bridgehampton teacher who supervises the team along with Ken Giosi, acknowledged the tremendous help that Team Supreme received from the Sag Harbor and East Hampton team both before and during the competition.

“Gracious professionalism is one of the basic tenets of the FIRST philosophy,” Ms. Carmack-Fayyaz said. “You help each other achieve your goals, even though you’re competing against each other. They gave us such great help.”

Bridgehampton advances to the championship round, to be held in St. Louis between April 22 and April 25, where the team will face 600 others from around the world.

Student Arts Festival, Part II

Younger artists had their time in the spotlight and now it’s high school students’ turn. The second part of Guild Hall’s Student Arts Festival will open on Saturday with a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. It will remain on view through April 19, with after-school hours on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 3:30 to 5 p.m.

As part of the festival, eighth graders from the Montauk School will host a Word Up! celebration of poetry on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The evening will showcase pieces written under the guidance of professional poets who visited the school’s eighth-grade classrooms earlier this school year. Admission is free.

Jingle Jingle

Families have been invited to take part in recording a jingle in celebration of the Amagansett Library’s 100th anniversary. “Drop in anytime during the morning” on Saturday, a library release chirped, from 10:30 to 12:30, that is, and “use your voice or an instrument.” The theme song is “short and snappy and easy to learn. Come solo or as part of a group!”

A chance to get face to face with Long Island’s reptiles and amphibians will present itself on Wednesday at 4 p.m. at the library, courtesy of the South Fork Natural History Museum. This program is for kindergartners through fourth graders, and reservations by phone have been requested.

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

Pizza and Pajama Night tomorrow at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton will give a tip of an oversized floppy hat to Dr. Seuss, whose birthday was Monday. (He was born back in 1904, kids, in Springfield, Mass.) A story by the man otherwise known as Theodore Geisel will be read, pizza will then be scarfed, and a Seuss-inspired craft will follow. And there’s always time to play in the museum. The fun starts at 6 p.m., and the cost is $10, free for members.

On Saturday, kids 3 to 6 can put their toques on, figuratively speaking, and make French toast sticks in the museum’s kitchen from 10 to 10:45 a.m. “Kids will crack, whisk, season, dip, and shake as they learn how to make this tasty not-just-for-breakfast snack,” in the words of CMEE’s website. The toast sticks will be served with berries and freshly whipped cream. Space is limited, and reservations have been suggested. The cost is $24, which includes museum admission, or $12 for members.

The WonderSpark Pigs

WonderSpark Puppets will offer its take on the classic “Three Little Pigs” on Saturday at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. at the Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre in Sag Harbor. The show features tabletop puppets made by the husband-and-wife team of Chad Williams and Lindsey (Z) Briggs and is geared to children 2 to 6. Tickets cost $12, $10 for theater members and grandparents, and $8 for additional children and those under 3.

A Writing Challenge

At the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor, a teen short-story challenge will begin on Tuesday from 5:30 to 6:45 p.m. The library promises “10 weeks, 10 hours, 10 slices of pizza” as writers ages 14 to 18 get an intensive introduction to short-story writing. Advance registration has been requested.

Earth Models

Kids 8 to 12 years old will make models of the earth at the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton on Saturday as they explore what causes seasonal changes, including the longer days and warmer temperatures of summer to the shorter days and biting cold weather we experience in winter. There is a $3 materials fee for the workshop, and registration in advance is required.

Food representing more than 25 countries and performances reflecting a range of cultures are planned for the Sag Harbor Multicultural Festival, which will be held tomorrow from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Pierson High School gym.

Parents of Sag Harbor students and supporters of the festival from around the area have signed on to prepare recipes representing their heritage, which will be served to guests from 6 to 7:45 p.m., after which the performances will begin. Among the tasting options will be dishes from Japan, El Salvador, Poland, Mexico, Peru, New Zealand, Russia, Norway, Bali, and Costa Rica. Performances planned include taiko drummers from Stony Brook University, Irish step dancing, Mexican folkloric dancing, and a martial arts demonstration.

The suggested donation is $5 per family. Children under 14 must be accompanied by an adult.

All proceeds will be split between the Jacaranda School in Malawi and the Joshua Levine Memorial Foundation. Cheryl Bedini, a co-owner of Java Nation coffee roaster in Bridgehampton and the mother of two Sag Harbor students, is among the event’s main organizers.

Soccer Skills and Drills

A skills and drills soccer program run by East Hampton Town for budding athletes in kindergarten through second grade began on Saturday at the Montauk Playhouse Community Center and will run weekly from 2 to 4 p.m. through April 11. The cost for the program is $25. Registration is at the playhouse or at the Recreation Department.

Leprechaun Hats

Before the short and family-friendly Am O’Gansett Parade on Saturday, kids can stop by the Amagansett Library to make their own leprechaun hats to wear while they watch. The materials will be out at 10:30 a.m. After the festivities, at 3:30 p.m., families can stop in again at the library for Irish tales and a chance to decorate a lucky shamrock box.

Prints and Compasses

At the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton on Saturday, kids 3 to 6 can work with homemade paints to make patterned prints from 10 to 10:45 a.m. The cost is $22, including museum admission, or $10 for members. At the same time, 7 to 10-year-olds can learn the science of magnetism and experiment with compasses in a drop-off workshop that runs till 11. The cost is $15, not including admission to the museum, and $12 for members. Advance registration has been requested for both workshops.

Sima will be at the museum to tell stories on Sunday at 11:30 a.m. in a program that is free with museum admission.

For St. Pat’s

For St. Patrick’s Day on Tuesday, the East Hampton Library will have a holiday-themed story and craft time for 4 to 6-year-olds from 4 to 5 p.m. “The Lorax,” a new version of the Dr. Seuss classic, will be shown on the big screen downstairs in the children’s wing next Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m.

Fun With the MakerBot

Kids 7 and older will learn to create and print things on the Hampton Library’s 3-D MakerBot printer on Tuesday from 4 to 5 p.m. At 6, teens will take a turn with the printer. Space is limited in the workshops so advance sign-up is required. Tomorrow, kids 4 and older can make rainbow handprints from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.

April Theater Camp

Looking ahead to the April school break, the Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor is planning another of its popular vacation theater camps for 7 to 12-year-olds. It will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day from April 6 through 10 and will include acting, singing, dance, and general performance instruction with some improv and theater games thrown in. The cost is $385 for the week; advance registration is required at baystreet.org.

Tech Celebration

Tweens and teens can play Minecraft on the Montauk Library’s computers or iPads, or their own, during a tech celebration on Saturday. Students in grades three through six have been invited from 2 to 2:45 p.m. and older kids will be welcomed from 2:45 to 3:30 p.m.

Young Playwrights Showcase

Eight short plays by Bridgehampton and Ross School students who participated in the Young American Writers Project Middle School Playwriting program will be presented on Saturday at 7 p.m. at Stony Brook Southampton’s Avram Theater.

The program, which is sponsored by Stony Brook Southampton’s Master of Fine Arts in creative writing, pairs students with professional writers and teaching artists for workshops on playwriting, screenwriting, poetry, the personal essay, and fiction. Professional directors stage the culminating performances. Admission is free, but space may be reserved by emailing william.chandler@s tonybrook. edu.

Budding Authors

Susan Verde, the author of “The Museum” and “You and Me,” will be the Hampton Library’s guest at a reception on Tuesday from 7 to 8 p.m. The reception kicks off the library’s monthlong young authors program.

Parents and high school students looking to plan for college may want to stop elsewhere at the library on Tuesday at 7 for a talk with experts from Long Island Funding for Education, who will discuss how to get accepted by, pay for, and graduate from college.

Earlier that afternoon, at 4, kids 7 to 12 will make tiny matchbox books. Reservations are requested for all library programs.

Don’t Be Late

The Children’s Museum of the East End’s annual Mad Hatter Tea Party and egg hunt will be held Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Youngsters can design and decorate their own hats and bags, then join in a hunt for thousands of eggs hidden around the museum. The party is free for members, $10 for others, and reservations are requested, as space is limited.

The East Hampton Kiwanis Club and Cittanuova on East Hampton’s Newtown Lane will host an Easter egg coloring festa on Sunday at 9:30 a.m., giving kids 3 to 8 the chance to dye eggs and meet the Easter Bunny. A suggested donation of $3 will benefit Kiwanis projects.

Easter will come early at the Ladies Village Improvement Society in East Hampton, too. The group’s annual Easter egg hunt for children under 8 will be on Saturday at 11 a.m., and there’s a special prize in store for anyone who finds a golden egg.

Eggs and Easter are also on the agenda at the East Hampton and Amagansett Libraries this week. An Egg-cellent story and craft time will get children thinking about the holiday, and spring, on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. in Amagansett.

In East Hampton, a springtime story and craft program for ages 4 to 6 is planned Tuesday from 4 to 5 p.m. Those in sixth through eighth grade can use marshmallow Peeps and other candies to make a spring house on Wednesday at the same time.

Dance Into Spring

The spring semester of classes at the Hampton Ballet Theatre School in Bridgehampton will begin on Monday at 213J Butter Lane and at the Bridgehampton Community House.

In addition to the school’s graded-level ballet and contemporary dance classes, the schedule will include classes in hip-hop, contemporary dance, ballet, tap, ballroom, and flamenco. The A&G Dance Company, which is new to the school, will teach hip-hop for 5 to 8-year-olds on Mondays at 5 p.m. and tap for teens at 7:15 p.m. A contemporary dance class for 8 to 12-year-olds will be offered on Fridays at 4 p.m.

On Tuesdays, Ernesto Palma, a professional ballroom dancer, will teach that form of dance at 4 p.m. for younger kids and at 5 for teens. Mr. Palma speaks English and Spanish.

Sara Bedell Spataro will teach ballet on Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m. and flamenco on Thursdays at 5:30 p.m. for teens. Information about the full schedule and pricing can be had by emailing [email protected] or calling 237-4810.

Budding Scientists

Teen scientists can conduct a scientific survey of Crooked Pond in the Long Pond Greenbelt on Saturday at 10 a.m. with the South Fork Natural History Museum.

Participants will use soil test kits, oxygen meters, pH testers, seine nets, binoculars, and microscopes to learn about the pond, its environment, and its inhabitants. Space is limited, so advance registration is a must. There is a $2 fee for a nature journal, or students can bring their own.

Leopard Meets Goat

At the Goat on a Boat puppet show on Saturday, the Magpie Puppets will present “Leopard Learns a Lesson,” at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tickets are $12, $8 for children under 3 and additional siblings, and $10 for grandparents and theater members.

Plans to move the original Amagansett schoolhouse, built in 1802 by Samuel Schellinger, a millwright, are proceeding. At a meeting on Tuesday, Eleanor Tritt, the district’s superintendent, told the school board that the State Department of Education’s Office of Facilities Planning had approved the installation of a foundation for the schoolhouse, which is believed to be the oldest on eastern Long Island.

“We’re very excited,” Ms. Tritt told the board. “Now we’re just waiting for the last legal paperwork.” Once the ground softens, she said, the foundation will be set. The plan is for the building to be moved to the school grounds from its present site, the Atlantic Avenue property owned by Huntington and Adelaide Sheldon, who announced their intention to donate it in October.

If all proceeds according to schedule, a “grand opening ceremony” will happen in the late spring or early summer, Ms. Tritt said.

The schoolhouse was originally on “Amagansett Street,” now Montauk Highway, about opposite today’s school building. It was moved to the west side of Atlantic Avenue, at what is now the southern part of the East End Cemetery, in 1864, and moved again in 1881, when it was auctioned to Marcus Hand. Mr. Hand sold it to Capt. Joshua B. Edwards, who moved it across the street to his backyard, which is now part of the Sheldon property.

In addition to a discussion of the 2015-16 budget and tuition rate, covered separately in this issue, the board announced that spring recess will be abbreviated, owing to the number of snow days this winter. Classes will be held on April 9 and 10. Unless families have travel plans that cannot be changed, students are expected to attend school on those days.

Ms. Tritt referred to education topics in the news, citing two recent articles in The New York Times. “If an Algorithm Wrote This, How Would You Even Know?” was, she said, “very sobering.” The article describes a new industry of automated narrative generation, in which algorithms and language generators create written content. This “is really going to be a challenge for all of our educators to help children research and really probe and think carefully about the information they are reading,” and its source, she said. “It gave me great pause to see what’s happening out there.”

Another article described the criticism leveled at Pearson Education, a publisher, for monitoring social media to identify students who might be leaking information about the tests it creates and administers. Administrators and educators, Ms. Tritt said, must “continue to be vigilant about what we allow students to do,” citing Pearson and other companies’ data-mining efforts and the questions of privacy those efforts raise. Parents, she said, must also “be aware of the consequences of what children are putting out there.”

Victoria Handy, the board’s president, opened the meeting by acknowledging the recent death of two former students, Eric Payne and Andrew MacNiven. Both Mr. Payne, who was 25, and Mr. MacNiven, who was 24, died on March 15. “It’s very sad,” Ms. Handy said. “Our hearts go out to their families.”

“I didn’t know Eric,” Ms. Tritt said, “but Andrew stands out in my mind, a wonderful young man who had everything to live for.” The school yearbooks in which the graduates were featured were displayed during the meeting.