Hip..hip..HOORAY for Moms!!!!!  We spent this week "Celebrating Mothers."  What a sweet week it was.  A week full of those warm fuzzy feelings and sweet stories of a child's love for their mommy.  We also had plenty of laughs and animated discussions about the things that our mommies do with and for us.  The question of "what super special thing does your mommy do?"  turned into a lengthy discussion about breakfast foods.  If you are a mommy who makes pancakes and bacon you are probably making a little guy or gal very very happy!
     We really loved some of the mommy stories this week.  Everyone loved the monster mommy in What Mommies Can't Do.  We always know when Palmer enjoys a book because later he'll ask "Do you remember this story?"  Does a Kangaroo have a Mother too? by Eric Carle had many fun animals in it.  We sure liked pretending to be all the animals.  We also learned that a mommy kangaroo is a flyer, a daddy kangaroo is a boomer and a baby kangaroo is a joey.  We hopped around a lot this week pretending to be kangaroos.  Ellie was always a flyer and made a funny little kangaroo face as she hopped.  Mommy's Special Day had the kids cracking up.  I think they could really relate to the little girl pig in the story yet couldn't believe what a mess she was accidentally making.
     We learned "the mommy song."  The kids loved that they could spell mommy.  Mason shouts out the letters with gusto!  When we sing the mommy song we use claps to replace letters each time we sing the song.  By the end all of the letters in mommy are claps instead.  Brodie would start giggling and would say "Oh No!"  each time we would talk about taking another letter away.  You gotta love that enthusiasm.  We learned a little magic with the word mom too.  We had a paper with Mom on it and then gave it some magic and gave it lots of love by blowing it kisses and >POOF< MOM turned into WOW!  What a cool trick!
     The letter of the week was h.  H is for Hannah and Henry.  H is also for hands.  We did a lot of hand tricks and practiced opposites with our hands.  We can clap loud and quiet and  fast and slow.  We can make our hands far apart and close together and high and low.  H is also for hearts.  We made hearty h's and practiced sewing with heart lacing shapes.  Lauren is getting to be such good lacer.
     Thank you all so much for such an amazing teacher appreciation week.  The kids' sweet faces and the pride and happiness they showed giving their goodies was precious.  All the sweet words and thanks were enough to make us all teary-eyed with appreciation.  We love you all and are so happy that you choose to have your children in our class.  That never goes unappreciated.  Thanks
     Have the happiest of mother's days to all of you mommies (and grandmas out there.)  There should be a mommy's day every week to celebrate all of the work and love you do for your families.  Your kids really love you.  We took a few moments this week to quietly appreciate our moms.  We closed our eyes and thought about our moms.  What they look like, the fun things they do, the warm lovey feeling that is in your body when you get a mommy hug.  When we thought about these things,  your kids got the sweetest, purest little quiet smiles on their faces and it was beautiful.  You are loved!