.... .... " Septemher 7, 2007 3 ~ 'Countdown to K' calms • dergarten nerves • By Richard Cherecwlch STAFF WRITER • • Even though the first day of school isn't until Sept. 10, Julia Weeks, clad in a bright yellow T­ Prirt and a red plastic firefighter eJmet, could hardly contain her ~nthusiasm . : ''I'm going to real kinder­ ~arten," she said, flashing a snlile whiJe walking with her mother, Elisabeth. And what about "real kinder­ garten" (1(2) has Julia so excited? • ''[' m excited to get homework &gam," she said : Julia was one of dozens of All­ ston-Brighton kindergarteners who, along with their parents, turned out for Boston Public School's Countdown to Kinder­ garu,n event in Oak Square on Jb.ursdsy, Aug. 30. While not every chiJd shared Julia's enthusi­ asm for homeworlc, they aU shared Inliles as they listened to stories in !he FaneuiJ Branch Ubrary, Je~ey Berganza, 6, tJIed on .. oxypn m_ at the Oak Square ftr. station durtng t limhed into a fire truck at the fire­ KIndergarten eyent _ 'ThundIIy. bouse, hopped on the moon lies dlat haven't of us." bounce and colored outside the ctarl to nearly 50 knee-high clill­ beard Oak Square YMCA. dreh clad in yellow "I'm going to And there were plenty of fami­ "I'm ,*ciited to get l-iniL..... I" T- hirts lies. - chiJdren's room of the li­ • "Starting kindergarten can be ~~'6arten. s . hOl11e1,OII'k again." feally imposing and scary," said "It's a way for the communi Ito brary was packed, and as chiJ­ Jennifer Doyle, president of the get ""hind the kids and say 'we re dren':; librarian Vicky Burr read Presentation School Foundation, ~ed' and 'good luck,'" said "Lori Out Kindergarten, Here [ £Vhich has been raising money to DeE· Snyder, director of Count- Com;" dozens of cJlildren sat on ~uy the old Presentation School do to Kindergarten. stage whiJe others either rum­ usual sponsor WBOH maged through the stacks or clung PHOTO BY MAAK ~ lJuiJding from the Archdiocese of he said, sitting Three-year~ Henry Zhou of Brtghton listened Intentty as librarian • co d not sponsor the entire event, to t1x:ir 11lOIbeos' legs. One even l3oston after fighting long and juice boxes and Vicki Burr read a story durtng an annual Countdown to Kindergarten • offered aloud that she could al­ event at the Faneull Branch Ubrary. • pard for the right to do so. ''With Bo~n schools asked the Preseo­ ''Reading,'' he ul- tati~n School Foundation to ro­ most tie ber shoes, just like the • !his, the chiJdren can see kids and dren going to school for the first anxiety provoking time for chil~ spopsor, much to the organiza- book's protagonist they know them and it's less time. dren - and parents," Rutstein~ ''I ihink it's pbenomenaJ," fe­ scary." ti°Edelight ',[t's fantastic because it's an Lee said. , Countdown to Kindergarten , art of what we're aU about is lice Rutstein-Lee said ''Other kids ~vents are held throughout the city sup . g families in Allston in other school systems don't have ~very year hefore the first day of Brighton," Doyle said. 'This is ~­ anything like this." Her son, Ben­ ~hool and usually draw ahout 25 actJr the kind of thing we exist f?,". jamin, said he was excited for ~hiJdren . This year, the event Theie's a lot of mispej(.e~?n kinde:garten, but he was a little moved from Brighton Center to we're just about saving the school less (ertain about what he was paJc Square and doubled its atten- This is a great way to reach fami- most ':ager to learn. e to hold auditions LANDSCAPING ZamirChor SAN MARINO The Zamir Chorale of Boston, l'America's the ability td sight-read music and previous foremost Jewish choral ensemble," Will hold au­ choral experibc,;. In addition to the audition, LANDSCAPE ditions for aU voice parts on Sunday, Sept. 23, candidates are required to attend open rehearsals CONSTRUCTION CORP from 7-10 p.m. at Hebrew College, l60 Herrick at Hebrew CoI1ege OIl TLlesdays, Sept 1 I and 18, Road, Newton Centre. 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