It’s not too late to join a class at Top Banana! If you want your child to attend a program that builds their confidence, allows them to have fun and meet new friends, all while learning- this is the program for you! They are offering classes that include: Computer Science, Math, SSAT/ISEE Test Preparation, Math Kangaroo Preparation/Competitive Math Club and English!
Visit the website www.topbananaeducation.org or call 617- 795-1557 for more information.
Amid the synthetic drums, the parachute pants, the Sony Walkmans, the MTV videos and the aliens phoning home, a number of beautiful songs were written that stand the test of time. Now the Newton Family Singers will rock the house with music that Gen Xers (and those who love them) will remember well — hits from The Talking Heads, The Go-Go’s, Journey, R.E.M. and more.
Come along and enjoy songs of love, existentialism, environmentalism and just plain fun. With new choral arrangements by our music director, Chris Eastburn, NFS remakes the familiar for old and new fans alike. Bring your family and sing along! Tickets are available online at www.newtonfamilysingers.org. For questions please email ne**************@***il.com.
The Newton Family Singers are an intergenerational ensemble celebrating family, community, and American folk music (usually!).
November 17th, 4:00 pm
Newton Highlands Congregational Church
54 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands
Watertown Children’s Theatre’s Black Box series presents Macbeth in the Black Box Theater at the Arsenal Center for the Arts in Watertown. Performers will bring to life all of the “Double, double toil and trouble” set forth in this unique adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. Witches, a ghost, secrets, murder and lies push Macbeth towards the throne of Scotland. Will he succeed or will greed and guilt overcome him?
A cast of 6th-9th graders, including Newton’s own Liam Walsh explore the themes and words of Shakespeare in this adapted production. Come and experience the results of Macbeth’s gradual, insatiable descent into blind ambition. This production contains recorded gunfire, stage combat, and spooky imagery, and is not recommended for audience members under age 10.
General admission tickets are $10 and are now available on WCT’s website at www.watertownchildrenstheatre.org or by calling 1-800-838-3006. For more information, visit WCT’s website or call 617-926-ARTS.
October 25th at 7:00 pm, October 26th at 1:00 pm and 7:00 pm, and October 27th at 1:00 pm
This winter, The Chyten Center in Newton is offering a wide variety of experiential learning programs on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. In the Saturday morning “Imagination Authors” program, Chyten students design a fantasy world with imaginative characters, plot, settings, conflict and resolution. Working together, they then actually write and publish their own book!
Also on Saturdays, students in the “Career Time” class play the role of doctor, lawyer, architect, journalist, scientist and mayor.
On Sundays, students are young entrepreneurs as they start with the germ of an idea for a business and take it through the entire entrepreneurial process in the Shark Tank Jr. program. On Sunday afternoon, students create and manage their own fictional baseball team. In doing so, they learn invaluable math lessons that include fractions, decimals, operations, pre-algebra, geometry and more!
For more information, go to TheChytenCenter.com/ESTEEM or call 617-559-9931 and ask for Education Director Matt Bowling.
THESE SHINING LIVES by Melanie Marnich. These Shining Lives chronicles the strength and determination of women considered expendable. It explores the true story of their employment at the Radium Dial company in the 1920’s, which cared more about profits than their employees’ safety. Catherine and her friends are dying, it’s true; but theirs is a story of survival in its most transcendent sense, as they refuse to allow the company that stole their health to kill their spirits—or endanger the lives of those who come after them.
Tickets $7.00 at http://theatreink.net, or Ad********@***********ma.us 617-559-6300
October 31st – November 3rd at 7:30
Performing Arts Center, Newton North HS
457 Walnut Street
From October 21st through November 2nd, SalonCapri in Newton Highlands will donate 10% of the cost of the service to the Newton public school of the client’s choice.
The owners of SalonCapri, Nick and Amy Penna, have been long-time residents of Newton and are raising their children in the Newton Public School System. They take pride in their community and want do what they can to give back.
Announcing a Five-Week “Parenting-Well” group for parents of adopted teens! Special topic: Taking The Sting Out Of Setting Limits.
In this group of up to eight (to ensure individualized attention) adoptive parents, you will talk about:
Thursdays, 10:15 – 11:30 starting November 7th
Location: 17 Lincoln St., Newton Highlands, MA 02461
Fee is a one-time payment of $250, payable online at http://www.adoptiontherapyma.com/upcoming-adoptive-parents/
Katie Jae Naftzger, LICSW sees a mix of adopted and non-adopted families and individuals in her private practice in Newton Highlands. Katie has presented workshops at Children’s Hospital, Boston, Wide Horizons, Adoptive Families Together, and others. Katie is also a wife and mother and has experienced the challenges of parenting firsthand!
Are you a parent with a daughter in 5th grade who is thinking about private Middle School? If so, please join other parents for a neighborhood coffee to learn more about Dana Hall.
Dana Hall is a private all girls school for grades 6-12, located in Wellesley. This gathering is an opportunity to learn about a terrific option for your daughter’s education. Several Dana Hall parents and staff members will share information and answer questions.
Date: November 6th
Time: 8:45 – 9:45 AM
Location: 34 Bradford Road, Newton
RSVP If You Plan To Attend: li****************@***il.com
Friday, November 15th, 5:00-6:00 pm or Saturday, November 16th, 10:00-11:00 am at Lasell College. Girls and boys, entry ages 1st – 5th grades.
$79 per 7-Week Session. For more information, please see kids-karate.org or leave a message at 617-527-8052.