Improve your grade in your Chemistry course. Prepare yourself for SAT2 Chemistry exam. Lida Famili, a retired Milton Academy Chemistry teacher, is offering tutoring in Chemistry courses and SAT2 Chemistry test. Lida has taught Chemistry for 25 years and has dozens of references. Walking distance to Newton South high school. For more information, please call or text 617-780-5461 or email lidafamili@gmail.com.
EveryBody Signs American Sign Language Class for Kids
EveryBody Signs is offering an ASL class for kids to read stories, have conversations, do skits and make art, all in American Sign Language! The teacher, Steve Weiner, is a Newton North EdCo graduate, a teacher at Horace Mann School for the Deaf, and a Magician!
Although classes have already started, contact Rebecca Wangh, rebeccabella@gmail.com if you’re interested in joining. Flyer available here: EveryBody Signs Flyer
Sundays, October 7th – December 16th, 2:00 – 3:00 pm
Auburndale Community Library
Children’s Learning and Development Research
The Cognitive Neuroscience Group at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston is recruiting children, who are or are soon turning 8 or 10 years old, to participate in a research study funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
This is a longitudinal study that follows children over a period of 3 consecutive years. The goal is to improve understanding of learning in children. The study consists of 1 in-person visit (about 2.5 hours) per year for 3 years (weekdays/weekends). During this visit, children play several games on the computer and complete several language/memory tasks. The lab visit includes safe and noninvasive EEG recording. The day after the visit, kids complete a quick follow-up task from a home/library computer. Payment is $60.00 per year.
Free all day parking is provided at the Navy Yard. Please email cnglead@mghihp.edu or call 617- 643-4821 if you are interested or have any questions. More information can be found at https://clinicaltrials.partners.org/study/feedback_learning.
New Homework Policy
The Bigelow School Council has developed a new school-wide homework policy. This policy is based upon the latest research on homework, and clarifies the reasons for it, the amount of time that students should spend on homework in each grade, the responsibilities of students, teachers, and parents, and the procedures when homework is not completed. It also includes an appendix of suggestions for parents, and the School Council is finalizing a resource guide of best practices for teachers. Here is the link to it.
Would you like to be a Laps at Lunch volunteer?
This is a great way to help our students get some fresh air in the middle of the day! At Laps at Lunch students walk laps around the inside perimeter of Burr Park once they’re done with their lunches in the cafeteria. As a parent, you help them cross the street and monitor their walk. It’s a fun way to be around the kids and see how much they get from this opportunity. If interested please contact Mary Fitzgerald (physical education teacher) at: Mary_Fitzgerald@newton.k12.ma.us. More about the program here.
Ping Pong Table Anyone?
We just received this request from Bigelow:
Wanted: A portable ping pong table for use by Bigelow MIddle School. Please contact Kersten Raso at kersten_raso@newton.k12.ma.us if you have a table that you are willing to loan or donate to the school.
Thank you!
Please join us for TEN Tables!
You are invited to a fun evening with Bigelow families, on Saturday, 11/03/18. Tickets for TEN Tables are on sale now! You can register and get your tickets at www.auctria.com/auction/TenTables2018. Seats will be on sale until Oct 26th or until they sell out. Please join us Saturday, November 3rd, 6:30pm-11:30pm. More information here.
Ten Tables: Registration is Open!
You are invited to a fun evening with Bigelow families and staff!
Registration is now open! Please reserve your seats here.
TEN Tables is a progressive dinner and is held at several homes in succession on one night. A single course is served at each home. At the first home everyone gathers for appetizers, you then go to a second home for dinner with 8-12 people, then everyone meets again to finish the night with desserts at a third house. TEN Tables, formerly known as Supper Stroll, has been an enjoyable fundraiser for many, many years. Adults in the Bigelow Community are welcome to participate.
Come! We hope to see you!
Saturday, November 3rd, 6:30pm-11:30pm
Appetizers 6:30-8pm – The O’Rourke Residence
Dinners 8-10pm* – Assorted Residences
Dessert 10-11:30pm* – The Kelley Residence
*Guests will be given their dinner & the dessert address locations at the O’Rourke’s.
A Big thank you to all the families who have generously opened their homes to host a dinner for our evening. We still need a few dinner hosts – please consider hosting and contributing to this great event!
If you have any questions, please contact Una Simmons at una@ethannet.com or BigelowBulldog@gmail.com
Open House and Parent Coffees
Classrooms in each grade will be open one morning for parents to visit during this week. Wednesday, October 10, is open house for grade 7 classes. The day begins at 8 am with coffee in the library for seventh grade parents, and then parents are welcome to visit seventh grade classes until 11:00 am. Thursday, October 11, is open house for eighth grade parents. Coffee will be served for eighth grade parents at 8 am in the library, and then eighth grade classrooms are open until 10:52 am for parents to visit. The sixth grade open house is on Friday, October 12. Again, coffee will be served at 8 am in the library, and then parents may attend sixth grade classes in the morning until 10:52 am. Please bring a copy of your child’s schedule so that you know which classrooms to visit, and please attend only the classrooms of the grade open on each designated day.
Family Directory: Did you get yours?
Bigelow Family Directories were distributed last Thursday on Back to School Night. If you didn’t get your pre-ordered copy, please e-mail bigelowbulldog@gmail.com to arrange how to pick it up.