Newton School for Children Childcare Center, a school for children 15 months to five years is holding open houses on the following days:
November 7th, 9:00 – 11:00 am and 4:00 – 5:00 pm
November 8th, 9:00 – 11:00 am and 4:00 – 5:00 pm
November 9th, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
25 Lenglen Road, Suite 2, Newton (at the end of the parking lot behind Our Lady Help of Christian’s Parish). For questions, please call 617-965-1705.
“Bringing Families Back to the Dinner Table” Personal Chef- cooking in your home. For information and sign-up, contact Eileen Rielly at http://2busytocook.com .
Does your son or daughter become frustrated or intimidated by writing assignments? Tutor Jane Hirschhorn can help your child become a stronger, more confident writer. During her two decades as a writing tutor, she has worked with students from middle school to graduate school. She tailors her approach to make the best use of each student’s strengths and learning style and provides guidance and encouragement throughout the writing process.
For more information, please call (617) 244-0108 or email janehirschhorn@gmail.com.
It’s not too late to join a class at Top Banana! If you want your child to attend a program that builds their confidence, allows them to have fun and meet new friends, all while learning- this is the program for you! They are offering classes that include: Computer Science, Math, SSAT/ISEE Test Preparation, Math Kangaroo Preparation/Competitive Math Club and English!
Visit the website www.topbananaeducation.org or call 617- 795-1557 for more information.
Amid the synthetic drums, the parachute pants, the Sony Walkmans, the MTV videos and the aliens phoning home, a number of beautiful songs were written that stand the test of time. Now the Newton Family Singers will rock the house with music that Gen Xers (and those who love them) will remember well — hits from The Talking Heads, The Go-Go’s, Journey, R.E.M. and more.
Come along and enjoy songs of love, existentialism, environmentalism and just plain fun. With new choral arrangements by our music director, Chris Eastburn, NFS remakes the familiar for old and new fans alike. Bring your family and sing along! Tickets are available online at www.newtonfamilysingers.org. For questions please email newfamilysingers@gmail.com.
The Newton Family Singers are an intergenerational ensemble celebrating family, community, and American folk music (usually!).
November 17th, 4:00 pm
Newton Highlands Congregational Church
54 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands
Bigelow parent and photographer Myrosha Dziuk is offering photography classes for kids and teens starting in the next few weeks. Wednesday and Thursday after school and Saturdays for teens at Artheads Studio in Brighton Center. For additional info please call Myrosha at (617)320-1005. Fine art portrait sessions of families and children also available www.myrosha.com
Watertown Children’s Theatre’s Black Box series presents Macbeth in the Black Box Theater at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown. Performers will bring to life all of the “Double, double toil and trouble” set forth in this unique adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. Witches, a ghost, secrets, murder and lies push Macbeth towards the throne of Scotland. Will he succeed or will greed and guilt overcome him?
A cast of 6th-9th graders, including Newton’s own Liam Walsh explore the themes and words of Shakespeare in this adapted production. Come and experience the results of Macbeth’s gradual, insatiable descent into blind ambition. This production contains recorded gunfire, stage combat, and spooky imagery, and is not recommended for audience members under age 10.
General admission tickets are $10 and are now available on WCT’s website at www.watertownchildrenstheatre.org or by calling 1-800-838-3006. For more information, visit WCT’s website or call 617-926-ARTS.
October 25th at 7:00 pm, October 26th at 1:00 pm and 7:00 pm, and October 27th at 1:00 pm
THESE SHINING LIVES by Melanie Marnich. These Shining Lives chronicles the strength and determination of women considered expendable. It explores the true story of their employment at the Radium Dial company in the 1920’s, which cared more about profits than their employees’ safety. Catherine and her friends are dying, it’s true; but theirs is a story of survival in its most transcendent sense, as they refuse to allow the company that stole their health to kill their spirits—or endanger the lives of those who come after them.
Tickets $7.00 at http://theatreink.net, or Adam_Brown@Newton.k12.ma.us 617-559-6300
October 31st – November 3rd at 7:30
Performing Arts Center, Newton North HS
457 Walnut Street
From October 21st through November 2nd, SalonCapri in Newton Highlands will donate 10% of the cost of the service to the Newton public school of the client’s choice.
The owners of SalonCapri, Nick and Amy Penna, have been long-time residents of Newton and are raising their children in the Newton Public School System. They take pride in their community and want do what they can to give back.
Announcing a Five-Week “Parenting-Well” group for parents of adopted teens! Special topic: Taking The Sting Out Of Setting Limits.
In this group of up to eight (to ensure individualized attention) adoptive parents, you will talk about:
Thursdays, 10:15 – 11:30 starting November 7th
Location: 17 Lincoln St., Newton Highlands, MA 02461
Fee is a one-time payment of $250, payable online at http://www.adoptiontherapyma.com/upcoming-adoptive-parents/
Katie Jae Naftzger, LICSW sees a mix of adopted and non-adopted families and individuals in her private practice in Newton Highlands. Katie has presented workshops at Children’s Hospital, Boston, Wide Horizons, Adoptive Families Together, and others. Katie is also a wife and mother and has experienced the challenges of parenting firsthand!