Dear Friends,
It's been a wonderful spring at CMEE and plenty is happening at the Museum this month. We are especially delighted to partner with so many important East End organizations on the first Peconic Family Fun Day this Saturday, May 8. CMEE will play host to a carnival of activities (crab races, touch tanks, crafts and more) during this free event for families from 10 am to Noon (rain or shine). Read below for more information. Thank you to all of our partner organizations for making Peconic Family Fun Day possible. We hope to see you there!
If you happen to go by Sag Harbor's Mashashimuet Park on May 19 and notice a "school" of kites in the air, it's the 5th Annual Classroom Connection "Kite Fly" sponsored by CMEE. This community-building program, founded by Eva Petersen of Bridgehampton, brings together hundreds of Third Graders from all over the region. Read more about it below.
May 24 is the date for CMEE's annual golf benefit. Thank you to Bridgehampton National Bank for sponsoring the tournament! Behind the scenes, we're working on hosting a pre-school program at CMEE starting this September and developing more partnerships with our sister organizations on the East End. Stay tuned for details.
In the meantime, we hope to see you tomorrow, May 7 for Pizza & Pajama Night. See the sidebar for more information.
Thank you for your support of CMEE, and Happy Mother's Day!
Sincerely,
 Stephen Long
Executive Director |
Peconic Family Fun Day - this Saturday! | |
 Join us at the Museum this Saturday, May 8 from 10am to Noon, for Peconic Family Fun Day, a festival of family fun and learning as part of a collaboration between CMEE, the Peconic Estuary Program, Group for the East End, Peconic Land Trust, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Peconic Baykeeper, ECCO Farm, and other environmental stewards. Geared for children ages 5 to 10, Peconic Family Fun Day will include games, a live touch tank, crab races, arts & crafts stations to make shell necklaces and fish prints, a seed planting station, a groundwater model and taste testing, and presentations by local students. In the mix, visitors will learn about water management, agricultural sustainability, recycling, and environmental stewardship. The festivities will be held both outside and inside the Museum, rain or shine. There is no cost and reservations are not necessary. Free admission to CMEE is included during the Fair. You can read more about Peconic Family Fun Day in this week's Sag Harbor Express. |
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Kites will fill the sky over Mashashimuet Park in Sag Harbor on May 19 at 9:30 am(winds permitting) for CMEE's 5th Annual Classroom Connection "Kite Fly." Three hundred 3rd Graders from schools across the East End will exchange and fly kites as the culminating event of the Classroom Connection Program. This community building initiative was created as a partnership between the local schools within the East End community and CMEE and was conceived by Bridgehampton parent, Eva Petersen. The program focuses on pairing area 3rd Graders together through the written exchange of profiles that is artistically translated onto kites. The profile partners are introduced to each other at the event and have the opportunity to fly their kites together. |
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The Museum will be closed from Monday, May 24 through Friday, May 28 for a spring cleaning to 'freshen up' the Museum before the start of summer. CMEE Staff will still be available to take your phone calls for Summer Class sign-ups or to respond to other questions.
 CMEE will reopen on Saturday, May 29 at 9am, and we invite you to celebrate the new season at a 'Welcome Summer Day' Get Creative Workshop at 10 am. Come make a beautiful decoupage flower pot, along with something to "plant" inside it!
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Sign up for CMEE's New Summer Club! |
Extend Summer Fun!
Let CMEE help bridge the gap between the end/beginning of school and the camp season! Keep boredom at bay and fill two weeks with a stimulating mix of creative activities, including: art (a different project and medium each day), hiking and exploring, music and movement, cooking and baking, guided imagining
and free play in the Museum.
It's a great warm-up (or cool down) to summer camp - plus an opportunity to have fun, socialize, and learn to cooperate in an informal yet structured environment.
June 21-June 25 and August 30-September 2
9am - 1 pm
Ages: 4-7
Enrollment is limited so sign up today! The cost is $425 for Members and $450 for Non-Members.
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"CMEE Summer Mornings" CLASSES | |
 CMEE is taking registrations for "CMEE Summer Mornings" - a series of fun and engaging programs for 2-4 year olds in art, music, and cooking, including the Hamptons Tumblebus, MoonSoup, and Sandpiper Music Together.
Classes & Workshops
Session 1: July 5 - July 26
Session 2: August 3 - August 24
Except where noted, sessions are $120 for members and $130 for non-members.
Kids in the Kitchen
Mondays 9:30 am or 10:30 am
Chef Amy teaches your kitchen helpers everything they need to hone their cooking skills! Enjoy cutting, rolling, spreading, stirring, mashing, kneading, mixing, measuring, sorting, shaping, classifying, and more as you practice being a chef. All recipes are single servings, so every child will make daily recipes from start to finish!
Plus $12 material fee per session.
Art Play!
July:
FUN-damentals of Fine Art with Ranelle
Tuesdays in July: 9:30 am and 10:30 am
Calling all art-loving, mini-Monet's or Matisse's! Come experiment and create with color, lines, ink, paints and other artistic mediums with Ranelle. This fun, learning-filled class teaches children to develop new forms of expression and view the world with vivid detail.
Plus $12 material fee per session.
August:
SENSE-sational Art with Georgette
Tuesdays in August: 9:30 am and 10:30 am
Discover the wonders of art, with Georgette's age appropriate art classes designed to encourage your child's creativity and imagination. Have fun experimenting with color, texture and patterns while learning all along the way!
Plus $12 material fee per session.
Roots and Shoots with Steve Eaton
Wednesdays 10:30 am
Find out why seeds are sleeping and how we can wake them up to become plants and vegetables. Learn about the composting process and how this process helps in the soil to make it possible for healthy plants to grow. Pull weeds, prepare the soil, find worms, plant seeds, harvest greens, sprout beans and get excited to grow food for yourself and others wherever you go!
MoonSoup Creative Classes
Kids and Parents both cheer for these super fun Music, Play and Art classes for Babies to Preschoolers. This popular early childhood enrichment program is known for interactive learning through lively, age specific mixes of art, music, drumming, sensory and active play, story-times, puppets and more.
Come see why MoonSoup was recently listed as one of the "10 Best (children's) programs in NYC" by Time Out New York Kids. MoonSoup @ CMEE is the place to be for Mommy & Me!
Families can choose from the following:
MoonSoup Baby Rock: Babies -12 months, Mondays 11:30 am
MoonSoup Tots: 1-3 years. Mondays 10:30 am
MoonSoup Kids: 2-4 years. Mondays 9:30 am
Plus $12 Materials Fee.
Toddlers' Tango & Baby Boogie
Toddlers' Tango: Tuesdays 9:30 am - 10:15 am / Ages 2-3
Baby Boogie: Tuesdays 10:30 am - 11:15 am / 9 months - 1 1/2 years
Educators, therapists and parents have praised Toddlers' Tango and Baby Boogie for the developmental benefits: cognitive, physical and emotional - and of course, fun! Enjoy singing and dancing with your child to music from around the world, using instruments and props to enhance the lyrics and invite movement. Each class is tailored to specific age groups.
Hamptons Tumblebus
Thursdays
9:30 am for ages 2-5
10:30 am for ages 6-7
Since this colorful mobile gym (on a transformed school bus!) first parked in front of CMEE last summer, it was an instant hit, drawing 'regular riders' for its full range of gymnastic activities: bars, rings, beam, climbing apparatus and more.
Cost: Members & Non-Members: $20 per class.
Sandpiper Music Together
Fridays 9:30 am and 10:30 am
Sundays 10:30 am and 11:30 am
Music Together is an Internationally recognized early childhood music program for babies through kindergartners. Pure Joy! For cost and to register, visit www.sandpipermusictogether.com or call 631-848-7043. |
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CMEE celebrated National Poetry month on April 24 with a visit from New York Times best-selling children's book author/editor/arts educator (and Sag Harbor resident), Emma Walton Hamilton. In addition to reading selections from her recently released poetry anthology, Julie Andrews Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies, which she compiled along with her mother, actress/author Julie Andrews, Emma shared fun tips on writing poetry with CMEE visitors who then co-wrote a poem on the spot - about CMEE! As a surprise gift for the Museum, Emma read a poem - also about CMEE - which was written by her own children, Sam (13) and Hope (6). Thank you to the all of the Hamilton poets for this lovely 'gift of poetry'!
CMEE
A collaborative poem written
by CMEE visitors at a National Poetry Month
Workshop hosted by Emma Walton Hamilton on April 24, 2010
Lemon yellow
Sky blue
Tomato red
Henry the bunny
Hops, hides and chomps on his carrots
Kids are playing, running,
Rolling around on scooters,
Excited
Laughing
Learning
About the history of our island.
A colorful cupcake with sprinkles.
This is CMEE.
CMEE
A giant toy chest waiting to be opened...
Butter yellow, beach glass blue, barn red.
A portrait of our island...
Sparkling beaches, storied villages, majestic landscapes.
A thousand budding voices,
Laughing, exploring, growing.
See me?
See you!
See us, discovering our world...
At CMEE!
- Emma, Sam, and Hope Hamilton
April 2010
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CMEE is delighted to host its third annual Golf Classic to benefit the Museum on Monday, May 24 at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton. Thank you to Bridgehampton National Bank for serving as the tournament sponsor! We have a full slate of foursomes ready to hit the links at 1pm. Proceeds from the tournament help support CMEE's health and wellness initiatives. For more information, please call Barbara at (631) 537-8250. |
Serving the Needs of Children at CMEE | |
CMEE and Sandpiper Music Together celebrated the pilot session of a new Family Literacy Program at the Museum, "Cantemos Juntos," in the Museum's Art Studio. See last week's East Hampton Star for more details on this exciting partnership, which begins anew this month! 
Recently, Brookhaven Kindergarten students visited the Museum as one of CMEE's many school tours. |
Save The Date for CMEE "Under The Sea"
Summer Family Fair! | |
Hooray for CMEE Under the Sea!
Saturday, July 24
10:30 am - 1:30 pm
Plan for fun and save the date for CMEE's second annual CMEE "Under the Sea" Family Fair Fundraiser featuring live music, bouncy castles, art activities, face painters, petting zoo, pony rides, games, and gaiety galore! Last year's event drew capacity attendance, so be sure to reserve early!
For more information, please call Barbara at (631) 537-8240.
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Twirligig Tuesdays
Picnic & Performance Series |
Rebecca Frezza performs at CMEE on Tuesday, July 20
Save your Tuesday nights this summer starting at 6pm for Twirligig Tuesdays Picnic and Performance Series in CMEE's outdoor amphitheater. Bring a picnic to enjoy while you and your family are entertained by some of the top names in the world of children's entertainment!
The season opens on July 6 with Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, the King of "Kid Hop" and continues through August 24. Among the performers are Nick Jr. and PBS Kids star, Rebecca Frezza and Big Truck, Long Island's own and recipient of the Parents' Choice Gold Award, Brady Rymer and the Little Band that Could, and Liz Joyce brings songs from your favorite puppet shows to the CMEE stage with Songs from the Goat. Check out CMEE's Summer Program Guide or www.CMEE.org for more details. The June E-Newsletter will include a full schedule of performances. |
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By now, you've probably seen me, met me or followed me around CMEE. If you haven't, please let me introduce myself... I'm Henry the Rabbit, CMEE's mascot. This is my first E-Newsletter column. If it were a paper newsletter, I'd want to snack on it!
When I'm not resting in my hutch, I'm hopping around the Museum. I'm particularly fond of the vegetable and fruit stand. You may also spot me in the Art Studio or driving the Fire Truck like I am in the picture above.
Thank you to August Levine for writing such a wonderful note to me. If you'd like to send a letter, please write to Henry the Rabbit, c/o CMEE, PO Box 316, Bridgehampton, NY 11932. I will be sure to write you back!
Have you registered for Summer Classes yet? If you sign up for "Kids in the Kitchen," save some carrots for me! |
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CMEE sends Very Happy Birthday Wishes this month to our young members including:
Ruby Adler, Benjamin Anmuth, Charlie Ban-Williams, Diego Barrelo, Haidyn Batten, Max Berman, Nicholas Borruso, Alex Brooks, Hudson Burden, Maile Burrigross, Sarah Campbell, Bella Chae, Ryan Chisholm, Brandon Cirincione, Maya Cirincione, Jesse Travis Cohen, Henri Comer, Mia Composto, Anne Daugherty, Sophie Dunlop, Jack Eastman, Allie Falzone, Luke Feller, Charlotte Ferguson, Michael Figueroa, Scarlett Fitzmaurice, Russell Fusco, Annabelle Gallo, Lauren Gooding, Max Halpern, Marissa Harry, Luca Hart, Ellie Henes, Sam Karsch, Riley Keenan - Panza, Colin Kenny, Hannah Kern, Ryan Kim, Amanda Koszalka, August Levine, Daniel Loeb, Thomas Loeb, Caroline Maltz, Evan Masi, Cameron McAuliffe, Estela Grace McMaster, Sofia Mendoza, Frances Metz, Helena Metz, Emily Morris, Hannah Morris, Noah John Murphy, Philip O'Connell, Jackie Ovanessian, Grace Pepperman, Grace Perello, Andrea Perez, Grace Perkins, Anika Petruccelli, Sadie Rahbar, Margalit Ridberg, Elias Shaw Rothberg, Gracie Shaw Rothberg, Jonathan Saloman, Rebecca Salzhauer, Alexander Sanchez, Lucien Sann, Lilia Schaefer, Maxine Scharf, Emily Schechter, Julia Sidorsky, Sophie Simmons, Chase Siska, Andrew Sohn, William Sohn, James Sowell, Fairleigh Stewart, Maxwell Tah Mylo Tompkins, Mia Vaccari, Samantha Venturo, Kristopher Vinski, Scott Vinski, Avery Vukhac, John Walters, Brandon Winenga, Alex Zaken, and Valerie Zeitlin.
Stop by CMEE front desk on your birthday and pick up a little gift to help celebrate the big day!
If we missed your birthday, don't have your correct birthday, or misspelled your name, please let us know so CMEE can make sure to recognize YOUR DAY! |
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Pizza & Pajama Night
No Time for Mother's Day
By Laurie Halse Anderson
Friday
May 7th
6pm
Offered on the first Friday of every month, these fun family night-out evenings invite children to come to CMEE in pajamas, eat pizza, hear a story read by a guest reader in CMEE's Library, and participate in a special art activity.
This month's story is No Time for Mother's Day by Laurie Halse Anderson. With only two days left until Mother's Day, Charity is at a loss concerning the perfect gift for her mom. But after rising Saturday morning and watching her mother go top speed all day, Charity realizes that what her mother needs is an extra set of hands and an extra set of legs. As Charity lies awake counting the minutes that night, an idea comes to mind--the perfect gift for a busy mom!
Advance Reservations Required
Free for Members
$7 for Non-Members
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Birthday Parties at CMEE!
A creative
and easy
party location
Ask our front desk, or pick up a flyer, for information on CMEE's Birthday Party Packages. "New York Family Magazine rated CMEE as the East End's best venue for children's birthday parties!"
CMEE is also available for rent for private, corporate or community events. Call 631-537-8250 for information. | |
Sunday: 10am-5:00pm
Monday: 9am-5:00pm
Tuesday: CLOSED
Wednesday: 9am-5:00pm
Thursday: 9am-5:00pm
Friday: 9am-5:00pm
Saturday: 9am-5:00pm |
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