It takes a village
Posted in Children: Preschool on Aug 3rd, 2009
My love for Agassiz Preschool, a cooperative preschool with a loyal alumni following and dedicated staff and curent parents, is deep and lasting (in case you missed a past blog on it check it out). I tend to gush a bit about it, so please bear with me!
Agassiz has unexpected (people move, I know) openings […]
Posted in Children: Entertainment on Jul 23rd, 2009
TIMEOUT NY has called Jose Conde y Ola Fresca “One of New York’s most important Afro Cuban voices.” This weekend The Jose Conde Band performs Baby Loves Salsa, a jimmying, wiggling, fun time for young kids and adults!
Conceived as a way to introduce kids to the joys of Afro-Latin music and to bilingual English-Spanish songs, […]
Posted in Children: Outings and Adventures, Grown-Ups: Entertainment on May 12th, 2009
If there is something I love more than the Spring Garden Tours, it is the biking tours. This May, both Cambridge and Somerville are hosting their annual Spring Tour. Last fall my then 6 year old son and I made it to the Somerville Tour, he attached to me on our new trail-a-bike. It was […]
Posted in Grown-Ups: Entertainment on Mar 31st, 2009
SAVE THE DATE: THURS. MAY 21, 6:30-9PM
Agassiz Preschool mom and inspiring singer-songwriter Jennifer Kimball and her band (including Agassiz dad Billy Beard!) will play a benefit concert for the preschool at
the Lizard Lounge on May 21st. As many of you may know, Agassiz has been at its present location on the corner of Mass Ave […]
Posted in Children: Camps and Classes on Mar 3rd, 2009
It’s not even officially Spring, but my friends assure me that the summer camps are filling up. I can’t figure out whether that’s true because parents are way more organized than I am, or because demand is high and options are few. Since there are so many kinds of camps–ones organized by the […]
Posted in Children: Entertainment on Jan 18th, 2009
The weather outside may be frightful today, but the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra is offering a concert that’s worth braving the elements for: their FREE Annual Family Concert for kids 12 and under! You can look forward to the William Tell Overture Overture, Sleeping Beauty Waltz, and the Story of Barbar the Elephant with Ray Brown […]
Posted in Children: Entertainment, Grown-Ups: Entertainment on Dec 22nd, 2008
So now that we have a TON of snow, and a twelve-day winter school break around the corner, what do we do? Get outside and PLAY! Here are the places I like to go sledding with the kids:
Tufts main campus in Somerville (on Professor’s Row). It has a long sweet hill, with […]
Posted in Responsible citizens on Nov 17th, 2008
You heard it… Businessweek decided to recommend a city in every state as the best, and then include two runners-up, so technically, Cambridge and Weymouth are actually runners-up while Malden took the prize. Still, we’ll take what we can get!
Their criteria limited them to towns with at least 50,000 residents, and median family incomes of […]
Posted in Children: Camps and Classes on Nov 15th, 2008
I’ve already raved about Checka Antifonario’s yoga classes for kids in the comfort of your own home! Now Checka is offering a group class for kids ages 5-7 on Fridays at 4pm at Yoga in the Square, in Davis Square (249 Elm Street).
Checka says it best: “Children are natural yogis; they have […]
Posted in Children: Health on Nov 7th, 2008
Suzy Feinber, from the Cambridge Public Health Department, recently found our blog and is going to let us know about important health happenings in the area.
The Cambridge Public Health Dept. is hosting a “family friendly” flu clinic on Saturday, Nov. 8th at the Tobin School, located at 197 Vassal Lane near the intersection […]
Posted in Children: Entertainment on Oct 23rd, 2008
My kids play dress up every day, so Halloween is icing on the cake! They seem even more into the holiday this year, so I set out to find some free, fun and local ideas. Here are a few…
Somerville’s annual Halloween Stroll on Sunday, October 26th takes our costumed wonders from Statue Park […]
Posted in Children: Elementary School, Children: Entertainment, Children: High School, Grown-Ups: Entertainment on Oct 9th, 2008
David Macaulay, the author and illustrator of the classic “The Way Things Work” and his new book “The Way We Work”, will be speaking at Porters Square books this Friday 10/10 at 3 pm. I had a copy of his classic from when I was in college, but my son has since taken it […]
