If school isn't out for your kids yet, it will be soon. The end of the year is bearing down on us! And along with all the end-of-year activities like honors assemblies and field days, there is one very important thing to think about: the gift for your child's teacher.
Maybe you're lucky and everyone chips in for a gift, but more than likely you or your child has to figure something out. I've talked to lots of teachers about this, and the consensus is: Gifts are not expected, but nice to have and much appreciated....and, please, lose the apple motifs.
I've given my children's teachers gift cards to Starbucks or to a bookstore with a nice note saying I hope this will buy them a treat to relax with after a long year. Teacher friends have told me that they really appreciated a gift card to a restaurant or something handmade by a student. And almost all teachers say their most treasured gifts have been notes from their students thanking them for something specific they taught them.
What are you getting your child's teacher? If you are a teacher, what have been your favorite gifts?
We made baskets for teachers and put in lots of stuff they might have run out of and some fun stuff too. The teachers loved them.
If my child wants to/mentions it, we will get his/her teacher a gift. I'd probably give my LO a few options. For example, bake/make something, gift card, or go shopping and pick something for them together. Their choice. However, if my child shows no desire or I ask them (and they don't want to), I wouldn't give a gift.
What a great idea! I thought about doing this as well, but I like the thought of putting stuff in them.
Quoting mom2jessnky:
Teachers are getting Thirty One thermal totes (for their lunch!) filled with school supplies. Pencils, Kleenex, Stickers, ets and some candy, cause what's a gift without sugar?
i'd like some of those! ;o)
Quoting MixedCooke:
homemade dark chocolate espresso brownies with pecans
doing a group gift of a basketball for DD 14's teacher .... Because he started a wonderful after school basketball program for the kids this year .... gave DS10's whole class a trip to the local pool & a BBQ in the park .... DD 16 is in high school and has like 8 teachers and only one who she really got to know well so we might get her a gift next year when DD 16 leaves for college ...
As a teacher I will say gift cards are most practical.
Nick-knack type things are hard because over the years we get so many, we run out of room for them. I still have things I get from kids in the 90s. I just can't bring myself to get rid of them.
The thing that means the most are the notes of appreciation. I would rather get that than any thing else.
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on May. 31, 2012 at 12:00 AM