Josh and the Jamtones, the Boston-based rock and roll family band, live in concert on January 21st. Prize drawing with cool prizes from Learning Express, MyGym and more up for grabs. All proceeds benefit Temple Shalom Nursery School’s Magic Garden. Concert and prize drawing tickets available online: http://tinyurl.com/TSNursery
January 21st, 10:30 am (MLK Day)
Temple Shalom Nursery School
175 Temple Street, Newton
The next organizational meeting for the Waban Area Council will be held on Thursday, January 24th at 7:30 pm at the Waban Library Center. The Council is looking for interested people’s involvement to keep Waban great.
Everyone is cordially invited to the 45th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Newton Community Celebration.
Temple Beth Avodah
45 Puddingstone Lane in Newton Centre
HONORED GUESTS
Mayor Setti D.Warren
Superintendent of Schools – David Fleishman
Reflections by Newton School Students
Musical Selections by:
Newton All City Treble Singers
Newton North Jubilee Singers
Myrtle Baptist Church’s – The Love Tones
PLEASE BRING non-perishable food items, which are being collected for donation to the Newton Food Pantry.
Convened by the City of Newton, Newton Interfaith Clergy Association, the Newton School Department, and the Foundation for Racial, Ethnic &Religious Harmony
Demystifying Teen Relationships: Working together with our teens to develop safe and healthy dating relationships
An educational community meeting for parents of middle and high school students
Newton South High School
Seasholes Auditorium
Monday February 11, at 7 pm
Don’t miss out on the 4th annual family friendly a-cappella concert, Acappelooza IV, on Saturday, February 2, from 7:30-9:30PM in the Newton North High School auditorium. All proceeds to benefit the Countryside PTO. Featuring Newton North’s Forte, Newton South’s Newtones, the Berklee College of Music’s Pitch Slapped, and Boston’s professional vocal band Ball in the House. Tickets can be purchased here. This show sells out fast so get your tickets early! Contact Anne Kalis with any questions.
Learn about assistive technology tools which support students who struggle with executive function skills. Karen Janowski, an assistive and education technology consultant with Newton Public Schools, will present a variety of technology tools which support skills necessary for school success, from elementary through high school. She will focus on tools for managing executive function skills across the grade spectrum.
Thursday, January 10
7:30 to 9:00 PM
100 Walnut Street (Rm 210) in Newtonville
Karen writes: “As an Assistive & Educational Technology Consult
ant, my passion is to remove the obstacles to learning for all students. It is important to make the curriculum accessible to all learners and provide opportunities for struggling learners to demonstrate what they know using principles of universal design.” Karen writes a blog.
Newton Parent Advisory Council (NewtonPAC) for Special Education meetings are free and open to all people interested in learning more about special education.
Join us! Questions, contact Newton PAC by email.
ASK THE ARCHIVIST
Sunday, January 13, noon-5:00 PM
Need help organizing or preserving your family photos and papers? Drop in for a brief, on-the-spot consultation with Archivist and Curator Sara Goldberg. Sara will provide advice and resources that will help keep your precious collections alive and well. (Please feel free to bring samples, but NOT whole collections, of things you’d like help with.) Free and open to the public.
HISTORIC NEWTON BOOK CLUB MEETING
Thursday, January 31, 7:30 PM
This month’s book club selection is Stayin’ Alive: The 1970′s and the
Last Days of the Working Class by Jefferson Cowie. The author has written a wide ranging political, cultural and economic history which examines the 1970′s as a crucial, pivotal era that transitioned America from the New Deal (with its large, optimistic middle class) to the dampened expectations of the 1980′s and into the present. Cowie captures nothing less than the defining characteristics of the 70′s decade. The book club is free and open to the public. New members are always welcome.
For more information about these and many other offerings, visit the Historic Newton website.
All Newton Public School parents are invited to a joint NSHS School Council/PTSO meeting in the Newton South Lecture Hall, January 8 at 7PM.
Claire Sokoloff, Margie Ross-Decter, and Steve Siegel will be there to hear parent concerns and answer any questions about the most pressing issues facing the Newton Public Schools, including enrollment growth and space issues as well as the upcoming override vote on Ma
rch 12.
Please feel free to submit any questions in advance to Robin Maltz via email. Details and information about the override is available on the city’s website.
The meeting is part of an outreach tour to meet with parents at every school in the district, at least once per year.
The Newton Community Preservation Committee’s meeting on Thursday, January 10, at 7 pm in City Hall Room 222 will include a public hearing on further funding for Newton’s long-running Homebuyer Assistance Program.The Healthy Way Diet: New Vid = Massive Conversion Boost
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The full meeting agenda and full text of the proposal are online at the CPA website. Or contact Alice Ingerson by email or phone: 617.796.1144.
Don’t miss out on the 4th annual family friendly a-cappella concert, Acappelooza IV, on Saturday, February 2, 2013 from 7:30-9:30 p.m. at the Newton North High School auditorium. All proceeds go to the Countryside PTO.
Featuring Newton North’s Forte, Newton South’s Newtones, the Berklee College of Music’s P
itch Slapped, and Boston’s professional vocal band Ball in the House. Tickets can be purchased at the SeatYourself website.
The show always sells out fast, so get your tickets early! Contact Anne K. at annekalis