Dear Firefly Friends and Families,

Above all, I hope you are staying home and staying healthy. During this time of social distancing, I am offering online access to my Firefly Friends classes. We completed the previous session, “Love Where You Live,” this way and it seems to be working out! I will continue with a brand new four-week session called “Still Shining” that will available starting April 15, 2020. Subsequent weeks’ content will be available for April 22, April 29, and May 6. The format of each class will be the same, in that there will be an opening song, lighting up the fireflies, visiting feelings with Juniper, story time, craft time, and the closing song. Each portion will be recorded for you in a video snippet that you and your children can watch at your convenience. You will receive craft information via email the day prior so you can gather your materials and do the craft portion along with my video. The crafts have been designed so that the materials used will be items you likely already have at home.

Many if not most of you are homeschooling your other children as well, so I have chosen not to do the classes via Zoom. My own children’s Zoom schedules change from day to day and I am schooling them in the mornings. I hope having these videos in small snippets that you and your children can watch on demand is helpful. You will receive a password to access them each week.

I am offering “Still Shining” FREE of charge. If you would like the custom firefly patch that is being made for “Still Shining,” please send $3 to me via Venmo or PayPal simply to cover the cost of the patch itself and mailing it to your house. To sign your child up for “Still Shining,” please email me at fireflyfriendsorg{at}gmail{dot}com and include: your name, your child(ren)’s name(s) and age(s), (and your mailing address if you would like a patch).

Please send $3 via Venmo @jdcatalano or PayPal http://paypal.me/jdcatalano

If you want to purchase patches for more than one child, just add $2 per child and they will be mailed to you together.

Keep shining,

Ms. Jennifer