Teacher Appreciation Week is coming up and this year I'm having a little bit of a problem coming up with ideas for each day because for the first time since I've been a room parent (this is my 8th year) one of my children has a male teacher. Anyone ever had to do this for a male teacher before and if so what kind of things did you do? The school head room parent gave out a list of ideas, but they are for women teachers since male teachers in elementary school is not as common. Here is what I have come up with so far:

Monday - bring in a candy bar (he's a chocoholic)
Tuesday - cards that the children made on Monday (will be in charge of the class for one hour on Mon while the teacher is at a special luncheon so I will bring in the supplies for the cards and have the kids make them at that time.)
Wednesday -
Thursday -
Friday - restaurant/movie gift certificates (I am coordinating with the room parent of his wife's class to get gift cards that they can use as a date night type of thing. She's a teacher at our school too.)

This school is very large and many of the families can not afford to spend much money. I can only ask for one $5 donation per family per year and I will be asking for all $5 from each family for the gift certificate for Friday. Any ideas for Wednesday and Thursday that the children can bring in, but will cost little to no money? TIA

By Yjja123 on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 04:54 pm:

Wednesday:
Please have your children write a list of the three things they love about their teacher

Thursday:
Please have your child write a sentence about the best thing that happened in class this year. It could be something they learned or a special day in class, etc.

By Yjja123 on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 04:57 pm:

Or....bring in a camera and take a class photo to present to the teacher.

By Tayjar on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 05:09 pm:

I don't know if you would have enough time to do this, but my DD had to do a 1/3 scrapbook page of herself for a student teacher. It was a picture of herself, things that would make the teacher remember her, and then some things that she would remember about the teacher. It was done at home.

Assign the students a letter of the alphabet and have them write down words that start with that letter that describe the teacher. Make up a display on the wall or outside the classroom.

By Tunnia on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 05:18 pm:

Thanks for the ideas so far and keep them coming! I forgot to add that this is a 2nd grade class and there are 20 children.

By Reds9298 on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 06:27 pm:

Those are such great ideas!! As a teacher, I would have loved all of those. I think they are perfect for either male or female.

My DH loves to get his truck washed at the fancy carwash, so maybe that? That's between $10-$16 here so I'm not sure if that will work in your budget or not.

I *love* all the previous ideas!