Please visit the Ward Elementary School PTO Auction and get ready to be wow’ed by:
Bidding is open January 24th – 31st
BID Here EARLY AND OFTEN!
Teach children to manage their time, space and materials and keep their emotions in check!
This presentation will cover powerful strategies to help your child develop independent executive function; teach students to internally sense the sweep of time, self-monitor in order to sustain concentration, manage pace, and complete tasks in allocated time frames; improve students’ motivation and task initiation, help them to plan homework and long-term projects/papers, and coach students to think in an organized way; and encourage self-initiative to manage homework and personal belongings.
Ms. Kristen Jacobsen, MS CCC-SLP is a trained speech-language pathologist who is Co-Director at the Cognitive Connections Executive Function Practice. She is currently working with Newton Public Schools to develop an Executive Function program for middle school students. She provides training and coaching for teachers and professionals, parent consultations, as well as student coaching services. Ms. Jacobsen has worked as an educational consultant and speech-language pathologist in public education, private schools and hospital settings, and has provided teacher training seminars and school consultations nationally.
Sponsored by Newton SEPAC and Newton Public Schools
February 13th, 7:30 – 9:00 pm
Newton North High School Auditorium
457 Walnut Street, Newton
Chaim Andler of Boston Athletic Training is running 2 hour basketball clinics on weekend mornings that are designed to help all young basketball players improve their skills and conditioning while also having fun! The program was set up as an 8 week program, but Chaim is offering a “drop-in” option, which means you can simply join for a day whenever you’d like.
Clinic sessions will include individual based skills work such as shooting, dribbling, passing, driving to the hoop and defense. The sessions will also have group based drills, 2v2 and 3v3 game situation drills, which help young athletes improve their basketball IQ.
For the next 2 weekends, he is offering a special for new athletes to try out his program for half the cost! This means it will be $30.00 for your first session. Contact Chaim at 857-313-8442 or chaim@bostonathletictraining.com by Thursday evening each week to opt-in for the Saturday and/ or Sunday session that weekend.
Saturdays and Sundays, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
The Hyde Community Center, Newton
$60.00* for the day (option to pay for 7 dates at $350 or 14 dates for $600)
*New athlete special = $30 for the first drop-in session
Maine Arts Camp! Find out what makes it so special at the Teen Summer Program Expo.
If you are looking for a great overnight summer experience for your creative 9-16 year-old, come and check out Maine Arts Camp at the Teen Summer Program Expo on Monday, January 28th.
Located on the campus of Colby College, MAC is a small, friendly camp community that is big on empathy and personal growth – and embracing creative opportunity! With an extensive program of activities covering visual arts, theatre, music, dance, culinary arts, robotics and rocketry, film-making, individual sports and more, and with access to Colby’s state-of-the-art facilities, Maine Arts Camp offers exceptionally high quality instruction across a wide range of interests.
Visit www.maineartscamp.com to find out more.
Summer Program Expo
January 28th, 5:30-8:00 pm
Newton South High School, 140 Brandeis Road
Chris Orr has worked with students of a wide age range, specializing in preparing high school students for the SAT and ACT. Most of his SAT prep students enjoy a score improvement of over 150 points, which far exceeds the results of any national or regional tutoring company. His approach relies on a 3 pronged focus on Strategy, Content, and Practice with the material to maximize his students’ results.
Families hire Chris to help students with English, writing, Algebra, Geometry, History, SATs, ACTs, SSAT, ISEE and the SAT Subject tests. He works with students in their homes or a library so he can provide the most tailored and personalized service. You may find more information about his services at www.orracademicadvising.com or contact him at 781-304-8805.
Are you stressed out after the recent College Night? Feeling overwhelmed about the entire college application process? If you answered yes, Dr. Maruta Vitols can help. She’s an independent comprehensive college consultant and founder of A+ College Consulting (Newton South grad, class of 1994).
Contact Maruta at mvitols@gmail.com for a free 45 minute consultation to learn how she make the process of finding the right fit colleges for your student as fun and stress-free as possible. Discover more at www.apluscollegeconsult.com.
A parent of former NPS students, who is passionate about a Harvard Medical School study examining whether there might be a unique EKG biomarker for anorexia nervosa, is looking for healthy female athletes age 14-18 in any varsity sport who could take part as normal controls in an EKG study.
The study is noninvasive, and the student gets $25.00 gift certificate to Amazon and a tour of the physiology laboratory at Spaulding Rehab in Cambridge. Please contact Barbara Scolnick at 617-803-6353 or scolnick@bu.edu or Cristen at 617- 758-5502 or cmuresan1@partners.org for more information and to sign up.
The Burr Elementary School online auction runs from January 19th at 9:00 pm to January 26th at 9:00 pm.
Check out the auction to bid on great camps, restaurants, gift certificates, an African Safari, Disney parkhopper tickets, and many, many more amazing items! Thank you for your support of Burr School!
Starting in February of 2019, the iconic program of the Boy Scouts of America will be welcoming young women ages 11-17. For 100+ years the BSA program has focused on providing youth with opportunities for adventure, leadership training, service to communities and personal growth. Please come to learn more and get involved. Questions? Contact Barb Bower at bdbower123@yahoo.com
Scouts BSA TROOP FOR GIRLS Information Session
January 27th, 7:00 – 8:00 pm
Union Church of Waban, 14 Collins Road
January 26th, 4:30 – 7:30 pm
Newton North