 Thank you to all who attended May Fair on Saturday! We were grateful for the beautiful weather and the opportunity to gather as a community to celebrate Spring with founding members and teachers, current families, faculty and staff, alumni students and parents and people from the wider Kingston community. Thank you to those who donated items for the bake sale and various activities, volunteered at the work bee the previous weekend, set up and cleaned up of May Fair! We are grateful for the collective efforts to bring this joyful event to our community!  
0 Comments
 On Monday, April 15th, Kindergarten and Grade School students, staff and parents participated in the Pitch-In Kingston spring clean-up in the neighbourhood and parks surrounding our school, including Riverview, Optimist, Hillside, and Friendship Parks. The students were divided into eight mixed-grade groups, led by a Student Social Action Committee member and one to two staff members. The students were enthusiastic participants, and we filled many bags with garbage! Our neighbours expressed their appreciation by calling their thanks from home and car windows, or by coming out of houses to speak with us. It was a wonderful opportunity for our students to contribute to our neighbourhood community and to form connections with students from other classes. "Clean Team...Go Green!" "Garbage takers make the world...SAFER!" (two of our group cheers)  Last night, Mulberry Waldorf School students, parents, and teachers gathered together for the annual Lantern Walk. At this time of year In the Northern hemisphere, people mark the changing of the seasons with feasts to celebrate the harvest (e.g., Canadian Thanksgiving), festivals of goodness and light to comfort and inspire us as we face approaching dark and cold of winter (e.g., St. Martin’s Day, Bandhi Chor Diwas and Diwali), and festivals or days that honour those that have passed (Remembrance Day, Dia de los Muertos).. When we make a lantern to protect a little flame, we are also creating protection for our own internal flame, so that we may carry it safely through the dark world. It may only be a small and fragile light--but every light brings relief to the darkness. We are grateful that our current school community includes families who enrich our school culture by sharing with us their traditional festivals. |
|
© COPYRIGHT 2024 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
|