Teacher Appreciation Week Ideas
- Decorate the classroom door
- Have all the children bring a flower and fill a vase
- Make cards for the teacher. You could include prompts such as: I love Teacher X because…, I love my grade because…, Teacher X has taught me…, etc.
- Poster with words describing teacher (get the words from the kids)
- Collect pages from kids describing what they like best about their teacher (send pages out the week before) and make a laminated book. (Take to Kinkos, for instance.)
- Buy light colored pot and use indelible markers for the kids to sign the pot before putting in a plant.
- Make a poster with the words “Teacher X, We’re Stuck on You Because” and collect quotes from the kids (via email) that you put on post-it notes and attach to the poster.
- Make an acrostic poem. Take the letters of Teacher X and send parents an email giving each child a letter and asking that they get a word or phrase from the child that starts that letter. (Pia might get E and say "excellent" or "energetic" and Ben might get T and say "Teaches fun things" or "Takes time to explain"). Parents email you the words. Use the words to create the poem: “T is Terrific and Teaches fun things” “E is Excellent and Energetic”, etc. Print the poem on nice paper and put it in a frame.
