The month of April going into May has been filled with so many rain showers. It is getting rid of the leftover snow. But I do hope the saying April showers bring May flowers! I would love to have a nice sunny graduation filled with green grass and flowers.
Picture(s) of the Month:
The first three pictures I felt helped to welcome in spring, baby goats!! I went to a local farm over the weekend and they had over 34 baby goats that you could hold, play with and cuddle! Note for next time your rain jacket will smell like goat if you don't wash it after..
This last picture is of a baby that fell asleep in my arms for over an hour. The little buddy was passed out! When we had to leave he really didn't want to be put down.
These pictures are from one of our clients houses on the water, it's an old 1800's farm house and you have to walk down the field to get to the water and the dock, where they have a mooring for their sailboat in the summer. I walked the shore line for about a mile and you can see in the last picture some of the sea goodies that I found along the way to add to my collection. It was definitely a great day for finding!
Here is a google maps overview, in the corner you can see the farmhouse and in the left hand side you can see the dock.
Relax with a good book...
When I was going through the pages for May, under this section it mentioned the book Redwall By Brian Jacques. I had an instant flashback from when I was in elementary school. I remember one of my teachers had found this book in the school library and said that I might enjoy it. And boy did I ever! Not to mention that around that time Redwall became a TV show for kids and I just knew I had to try to find the book to read a little bit of it and watch an episode of the show. So many good memories came flooding back to me!
And in case you wanted to know what the tv show looked like I managed to find a link to the first episode!
Me being the history geek that I am decided to look up what the history of May day came from and the importance it had for the ancient Celts.
The Celts of the British Isles believed that May 1st was the most important day of the year. And this was when the festival of Beltane was held. This May Day festival was thought to divide the year in half, between the light and the dark. Symbolic fire was one of the main rituals of the festival, this was helping to celebrate the return of life and fertility to the world.
What most of us today know about May Day is the Maypole Dance, this was another popular tradition from May Day. Although the exact origins of the maypole remain unknown, the annual traditions surrounding it can be traced all the way back to the medieval times and some are still celebrated today. Villagers would enter into the woods to find a Maypole that was to be set up fro the day in small towns. The days festivities involved merriment, as people would dance around the pole covering it in colorful streamers and ribbons.
With your students you can create your own classroom Maypole and dance together
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