Dear Parents,
This is such a busy time of the year, from Conferences to Mother’s Day Tea, followed by Donuts with Dads, and last but not least, our last-day-of-school celebration. Before I share with you about our most recent celebration for moms, I’d like to take a moment to thank everyone for managing to schedule a conference with Ms. Anisa and me – to give us the opportunity to share about the progress of your fantastic children. Conference days are very special for us teachers as we always feel so good and excited to share about the many milestones that your children have crossed during their time in the Primary Studio. It also means to world to hear about the progress that you the parents see at home. So thank you again for joining us on a special day that means so much to us.
Classroom Lessons & Activities
It was great to have the opportunity to share with you some very recent photos of your little ones staying busy in the studio, including what your child has personally been working on. We continue to practice many lessons in all subject areas, and we hope to share some more photos and recent lesson information with you as soon as we have some time after next week’s celebration for dads.
For now, I would like to dedicate this blog post to the moms and focus on Friday’s celebration, so that you can reflect on your special day with your little ones. Thanks for all you do!
Prepping for the Mother’s Day Celebration
The Performance Song
Your children have been practicing the song, “Feeling Good,” by Michaele Bublé with Ms. Anisa for many weeks up to this event, along with sign language to go along with it. We are huge fans of ASL for children and find it not only to be a unique way to communicate, it is also a beautiful form of art and expression that we could all benefit from. And just to mention, simple ASL is being practiced heavily in our ones studio where many of those students are using signs before they have words. I find my own daughter, a student of our ones class, using simple signs – even as she has learned to speak the word. The sign serves as a form of body language to get her point across while verbalizing. When it comes to the Primary Studio, your students actually seem to learn the words to a new song even faster when signs are added. At this age, many children are visual learners, and though some of of our students were a little shy to sing and sign during their little recital yesterday, we assure you that they have all been confidently practicing the words and signs during class hours 🙂
Dreamcatchers for Moms
Over the past two weeks, our students have been going off into small groups with me to make beautiful dreamcatchers for their moms. They had so much fun making webs, picking from a variety of gorgeous beads, and threading the beads. I was simply there to support them and help to tighten strings and tie some knots as they chose which ribbons and beads that they thought their moms would appreciate. I heard lots of conversation amongst each group over bead choices and patterns, along with many thoughtful comments such as, “my mom will like this green lace,” and “my mom likes shiny things,” and so on. They were so excited about the finished product, and couldn’t wait to give their precious gifts to each and every one of you.
Lessons about Moms
As we mentioned to all of you during our conferences, we have been talking a lot about empathy, and we continue to further our discussions on the topic. We recently focused primarily on showing empathy towards you, dear moms, as we reflected on all you do for your little ones. We gave meaning to the dreamcatchers as we dove deep into what we thought makes our own moms happy, and your children learned that moms have dreams and goals, too – whether or not our moms have had time for them. We talked about how we can help in giving our moms a chance to build on their own dreams and happiness. For example, your child can play independently for a bit to give you some time as you catch up on some reading or doing whatever it is that brings you joy on your own. Besides, a happy mom is a fun mom, and a mom that makes a great role model for their children. 🙂
Powerpoint slide samples from class lessons & discussions
If you have been too busy to think about you, it’s time to reevaluate your time and find a way to take care of yourself. Be sure to review these images with your child to remind them how they can help! We hope that the dreamcatcher reminds you that you deserve to make time to grow through activities that inspire you.
The Big Day
Last but not least, some photos to reflect on the recital, the gifts, the conversations, and the quality time you had with your little ones in the Primary studio. Thank you all for joining us to celebrate you!
And a big thank you to Milan for catching some candid photos of the children enjoying their treats, along with some photos of you and your little ones.
Thank you so much for putting the photos up and for all of the work you put into making the tea special every year. Feeling nostalgic that this was my last one!
Awe, we will miss you!!! So glad it was a special day for you and thanks for all of your support!!
Thanks for the great post! It was a lovely celebration.
You’re so welcome. Glad you thought so!
Thanks Angelique and Anisa for all your hard work throughout the year. It was so fun seeing the candid photos of the Mother’s Day celebration.
And thank you always for saying nice thoughtful things to make our day 🙂
So glad you loved the photos!
Thank you so much! It was a lovely celebration and they did a great job with the dreamcatchers!
Thank you for the post and the celebration!
Absolutely! Glad you were there!
This was a very special event for me! My first Indigo Mother’s Day Tea and it was so beyond my expectations. Thank you for all you do (year round) and especially during this busy time of the year. We feel very luck to have found you Indigo!
Awe, Hayley – so glad that it was so special for you! We put a lot into our celebrations for everyone to enjoy 🙂
We are so glad to have your lovely girls join us this year!