May 24 - Jazz Day, Morse Code and Pickles
Sunday, April 28, 2013 by Shelley Miles
recipes, May Activiites

International Pickle Week
No matter if you like them sweet or sour, celebrate the pickle! Eat them alongside hamburgers or hotdogs, or add relish (which is basically chopped up pickles, after all) to egg or tuna salad.

And you don’t need to fuss with brine and sterilized jars to make pickles at home. Here’s a recipe for refrigerator pickles that will have you enjoying their crunchy goodness within twenty-four hours.

Give your child a taste of the cucumbers before and after pickling, and ask him or her to describe the difference in tastes.

1. Peel 3 pickling cucumbers.
   
2. Slice them thinly, and place in a bowl.
   
3. Add 1 thinly sliced sweet onion.
   
4. In another bowl, mix together 3/4 cup sugar, 1/2 cup of cider vinegar, 1/4 teaspoon of salt, and 1 teaspoon of celery seed.
   
5.  Pour the mixture over the cucumbers and onions. Cover the bowl, and refrigerate for 24 hours before eating.

May 31 Memorial Day, Macaroon Cookie Day
Sunday, April 28, 2013 by Shelley Miles
May Activiites, recipies

American Flag Cake

Supplies
Rectangular cake pan
White cake mix (bake according to instructions)
White frosting Fresh blueberries
Fresh strawberries
Whipped cream

Preparation
Frost a rectangular cake with white frosting.
Place the blueberries in the upper left corner to form a square.
Place the strawberries in rows to make seven stripes across the cake. Use the tip of a whipped cream dispenser to make little stars on the blueberries.

Easy Macaroon Cookies

Try this delicious Easy Macaroon Cookies recipe. You can also add a few drops of food coloring for beautiful and colorful treats.

May 10 - Wndmill Day, Clean Up Your Closet Day
Saturday, April 27, 2013 by Shelley Miles
Windmill Day, Clear Up Your Closet, May Activiites

Windmill Day - Wind is the fastest growing source of electricity in the world. It's often one of the least expensive forms of renewable power available. The wind is always blowing somewhere. People have been using windmills for 5,000 years. Then, they were often used to grind grain into flour. Now windmills are more often used to generate electricity. Make these wind chimes out of plastic cutlery and hear the power of the wind.

Clean Up Your Closet Day - You can tidy up your closet and keep your kids happy all at the same time. Let them try on all of Mommy and Daddy's old clothes and play “pretend”. You will be surprised how long this will keep them entertained. They can help you sort through your belongings and decide what you're going to keep and what will go to charity or to the ragbag. If they take a particular shine to an old shirt or tie, let them have it for their dress-up box.

May 12 - Limerick Day, Mother;s Day, School Nurses Day
Saturday, April 27, 2013 by Shelley Miles
School Nurses Day, Limericks, May Activiites

The limerick is the only form of verse native to English. And - they are fun and funny to say!

Here's a favorite tongue twister: Can you say this three times without laughing?

• You have been accused of growing head lice and planting them on specific children, just to annoy the parents.
• You have questioned a child as to what their vomitus looked like (Was it lunch or just nasal drainage?).
• You provide free day care for sick children who apparently have no parents from 8AM to 3 PM.
• You don't have to ask a child if he forgot to take his medicine at home before school, because you scrape him/her off your desk, walls, file cabinets, even the ceiling!
• You use technical terminology like "Does it hurt real bad?
• You personally know of more than one family that has moved to be away from you and your head lice policy.
  
• You have had to explain to administration that there are rules and regulations you must follow that supersede what a principal tells you to do. ("What do you mean, Nurse Practice Act?")
  
• You are a lot more patient in September than in May.
  
• Children will look at you in Walmart and say, "Look, Mom! It's the bug lady."
  
• You have had to explain to a parent that eggs and nits are the same thing. ("My child doesn't have nits, those things are just eggs.")
  
• You give out love as often as Bandaids.
  
• You wish teachers would understand that you don't really need to see a student with a six day old hangnail, or chapped lips, or sore pierced earring holes.
  
• You could possibly earn more working at McDonald's (better tips, fewer crabby parents).
  
• You have had to explain to a parent that children do not fake temperatures of 104.3º.
  
• You really wish the superintendent/principal would do your job just for one day.
  
• You wish you could really tell parents what you think, just one day of the year.
  
• You start counting the days till summer vacation while you're home for Labor Day weekend.
  
• You cry when you think of what some of your students go home to.
  
• You know that you really and truly make a difference in the life of some child. 
• and that is really and truly why we are school nurses!

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