Here’s a recap of news and information posted on Hilltown Families this past week, along with a map for finding out what’s happening this weekend and next week throughout Western MA!

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Check out our comprehensive list of summer camps with 70 summer programs in and around western MA from which to choose!

Peruse our list of Suggested Events for July 2nd-8th for a comprehensive list of events happening throughout the four counties of Western MA, including Bulletin Board Announcements, Ongoing Story Hours & Playgroups and the Hilltown Family Variety Show.

Also check our weekly column,  Learn Local. Play Local. for 29 Community-Based Educational Highlights: Contemporary Art to Cemetery Studies. Biology to Theater, and our monthly column, Berkshire Family Fun, for a list of premier educational and cultural highlights in Berkshire County for families.

July 2-8, 2016

Saturday • Sunday
Monday • Tuesday • Wednesday • Thursday • Friday

Fireworks & Parades  ♦ Art Studies ♦ STEM ♦ Rube Goldberg Machines ♦History ♦ Cemetery Walk ♦ Food ♦ Theater ♦ Sports ♦Water Skiing ♦ Music Studies ♦ Percussion ♦Placemaking ♦ Lawn Concerts ♦ Literacy ♦ Immigration Studies ♦ Nature Science ♦ Herpetology ♦ Astronomy ♦ Collaborative Consumption

RECAP

• Visual Art in Western MA: July Openings, Closings & Calls for Art
• The Good Life: Reaching Makes a Bridge
• Invasive Species an Unlikely Catalyst for Community-Based Learning
• Handbill & Callboard: Theater Studies Through Engagement in Western MA for July
• Summer Supports Interest-Based Learning
• Writing Contest Encourages Community Story Sharing
• HFVS Fun in the Sun Episode with Guest DJ, Jason Didner (Radio Show/Podcast)
• 2016 Fourth of July Celebrations & Fireworks in Western Massachusetts

FIVE FROM THE ARCHIVES

1. Time to Talk: 11 Apps to Support Children’s Language Skills
2. Pressing Plants and Flowers Supports Summer Learning & Memories
3. Literary Guide for Lois Lowry’s “Gathering Blue”
4. Under the Hat: Counting and Key Changes
5. Hindsight Parenting: The Bumpy Inconsistent Emotional Journey of Parenthood

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• Sustainability Bulletin Board
• Theater Bulletin Board
• Visual Art Bulletin Board

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• Community Suggested Camps
• Community Suggested Classes

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