Mother's Day

Mother's day is Sunday! I thought it would be fun to learn but show mama love.  We'll start with a little math. Because cooking and math go hand in hand, there are so many things we can do or make. I think something simple that requires little to no help is the way to go!

Breakfast:
Ingredients:

1/2 cup oatmeal
1/4 cup nuts or seeds
1 cup milk or milk alternative
                                                      1 cup fruit (strawberries, peaches, blueberries etc)
                                                      1-2 teaspoons of sweetener (sugar, maple syrup, honey, Stevia etc)
                                                      Cinnamon to taste
Directions:

Place all ingredients in a bowl, mix, and refrigerate overnight. Next morning it will be ready to eat!

Lunch:
Ingredients:
2 slices of bread
2 tablespoons of peanut butter
1 can of tomato soup
1 can of water or milk

Directions:

Toast bread or leave it plain.  Have a grown-up help.  In a pot add can of tomato soup and either your water or milk. stir it and cook until hot.  Place soup in a bowl. Place two tbsp of peanut butter on the bread and fold into a sandwich, serve.

Dinner:
Ingredients:

2 tablespoons hummus
1 diced tomato
1 bag salad mix
1 tablespoon of sour cream or Tofutti sour cream
sprinkle of garlic powder
sprinkle of Italian seasoning
1 tortilla shell
parchment paper a little bigger than the shell

Directions:
Place tortilla shell on top of the parchment paper.  In the center of the shell spread the hummus. On top of the hummus add the diced tomato, sour cream next, and then the salad mix.

Take the bottom of the shell and fold up and then fold the edges.  Take the parchment and fold it in the same way. Add a side of veggies and an apple or another fruit.

If you want more than one serving then you multiply by 2, 3, 4 etc. and remember 1/2+1/2= 1 whole so 2 half cups= 1 cup

Reading/ art:

Take your hand and press it into clay and then paint the print
or trace your hand onto construction paper and cut out

Include this poem:





Two Little Hands 

By Thelma Jo Bowling                                    

Two little hands on two little arms  

Can do most anything.                      

Like Comb my hair and tie my shoes

And hold tight to the swing.              

Two little hands can make my bed.  

My two little hands are able            

To put my toys upon a shelf            

And help clear the table.                   

Two little hands can pick a rose,       

Build castles in the sand                 

And when they're tired of playing      

Can hold tight to mommy's hand.     

Science:

Supplies:

Plastic bottles, jars, test tube (just something for separate colors)

White flowers

food color

water

Directions:

Place water into individual containers. Add food color to the water. red+yellow=orange  blue+red=purple etc. Place white flowers into the individual containers and wait. The coloring can take as long as six hours.

"The Xylem (vascular tissue in plants that conducts water and dissolved nutrients upward from the root and also helps to form the woody element in the stem) of the flower works like an elevator and brings the water from the cup all the way up the plant’s stem and into the plant’s petals. When it brings the dyed water up it ends up dying the plant’s petals. The Xylem is what allows the plant to get water from the roots all the way to the petals."

Steve Spangler has a really great explanation of all this!

History:

Mother’s Day was celebrated in 1908 when Anna Jarvis Helton memorial for her mother at Saint Andrews Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia.

In 1905 she began a campaign to make Mother’s Day a recognized holiday in the United States that was the year her mother passed away. Ann Jarvis, Annas' mother, had been a peace activist who cared for wounded soldiers on both sides of the American Civil War. And I wanted to continue on with her mothers' work and wanted a day to honor her mothers because she believed the person who has done more for you than anyone in the world is your mother.

In 1908 The US Congress rejected a proposal to make Mother’s Day an official holiday. Anna kept pushing and by 1911 all US states observed the holiday in 1914 President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother’s Day held on the second Sunday in May as a national holiday to honor mothers.

Writing: