Happy Mother's Day

Today our read aloud was titled Zebras.  This book is one in a series of nonfiction books by Pebble Books.  We have enjoyed reading a few books from this series.  They give us facts about where the zoo animal live, they tell us what they eat, what the group that they live in is called, as well as provides us information on the animal's habitat.  During centers the children marble rolled a zebra.  They also finished the letter z page for the letter book we have been making all year.
I also taught the children a new song that they giggled over.  The title is "Elephants Have Wrinkles."
  Elephants have wrinkles, wrinkles, wrinkles. 
Elephants have wrinkles, wrinkles everywhere.

On their toes, (echo) No one knows, (echo) why yi yi yi yiih.

Elephants have wrinkles, wrinkles, wrinkles. 
Elephants have wrinkles, wrinkles everywhere.

Each time we sang a verse we added another part of the elephant's body that had wrinkles.
Before I Was a Mom
Author Unknown

Before I was a Mom
I made and ate hot meals.
I had unstained clothing.
I had quiet conversations on the phone.

Before I was a Mom,
I slept as late as I wanted
And never worried about how late I got into bed.
I brushed my hair and my teeth everyday.

Before I was Mom
I cleaned my house each day.
I never tripped over toys or forgot words of lullabies.

Before I was a Mom
I didn't worry whether or not my plants were poisonous.
I never thought about immunizations.

Before I was a Mom
I had never been puked on
Spit on
Chewed on
Or pinched by tiny fingers

Before I was a Mom
I had complete control of:
My thoughts
My body
And my mind.
I slept all night.

Before I was a Mom
I never held down a screaming child
So that doctors could do tests
Or give shots.
I never looked into teary eyes and cried.
I never got gloriously happy over a simple grin.
I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep.

Before I was a Mom
I never held a sleeping baby just because I didn't want to put it down.
I never felt my heart break into a million pieces
When I couldn't stop the hurt.
I never knew that something so small
Could affect my life so much.
I never knew that I could love someone so much.
I never knew I would love being a Mom.

Before I was a Mom
I didn't know the feeling of having my heart outside my body.
I didn't know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby.
I didn't know that bond between a Mother and her child.
I didn't know that something so small
Could make me feel so important.

Before I was a Mom
I had never gotten up in the middle of the night every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay
I had never known the warmth
The joy
The love
The heartache
The wonder
Or the satisfaction of being a Mom.

I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much before I was a Mom.