..and we celebrate our special Times...

The entire Windsong community celebrates several of our festivals all together.... Our 'Eat, Sweep, and Be Merry" gathering to ready the school for a new year (in latest summer), our Lantern Walk in November, and our Spiral of Light celebration in early December are celebrated with all of our families together.
Our Halloween festivity, Gnome Dance in latest winter, and our May Day gathering in spring are enjoyed by each program at the later end of school days.
  Many festivals -Michaelmas, St. Nicholas Day, Santa Lucia, Candlemas, Valentines Day, and the wonderful and subtler changes of the seasons...are celebrated by the children within our morning doings. 

Halloween...

is a gentle event at Windsong...With the help of our parents, mother earth heads out with her 'pumpkin patch' or 'little witches' or 'fallen leaves'  to visit the curious folk around about the yard.  If the children can answer a riddle...what nice treats may be in store...

"Five little pumpkins sitting on the gate..."

our Spiral of Light...

a magical evening at the start of Advent, to celebrate the darkening quietude of wintertide..bringing our light...

slippers are put out hoping for a visit from St. Nicholas...

gingerbread men... "I was scraped from the flour box and swept from the bin, and put in the oven, and cooled on the sill...."

Candle-dipping

..happens in the quietude of the winter solstice...

Our May day celebration...

full of fresh flowers and a lovely circling and a feast...!

our Lantern Walk...

takes us to a lovely park at dusk, to share a Circle, and a lantern-lit walk to a Story..then back for treats...!

"I go with my little lantern,
  my lantern goes with me.
In heaven the stars are shining bright, on earth shines my lantern for me...."

Spring ..

brings mama goose..how grateful we are when she sits on our felting eggs for so very many days over our long Spring Break..!
..and spring brings so many treasures..

our Gnome Dance...

happens in latest winter...  Gnome cakes will be served..!

Birthdays...

are our little festivals that the stars of the children bring...  We welcome the family to join us for a special story, and to share our lunchtime with us, so they might tell us a special story or two of the birthday child...