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Seemed so simple

17 years 6 months ago #131952 by CrewChief
Replied by CrewChief on topic RE: Seemed so simple
jurijeka, is this a trick question? LOL :D

Your project sounds wonderful! It's sure to brighten up the school and make your teachers feel very special for many years to come.

All of my teacher appreciation projects turned out to be more work than I planned on. The most work was the Compliment Bags. Notes were given to students asking them to write nice things about their teachers on the bottom of the sheet and return them to school Then their messages were cut into strips and placed in gift bags that were decorated with their name, curling ribbons and a nice poem. And, of course, some Dove promises were thrown in for good measure. Whenever the teacher needed a smile or a gentle reminder about why teaching is so awesome they just had to take out a strip of paper and read it.

And you only have to make 60 of them, at the last minute because another project fell through, then your son gets the stomach flu, everyone hates the new librarian so nobody writes nice notes for her so you have to run up to school over lunchtime and beg some of your more compliant students to jot something down, then the special ed and resource teachers get their feelings hurt because you can't know who their kids are so they can't participate.....

Oh yeah, and not all kids are nice so you can't assume that whatever they write on the paper is nice so you have to read all 700 sheets that come back to make sure something rude, snotty or hurtful doesn't make it through....

But, in the end it was wonderfully received and appreciated by all the teachers and three years later they still have the bags on their desks.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some stay for awhile and leave footprints on our hearts. And we are never, ever the same."

"The ultimate aim of karate lies not in victory or defeat but in the true perfection of one's character."
17 years 6 months ago #131947 by jurijeka
Seemed so simple was created by jurijeka
I am in the middle of one of those projects that was such a great idea and now turning into hours and hours of mindless gluing. For teacher's appreciation we are making a banner with a poem on it. We had every child in the school trace and cut their handprint a different color per grade level. We are bordering the poem with the hands in rainbow order. After four hours I have Kindergarten and first grade done. 450 more little hands to go. It's going to be beautiful when it's done (what I keep telling myself) but my goodness!!

What projects have you gotten yourself into that seemed so easy - NOT!!
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