Winter Celebrations

The Home Sweet Home community will be celebrating the winter holidays and honoring family traditions throughout the month of December. Parents are encouraged to share family holiday/seasonal traditions with the children by bringing in books or orchestrating cooking or craft projects that reflect cultural holiday traditions important to their families. This could be as simple as reading a story to the group at circle time or as elaborate as baking Challah. Grandparents and extended family are invited to participate as well. Please communicate your availability to teachers so that your share can go on the calendar.

On Friday, December 17th at 10:00am the Home Sweet Home community is invited to the “Joy Through Music” holiday party. This will be a joint effort between the Special Events committee and parent musicians. The theme is “Stars: a Light in the Darkness”. The teachers will be exploring the concept of stars in Nature during the month of December and the children will be performing some star related songs as a group at the party. We will be treated to performances from our talented parent musicians and interested children are encouraged to choose and practice at home, a star-themed piece such as a song or a poem to perform solo or with friends or family . For example, Jasper wants to sing a song with his Grandma (perhaps the stage fright will settle in and we will be treated to just Grandma). Parents are invited to help their children create a star/light costume for to wear on this day. This could be a costume that represents light within their holiday tradition or, for the aspiring astrophysicist, a solar system headpiece. There will be a potluck immediately following the performances. We will post a food sign-up sheet in the next few weeks. The Big Friends will be creating an Evite for all current families and alumni. Extended family members are encouraged to attend as well.

On a personal note, I wanted to acknowledge that December can be a really busy month for working parents. I had to miss the last two years of special events at Home Sweet Home because of work commitments and I always felt pretty bummed out that I couldn’t be there. If you can’t make it it’s not the end of the world. We are going to tape it so that all parents can share in what will probably be a very sweet party. If you don’t have time to make a costume, please let me know and I can help you out. If you don’t have time to do a parent share, no big deal. If you want to become more involved with this event, we will be having a Special Events committee meeting on Wednesday December 1st at 5pm.

Cheers!

Heather (Jasper’s Mom)