Kids love this about Mom
Kissing ouchies, making delicious chocolate pancakes and taking their families to Walt Disney World are just a few things that first and second graders in Butler County love about their mothers.
At Chicora Elementary School, Angie Fritch's first-grade students wrote 10 things they know and love about their moms for Mother's Day, everything from their first name, their favorite color, their favorite food and their hobbies.
They will be typing those lists and putting them all together to make a heart-shaped craft.
Many children said they appreciate their moms because of the home-cooked meals they make.
“She's good at making lasagna,” said Audrey Thorpe, 6. “She cooks my dinner. She takes me shopping.”
Seven-year-old Hayden Coone, in another first-grade class at Chicora, said his mother makes world-famous spaghetti.
He's expecting to help out on Mother's Day with housework she usually does.
“Men have to do all the work,” which includes washing dishes, Hayden said.
Some students are thankful for just about everything their moms do for them.
“I love my mom because she always takes care of us. She gives us toys, clothes, and takes us to McDonalds. I love that place,” said Wyatt Lowers, 7.
Down the hall in Carol Hutchinson's class, first graders are giving spider plants to their moms. They were putting them in pots.
One of her students, 7-year-old Jackson Feicht, said he loves his mom because she tells him to keep trying. When he was learning how to ride a bike, sometimes he still needed training wheels. Sometimes he fell.“She helps me when I get hurt sometimes. She's there for me,” Jackson said. “She tells me to try and try again.”It's important to show mom she's appreciated, too.“It gives mothers excitement for having a happy time with her children,” he said.Meanwhile, in the southern end of Butler County at Mars Elementary School, Kelli Schiffhauer preps her second-graders for an annual Mother's Day tea time she hosts in her classroom. Students write letters, sing songs and serve their moms tea and cookies.Schiffhauer also plans to read several illustrated mom-centric books to the group, including “Love You Forever” by Robert Munsch, “My Mom is Great” by Gaby Goldsack, and “No Matter What” by Debi Gliori.“Education starts at home,” Schiffhauer said. “Moms make a ton of sacrifices for their kids.”Her second-graders busily wrote letters to their mothers that they will give during the Mother's Day tea.“Whenever I make messes, she cleans them up. Sometimes I leave my toys out,” said Natalie Paramalingam, 8. “She tells me to (clean) but I don't.”
Some appreciate even the simple things.“She feeds me and gives me water,” said Reese Felicetti, 8.She said macaroni and cheese is her favorite meal that her mom makes, and sometimes she even helps her make it.Her classmate, Braden Cunningham, has a different favorite food that his mother makes.“She takes me to my ice skating lessons and she feeds me chocolate chip pancakes everyday,” said Braden, 8.Sometimes he eats chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast and dinner. He's also learning how to play ice hockey.Seven-year-old Grace Paul loves her mother for many reasons.“I think it's important to have Mother's Day because she doesn't have to deal with my brother killing me and we should thank moms because they were there for all our lives,” she said. “And when she does everything for my birthday, she pays everything for it.”Eight-year-old Logan Truitt said it's important that Mother's Day is a holiday.“It's like her birthday,” he said. “So we celebrate it.”
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