Mother's Day

Dear Members!


Please welcome this little bouquet of poems and song for Mother’s Day, by the students of the Hungarian Schools from Guelph and Kitchener.

Thanks to the Hungarian School teachers' tireless work, students together with their parents are able to take part in online learning every Saturday. For the most part, many interesting tasks and interactive games are undertaken. In this way, there is the continued possibility for Hungarians living in the diaspora, particularly their children, to stay in touch with their teachers, sustain our cultura and nurture our beautiful mother tongue.
Thanks to active and ready-to-help parents and zealous Hungarian School teachers, the Mother's Day program was able to be held online and involved each child's participation in a new, interesting, and challenging task.

This exceptional Mother's Day program was full of excitment and began with opening words from  Enikő Németh, the Kitchener Hungarian School's Teacher. Anita Kovács, the Guelph Hungarian School's teacher thanked all the parents and students with a few nice thoughts. The Iskiri ensemble's “Anya ügyes” (Mother is skillful) song set the mood for the program and was followed by the students beautiful poetry verses, along with some singing and violin that made mothers and grandmothers very happy.The variety of the program was evident in each child's own crafted creation, which was given as a gift and surprise to the mothers.
This program, which touched and warmed each of our hearts, closed with a show and tell of crafted creations and an online lottery-wheel game, in which students gladly participated. With their crafted gift creations, the children celebrated their mothers with a nice touch.
I was so happy that the children prepared with the best of their knowledge and enthusiasm, they presented beautiful poetry verses and songs. This task and the school's online functioning is even a challenge for us adults, and so all of my acknowledgement goes to the children who perhaps a little nervous and afraid, were able to overcome the challenge before them and sit in front of their individual web cameras so that we could together celebrate out mothers and grandmothers through this beautiful event.
We are so grateful to the parents for their support in helping the students prepare so that this program could happen and the videorecordings that will be put together will remain a staying token of the program for Hungarian mothers as well as our communit.

Happy Mother's Day!

Virág Farkas,

KCSP fellow