May 2025

Spring is full of celebrations at MMS. Spirit Week, including crazy-hair-day, backwards-clothes-day, and more, was followed by our 46th annual Moving-Up Ceremony. That was a wonderful family pot luck followed by songs, sung and signed by the children, and several musical selections from our angklung band. The angklung, an instrument from Indonesia, has eight tones that can be separated allowing each band-member to play a tone. After the children performed, we quickly trained five parent volunteers who performed Beethoven’s Ode to Joy so nicely that the parent audience was actually able to identify the song! To finish our celebration, all the children got to walk over our bridge symbolizing their move up to new and ever-expanding levels of development. It was a wonderful, and often emotional, morning of community, appreciation and joy!