Students with their parents drive by the school’s balloon-lined driveway during the Altamont Elementary parade.

Each year, the kindergartners at Altamont Elementary School read a book about a real-life girl who had a lemonade stand to fight childhood cancer before she died of it; the funds they raise go to Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation.

Second-graders at Altamont Elementary School have made signs that are posted along Picard road in New Scotland to alert motorists that salamanders may be crossing the road.

Students dressed up as characters from Alice in Wonderland for a production at the Altamont Elementary School this weekend.

A carnival of games inside the packed Altamont Elementary School on March 6 used small white tickets for access, raising funds for a class field trip. Altamont fifth graders read “All the Way Home,” a book by Patricia Reilly Giff in which two young fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers, one from an upstate apple orchard, the other in Brooklyn, form a friendship on Coney Island and plan to return to the bucolic upstate orchard.  Teacher Karen Shaffer said the students already toured Indian Ladder Farms, in New Scotland, and they look forward to visiting Coney Island.

Altamont Elementary School's fifth-graders read candidates for this year’s Caldecott and Newbery medals. Students spent the snow day on an email thread with their teacher offering their thoughts.