Activities for children in Newton, Massachusetts.
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!
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 Animals (normally $1.99)
Words That Go With Richard Scarry’s Busytown Cars (normally $1.99)
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.
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
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/
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.
WHERE:
Boston Children’s Museum
308 Congress Street
Boston, MA 02210
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
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!
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:
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.
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.
The Discovery Museums have opened a new exhibit, AirPlay, inside the Children’s Discovery Museum. The new interactive exhibit allows young children to explore the properties of the natural world around them by playing with moving air, feeling the invisible forces of wind, and using air currents to make objects behave in fun and surprising ways.
The exhibit consists of several components that move air and allow children to engage with it through hands-on interactions. At Twisty Tubes, visitors release balls and fabric into large clear tubes that pull the items through coiled channels and along straight pathways.
At the Air Table visitors use air flow tubes to move objects, such as ping pong balls or small sailboats, across the surface or around obstacles. A Shimmery Wall displays small reflective pieces that move freely when air is blown at or across them, highlighting different airflow patterns. In the mirrored Windy Corner visitors feel and see the results of the wind blowing on them as their clothing, hair, capes, or streamers flutter and fly.
AirPlay was developed by The Discovery Museums’ educators in consultation with museum colleagues and exhibit professionals in the Exhibit Lab collaborative funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Part of this process involved visitors testing prototypes of these exhibits as they were being developed and making changes to improve design elements and to encourage family learning opportunities.
A series of programs related to air will take place on Tuesdays in July and August. “AirPlay Tuesdays” programs are scheduled from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm and feature activities such as kite building, sail cars, stomp rockets, and more. See discoverymuseums.org for a detailed program schedule of activities
The new AirPlay exhibit and program series are sponsored by MEFA’s U.Fund and Fidelity Investments.
1) There are lots of options for summer soccer with Be Ahead of the Game!
And many summer camp options as well.
Please visit www.beaheadofthegame.com for more details and to register.
2) Garden City Soccer Camp also has a few spots open. It combines swimming and soccer at Newton North High School.
For more information, contact Brian Rooney at brian_rooney@newton.k12.ma.us or 617-559-6238.
