Category: Activities for Kids

Activities for children in Newton, Massachusetts.

Valeo Futbol Goalkeeping High School/College Prep Clinic
Valeo Futbol Goalkeeping High School/College Prep Clinic

Date: Aug 15th-18th (M-Th)

Time: 5-7pm

Age: U14 & Up

Cost: Valeo GKs $180

Where: 125 Wells Ave, Newton, MA

This clinic is specifically designed for further advancing goalkeeping skills and goalkeeping tactical awareness needed for advanced play in goal. While working on advanced level technical drills, goalkeepers will also learn the concept of the 3-goal situation and the proper organization on set
plays, including properly setting up the wall and using the right goalkeeping terminology. Each session will end with goalkeeper-specific fitness exercises designed to build strengths, speed and agility.

Clinic’s Highlights:
- Advanced Handling
- Advanced Diving to Save
- Angle Play & Positioning
- Advanced Dealing with Breakaways
- Dealing with Crosses with Traffic
- Set-play Organization
- 3-goal Situation
- Back-to-Crossbar Recovery
- Back-Pass Option & Distribution
- Plyometric, Resistance, Agility Exercises
- Analytical Session
Questions?

Contact coach Vasily- vasily@valeofc.com
July 20, 2016
Circus Smirkus Performing at Gore Place in Waltham

Circus Smirkus proudly presents the 2016 Big Top Tour: Up, HUP and Away: The Invention of Flight! Come see this award-winning, international traveling youth circus where kids aged 11 to 18 are the stars…featured in aerial acts, high-wire, rolla-bolla, clowning, juggling and so much more! This is the circus featured on the Disney Channel, the circus that The New York Times called “exuberant” and “joyful.”

Circus Smirkus will be at Gore Place in Waltham July 22 – 25 (as well as in Sandwich, Northampton, and Newbury at other times during the summer). For times and tickets visit smirkus.org or call 1-877-SMIRKUS (1-877-764-7587).

Boston-area trouper bios
Chase Levy
Age: 15
From: Newton, Massachusetts
Years on Tour: 1st Year Trouper
Favorite Invention: Telescope
Training: NECCA, Smirkus Camp, Esh Circus Arts, Cambridge Community Gymnastics
When he’s not juggling or flipping people in the air, you can find Chase exploring the world with his trusty camera. Chase holds out hope that he can train his two dogs as circus dogs! He could not be more excited to share his smiles and skills this summer.

Eva Lou Rhinelander
Age: 11
From: Melrose, Massachusetts
Years on Tour: 1st Year Trouper
Favorite Invention: 3D Doodler
Training: Esh Circus Arts, Aircraft Aerials, Elevation Aerial & Circus Arts
Eva is thrilled to be making her touring debut with Smirkus this summer! Eva is learning Rhythmic Gymnastics which combines her love of dance and hooping with gymnastics and other props. When she’s not hooping, you’ll find her playing with her pug or solving math problems. She also loves unicorns.

Ripley Burns
Age: 18
From: Cambridge, Massachusetts
Years on Tour: 3rd Year Trouper
Favorite Invention: Escalators & Tape
Training: Esh Circus Arts, Aircraft Aerial Arts, NECCA, Smirkus Camp
The only thing Ripley loves more than circus is Smirkus. When she isn’t circusing or smirkusing she loves reading, eating, doodling, and wandering. This fall, Ripley will continue her circus education at École de cirque de Quebec.

July 13, 2016
Watch Ice Age: Collision Course! FREE

Ice Age Family Fun at Showcase Cinema de Lux Revere!

Bring the whole family to celebrate ‘Ice Age: Collision Course’ in theatres July 22!

WHAT: On Sunday, July 10^th, Showcase Cinema de Lux Revere will be celebrating in anticipation of the fifth movie of the Ice Age series, Ice Age: Collision Course! Bring the whole family for a day of fun: meet the beloved character Scrat, enjoy face painting, balloon twisting, crafts, airbrush tattoos and movie goodies!

WHEN:                       Sunday, July 10, 12 p.m. – 4 p.m.

ADMISSION:             FREE

WHERE:                     Showcase Cinema de Lux Revere

565 Squire Rd

Revere, MA

FOR TICKETS
AND SHOWTIMES:     Visit http://www.showcasecinemas.com/

July 8, 2016
Valeo FC Summer Camp 2016 – Register Now!

Valeo FC Summer Camp 2016 – Register here!

SPOTS FILL UP QUICKLY! SIGN UP NOW!!

July 6, 2016
Fun Free Friday at Museum of Fine Arts

The Family Art Cart is open at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on Wednesdays, Saturdays, and Sundays, from 10am to 4pm.

There are art cards that you can check out.

You can also borrow a Family Activity Tote with sketch book and colored pencils.

There are also hands on art related activities on the cart like this Van Gogh puzzle. The Family Art Cart will be available on the MFA’s Fun Free Friday, this Friday, July 8th.

If you go to the MFA on a day that the Family Art Cart is not available, there are MFA Family Programs available during regular museum hours.

Use the Passports, art cards, and My Contemporary Sketchbook to go on a scavenger hunt throughout the museum.

There are also MFA Playdates held the first and third Monday from 10:15 to 11:15 am. It’s free with museum admission and great for children ages 4 and under with their caregivers.

For a full schedule of Fun Free Fridays this summer, please go here.

July 5, 2016
Learn to Row: 9 Years Old and Up at CRI

For the first time, CRI is offering classes for kids aged 9 and up, in sculling boats that are the right size for very young people! The new location on the Upper Charles offers a protected setting for rowers of all ages, and we have established programs for people from age 9 to 90. At the Harry Parker Boathouse, kids aged 12 and up are welcome, but we have reserved this new stretch of the Charles River above the Watertown Damn for smaller sculling classes focused on young people.

CRI is also offering a Parent Child option for the first time. On Saturday mornings throughout the summer, we invite you and your son or daughter to come and scull together at the new Stoller Boathouse. The classes are appropriate for rowers of all skill levels, and you will have an opportunity to row singles or doubles on the bucolic Upper Charles with an experienced coach providing instruction and guidance.

This amazing new location, the brand new fleet of boats and CRI’s 30 years’ experience of providing safe, fun and healthy activities on the Charles River come together to offer CRIers and the local community the chance to take part in an exciting and healthy sport for the first time. CRI is delighted to partner with Lasell College to open this quiet waterway to the wider CRI Community, offering ‘Rowing for All’ to a much wider audience!

Sign up is available now – go to www.communityrowing.org website and navigate to the CRI Stoller tab on the sign-up page.

July 2, 2016
Valeo Elite Goalkeeper Summer Clinic
Valeo Elite Goalkeeper Summer Clinic

Date: June 20th-23rd (Mon-Thu)

June 27th-30th (Mon-Thu)

July 5th-8th (Tue-Fri)

July 11th-14th (Mon-Thu)

July 18th-21st (Mon-Thu)

July 25th-28th (Mon-Thu)

Time: 9am-12pm for Age 10-12 Half Day $180

12pm-3pm for Age 10-16 Full Day $345

Where: Valeo Sports Center, 125 Wells Ave. Newton, MA

The Valeo Futbol Goalkeeping Clinics are designed to provide goalkeepers of all ages with fun but intense, position-specific training to help each aspiring goalkeeper develop and further advance their skill and knowledge in playing in goal. Goalkeepers will work on technical, tactical and goalkeeper-specific fitness exercises, as well as play fun goalkeeping games that will expose them to game-like situations and ultimately prepare them for game-play.

Clinic’s Highlights:
- Basic to Advanced Handling
- Proper Positioning/Angle Play
- Basic to Advanced Diving
- Dealing with Breakaways
- Dealing with Crosses
- Goalkeeping Terminology
- Distribution
- Fun Goalkeeping Games
Contact: Coach Vasily
Email: vasily@valeofc.com

Click here to register!
June 20, 2016
Boston Bobcats: NEBA Basketball Camp DATES: June 27 – July 1

NEBA Basketball Camp

DATES:June 27 – July 1 (5 Days: Mon-Fri)
AGES: Grades 3-7 Boys & Girls
LOCATION: Newton Bigelow Middle School | 42 Vernon Street | Newton MA 02458

OPTIONS: Players have the option to sign up for all 5 days or just come along for 1 day. For even more flexibility, we are also offering the option to participate in half day or full day sessions as below:

Click here to view camp online – http://bostonbobcats.com/neba-basketball-camp/

FIVE DAY OPTIONS COST

Full Day (9am-3pm) x 4 Days $450

Half Day: Morning (9am-11:30am) x 5 Days $325

Half Day: Afternoon (12pm-3pm) x 5 Days $325

ONE DAY OPTIONS COST

Full Day (9am-3pm) x 1 Day $95

Half Day: Morning (9am-11:30am) x 1 Day $60

Half Day: Afternoon (12pm-3pm) x 1 Day $60

Join NEBA Director Tyson Tyler and Cary Herer and Dwayne Powell for 5 days of action-packed basketball at the Bigelow Middle School before leaving for your summer vacations.

Each day, players will be guided through a progressive curriculum of fun and challenging skill building drills and exercises designed to improve their ball skills, confidence and decision making on the court.

June 18, 2016
Theatre Pre-College Scholarship at Marist College

Summer Pre-College Program
Scholarship Opportunity

This is one of those opportunities I want to pass along to you because it’s a good one and I’m not getting paid to promote anything.

As you may know, my daughter Morgan attended the Summer Pre-College program last year at Marist College. The course was such a positive experience for Morgan, our family has maintained close communication with Marist ever since. I was recently notified that they still have a couple spots left in their Theatre Pre-College course, starting on June 26th so, thanks to our relationship, Marist has given me the opportunity to promote a handful of half tuition scholarship to listeners of MomTalk Radio!

This course offers high school students the opportunity to “test-drive” a college theatre course while living on campus for two weeks. Upon successful completion of the Summer Theatre Institute, each student earns three transferrable college credits for the Marist course ENG 150 Introduction to Theatre. The program also includes seeing live theatre, both locally and with a trip to Broadway with a backstage tour (last summer’s Theatre Institute toured “The Book of Mormon” and had a private talk-back with the cast of “Jersey Boys”.) Best of all, they keep their program small so that the student’s experience is an intimate and rewarding one.

I really don’t want these scholarships to go to waste so please feel free to pass it along to a mom who might have a child who is interested.

If you are interested in learning more, contact program director, Brian Apfel (mention my name) at 845.575.3996 or precollege@marist.edu

Program Website | Video | Printable Brochure

Best of luck,

Maria Bailey

June 17, 2016
LexFarm Summer Programs for Kids

LexFarm‘s summer programs are now open for registration. This summer we are offering:

Story Hour on the Farm: Join us on the farm for a morning of stories, crafts, and a visit to our neighboring goat yard!

Dirt Play: Come join us for a morning of digging, making mud-pies and
having fun in the dirt. Meet new friends with some dirt fun– and
learning– on the farm.

Farms Hands: We invite children and their caregiver for a morning of farm work and fun! We will split our time between two important farm
activities – planting our spring plants in the learning garden and caring
for the “farm” animals. Learn more about soil, seeds, plants, goats,
rabbits and chickens … and have fun along the way!

*Soil Scientists*

Dirt Play for big kids? Yep! We will dive into the soil beneath our feet
and learn more about what’s in it, why it’s important, and how its health
plays a vital role in the health of our planet. We will do soil experiments
and investigate just what it means to have “good soil.”

Little Gardeners: Calling all beginner gardeners! Join us on the farm for a morning of gardening. We will talk about seeds, read stories, take care of our garden, meet farm animals, and explore bugs.

See our website for more information and to sign up.

Lexington community farm is a non-profit working farm connecting the
community to locally grown food and sustainable practices while preserving
historic farmland.

June 16, 2016