For the past nine years, my Kindergartners and I have had the special blessing to partner with Josh Groban and his "Find Your Light" Foundation to help raise funds to provide music and instruments to public schools who would not otherwise have these items. In our nine year journey together, we have raised over $29, 500 for Josh's Find Your Light Foundation.
In addition to teaching Kindergarten, I am blessed to have the opportunity to teach a Music
Around the World class, as well. Our enrichment class provides our Kindergarten-Second
Grade students an opportunity to learn about the different songs and instruments that
countries around our world have to offer. After creating instruments out of recyclable
materials and learning a song from each country, my children present a Music Around the
World Celebration Night for our Watson families. Unfortunately, due to COVID-19 we were
not able to host our Music Around the World Celebration Night and our Music Around the
World classes were virtual for most of the year this year. However, our students still very
much enjoyed an opportunity to continue this enrichment program even if it was virtual.
Despite the challenges COVID-19 created, we were able to host monthly events for our Watson Wildcats which benefited our service project, as well. These included a Popsicles and the Playground event, Coke Floats and Coding event, Candy Apples and Cartoons event, Cookies for Quarters event, and Find Your Light Paint Night. While this year has been one full of many challenges, the one thing that I could always point to as a beacon of light for us was our Find Your Light Foundation service project. I could offer our kids opportunities for creativity and camaraderie in a world where there were times where we could not host other events. While most of our events were virtual or outside this year, they were still moments of joy for our kids. Our Find Your Light Foundation service project has always been our opportunity to help others around the world, but this year it also served as a blessing to our Watson Wildcats, as well. Check out this highlight video of these special moments we shared this year all for a very important cause:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X6DyLpH6tRI5LhEHNy5V8Whn--MjJ207/view?usp=sharing
I am proud to announce that we raised $2, 000 despite the difficulties we faced this year. Because of you and your support for our service project, we were able to continue to make Find Your Light Foundation proud! I would like to thank our Watson family and friends for your unending love that you have shown us and the dedication to help us make this possible. Without you, none of this would have happened, and I am forever grateful for your kindness!
Through our service project, we have learned about the importance of giving and how little people can do big things to help our world. Thank you for helping us to make a difference in our world by helping a child to “Find his Light!” I can not thank you enough for that! May we continue to make our world a better place through arts education! May we continue to help others to Find Their Light!
