With Christmas coming, it’s time to finish up my daughter’s preschool teacher gifts! I like to do something homemade and then throw in a small gift card. Homemade items seem much more thoughtful, but with so many teachers, I can’t spend forever making gifts. I also can’t spend a ton of money on gifts because…
My mom turned 60 last weekend, so we had a huge shindig for her! I hate buying gifts for people because I never know what to buy for people who can buy for themselves anything I can afford for them. Thus, I usually turn to making homemade items that are thoughtful and fun. I decided…
If you have read any of my teaching posts before, you know I’m all about intrinsic motivation with my students. I honestly and truly believe that by motivating a student extrinsically you are setting them up for failure. Since I am opposed to just going out, spending money, and buying something just because, it is…
I really racked my brain for what to give my daughter’s preschool teachers as a thank you for putting up with my tiny dictator this year. She has four teachers, so I didn’t want to spend an arm and a leg on a gift–that adds up quickly! I wanted something thoughtful though to go along…
As a teacher myself, I feel like teacher appreciation week is a well-deserved week. Teachers put everything they have into their students. It is just who we are and it is nice to be appreciated. Both of my kids are young and in preschool. This means that each of them has 2-3 teachers. For me,…
When our daughter turned one, we threw her an amazingly large shindig. In retrospect, I cannot believe how elaborately I planned the one birthday she will never actually remember. But, I wanted her to have a special day, and in the event she grows up to hate Disney princesses (oh, what a travesty!), I got…