Reflections from Katie, the Principal
Our Habits of Mind – Those of you who were at School Home Partnership Night in September heard from me about Habits of Mind. Hopefully all of you have heard about these from classroom teachers. Habits of mind are ways we want all of our students to be thinking as they approach any academic task. Learn more >>

Specialists' Reflections
For the 2014-2015 school year, this space will be dedicated to hearing from one of our school specialists. This week, we hear from Angie Uyham, our JK-5 Literary Coach. 
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In Our Community

Pathways to Family Success
Helping Parents Help Their Children Succeed in School    
Do you have a child who is in Kindergarten to 3rd grade? Is English your second language? Do you live in Public Housing or have Section 8, or are on the waitlist for either of them? If you answered yes to all of these questions, then Pathways to Family Success could be for you! Pathways is a program that works with immigrant parents of school age children to better understand the U.S. school system, help support your children’s learning and connect to community resources to help you and your family succeed. For more info or to enroll contact Beth at 617.665.3827. Saturdays 10AM-12:30PM. Sign up now! From October to May. 119 Windsor Street, Cambridge. Educational computer games; parent workshops on understanding US school system; one on one family support; kids get book each week.

North Cambridge Family Opera
AUDITIONS for the Spring 2015 production, Kids Court, will be held next weekend. Saturday & Sunday, 10/25 & 10/26,
1-7PM, BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. TO SCHEDULE AN AUDITION: Phone Heather at 617.719.8311 or email [email protected]. Location: Deborah Mason School of Dance, 624 Somerville Ave, Somerville. Directions at www.familyopera.org. Please visit www.familyopera.org to download music for lead role auditions and for more information. Opera auditions are open to all kids 7 and older. It's also open to their parents and grandparents.

MIT Science on Saturday
The next free Science on Saturday K-12 presentation on the MIT campus will be Optics on November 15th. This show will be presented by the MIT Society of Women Engineers, which has given a large number of K-12 presentations in the Cambridge area and has a lot of great on-stage demonstrations (and clear, simple, non-mathematical explanations) of waves, color, refraction, diffraction, polarization, etc. Student volunteers from the audience will be able to assist with the on-stage demonstrations. After the stage show, there will also be a number of hands-on activity tables where kids can do their own experiments with different aspects of optics. Join us at 10AM on the following Saturdays in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium, 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 20139. Questions? Email [email protected].

Cambridge Family Literacy Fun Day
Saturday, November 1, 2014 | 10:30AM - 2:30PM
For Grades Pre K – 3. Cambridge City Hall, Central Square, 795 Mass Ave., Info. 617.349.6492. FREE. Children’s activities! Free books! Bonaparte the Magician! Show begins at 1:30PM. Sing-a-long, face painting.

Cambridge Children's Chorus
If you can’t go a day without singing Cambridge Children’s Chorus is the place for you! Grades 5-8. Inviting singers from Cambridge and surrounding towns. An exciting opportunity to learn to sing, drum, and read music while making new friends. $50 introductory cost for 1 semester through January for new members. Tuition financial assistance available. Chorus programs offered for 4-15 year olds. Weekly rehearsals on Tuesdays / 5:30-7PM. St. John the Evangelist parish hall, 2254 Mass Ave., No. Cambridge (near #77 MBTA bus stop). Learn more at www.bostoncitysingers.org.