Happy Day of appreciation for all the motherly figures in our lives… mothers, god mothers, grandmothers, aunties, step mothers.. the list continues! Just a momentary break in my catch up to say… THANK YOU. If not for all of your our lives would not be so vibrant and rich… loving and kind. I promise to catch up the blog soon but for now! Be sure to honour the strong and amazing women in your life… and not just today but EVERY day. 
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Mother’s Day Resources
A bit of a more difficult hunt finding out things about Mother’s Day. I lucked out with my lapbook. I had to join the Live and Learn Press Yahoo group and a member there was able to share the once easily attained freebie spoken about HERE.
For Trinity we did the “Are You My Mother?” lapbook. Something very simple and fun for a first lapbook. I found it HERE. I got an additional page from Obseussed HERE. A second matching baby and mommy picture.
Of course there were some choice Wiki pages we used for answering questions for the boys:
- Mother’s Day HERE
- Ann Jarvis (the mother the date was finally cemented for) HERE
- Anna Jarvis (the daughter) HERE
- Julia Ward Howe (the first person to really make the push for this day) HERE
- Mothering Sunday (a prior significant day in Britain) HERE
(These are on the lapbook file, but I figured worth posting here.)
And Crafts:
And a special page that was also suggested by a member of the yahoo group…
- DayForMothers.com HERE
Worksheets:
- Colouring page and rhyme for Miss Trinity HERE
- Acrostic Poem HERE
- All About My Mom booklet HERE
- Trinity’s colouring page of choice HERE
- Mother’s Day Puzzles (we used the mazes) HERE
Books:
- Mother’s Day by Ann Heinrichs HERE
- T.Rex and the Mother’s Day Hug by Lois G. Grambling HERE
- Mother’s Day by Anne Rockwell (we also made the craft at the end of the story) HERE
- The Mother’s Day Mice by Eve Bunting HERE
- No Time for Mother’s Day by Laurie Halse Anderson HERE
- My Mother’s Voice by Joanne Ryder HERE
And a great short video on the history of Mother’s Day…
Oh and our DVD that included a Dora episode about Mother’s Day… Food With Friends HERE.
Mother’s Day Learning Accomplished
May 17-18
I am so proud of the boys… our Mother’s Day lapbook is officially complete! They worked so hard on it!!
Front
Back
Proud boys!
Add in the final chapter of our Mr. Popper’s Penguins (right on schedule) and we are really making our self (and library) imposed deadlines. Though on Monday we have to cover Antarctica in a little more detail.
Ga The End
We had some of our magazines show up from the subscriptions Gammie got the kids! Instant stop and look!
Magazines
We got in a game of Dora themed Candyland…
Candyland!
The art just kept coming!
Gavin and Emanuel at work
Zander’s birthday card for his god daddy
By Trinity
Because a grid looks “cool” (Zander)
Nana and Baba went out to the new Star Trek movie and brought the kids home some cards that were handed out when they pre purchased their tickets. Echo was CERTAIN at at least one of the pictures was of her Daddy!
Cards spread out for viewing
We have made certain that everything possibly completed has been on a rather rainy Friday. Poor Echo seems to have the same allergy to bug bites as her sister and had a couple swollen bites on her left knee to contend with.
I have started a new large project – a blanket for the family to use on picnics. I am NOT going to link the pattern as I chose a variegated and Ken the grey and the result is NOTHING like the original cut and dry geometric pattern… and I LOVE it!
I figured after all these completions they had earned some Minecraft time… so in the end a good week for all of us!
Signs of Spring
Saturday we took the bigger 4 garage sale hunting (leaving Echo at home with Baba) and spent some time in the backyard while Ken helped with setting up the next step of the straw bale garden.
Setting up the frames
Our garage sale trip resulted in a few cute pieces of clothing for the girls… some books…
We are starting the Mrs Piggle-Wiggle on Monday
And a game where you shoot little metal balls back and forth across some sort of a board. I think we did rather well! Definitely something we will repeat.
The mighty hunters of good deals
New game
And of course I took some photos of our resident adorable baby.
With ball in hand
I am very proud of her hat! I cannot get over how helpful and handy crocheting has become!
And that was just the beginning of our weekend!!!
Skirt flared out