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The perfect DIY craft for teacher appreciation week: personalized gift card holders!
Crafts & DIY

DIY Gift Card Holders – Teacher Appreciation Week

Next week (May 1st-May 5th) is Teacher Appreciation Week!  Being a teacher is often underestimated.  It’s a tough job, with lots of demands and even more responsibilities.  Teachers are tasked with caring for our most valuable and precious community members.  We spend our day in school, and our nights marking or filling in report cards, planning for the next day or gathering thoughts for parent interviews.  It’s a taxing job, but a rewarding one!  Every so often, little tokens of gratitude help to brighten our day.  If you have a great teacher or know one that you want to thank, I’ve got the perfect DIY for you to try out: Gift Card Holders! Materials NeededContinue reading

Teaching Ideas & Inspiration, Writing

Parts of a Letter – Poster & Worksheet Set

I love teaching kids about writing letters.  It feels like a lost form of communication in our time, but it’s still an important and relevant writing genre.  Students will need lots of examples to show them the various components of a letter.  It also helps to have students do lots of practice and write to famous authors, public figures, family members or to each other.  Here is my Parts of a Letter – Poster and Worksheet set, available on Teachers Pay Teachers: This is a great way to visibly show students each part of a letter.  Each section is labelled and has a coordinating explanation card, which further details what each section is and providesContinue reading