Yes, Ma’am
I hadn’t realized the many ways I say yes to JDaniel during the day. It really wasn’t until I decided to have him say, “Yes, Ma’am” the way my husband does that I really picked up on what I had been saying and how JDaniel was saying “yes”. There was the yup, yeah, uh-huh, right, ya, and yes.
When you are trying to correct him by saying, the words “Yes, Ma’am” you notice that “yes” is said many times in every hour. I haven’t been keeping count, but think it must be at least twenty times yesterday morning. He says it enthusiastically when he really wants something. When he doesn’t, he slips back to “uh-huh” or “ya” a lot.
I know it is an old fashioned way of saying yes to any adult. There are many of you that may think it is outdated or just be thrilled your child is saying anything that sounds like “yes”. There are probably a few of you if you live in the South that think there isn’t any other way to say “yes” to an adult.
I didn’t grow up saying “Yes, ma’am”. At my husband’s family gatherings I am the only one who doesn’t say it naturally as if from childhood. Since they say it, I thought I would teach it to my son.
Muffin Tin Monday- Exactly What He Likes
I decide to do an egg theme. JDaniel doesn’t like eggs. So, I tried to make some of JDaniel’s foods look round like eggs this week. I am not sure I succeeded. He ate grape tomatoes, sweet peas, roundish watermelon, turkey lunchmeat (It comes from a bird that hatched from an egg, leftover stuffed bread that looked speckled like an egg, and roundish sweet potatoes.
This isn’t the best example of this week’s theme. You will have to visit other Muffin Tin Monday Moms to see that. JDaniel did think that this tin was filled with foods exactly the way he likes them.
Movement Activity: Veggies on the Move
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We read the book Up, Down and Around by Katherine Ayres about how some vegetables grow up, while others grow down, and others grow round and round this week. After reading Up, Down and Around, I thought it would be fun to make vegetable flashcards for JDaniel to act out. He needed to stoop down low for the carrots and potatoes. Then JDaniel stood really tall with his hands over his head for the celery, cucumbers and the cauliflower. Finally, he spun around and around for the tomatoes.
Retelling or Reenacting Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
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JDaniel and I read the book Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming about three rabbits that use their cunning to outsmart Mr. McGreely who is trying to keep them out of his garden. He puts up a wire fence and then a wall. Then he makes a moat and a huge structure. While they can’t get over the huge structure, they outsmart him by entering the structure in his harvesting basket.
I decided it would be fun to try retelling and reenacting this fun book with JDaniel this week.
Retelling Activity
I made a flipbook for JDaniel on the Read Write Think website. If you haven’t been to it, you really need to. You can create a book that is designed and illustrated completely online or you can create the pages online and use the print outs to illustrate your book. I put in the name of each way the rabbits outsmarted Mr. McGreely at the bottom of a flipbook page. JDaniel helped me look for fruit and vegetable pictures in magazines to place on the garden page. I cut out pieces of construction to represent each of the structures Mr. McGreely used to try to restrict the rabbits and then set JDaniel lose with his crayons. Once the pictures were done we could retell the events in Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! as we flipped through his book.
Reenacting Activity
JDaniel and I gathered up three of his stuffed rabbits and then started building structures that Mr. McGreely used to try to keep them out of his garden. I took JDaniel’s plants and put them a construction paper fence about the casserole dish that contained them. Then we lifted up the dish and put a shoebox to represent the wall. Next, we put blue paper under the shoebox to represent the moat. Finally, we put all of it into a cardboard box. JDaniel had a lot of fun trying to help the rabbits get to the garden.
Almost Wordless Wednesday- Helping Others with the Harvest
Our local emergency food center decided to use a piece of land in front of it to help others grow fresh vegetables. Anyone can come to help with the planting and care of the vegetables. If you help with the garden, you get to share in the harvest.
We haven’t been able to help this year due to JDaniel’s allergies. I hope this is a project we can do another year.
The theme for Muffin Tin Monday is nests and birds. JDaniel’s first nest has a nest of cottage cheese surrounded by peaches. The second nest in raisins in a nest of quinoa salad (see recipe on last Thursday’s post). The third nest is vegetables in a nest of ham. The third nest is ranch dressing in a nest of cucumbers. Only one bird was in the meal. He was toast with shredded Mozzarella cheese.
