Monthly Archives: April 2012

Oak Hill/Brown Speech Team

The Oak Hill/Brown Speech Team is a proud member of the Massachusetts Middle School Forensics League. Part of this esteemed membership provides the opportunity of two of our students to be appointed to the MMSFL Leadership Council. This year our team’s Leadership Council Representatives are Melissa Klein (Oak Hill) and Sophia Tang (Brown).

The mission of the MMSFL Leadership Council is to raise money for the League’s selected charity. This year’s charity is EMARC, a local resource that promotes services and supports for persons with intellectual disabilities and their families.

Melissa Klein will be selling OAK HILL BRACELETS during lunch time this week to raise money for EMARC. The bracelets are $3 a piece and all proceeds will be donated to charity. If you do not see Melissa but wish to purchase a bracelet, please contact her at happysmiley400@gmail.com.

Honor a Student or a Teacher — Make a Donation to the Bigelow Library

For a $15 donation, our librarian will purchase a book and attach a plate with the honoree’s name. We will send letters to the honorees informing them of the donation in their name.

Please use the form below to make your donation. For questions contact:
Eva Schmitt at 617-699-9185 or evaschmitt@hotmail.com

To motivate reluctant readers, with the money donated so far this year, Bigelow librarian Diane Montville has bought books including Sports Technology, Custom Cars, the biography of Steve Jobs, and a memoir written by a former Bigelow student (!): Searching for Solace. Ms. Montville has also purchased additional copies of the book in high demand: Hunger Games. Thank you to all the generous donors!

Bigelow-Buy-A-Book Donation Form

Name of Honoree(s):_______________________

Address of Honoree(s): Bigelow Middle School or:____________________________________

Donor’s address: _____________________________________Phone:_____________________

Please make check payable to “Bigelow Middle School PTO” and mail together with this completed form to:
Bigelow-Buy-A-Book, c/o Eva Schmitt, 88 Madison Ave, Newtonville, MA 02460-1905

Your donation is tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Bigelow Middle School Parent-Teacher Organization, Inc. is a Section 501(c)(3) charitable organization.

Summer at Park School For Kids Ages 4-15

“Creative Arts at Park” is a multi-arts and sports camp for ages 7-15. A full year of arts education in one summer session June 25-July 27. Partial week rates are available. Over 130 courses including video, visual arts, photography, theatre, dance, music, creative writing and sports including fencing, karate, gymnastics, swimming, soccer, tennis and basketball. www.CreativeArtsAtPark.org or call 617-274-6065

“Summer at Park”- General camps and specialty sessions for ages 4-15. One and two week sessions June 18-August 17: art, cooking, golf, fishing, field trips, lacrosse, leadership training, nature, science, soccer, swimming, tennis and more. Extended day available. More info: www.parkschool.org/mainsummer or call 617-274-6024.

Newton Family Singers present… If I Had a Song – Celebrating Pete Seeger and Friends

The Newton Family Singers present… If I Had a Song – Celebrating Pete Seeger and Friends, on Sunday, May 6th!

Come enjoy the music of folk icon and legend Pete Seeger and his musical friends and contemporaries, including The Weavers, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie….with a special performance by members of the extended Seeger Family. You’ll find yourself hand-clapping and tune-humming at this fun-for-the-whole-family musical extravaganza celebrating Pete Seeger’s contribution to American folk music. Sunday, May 6, 4pm at the Memorial-Spaulding Elementary School Auditorium, 250 Brookline Street, Newton.

With this concert, the Newton Family Singers welcome award-winning composer, director and musician Chris Eastburn as guest Musical Director. Chris brings over 10 years of experience directing the Family Folk Chorale of Arlington, and an unmatched ability to create powerful, emotional and melodic choral arrangements. This concert will feature the debut performance of an original tribute to Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie.

To read the recent Newton Tab article about NFS and this upcoming show, link here!

The Newton Family Singers are Newton’s only intergenerational chorus and band celebrating family, community and American folk music. For more information about NFS or upcoming events, please visit www.newtonfamilysingers.org or email us at newfamilysingers@gmail.com.

Teacher Appreciation Tea May 1st

Please help us create a delightful tea to show our appreciation to our wonderful teachers and staff!

Please consider donating food:

Fruit, quiches, finger sandwiches, salads, scones, dessert
Use this link to sign up
http://bigelowpto.org/teacher-appreciation-tea-donation-sign-up-2/

We also need set up help at 12:30 pm, or clean up help at 3:30 pm.

We are also accepting gift cards to area businesses or restaurants to be used in a raffle for the teachers at the event.

For more information email the PTO at Bigelowbulldog@gmail.com

Thank you for your support!!

Newton Library Events for Teens: Crafts, Bad Movie Night

Teen Craft Program: Celebrate Free Comic Book Day by making comic book duct tape wallets on Saturday, May 5 @ 2:30 pm in Druker Auditorium. Use our donated copies of comic books or bring your own to transform into a wallet using clear duct tape.

Bad Movie Night: Teens age 13 and up – join us for Bad Movie Night @ the library! Watch Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (rated PG13). Eat Popcorn! TXT in YR jokes and they’ll appear on screen! Wednesday, May 23 @ 6:30 pm in Druker Auditorium. Questions? Email Teen Librarian Liz Rowland at lrowland@minlib.net or call 617-796-1380.

The Autism Revolution: Whole Body Strategies for Making Life All it Can Be

After years of treating patients and analyzing scientific data, prominent Harvard researcher and clinician, Dr. Martha Herbert offers a revolutionary new view of autism and a transformative strategy for dealing with it. Autism is not a hardwired impairment programmed into a child’s genes and destined to remain fixed forever, as we’re often told. Instead, it is the result of a cascade of events, many seemingly minor: perhaps a genetic mutation, some toxic exposures, a stressful birth, a vitamin deficiency, or a series of infections. FREE event. A book signing will follow the presentation. Books will be available for purchase. For more information go to www.thenewtonpartnership.org/attend-an-event/

Wednesday, May 9, 2012
7:00-8:30 P.M.
Newton South High School
140 Brandeis Rd. 02459