Free summer STEM prep program for High School students includes classes in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Math, Robotics, and Maker Space.
Classes run from Monday – Wednesday each week with field trips every Thursday. Breakfast and lunch is provided every day, free of charge. See more information and apply here: http://www.rcc.mass.edu/
July 8th – August 9th
Space is limited! Final call! The Highlands After-School Program is different than other programs because it’s geared to meet the needs and likes of middle school kids. Home at Brigham House in Newton Highlands, with regular access to the Hyde Community Gym and other wonderful resources. Transportation is arranged from the middle schools.
The program is open from school dismissal time until 6:00 pm and offers special programs on early release days. Activities include sports, arts, crafts, cooking, science, homework, and field trips etc. It’s a place to go and hang with friends, enjoy activities, and get a head start on homework.
OPEN HOUSE June 10th, 5:00 – 6:00 pm. For more information contact Rochelle Acker 617-999-4617 or highlandsafterschool@gmail.com or visit highlandsafter-schoolprogram.org.
The school year is quickly coming to an end! If you want to do something special for your child’s teachers or other staff this year, consider the Newton Schools Foundation’s Honor Thy Teacher program.
When you donate to NSF in the name of one or more teachers, notifications will be sent to each teacher honored, as well as to the Principal and the Superintendent. Teachers’ names will appear in a special announcement on the NSF website and in the Newton TAB. If you have kids in elementary school, look for a letter coming home in backpacks or via US Mail for those with students in the upper grades. You can also donate online at www.newtonschoolsfoundation.org/honor-thy-teacher.
Your tax-deductible donation will support NSF-funded grants to the Newton Public Schools encompassing art, civics, math, music, science, social and cultural studies, literature, writing instruction, and social-emotional learning.
For a complete list of current grants and check out a video on NSF-funded programs visit http://newtonschoolsfoundation.org/programs-we-fund.
Thank you, parents and guardians, and thank you to all our educators!
Local naturalist and founder of The Caterpillar Lab Sam Jaffe will present “The Natural Wonders of Cold Spring Park”. This event is open to the public and co-sponsored by the Zervas PTO and the newly formed Friends of Cold Spring Park. Anyone is welcome and refreshments will be served.
Learn about:
• The park’s many diverse habitats and inhabitants;
• How Zervas classes are utilizing the park;
• Threats to the park’s ecosystem, and how to help preserve it;
• Plans to rehabilitate the trails and progress to date.
June 3rd, 7:30 pm in the Zervas cafetorium (Henry Finch of the Newton Conservators will lead an optional tour of Cold Spring Park at 6:30 pm. Meet for the walk at the Zervas main entrance.
Come to the Newton Free Library for a community art project to help raise awareness for mental health and suicide prevention. All ages are welcome! Place your piece in the mosaic, enjoy music and food, enter to win free raffle prizes, and help support our community of caring. Artist Emily Bhargava will lend her creative talents to help create a mosaic to be hung outside the Health and Human Services Department at Newton City Hall. Come be a part of our community of caring.
June 4th, any time between 6:30 – 8:30 pm
The Cabot Carr-nival Committee would like to invite all school families to this fun, annual event. There will be lots of fun games, inflatables, prizes, a pizza truck, ice cream and much more.
Also this year, the Cabot Carr-nival is piloting a new initiative to make this great community event more accessible and inclusive to all families. To accomplish this goal, we are introducing the following:
1. Noise cancelling headphones available for checkout
2. Craft/sensory table for all kids that need a little down time
3. Break away room to go to if kids get too overwhelmed
4. Bubble machine (thanks to the NECP PTO)
To view the flyer, please click Cabot Carr-nival
June 8th, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
The Community Preservation Committee’s agenda includes discussing a pre-proposal from the Riverside Greenway Working group for funding to design a trail along the Charles River between Riverside and Auburndale.
The full agenda and pre-proposal are on the program website at www.newtonma.gov/cpa.
June 11th, 7:00 pm, Newton City Hall, Room 204
Artists and community members will celebrate Linda Plaut’s long time devotion to Newton arts and culture with performances and presentations at a special tribute. If your family ever participated in Time for Partners, Kids FEST, Heartbreak Hill Races, Newton Youth Players, Newton Spelling Bee, 4th of July Festivities, the Halloween Window Painting Contest, or the Mayor’s New Year’s Day Open House, then your lives were touched by Linda Plaut. These events are just a very small list of the hundreds of events she developed over 40 years of service to Newton.
Please come pay your respects to Linda’s enduring legacy of arts, culture, and most of all, community. Light refreshments will be served. Any questions, please call Paula Gannon: 617-796-1540.
June 16th, 3:00 – 5:00 pm
The Newton Cultural Center in Memorial Auditorium at Newton City Hall
With the recent spate of school shootings, many people are asking, “What can I do?” In Massachusetts, we are lucky to have some of the strongest gun laws in the country, corresponding to relatively low rates of gun ownership and gun violence.
Yet, even here in Newton, guns have a significant presence. On June 15th, Newton is providing a concrete, practical way to help reduce the risk of gun violence right here in our community. The Newton Police Department, Middlesex Sheriff’s Office, and the Newton Interfaith Clergy Association will team up to hold the first gun buyback in Newton in over 10 years.
Gun buybacks provide a safe way for residents to anonymously remove firearms from their homes, no questions asked, in exchange for grocery store gift cards. People participate for many reasons, including wanting to protect their children, ridding their homes of inherited or unwanted guns, or simply in response to tragedies in the news.
We believe that if we can help facilitate the removal of even one gun from our community that might be used in a teen suicide, or stolen from someone’s home to be used in a crime, then we believe it is our obligation to do so.
You can be a part of this effort. Donations in the form of a $25.00 gift cards from Wegmans, Whole Foods, or Stop & Shop (or checks from individuals or businesses to purchase gift cards) can be mailed to The Second Church, 60 Highland St., Newton, MA 02465.
Thank you for making a difference!
The Newton LigerBots are hosting a First Lego League (FLL) and Junior FLL Robotics programs Info Night. At FLL Info Night, parents can learn more about the FLL program and students can participate in fun activities.
FLL is the FIRST LEGO robotics competition for fourth through eighth graders. In addition to building and programming LEGO robots, each year’s themed FLL challenge includes a project for which team members brainstorm and present creative solutions to real life problems. This event is aimed at parents and students. Junior FLL is a project based program for grades K-3.
Current LigerBots students and coaches who have participated in FLL in the past will lead a presentation with general information on FLL as well as on how to start your own team. There will be demonstrations of EV3 robots, hands-on STEM activities for kids, demonstrations by the Newton Day Dragons FLL team, and people to answer any questions you may have. Email fll@ligerbots.com for more information, or visit https://ligerbots.org/fll or FIRST at https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/fll.
June 17th, 7:00 – 9:00 pm at the Newton North High School, 457 Walnut Street
Film Lecture Hall (just off the front entrance at Tiger Drive)