Monday
Dec172007
Teacher Gifts
Monday, December 17, 2007 at 04:07PM
Speaking of Teacher Gifts (see Holiday Gift Idea - Under $10 - For Mom or Tea Lover)...
Between three kids at two different schools this year, 2nd, 5th & 7th grades, we have 26 (yes, TWENTY-SIX!) different teachers who spend quality time with our children nearly every day. That doesn't even include the Bus Driver and School Nurse (who we also spend a lot of time with -- they love Nurse Petty!); or the Principal and Assistant Principals and School Counselor at the elementary school, who 7yo ADHD Phenom has gotten to know very well. (I think they all have my cell phone number on speed-dial.) (So we 'owe', in appreciation, each of them a little something, too.) So that's, let me see, 31 people, 31 Gifts...
I try to recognize the primary and home room teachers, and the Bus Driver, with a small monetary gift ($20 gift cards), or I participate in the collective effort for the 5th grade "team", etc. This year, the 7th grader doesn't want to give anything to any of his teachers, but the 5th grade classes are adopting families as a community service project, so that's money (another gift card) in addition to everything else. Holiday generosity definitely has its limits, especially when you consider everyone else in the community outside of school who we'd like to appreciate in some small way.
For us, this is where the Gingerbread Armies come in each year...
It works out well, since I'm a Gingerbread Boy fanatic anyway, so we spend two or three Sundays in December making Gingerbread Boys, dozens and dozens, carefully decorating each delectable cookie with squeeze frosting, red & green sprinkles and Holiday M&Ms for buttons (and hands)(and feet -- you can never have enough Holiday M&Ms on a Gingerbread Boy!).
We either individually wrap them in small bags or saran wrap with ribbon, or take an Army-in-a-box to share at school, at work, for Holiday events, and to leave a box down at the desk in the lobby for our Concierges, Security Guards and Staff in our condo building (in addition to the collective effort/monetary donation by the condo association). More Gingerbread Boys are divvied into decorative tin boxes or gift bags for special delivery to our friends in Atlanta, always a great night to drive around, deliver cookies and look at holiday light displays.
It is a system that has worked for us for many years -- a cherished Holiday Tradition, and our giftees (year after year) seem to appreciate our little lovin' from the oven.
If you are still in a quandary over Teacher Gifts and such, check out a great article on www.GreatSchools.net: Gifts Teachers Really Want.
Happy Holidays -- and remember: Keep it Sane!! OTTMGD!
Between three kids at two different schools this year, 2nd, 5th & 7th grades, we have 26 (yes, TWENTY-SIX!) different teachers who spend quality time with our children nearly every day. That doesn't even include the Bus Driver and School Nurse (who we also spend a lot of time with -- they love Nurse Petty!); or the Principal and Assistant Principals and School Counselor at the elementary school, who 7yo ADHD Phenom has gotten to know very well. (I think they all have my cell phone number on speed-dial.) (So we 'owe', in appreciation, each of them a little something, too.) So that's, let me see, 31 people, 31 Gifts...
I try to recognize the primary and home room teachers, and the Bus Driver, with a small monetary gift ($20 gift cards), or I participate in the collective effort for the 5th grade "team", etc. This year, the 7th grader doesn't want to give anything to any of his teachers, but the 5th grade classes are adopting families as a community service project, so that's money (another gift card) in addition to everything else. Holiday generosity definitely has its limits, especially when you consider everyone else in the community outside of school who we'd like to appreciate in some small way.
For us, this is where the Gingerbread Armies come in each year...
It works out well, since I'm a Gingerbread Boy fanatic anyway, so we spend two or three Sundays in December making Gingerbread Boys, dozens and dozens, carefully decorating each delectable cookie with squeeze frosting, red & green sprinkles and Holiday M&Ms for buttons (and hands)(and feet -- you can never have enough Holiday M&Ms on a Gingerbread Boy!).
We either individually wrap them in small bags or saran wrap with ribbon, or take an Army-in-a-box to share at school, at work, for Holiday events, and to leave a box down at the desk in the lobby for our Concierges, Security Guards and Staff in our condo building (in addition to the collective effort/monetary donation by the condo association). More Gingerbread Boys are divvied into decorative tin boxes or gift bags for special delivery to our friends in Atlanta, always a great night to drive around, deliver cookies and look at holiday light displays.
It is a system that has worked for us for many years -- a cherished Holiday Tradition, and our giftees (year after year) seem to appreciate our little lovin' from the oven.
If you are still in a quandary over Teacher Gifts and such, check out a great article on www.GreatSchools.net: Gifts Teachers Really Want.
Happy Holidays -- and remember: Keep it Sane!! OTTMGD!
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