Kindergarten Music Students in the Spotlight
On Saturday, November 19, students from K212 converged at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School to participate in a special demonstration music lesson observed by area music teachers. The event--co-sponsored by the CPS Visual and Performing Arts Department, the Kodály Music Institute, and Boston Area Kodály Educators--was organized as a professional development workshop for practicing music educators. Because of the Baldwin's strong reputation for quality music education, Mr. Epstein was invited to bring K212 to show a model kindergarten music lesson using the Kodály concept. Read on >>



Energy, Force, Motion, and More!
Thank you to parents Kjersti Rosen and Todd Zickler for spearheading an amazing STEM Fair. The STEM Fair was wildly successful due to the incredible efforts of the wonderful parents and students of STEM Club. Everyone was engaged in a wide-array of hands-on activities. Read more >>



STEM Fair
Cup towers, catapult, EJ and 3D printer, roller coasters and string puppets.



A Rewarding Experience
Learning how to ice skate can be a rewarding experience! First grade students in Mr. O'Connor's first grade had a wonderful morning at the Simoni Rink.

Although some students were hesitant at first, many found confidence by the end of the session. Fun Skate is run by Cambridge Human Services Programs Recreation Division Coordinator, Bob Goodwin. He teaches students from schools around Cambridge how to skate. He starts by teaching them how to get up when they fall. Once they get over their fear of falling, sheer persistence is what gets them all skating. When they are ice skating, they are engaging their bodies and improving their minds. It is truly representative of growth mindset, understanding that they are improving constantly, even though they may still fall.



Read Your Heart Out for the Holidays
Winter PopUp Library
Starting on December 16, an exclusive collection of 650 eBooks will be available free to anyone with Internet access — children, families, educators — who would like to browse and read from our broad range of engaging fiction and nonfiction eBooks for children. Learn more >>



Baldwin Garden
From Michele Kaufman, Garden Coordinator
With the help of our students, the garden is asleep for the winter. We pulled up most of the plants, filled up our compost with leaves, covered the perennials with hay to protect them, and planted garlic and winter rye seeds. ?Classrooms may still take advantage of visiting the garden during the winter months. The garden is still an exciting place to explore in the winter: the compost is full and busy with decomposition, the perennials can still be sketched, and the hay offers new spaces to examine.

I will be off for two months, returning after February vacation week. Thank you for the wonderful season.

Looking forward to the spring...

Michele

News from the Library
Jarrett Krosoczka is Coming to Baldwin!
We are pleased to announce that all students at the Baldwin will have the opportunity to meet children’s author/illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka on Tuesday, January 17, 2017. Families will have the opportunity to purchase a book dedicated to their child and signed by the author. Order forms will be sent home soon.

In Our Community
MIT Science on Saturday 
Saturdays (February 4, March 4, April 1, 2017)
Time: Main presentation 10 - 11AM + hands-on activities
11AM - 12noon 
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Shoot Straight Basketball
January 7 - March 10, 2017
Annual instructional basketball program for boys and girls, grades 3 - 6. Learn more >>

Winter Soccer Cambridge Youth Soccer
For Grades 1 - 5
6 weeks of indoor soccer at the MLK School
Saturday, January 7 - February 11
9 - 10:15AM: Grades 1 & 2
10:30 - 11:45AM: Grades 3 - 5
$25 for six weeks or $5 each week. ?Sign up at the gym.
Learn more >>

Dare to take the 2017 Curiosity Challenge ?Are you between the ages of 5 & 14?
Are you curious? Here's your chance. Write an essay or poem, draw or take a pictures about your curiosity and tell us how it prompted you to explore your world. Enter your essay or artwork in the 2017 Curiosity Challenge by submitting it at any Cambridge Public School, Cambridge Public Library branch or by mailing it to: The Curiosity challenge c/o MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02139 by Friday, February 10, 2017. Winners will be honored at the Curiosity Awards at the Cambridge Science Festival on Sunday, April 23, 2017.