Oh, I like the recipe for success...I want to use that idea! We have a dinner at a location away from school so the teachers can eat and relax, talk with their friends and not be rushed. They love it! We also donated money to our school library. I am planning on printing up pictures that the kids can color and have them write a reason they think their teacher is great on the bottom of the picture. Hopefully I can get these up in the hallways near the teacher's rooms. I am also about to start on a donation letter for area businesses to donate an item for our dinner, for a drawing. We usually have paperplates for their deserts, so we draw an X for each prize that we collect, then after the teacers have eaten their dessert, we ask them to turn their plates over and look for the X. It's a fun and fair way to win prizes as the deserts are of different assortment and brought out on trays.
We had our students write notes to their teachers and also "special others" on cut out stars. Then all the stars were pasted on the front doors by the room moms. It was great fun. We also do a "top 5" where we get each grades top 5 things they need and spread the word for the parents to send in those donations.
We did a "Teacher thank you thursday" where we encouraged parents and children to write a thank you note the Thursday of Appreciation week to go into the teacher and a "recipee for success" day where parents were asked to send in a favorite recipee for the teachers to use in a crunch.
As a PTO we also provided ice cream sundaes for one lunch, a luncheon that wednesday that was a deli--icious deli food spread....
We are having a luau for our teachers and staff this year. I'm going to have our children write letters and poems, draw pictures, and maybe decorate their classrooms with homemade decorations. I think it's important to get the kids involved. I might even have the kids make Hawaiian themed decorations that can be used in the lounge during the luncheon. We are going to have the fifth graders make announcements during that week and say nice things about their favorite teacher. Good luck.
This is my first post, so let me start by thanking everyone who participates here and makes it such a great resource!
Well, it's that time of year again -- time to plan for Teacher Appreciation Week -- and this year I'm the nervous newbie on the hook for pulling off a great set of events. In the past, our PTO has generally held a themed luncheon for all teachers and staff and that has been received well, but I'd like to try to get our kids (K-8) actively involved in the week.
Does anyone have ideas for integrating the students in the celebration week? Any particularly good (or bad) experiences out there with this?
