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March 8
5th Grade CAS Program
9:30 am
March 9 Full Day Kindergarten Task Force Meeting 3:30 pm PTO Meeting 7:00 pm
March 13
World Culture Festival
2-4:30pm
March 16
Burr Book Swap
March 18
Chateau Night
5-8 pm
March 23, Tues.
3:00 day
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Volunteer
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Juice Pouch Recycling
Understanding Our Differences
World Cultures Festival
May Fair
Annual Book Swap
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| PTO Meeting Tuesday March 9th |
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| Building Community: What is inclusion?
Panel Presentation by NPS Parents Sheilarae Lau, Joan Schulz, Shaul Berechman, Carole Slipowitz and Erika Drezner
Hear their stories as parents of children with learning and other
differences. What does it mean when your child has a diagnosis or when s/he doesn't? What do you tell to whom and how? How do you fit into the school community? We hope you will join us. |
Time is running out...for the
ANNUAL BURR BOOK SWAP on March 16th. |
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You have one more week to send your gently used children's and youth books to school in a bag MARKED CLEARLY with your child's name and teacher's name. Leave them at the entrance to the classroom in the morning and we will collect them.
OUR LAST COLLECTION DATE WILL BE ON MARCH 15th.
Remember, two books are swapped for one new one. EVERYBODY gets a book, whether they have handed in books or not, and teachers and support teaching staff take their pick once kids are done.
VOLUNTEER HELP APPRECIATED, especially for setting up the swap, staffing it and breaking down.
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LAST TWO Understanding Our Differences Programs:
Chronic Medical Conditions: March 25th
Deafness/Hard of Hearing: April 1st |
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We are looking for parent volunteers to help with the Chronic Medical Conditions unit (4th grade) and the Deafness/Hard of Hearing unit (3rd grade). These programs are brought to Burr by parent volunteers and will take place on Thursday afternoons from 12:45 - 3:00. Parents can leave at 2:15 or stay to see the guest speaker. Volunteers do not need to have children in a specific grade, teaching experience, or a medical background. Please check your calendars and consider volunteering. Can you help out? Contact Us: Carey Ranta: branta1@comcast.net |
Upcoming Creative Arts and Sciences Programs |
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5th Grade
Museum of Science, Weather: Wind, Water and Temperature, Monday, March 8th at 9:30 in the Cafetorium
In this interactive presentation, a presenter from the Museum of Science will demonstrate to the 5th graders how air, water, light and heat interact with each other to create weather. Using sensors that create real-time data, students will learn how different materials on Earth heat and cool. With the help of a model cloud chamber, the presenter will demonstrate how clouds form high in Earth's atmosphere. Finally, students will be amazed to see a hot air balloon lift off inside the school.
Please join us for this wonderful presentation!
Creative Arts and Sciences Programs are fully funded by the Burr PTO and are made possible by your generous donations. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to contact: Mary Sava: jmsava@rcn.com Felicia Falchuk: feliciafalchuk@yahoo.com |
Don't forget Burr night at the Chateau! |
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Be sure to join all your Burr friends at the Chateau Restaurant in Waltham on Thursday, March 18th from 5-8 pm and 20% of your total bill will benefit our school! Just present your Chateau coupon to the waitperson when paying your check. Rather eat in? Order take-out instead - the coupon works either way!
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BURR SCHOOL STORE, the place for school supplies...and more! |
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The Burr School Store sells fun pens and pencils, unique erasers, other school supplies and some novelty items. Prices range from $0.25 to $2.00. The store is open before school every Tuesday 8:20 - 8:35 a.m. Please keep visiting the store, OUR MERCHANDISE IS ALWAYS CHANGING. If you are looking for a special school supply and we do not have it, LET US KNOW! Questions or comments? Contact Diana Londono at susanainny@hotmail.com. Thank you for supporting the Fifth Grade Class! |
| Burr Family Quilt Project |
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Does your family have a quilt square on the lobby bulletin board? Last week, we sent home squares for all Kindergarten families and the families who are new to the school community. If you have never made a square, and want to join the "fabric" please contact Amanda Loftus ab.loftus@verizon.net or Tracy Carter tgunrud@hotmail.com for your square! We hope to have all families on the board by World Culture Day! |
| Blue Zone Buzz |
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Now you can get all your information about the Blue Zone, traffic safety and walking to school in one place!
Go to Burr Safe Routes to School to get all the latest news and updates from the Burr Safe Routes Committee. You can also view and download the Burr Blue Zone Guide and School Zone Map - be sure to print copies for yourself and for anyone else who drops off or picks up your children at school - babysitters, grandparents, friends, etc.
Please check in regularly, even if you've been at Burr "forever" - you may learn something new! |
| BURR GREEN TEAM UPDATE: |
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Great start in the effort to reduce trash, clean up the environment, save money and feed the hungry! We are happy to report that we have reduced our daily trash totals from 7 bags per day to 4. That's a 57% reduction! In just 10 days, we also have re-directed 250 milks, assorted cheese sticks and un-eaten fruit from land-fills to local food pantries. Not a bad start...
A few details:
· Some tables produce NO trash and NO recycling thanks to all the Tupperware, cloth napkins, reusable water bottles, canteens and thermoses in lunch boxes.
· Kids who buy school lunches are actively recycling paper and Styrofoam trays.
· Judging by all the green shirts, hats, sweaters, skirts and hair morale is high!
We have noticed a few things in the cafeteria that as parents concern us...
· About 25 milks a day are never even opened. These are brought to food pantries.
· About 30 are opened and have one obligatory sip taken from them. The rest is dumped out!
· Approximately 15 cheese sticks are tossed daily, and 15 apples have one bite taken or just aren't eaten at all!
So if you can, please try to...
· Talk to your child when ordering lunches. Why buy it, if they are not going to eat it?
· If you pack lunch, ask your child to help you make healthy (and environmentally sound) choices.
· Tell your child to put uneaten food back in their lunch box so they can eat it as a snack later.
· Discuss how not wasting food is good for them and good for the environment!
· Make it fun, get them involved. And don't forget to wear GREEN on Wednesdays!
We need parent volunteers to help us expand our 4-R's program at Burr...
Capri-sun: Help Louisa Hunt with this very successful money raising program which needs additional volunteers to maintain and grow. We'd like to start recycling chip bags as well: http://www.terracycle.net/
Composting: Take our land-fill waste to zero. Help Jessica Avery this spring with a composting program for the garden!
Food-shelter coordinators: Help Diana Fisher-Gomberg and Eric Bobby expand our cafeteria unused food donations by two days per week. We need two more parents to make weekly runs to local food shelters. Please go to http://greendecade.org/events.html for some COOL, FREE & GREEN events happening this month.
We would like to thank all the volunteers and staff members that have helped us get this up and running and for all the kids for participating! |
| Dr. David Fleishman Appointed as new Superintendent |
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| The School Committee voted unanimously on Sunday, February 28th to appoint Dr. David Fleishman as the Superintendent designee pending approval of a site visit to his home district and an agreed upon contract.
Dr. Fleishman is currently the Superintendent of Schools in Chappaqua, NY. Prior to becoming Superintendent in Chappaqua, Dr. Fleishman was Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Wellesley, MA. Before that he was an Assistant Superintendent for Human Resources in Ossining, NY. Dr. Fleishman began his career in education as a teacher in the New York City Public Schools. He holds an Ed.D from Teachers College, Columbia University. Dr. Fleishman will begin his term on July 1, 2010. |
| Cyberbullying Conferences |
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Saturday, March 20 8:30am-1:00pm: Parenting Newton Kids in 2010: Keeping Our Kids Safe and Enhancing Learning in the Digital Age at Brown Middle School. This half day parent conference will feature a keynote presentation by Dr. Elizabeth Englander, Founder and Director of the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center (MARC), as well as Technology and "How To" Clinics, workshops on adolescents and cell phones, special issues of technology and children with special needs and more. RSVP not required.
What is cyberbullying? Cyberbullying and traditional bullying are closely linked. To learn more about what you can do to prevent and intervene with bullying, come to a talk by Dr. Kim Storey on Monday, March 15, 7:00 - 8:30pm: Eyes on Bullying: Practical Tips and Strategies for Parents of Elementary School Aged Children at Mason Rice Elementary School. RSVP not required. |
| April Vacation Soccer Clinic |
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| The BC Lady Eagles Soccer School will be holding their April Vacation clinic for girls ages 6-14 during April 20-23, 9:00am-3:00pm at the BC Newton campus. Come join us for soccer fun and development. Registration may be found at: http://bceagles.cstv.com/camps/bc-w-soccer-camps-april.html |
| Vacation programs and more with Newton Community Education |
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NCE has a variety of exciting and unusual programs coming up for April vacation. Sign up for Marble Machine Madness, Create a TV Show, Engineering with Legos or Painting. Older kids can choose to take our Babysitting Certification class over spring break. We also have openings in some of our ongoing winter classes. Private violin lessons are available at Mason Rice, Bowen and Countryside. For weekend fun, young ones can sign up for Soccer Tots, Play Soccer or our Spring Nature Walk.
Registration has begun for all our summer programs. We have some great new offerings this year, such as Check I.T. Out, Fiber Arts, Engineering Workshop, Sew...What's New and lots more. Plus we have our popular returning favorites like Clay Workshop, Domino Physics, and Club Invention. We have lots for middle school siblings too.
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Do You Want To Show Off Your Talent?
Come show us in Turtle Lane Playhouse's First Annual Youth Talent Contest. |
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| Top Prize Includes a $500 Savings Bond
Auditions Begin March 17th and 18th
Semi Finals are March 20th
Finals are March 27th
Open to all Newton Youth between ages 8- 18. Applications and additional information are available at www.turtlelane.org or call John at 617.244.0169
There is an application fee of $15. You will be contacted within 72 hours of receiving your application with an audition time slot.
Sponsored by: Village Bank, Newton, MA | |
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