Do you want to learn how to improve and maintain their grades?
Brain Excel specializes in providing individual training to improve attention, memory, and reasoning. Certified trainers assess and target these cognitive skills through customized exercises to improve your child’s academic performance. They are also introducing a Group Brain Training where your child may train for free!
To find out more contact us at info@brnxl.com or 781-530-6677 or www.brnxl.com.
Introducing “LatinSummer Boston,” a two-week summer enrichment program that provides students in grades 1-7 a unique chance to learn about Latin and the classical world! Creative and enthusiastic instructors will provide a wide array of exciting and hands-on activities that introduce students to many varied aspects of classical and conversational Latin, Greco-Roman mythology, and Roman culture and daily life. No prior knowledge of Latin or Classics is required.
LatinSummer Boston will run from July 21st – August 1st, 9:00 am – 12:30 pm at The Brimmer & May School in Chestnut Hill. Registration fee is $295 with significantly reduced rates also available depending on financial need. Tee-shirts provided! Registrations are accepted by mail or online through May 31st. For more information and to register, please visit www.ascaniusyci.org/boston – this summer, let’s carpe diem and do as the Romans did!
Summer is right around the corner. The Joe Jones Basketball Clinic will run from June 30th – July 3rd, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm. This is a great opportunity for your child to receive individual instruction as well as learn the value of hard work and teamwork.
The clinic will be held at Case Athletic Center on the campus of Boston University. It is designed for boys & girls ages 7-18. The clinic fee is $225.00. Register via the website www.coachjonesbasketballclinics.com.
Boston Marathon® co-medical director Dr. Pierre d’Hemecourt will discuss running injuries and injury prevention on Monday, March 24, from 7-8pm at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center (333 Nahanton Street) in Newton.
Dr. d’Hemecourt, who is also the Director of Primary Care in the Division of Sports Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital, will demonstrate how proper techniques, form and strength training can help prevent running injuries and lead to healthier, safer running.
Representatives from Greater Boston Running Company will be on hand
with samples of running shoes that help prevent injuries. The clinic, which is co-presented by The Micheli Center for Sports Injury Prevention, is free and open to the entire community.
Doesn’t feel like Spring yet? Take a Dinner-Dance journey through Latin America, and feel like you are on a fabulous, exotic vacation!
On Saturday March 29th , from the 7 – 10pm, Newton Cultural Center at City Hall will host the second annual Latin American Fiesta. You can enjoy a very special ‘date night’ or a ’girls night out,’ eating delicious food catered by Merengue Boston and dancing to lively Latin music performed by Veronica Robles.
The ticket cost of just $35 includes a buffet dinner and a night of entertainment by Veronica Robles, a multitalented media star who sings, dances, produces and hosts television shows. She is sure to get everyone out of their chairs and dancing the night away to the songs and dances from Colombia, El Salvador, Mexico and Peru. A wine/beer cash bar is available.
Purchase tickets online. The event proceeds benefit the Newton Food Pantries.
Comedian Kevin Breel — a 20-year-old activist working in the area of depression and mental health — will speak at Newton’s third annual Youth Summit, Wednesday, March 26th from 6:00 -9:00 pm at the Newton North auditorium.
See Kevin Breel’s TEDx talk, “Confessions of a Depressed Comic” and learn more at his website, www.kevinbreel.com.
The Summit is open to teens, parents, and other community members and will focus on youth/adult communications, difficult conversations, and the results of the first two Summits. The Mayor’s Youth Summits are sponsored by the Newton Youth Commission, City of Newton Health and Human Services Department, and The Newton Partnership to focus on challenges and solutions facing Newton teens.
Please join an open meeting of the Newton Parent Advisory Council for Special Education (NewtonPAC) with Dr. Judy Levin-Charns, Assistant Superintendent for Student Services, and Dr. David Fleishman, Superintendent of the Newton Public Schools. If you have any questions please contact Eileen Sandberg at eileen.sandberg.newtonpac@gmail.com.
Thursday, March 27th, at 9:00 am
Room 304, Newton Education Center
100 Walnut Street, Newton.
The agenda will be:
Update on the budget initiatives for next year
Brainstorming for PAC meeting topics for 2014-2015
Please join the April meeting of the Newton Parent Advisory Council for Special Education, for a presentation on Reading and Language Based Learning Difficulties Steve Wilkins of the Carroll School.
IMPORTANT: Because they anticipate a large turnout for this meeting, please RSVP with the number of people attending to PAC.reading.meeting@gmail.com.
April 8th, 7:30 pm
Room 210 of the Education Center
100 Walnut Street, Newton
Networking and refreshments will begin at 7:15 pm.
Steve Wilkins is Head of School at Carroll, a K/1 – 8 school in Lincoln, MA for children with language based learning difficulties, including dyslexia. With more than 35 years of experience in the field, Steve is passionate about children who learn differently and celebrates their strengths while striving to provide a creative, experiential, outcomes-based curriculum that educates the whole child. Steve and Carroll are actively engaged in important brain science research that is helping educators understand why and how children with dyslexia learn differently. Steve’s talk will lay out the best thinking about how children learn or don’t learn to read, what kinds of interventions are most effective, and cutting edge studies that piloting new curricula to address working memory and other associated learning issues. More than an educator, Steve is a champion for kids who learn differently and what they have to offer the world.
When: March 30th, 1:30 to 4:00 pm
Where: Newton North High School
Who: The top ten finalists will perform live in front of a panel of judges, emcee’ed by Matt Siegel, of KISS 108
Why: Fundraiser to support the community service organizations and scholarships given out by the Rotary Club of Newton and a community event.
Website: www.newtonhastalent.com
Tickets: $5 students/$10 adults
Come see and support our own talented Newton residents and students!
The Newton Cultural Alliance, host Ed Harding (WCVB) and awards presenter Congressman Joe Kennedy invite you to Ovations 2014 Gala. Ovations celebrates Newton’s arts, culture and community! This year’s honorees include Newton native and sculptor Nancy Schön, non-profit Historic Newton, and patron WS Development. The ceremony also includes a performance of Alice in Wonderland by the Boston Ballet School and New Philharmonia Orchestra plus a gallery powered by Newton Open Studios.
Tickets begin at $50. See www.newtonculture.org or call 617-332-4300.
Saturday, April 5th, 7:00 pm
First Baptist Church in Newton Centre