At HMS, we celebrate a child’s day of birth together. The child (here, last week, alongside his older brother) holds onto the Earth, and walks around the sun for each year of his life. His parents show us pictures and tell stories from his first years. After last week’s birthday celebration, our oldest showed us […]
Category: holidays
Day of the Dead
For our Day of the Dead celebration, those who brought a picture for Day of the Dead told us about it. We really enjoyed hearing stories about everyone’s loved ones, then we put the pictures into the altar we had made. Some of our students are still working on painting their “sugar” skulls. If they […]
Halloween Fun
Today at HMS, we were visited by Rapunzel, a mermaid, Little Red Riding Hood… …a violin-playing witch… …Willie Nelson… …and a firefighter! We were also visited by several animals, including a penguin, a zebra, a tiger and a leopard. Rumor has it that there were dragons and vampires and ghosts! But we all happily got back […]