It's Teacher Appreciation Week at the elementary school this week, so as Whitney's class room mother I was supposed to bring supplies for the kids to make thank you cards for the teacher. I have done this for the past couple of years, but have been dissatisfied with the generic cards the kids made and wanted to come up with something different this year. But that means I needed an idea...
Eureka! I was lying in bed last week when I got the idea to make a sheet with questions about the teacher on it, so the kids could fill in the blanks and then draw a picture on the bottom. Then I could put the sheets in a book rather than handing the teacher 24 cards. Aha.
I spent an hour in class with the kids (while the teacher was at a PTA sponsored breakfast) yesterday helping them fill out their sheets, color their pictures and sign their names.
I brought markers for them to use to write their names on a sheet of paper, and could not believe how crazy they went with them.
Surprisingly it was the boys that really went to town with the markers (what the?).
I loved seeing how seriously some of the kids (especially Whitney) took the picture drawing portion of the sheet. Also,
Here is Whitney's finished picture.
Here are Whitney's answers to the questions. Every single kid said that Miss Rosell was nice, that's got to make her feel good right?
This is the finished picture from one of the girls in the class. She took the entire amount of time to finish. I think it's so adorable that she drew a picture of her and the teacher holding hands.
When my hour was over, I went to the teacher workroom and had an aide show me how to bind the book. It was super easy and meant that the book was complete in an hour's time. Woohoo! I had Whitney deliver the book along with a bag of Cadbury Eggs (for good measure) today, so I don't know what her teacher thought, but I really hope she liked it.
**Can you believe this constitutes a big idea for me?
Are you a Kristi Wannabe too?
What do you think?**
Are you a Kristi Wannabe too?
What do you think?**
