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  • Meet the Female Scientists at Discovery Museums Acton! FREE

    Meet the Female Scientists at Discovery Museums Acton! FREE

    The Discovery Museums Continue Popular

    First Friday Nights Free! Program for 2013 – 2014

    Special “Meet the Scientists” Event on October 4

     The Discovery Museums are pleased to announce their First Friday Nights Free! program for 2013-2014, offering free admission to both museums along with extended evening hours on the first Friday night of the month.

     Between October 2013 and June 2014, both the Children’s Discovery Museum and the Science Discovery Museum will be open until8:30pm, with free admission beginning at 4:30pm.  Families are invited to picnic under the stars when the weather permits, and enjoy the Museums at night.

    Special program October 4: Meet the Scientists

    During the season’s opening First Friday Nights Free!, the Museums will be host to several scientists participating their ongoing Portal to the Public program, a national network of museums bringing scientists and the public together in face-to-face interactive programs. The “Meet the Scientists” event will take place from 6:00pm to 8:00pm on Friday, October 4. Visitors will have the opportunity to talk to real scientists and do hands-on activities that they have developed, including:

     

    Laura Proctor of MathWorks – will lead participants in performing numeric sorting of numbers to determine patterns that would be helpful in sorting hundreds of numbers, similar to how a computer might apply an algorithm, or pattern, to finish a task.

    Professor Melissa Kosinski-Collins of Brandeis University – will be exploring how scientists tag molecules in a cell using fluorescent markers. Participants will “search” for hidden items in a cell model.

    Professor Melissa Kosinski-Collins of Brandeis University

    Dr. Sarah Sundelacruz of Tufts University – visitors will explore how scientists grow tissues to help our bodies heal.

    Dr. Jocelyn LeBlanc from Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School – will show how the brain is the most remarkable part of the human body through “tricks” demonstrating the amazing ways the brain can adapt.

    Dr. Dimitra Pouli of Tufts University – will demonstrate the multifaceted nature of light.

    Dr. Mathangi Krishnamurthy of Fitchburg State University – will lead an activity showing how we can affect the speed/rate of chemical reactions, namely decomposition, by using chemical substances called catalysts.

     Suanna Selby Crowley, PhD, RPA of Boston College – will lead several activities exploring the textures, components, and facts about archaeological soils and sediments and how they help tell the story of ancient sites.

    Dr. Casey Wade of Brandeis University – will explore the relationship between chemistry and electricity.

     

    First Friday Nights Free! is an important component of the Museums’ Open Door Connections program, which provides opportunities for those who face a variety of barriers—financial, geographic, developmental, or cultural—to experience the Museums. The program is sponsored by Emerson Hospital with additional support from the local cultural councils of Acton-Boxborough, Billerica, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Harvard, Hudson, Leominster, Lexington, Littleton, Maynard, Waltham, Wayland and Westford.

     

    Collections for Local Food Pantries

    The Discovery Museums will collect non-perishable donations for Open Table of Concord and Maynard and the Acton Food Pantry on Fridays as party of this special family promotion.  Suggested items include peanut butter, canned proteins, coffee, tea, cereal, pasta sauce, juice boxes, jam/jelly, canned vegetables, and baking mixes.

  • Lego Event at Wellesley Books

    Lego Event at Wellesley Books

    Legos with Sean Kenney 

    Wednesday, Sept. 18th @ 2 pm 

    at Wellesley Books, 82 Central Street

    Wellesley 

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    Come flex your LEGO creativity with artist, author, and LEGO certified professional Sean Kenney. He’ll be giving a LEGO demonstration, signing books, and leading young builders in guided play This is a ticketed event and seating is limited. Tickets are $5 per seat and can be purchased on our website, over the phone(781.431.1160) or by stopping into the store.
  • Writing Scary and Suspenseful Stories Workshop for Kids!

    Writing Scary and Suspenseful Stories Workshop for Kids!

    Ghosts, Ghouls & Gangsters

    Writing Scary and Suspenseful Stories Workshop for kids!
    Saturday, Sept. 14th @ 3:30 pm

    at Wellesley Books

    82 Central Street, Wellesley, MA

     

    Join a terrific trio of local authors — Erin Dionne, A.J. Paquette, and Ellen Booraem — as they discuss the craft elements writing suspenseful scenes. Come prepared to write at the edge of your seat!  Please RSVP to kidevents@wellesleybooks.com to help us plan!

  • Celebrating Reading Fundamentals For International Literacy Day Today

    Celebrating Reading Fundamentals For International Literacy Day Today

    To celebrate International Literacy Day today, Learning Touch’s three most popular apps are be on sale for $0.99 each.

    First Words Deluxe (normally $4.99)

    first words deluxe app for kids

    First Words Animals (normally $1.99)

    First Words Animals app for kids,Words That Go With Richard Scarry’s Busytown Cars (normally $1.99)

    Words That Go With Richard Scarry's Busytown Cars

    Words That Go with Richard Scarry’s Busytown Cars provides kids with a silly way to learn how letters combine to make words. Featuring the wacky vehicles from Richard Scarry’s classic children’s books including the Toothpaste car, Crayon car and Apple Van, the app sparks children’s imaginations.

    This two day only sale is great opportunity for parents and educators to purchase high quality, early literacy apps for their kids and students. The sale will begin at midnight on September 8 and end at 11:59pm on September 9.

    With over 1 million downloads, Learning Touch’s First Words series of apps uses the process of spelling preschool friendly words to teach letter recognition, letter ordering and word recognition all of which are fundamental early literacy skills.

  • Free Admission to The Discovery Museums August 30

    Free Admission to The Discovery Museums August 30

    The Highland Street Foundation Provides Free Admission to

    The Discovery Museums on August 30, 2013

    as part of the 5th Annual Free Fun Fridays Program

    (Newton, MA) – The Highland Street Foundation’s Free Fun Fridays program will offer free admission to The Discovery Museums on Friday, August 30, 2013. This year, a record-breaking 60 venues are participating in Free Fun Fridays, with six cultural venues open free-of-charge each Friday this summer. Free Fun Fridays is a 10-week program, which runs from June 28 – August 30. This is the fifth year of the program.

    Who:                     Any individual or family is invited to attend. (Due to expected crowds, large groups cannot be accommodated on this day.  Please contact The Discovery Museums directly at (978) 264-4200 with questions.)

    What:                   Free Fun Fridays, the annual summer program that opens the doors to some of Massachusetts’ best cultural venues at no cost to visitors.

    When:                 9:00am – 8:30pm; Friday, August 30, 2013

    Where:               The Discovery Museums

      177 Main Street, Acton, MA

    From 10:00am – 7:00pm, the Museums will offer participatory outdoor programs involving paint, yarn, dirt, paper, face paints, bubbles, and more in the event that there is a wait to be admitted to the museums.

    In addition, The Discovery Museums will host will host The U.Fund Dreams Tour from the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority (MEFA), the Commonwealth’s college financing expert, and Fidelity Investments.® Visitors may enter for a chance to win $10,000 for their child’s college education! Kids will have the opportunity to spin the prize wheel for fun giveaways and participate in photo activities.

    For more information about Free Fun Fridays, visit: http://www.highlandstreet.org/programs/free-fun-fridays-2.html and http://discoverymuseums.org/

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  • Boston Children’s Museum Event: Play With Your Food

    Boston Children’s Museum Event: Play With Your Food

    WHAT:

     Ninety percent of kids don’t eat the recommended amount of veggies each day and summer is an ideal time to try a new approach.

    On Saturday, August 17, Boston families can visit the Play with Your Birds Eye Veggies outdoor event at the Boston Children’s Museum, a fun-filled day created to help inspire families to make dinnertime fun for kids and help them eat healthier.

    Parents and kids can pit carrot against broccoli in a wacky, action-packed stationary bike race, create their own silly veggie self-portrait on a plate, and take home a free gift bag with kid-friendly veggie meal ideas.  Families will also have the opportunity to meet and take photos with Nickelodeon characters SpongeBob SquarePants and Dora the Explorer.  T

    his event is part of Birds Eye’s national program led by Jennette McCurdy, star of Nickelodeon’s hit show, Sam and Cat, to Rewrite the Dinnertime Rules.  Attendees will also have the chance to enter onsite to win a trip to Nickelodeon’s Worldwide Day of Play in NYC this fall.

    All families can participate online at BirdsEye.com by submitting photos of how they make veggies fun for a chance to win as well.

    Stop & Shop customers who provide proof of purchase of any one Birds Eye product by showing their Stop & Shop receipt will provide receive 25 percent off museum admission for their entire family.  The discount is only valid on the date of the Birds Eye event, 8/17.

    WHEN:

    Saturday, August 17, 2013, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

    Boston Children's Museum, Play With Your Food

    WHERE:

    Boston Children’s Museum

    308 Congress Street

    Boston, MA 02210

     

  • Newton Free Library Craft for Kids

    Newton Free Library Craft for Kids

    Newton Free Library is hosting a Lantern Making Craft for Kids.

    Where: Newton Free Library

    What: Lantern Making: Glow in the Dark and Tissue Paper Lanterns

    When: Wednesday, August 7, 3:30 pm

    Who: Teens Grades 6-12

    Newton Free Library, Lantern making event

  • Lookout Farm Open Daily Starting Aug 5th

    Lookout Farm Open Daily Starting Aug 5th

    Lookout Farm expands open hours; open daily August 5th, 2013

    The orchards are ripe with delicious peaches and even some early apples.  Beginning August 5th, the farm will be open daily from 10AM until 5PM.

     Additionally, the farm offers a huge children’s play area which includes a large playground, a burlap maze, caterpillar rides, a hay pyramid, a moon bounce, the busy bee learning center and adorable farm animals. Weekends also include face painting and live children’s entertainment.

              What:                A day of family fun awaits at Belkin Family Lookout Farm!

              When:               August 5th, 2013 through the end of October, 2013, 10AM to 5PM daily

             Where:              Belkin Family Lookout Farm, 89 Pleasant Street South, South Natick, MA 01760

    U-Pick Hotline:   508.653.0653

    Fresh peaches and Pristine apples available for  picking now!

    Belkin Family Lookout Farm, Natick MA

     

     

  • Win Trip to Bronx Zoo including 2 Night Stay!

    Win Trip to Bronx Zoo including 2 Night Stay!

    Animal lovers, unite!  This week is National Zoo Keeper Week, a national tribute to recognize Zoo keepers, aquarists, and the animal care professionals in our nation’s zoological parks and aquariums.

    To celebrate, The Wildlife Conservation Society Bronx Zoo is hosting an exciting sweepstakes, which you can enter here!  We thought you might like to enter and share it with your readers.

    The Grand Prize is a New York City weekend, which includes a seriously fabulous itinerary:

    • A 2-night hotel stay  
    • VIP tour of the Bronx Zoo
    • Tickets to Broadway’s The Lion King
    • Dinner at a premiere Southern-style barbecue restaurant

    You can enter the sweeps at Bronxzoo.com/sweeps. Six runners-up will also receive amazing prizes. I’ve pasted the full prizing details at the end of this email for your reference. The sweepstakes has just begun, and will run until August 15, 2013.

    win trip to Bronz Zoo

  • Garden City Boys Summer Lacrosse Camp

    Garden City Boys Summer Lacrosse Camp

    Newton Garden City

    2013 Boys Lacrosse Camp

    July 22nd – July 26th

    July 29th  – August 2nd

    Newton North High School

    $275/5 Days 9am-3pm

    www.newtonsummerschool.com

    The off-season is the best time to improve your game for the spring season!!

    The Newton Garden City Lacrosse Camp is an “Instructional Camp” that represents one of the best ways to improve your overall skills as a well-rounded lacrosse player. At our camp you will get the chance to play games but more focus will be placed on drills, skills, rules and strategies, which are so important toward the development of a complete lacrosse player. Our staff will focus on individual skills based on the player’s position and skill level and will also provide instruction on the team aspects of the game. The Garden City Lacrosse Camp is designed to make the camper an improved individual lacrosse player and teach him how to become more effective as an integral member of his hometown team. Players will also get the chance to put their newly improved skills to use through the playing of games.

    Our camp enrollment is limited in order to keep player to coach ratio at a level that allows the coaches to get multiple exposures to each of the players. This small group setting will cover many important facets of the game such as shooting, dodging, defense, face-off and the transition game. Our daily sessions are up-tempo and are recommended for those players looking to improve these aspects of their game.

    The Garden City Lacrosse Camp will challenge campers to maximize their athletic potential while encouraging them to go above and beyond their “comfort” level and open their minds to learning new techniques and exercising new drills. As players mature, we want them to become “students of the game” while developing their character and self-confidence. Our goals are to teach and instruct, but also and more importantly, to provide a fun and exciting atmosphere at camp. If you’re up for the challenge, go towww.newtonsummerschool.com (navigate to sports camps @ top of page, then scroll down to boys lacrosse-session 1 & 2) and register for camp. You will not regret it!!! Contact Bussy Adam with any additional questions attigerlax34@verizon.net.

    Garden City boys lacrosse camp, Newton MA