Beverly

Author Jarrett Krosoczka will visit Glen Urquhart School in Beverly on Wednesday, February 24, 2016. Jarrett has been a storyteller since the ripe age of eight, when he wrote his first book, The Owl Who Thought He Was The Best Flyer, about an owl who challenged Hermes to a flying race. Since that rather promising start, Krosoczka has published 18 picture books and graphic novels for children, including the much-loved Lunch Lady series, which is a two-time winner of the Children's Choice Book Award. Krosoczka hosts The Book Report with JJK on Sirius XM's Kids Place Live, a radio show about books aimed at kids 10 and younger. In 2010, he founded the Joseph and Shirley Krosoczka Memorial Youth Scholarships at Worcester Art Museum, to fund classes for young and underprivileged aspiring artists.

All are invited to join Shore Country Day School in the Center for Creativity this Saturday, February 6, 2016 from 9 - 10:30 a.m. at our "Saturday Studio," a morning of science, art, and storytelling for children ages 4 - 7.

Free and open to the public! RSVP by calling 978-927-1700 x207, or by e-mailing lcarey@shoreschool.org.

Besides being the time for New Year's resolutions and new starts of all kinds, January is also the month for independent school open houses on Boston's North Shore. Every year at the end of January, Shore stages its own Winter Open House.

Join The Trustees of Reservations, the Waldorf School at Moraine Farm, and Project Adventure, Inc for a fun day of activities for Trails & Sails! The festival offers tours, kid-friendly fun, farm animals, lectures, homemade goodies and storytelling activities sponsored by the six non-profit organizations that own and manage the 170-acre farm. Moraine Farm is permanently protected conservation land along the shores of Wenham Lake that includes meadows, woodlands and formal gardens as well as farmland. The landscape was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1880s and its woodlands are studded with mature rhododendron stands and azaleas.