Twin brothers not included!Pete chose the "gold" shirt to wear on his first day! His teacher was very kind and seemed like she'll be great. When I asked Pete how the day was, he said, "It was Awesome!"
This year I did something new and created a "Teacher Survival Kit" to give Pete's 1st grade teacher as a gift on the first day back to school. I don't know where I got the idea, but I'm sure I must have read about it somewhere?! I included some helpful things for the teacher including: energy bars, emergency quarters for the soda machine, Tylenol, "Airborne" (the supplement that is supposed to prevent illness if you take it when you just start to feel a cold coming on), hand sanitizer (the good smelling stuff), lip balm, gum, a package of travel tissues in a cute homemade tissue holder, a homemade lanyard in a fun material (since the teachers have to wear their ID badges at school), some fun teacher stuff like stickers, cute post-its, and a fun apple shaped timer I found at Target's dollar spot. Anyway, I had a lot of fun being creative with it and I think it turned out really cute (of course I didn't get a good photo of it- darn)! I will make it a tradition to do every year from now on.
That teacher gift is such a cute idea. I used to love when I was younger, because my mom was a teacher and shed get all of these silly gifts so I would get them :). But I think she would have kept that one. Im glad Pete enjoyed his first day.
ReplyDeleteWow. That sure beats apple for teacher!
ReplyDeleteCool! Of course a past teacher can think of the perfect teacher gift! I'm sure your kids' teachers love you! Do you remember the Ruesh twins? They are our after-school custodians now, time flies!
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