New England Camp Fair rescheduled due to snow storm

The Underwood PTO’s NEW ENGLAND CAMP FAIR is canceled due to the Nor’easter closing in on the Boston Metro area on Thursday. We expect 7-10+ inches falling heavily from 7am-7pm, which means Newton schools will almost surely be closed (and therefore, Bigelow Middle School would be closed). Moreover, we feel it would be unsafe to encourage families to venture out.

Please note our NEW DATE & TIME:

Sunday, March 5th, 2017 from  11-2pm
in the Bigelow Middle School gymnasium

We hope you will try to attend with your children and support our school. As you  know, the Camp Fair is free and open to all. 

www.newenglandcampfair.org

We are sorry for the inconvenience.

New Baking Club at Bigelow

Students are invited to the informational meeting
Wed, Feb. 8 in Mrs. Morrow’s office!

THERE WILL BE COOKIES! 

Club Information:

* Club meets every Wednesday from 2:45 to 4:00
* Meet in Mrs. Morrow’s Office – Rm. 109
* We will share and discuss recipes
* All the baking is done at home
* Write Recipe Reviews
* Make your own recipe based on a favorite

 

7th Grade Winter Wonderland

This first-ever after school ice cream social event for 7th graders will take place in the gym and cafeteria on Wednesday, February 15, 3-5pm. 

In addition to ice cream sundaes, there will be ping pong, board games, their favorite playlist of music, basketball in the gym, and pizza and cotton candy for sale in the cafeteria.  Admission is $5 (sundaes included!), and tickets are on sale during all lunch periods. 

It has been initiated by a group of seventh graders, just for Bigelow’s seventh grade, as an alternative to evening dances, which have attracted less interest in the past year.

It will be a fun afternoon and will build community spirit.  Most importantly, we want the students to have a successful experience in organizing their own event. 

Please encourage your seventh grade child to attend.  
7th Grade Social 2017

Be a part of the new art installation

Be part of a creative, public art project that will certainly get everyone “Hooked on Newton”. Using Crystal Lake as our palette, we plan to install your knitted and crocheted images of birds, flowers, water, sailboats, frogs and fish on the trees, fences and benches in the park.

“Can you knit or crochet? Would you like to learn how? We need people of all skilled levels – in other words WE NEED YOU!” says Paula Gannon, the Chair of the “Hooked on Newton” event, a project of the 2017 Newton Festival of the Arts.

Please join one of the introductory meetings to learn more about this project. Meetings on February 8th, 12:00 -1:00 pm, or February 16th, 7:00- 8:00 pm at Newton Cultural Center at Newton City Hall. For more information, call 617-796-1540.

Please RSVP to musicbypaula@gmail.com.

High quality theater in interesting and unconventional spaces

The acclaimed Newton Nomadic Theater brings its traveling theater to living rooms in Waban and Jamaica Plain this week. Their new show “Doubt” features an all-star cast of Linda Goetz, Matt Winberg, Sarah Morrisette, and Ramona Lisa Alexander.

If you’ve never seen a production by this unique theater, it’s not to be missed. Tickets ($20.00) and additional information at NewtonNomadicTheater.org

February 10th and 11th, 7:30 pm at the Finch home, 153 Windsor Rd, Waban
February 12th, 3:00 pm at the Dean home, 22 Rockwood Terrace, JP

Open enrollment for dance

Creative Steps Dance Studio has open enrollment, and welcomes new students at any point-not just in September! They offer a variety of classes with warm and energetic teachers and tuition is very reasonable. Dancers range in age from 2-18 years old.

Offerings include ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop, lyrical, modern, and boys only hip hop. The main goal of Creative Steps is that students leave the studio each day with a sense of pride and joy as they take on his/her own knowledge of proper dance technique. Recitals are optional! The studio is located at the Boys and Girls Club of Newton.  For more information, please call the director at 617-645-7786.

Newton CPC Discussion of Community Preservation Plan

The main agenda item at the next Newton Community Preservation Committee meeting is a working discussion of the potential future CPA proposals listed in the Community Preservation Plan, especially those drawn from the City of Newton’s Capital Improvement Plan.

This informational discussion involves no funding votes or other formal decisions. For details, see the program website at www.newtonma.gov/cpa or contact Program Manager Alice Ingerson at 617-796-1144 or aingerson@newtonma.gov.

February 9th,  7:00 pm
Newton City Hall, Room 204