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m is for mother’s day

SPOILER ALERT: if you are a mama from preschool and you have not opened your green tissue paper or white lunch bag present, stop reading (and check your child’s backpack…)!

but may you all know the joy children take in making something for someone special. this year they were “found items necklaces” (or “things to hang on a nail if the mom doesn’t wear necklaces” as one friend said) with 1 inch photos of each.

yes, my mom would want this.

oh, my mom loves this color.

my mom needs a lot of these.

my mom wants one of everything.

totally worth the mess.

mother's day 09 by you.

s is for sun

we were out of yellow and orange paper (such is the end of the school year) and instead of buying more, we made some.

we painted big sheets of yellow paper,

let them dry for two days,

then used them to make suns.

we cut some of the paper into roundish shapes and some of the paper into rectangles.

some of the round shapes had the word “yellow” written on them. you had to put one of those on the top.

some of the rectangle rays had names on them.

the trick was making sure to leave a space for the ray with your name on it!

the collage effect was stunning.

and again, they were proud to have “made” the yellow paper.

w is for writing

someone down the hall donated a stack of yellow notebooks. perfect for yellow week!

the kind of writing that happened was unique and so fun to see.

the “office” expanded quickly from one table to two.

y is for yellow water

there was only one child who said what i was thinking…

this doesn’t look like water…

we change our water daily and add different things:

yellow food coloring

yellow paint (this makes an opaque yellow

apple scented bubbles

baby shampoo

and my favorite of the week: banana extract

we also move the mirrors to different spots. over the water table, next to it, one on each end, etc.

m is for may day…and mother’s day!

we made these flowers on may day (though several kids said i should bring these supplies out to make their mamas flowers next week! but we will do a new project…hopefully as fancy as years past).

this is a very simple eye-hand coordination activity. pre cut flowers with holes punched in the middle fit perfectly on straws!

we also made may day baskets out of folders (folded in half, glued on the bottom half edges). the children cut on two lines to create the handle (which fits just so on a door knob).

may day by you.

writing and decorating was optional.

after snack time, the children usually head out into the classroom for work time or project time. not today! after snack the preschoolers went for book time (when they sit in our circle time corner and look at books together) while i hid the flowers.

my favorite hiding spot.

then we did some math to figure out how many flowers each could find…and they were off.

no pictures at the end, but trust me they were cute with their baskets of 5 flowers each. : )