Second graders at Bayville Primary School painted rocks with messages and red, white and blue coloring as part of Patriot Day on Sept. 11. After reading the book “Fireboat” in their classes, Ms. Coules’, Mrs. Morales and Ms. Sivacek’s, Mrs. Pagan’s and Mrs. Parshley’s students gathered in the all-purpose room to add words such as “hope,” “calm,” “bravery” that described the first responders who rushed to lower Manhattan to save lives on Sept. 11, 2001. Students discussed why they chose the words and went outside the front entrance of the building with their classes to make new additions to the school rock garden.