May Day 2014

Union School has been celebrating May Day with music, dancing, and weaving of the May Pole for as long as anyone can remember.  Postponed one day, this year's May 2 May Day Celebration was beautiful.

The Hartford Courant's Savannah Mul wrote a lovely article about the event and tweeted videos to her followers.

Friends, families, and community members came to watch Union School students perform their dances and music they've been working so hard on.  Each grade performs a different dance.  The fourth grade performs the most complicated dance, the North Skeleton Sword Dance.

Music Teacher Kate Smallidge and Strings Teacher Janet Fantozzi chose the musical selections and taught the students their dances.

It was an honor to have among our guests the lovely ladies of It's Good to Get Out, a senior socializing program run by Services for the Elderly of Farmington.  Among their members was long-time former school secretary, Eleanor Swanson.  Welcome home, Mrs. Swanson!

Another Union School May Day tradition is for families to send flowers from their gardens to school in the morning.  At the celebration, kindergarteners give small bouquets to the ladies in the audience.