Parent Evenings, Valentine's Day, School Closures, Festival, Auction

Dear Nursery Families,

This posting is to highlight some upcoming events at our school and for our nursery families.

February 14, Valentine's Day -- We do not expect nursery children to make Valentine's cards for their classmates.  If a child feels inspired to make gifts for her or his classmates, that is great.  Please make sure there is something for every child in the class (we may grow to 12 children again) and that gifts are homemade.  Again, this is only if your child really wants to (e.g., because she sees older siblings preparing cards).

Wednesday, February 16 -- talk on adolescence and the Waldorf Middle School Curriculum and a Middle School Open House, 6:30-8pm.  We have a goal to share more information about middle school to our early childhood families.  I encourage you to think of this talk as an early childhood meeting and attend; it can be wonderful to see where our curriculum is headed.

February 21-23 -- No nursery class.  School closed.

Tuesday, March 1, 6-8pm.  Parent evening for nursery and parent & child families and interested community members.  The first hour will be a lecture on power and perils of praise and effective alternatives.  The second hour comes from a parent request to see what it would be like to create a parent support group and what that could be like; we can have a discussion right there, and some parents might go on to create a regularly meeting group to share parenting concerns and joys.  I will post more details of the lecture and discussion soon.

Friday, March 25, 9-10:30am.  Nursery and Parent & Child Spring Festival.  We will gather for a snack, see a puppet show, and then take a walk to meet Mother Earth. Father Sun, Sister Rain, and Brother Wind.  I will post more details as the date approaches.

Saturday, March 26.  WIWS auction.  Some parents who have been at our school many years tell me they wish they had known how much fun the auction was when they first started.  I encourage you to attend; you will received frequent updates in our school's weekly newsletter.

Thanks for attending to these dates.

William Geoffrey Dolde