Mother's Day Writing Activities for Kindergarten Students
Kindergarten is the perfect age for students to begin writing short but complete sentences, and holidays like Mother's Day are a perfect opportunity engage students' writing skills. Options abound for writing activities with kindergarten students, and these include everything from short books and stories to more traditional "Happy Mother's Day" cards.
A Book About Mom
One of the most straightforward kindergarten-level activities for Mother's Day is to have students write a "book" about their mom. At the kindergarten level, students certainly won't write the next epic, but they can write single-sentence pages that together create a story. Students can be given guidance with templates for each page, with prompts like, "Where does your mother like to go?" or "What does your mother like to do?" Students could fill in these pages with a drawing, and then write a short sentence like "My mother likes to go to the mall."
Happy Mother's Day! Card
Another easy and staightforward project is to have students create Happy Mother's Day cards for their mothers, with the stipulation that they must write at least one sentence in the card. Again here, students could be given a prompt to give them direction on how to write this sentence. For example, students could be told to write a sentence about what they like most about their mom, their favorite memory of their mom, or one of their mom's favorite foods. Students could then fill in the blank with a single complete sentence.
A creative idea for a Mother's Day gift is for students to create Mother's Day "coupons" to give to their moms. Unlike normal coupons, however, these coupons will not be redeemable for gifts or other items. Instead, the coupons could be exchanged for certain actions from the student. One coupon could say, "A kiss from Johnny," or another could say, "One hug from Susan." This allows students to be creative in what they want to give their mothers, though teachers could also provide a list to help students come up with creative ideas.
Mother's Day Poem
Another option that would allow students to write numerous sentences is to give studens an acrostic poem that they must complete. The words of the acrostic poem could vary, but some standard options include "MY MOTHER" or simply "MOTHER." For less advanced students, "MY MOM" or even "MOM" would suffice. From there, students can write a short sentence or even just a word next to each letter. So, for M, a student might write "My mom is pretty," and for O, "Orange is her favorite color."
Kevin Wandrei has written extensively on higher education. His work has been published with Kaplan, Textbooks.com, and Shmoop, Inc., among others. He is currently pursuing a Master of Public Administration at Cornell University.