Mother's Day week-end is here! The day us mother's envision in our heads of mornings of sleeping in, children happily getting along while following directions and picking up after themselves without being asked. The week-end we imagine that we do not have anything but the highest standards of what we believe a clean home looks like without going through the fights or freak out moments to get our home as close as possible to a better homes and gardens look and having it magically stay like that forever. The day we picture ourselves looking outside to see a happy husband grilling food while overseeing the kids putting together little mother's day surprises while you get a quiet house to yourself for a bit...the little things like having the family all dressed in their Sunday best and out the door to church on time without fighting or rushing at the last minute. It is all about the little things. I mean they are not that much to ask for, right? Maybe some of you lucky mothers out there will get all of that and more, but realistically mother's days like these tend to not happen at all in the ways we envision. Well unless we ourselves get all the house deep cleaned the week before mother's day while threatening (threaten is such a strong word...maybe strongly encouraging) that whoever undoes what we have done before mother's day is over there will be strong repercussions (ok so threaten is definitely more accurate, but hey mother's day is only once a year......). I know there are mother's out there who know what I mean, right??? Or in my case my husband is not a great baker. He is great is SO MANY ways, but he will be the first to admit baking is not one of them, so if I want something sweet snd tasty and homemade until my kid is old enough to bake on his own it will be me figuring out something tasty for mother's day. Yet, even though mother's day does not yet happen in the way that it would be nice, mother's day still ends up being special and perfect and sweet and memorable for me.
When workimg at daycares we would always do activities with emphasis put on the children'sThis motgers. It seems a little odd for me to do that with my own kid, so I decided to have us focus a lot on Mary, Jesus' Mother and our spiritual mother. There are also some things in jere for my kid and I. This week is a mother's day themed week that will melt your hearts and if you are anything like me, bring some tears to your eyes, so keep the kleenex nearby.
We also focused on tracing our letter Ee and had fun exploring with the color turqoise.
Monday:Practice Tracing Uppercase E/Intro Mother's Day
Book: My e Sound Box by Jane Belk Moncure
Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
I Love You Stinky Face by Lisa McCourt
The Annunciation story
Songs:
Eight Piggies In A Row by Raffi
More Than Enough by Shawna Belts Edwards
Immaculate Mary
Activities:
Review Ee vocab words. Practice tracing the letter E.
Paint a planet Earth using to paper bowls and blue and green paint and tape.
Intro Mother's Day. Talk about why Mary is special to us.
Color picture depicting the Annunciation story.
Tuesday: Intro Turqoise/The Nativity
Books: Eeyore Be Happy by Don Ferguson
The Cat In the Hat by Dr. Seuss
Songs:
Eagles Wings church hymn
A Mother's Love by Jim Brickman
Hail Mary Gentle Woman
Activities:
Review Ee vocab words
Ee phonics work page
Play with plastic earthworm toys in dry beans for sensory play. Seperate the worms into groups of color and count out how many are in each color group.
Intro color turqoise. Make a turqoise paint collage
Intro Nativity story. Color a picture of Mary and baby Jesus.
Wednesday: Practice Tracing Lowercase e/The Finding Jesus At the Temple
Books: Eat Your Peas, Louiseby Pegeen Snow
Just Me and My Mom by Mercer Meyer
The story of the Finding of Jesus at the Temple
Songs:
Letter E song by abcmouse
Hey Mama by The Hound and The Fox
Mother Mary dressed in blue poem
Activities:
Review Ee vocab and practice tracing lowercase e.
Exercise together at the park
Play in turqoise water
Intro the story of finding Jesus at the temple. Color picture depicting the story.
Thursday:Matching and Sequencing/Wedding Feast at Cana Story
Books: Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss
Blueberries For Sal by Robert McCloskey
Songs:
Everything Grows and Grows by Raffi
Baby Mine by The Hound and The Fox
Hail Holy Queen
Activities:
Review Ee vocab.
Work on sequencing/matching work page
Elephant handprint activity
Play with turqoise playdough.
Intro Wedding Feast at Cana story. Color picture depicting the story.
Friday:Ee Tracing Review/The Crucifixion story where Jesus says Mary is now our mother
Books: An Evening At Alfie's by Shirley Hughs
Love You Forever by Robert Munsch
Just For You by Mercer Mayer
Songs:
Head Shoulders Knees and Toes (for eyes and ears)
You'll Be In My Heart by Kenny Loggins
Ave Maria
Activities:
Review Ee vocab. Do tracing review work sheet.
Make paint with egg whites and food coloring
Intro the part of the crucifixion story where Jesus says Mary is now our mother too. Do a little May crowning.
These are the ways I tried to help celebrate Mother's Day for Our Lady. What ideas do you have that could be helpful for Mother's Day?
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