Your child is invited to join the FTCNS teachers for a Friday afternoon party with FTCNS parents Jessie Novak of Pilates Chicago and Bloom Yoga Studio, and Tiffany Etchell, owner of Harmonious Horizons. The party will include yoga, music, group games, and a delicious snack. Parents can drop off or stay with their child.

The party will take place on Friday, May 19th from 1-2:30 pm at the school. 

Pick-up and drop-off will be the responsibility of each parent. The winners will be contacted with additional detailed information.

Current Families Together students and their siblings aged 3+ are welcome at this event.

Jessie Novak is a PMA® Certified Pilates Instructor, Registered Yoga Teacher E-RYT 200, Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher RPYT 85, and Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider. Jessie has been on the Lead Teaching Faculty for Pilates Chicago Teacher Training since 2009 and a Co-Lead Trainer for Bloom Yoga Studio Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training since 2016.

Jessie is deeply grateful for the tools and strength her Pilates and yoga practice has provided her as a mom, a partner, and human in the world.  Teaching yoga to kids has been the most recent evolution of Jessie's worlds, as she volunteers in her current Kindergartner's classroom every week and pops in to the FTCNS classrooms on her assist days and occasionally a yoga visit.

Whether working with groups or individuals, Jessie is a passionate, engaged teacher, applying a holistic and functional approach, while using creative imagery reflecting a love for anatomy and physiology. She believes movement, music, and breath benefit every body, every age, in every stage.

Tiffany Gates Etchell has worked with young children for over 15 years and has enjoyed every minute!  She began as an assistant instructor in Pre-Ballet and Tap classes and then became the main instructor for the early childhood dance classes at Diann's Dance Center in Cleveland, Ohio.  Tiffany taught dance for 10 years before finding the Music Together^® program.  Music Together encompasses everything that she is passionate about - music, movement, creativity, education, and young children.  She became a Registered Music Together instructor in the fall of 2004.  She has taught Music Together classes for Wee Heart Music, Inc., Metropolis School of the Performing Arts, and Merry Music Makers, Inc.   

Tiffany holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Vocal Performance from Ohio Northern University.  She teaches private voice lessons and is Head of the Voice Department at Metropolis School of the Performing Arts in Arlington Heights. Tiffany has been a part of the theater community for over 20 years and recently performed at NYC’s Lincoln Center in a staged reading of a rock musical called AnotherTomorrow. In the summer of 2007, Tiffany was selected to attend The Circle in the Square Theatre School, the only accredited acting school on Broadway.