Valentine Memories

 

Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️🤍❤️Russellville Fifth Grade used to have a tea on Vanentines Day, but they served punch. Boys dressed nicely and girls did, too. Astrid is sitting with Eleanor and who knew she’d grow up to marry her cousin! Sigrid had more than one dress to pick from. She came over and modeled them for Pop. He helped her choose. Ingrid is absolutely stunning. When you grow old one thing you have in abundance is memories!

Learning Life Skills Through Tea Etiquette

Throwing a tea party will teach kids valuable life skills through tea etiquette. 

-Learning how to behave around a table. Sitting (relatively) still, listening to the individual talking, and learning how to ask questions are all things you do at a tea party, and these are important skills to work on at an early age.

-Waiting your turn is an important skill, and the tea party setting makes it fun. Waiting your turn to take tea and sweets, or waiting your turn to ask or answer a question.

-Sharing! Need I say more?

-The absence of electronics- knowing when to put the devices away is so vital these days.

-Saying 'please' and 'thank you'. This takes constant practice and repetition. Putting it in the context of a tea party makes it fun, and it will become second nature after enough practice.