Celebrating Culture

The opportunity to build a learning community includes the open invitation to represent our diverse ethnic and cultural traditions within the classroom. To present is to inform; to inform is to support understanding; and understanding can lead to positive relationships through continued sharing and reflection.

Home Sweet Home invites all families to celebrate their unique and individual traditions through a Parent Share. Parents plan and prepare an activity, in collaboration with teachers, to present in a developmentally appropriate way to their child's classroom. This may take the form of book, song, costume, cooking activity, game, and/or any meaningful discussion.

Many thanks to Jakki and Andy (Billie's parents) for supporting the Brown Bear exploration of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. We dipped apple slices in honey and learned the Hebrew phrases "Chag Sameach" (Happy Holiday) and L'Shana Tova (To a Good New Year).