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Teacher Appreciation

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Teacher Appreciation Week is coming up at the beginning of May (May 4-8th).  It’s a wonderful time to express gratuitude to your kids’ teachers for all of the time and energy they put into preparing and teaching.   Some of my favorite gifts as a teacher were book store gift cards (to stock up on books for the classroom), thank you notes from the student, or dinner gift certificates for a relaxing Friday night.

There are many websites that have collected great ideas for thoughtful gifts for Teacher Appreciation Week.  Here are a few of the best ones:

Volunteer Spot–this one even includes a PDF of the greatest teacher gifts divided into season and category!

Tip Junkie has compiled lots of ideas for personalized teacher gifts

Teachers’ Tips gives a list of unique gifts for teachers

I’d love to see any other ideas that you may have or gifts you have given in the past!!

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Earth Day Printables and Activities

I know doing printables for Earth Day doesn’t sound very eco friendly, but it does give you a chance to talk to kids about how you can make the classroom or the home a little greener by only printing what you need, using low ink or only black and white printing, printing on the back of other pages, using recycled paper and recycling what you can when you are done.

These Earth Day printables help kids learn about Earth Day or use earth designs.

Pre-K Pages has Earth Day math printables, including a dice rolling game with a recycling theme, graphing, number grouping and sequencing activities.

123 Homeschool 4 Me has a variety of printables for Earth Day including writing prompts, plant life cycle worksheets and links to other activities.

A Dab of Glue will Do has a little printable emergent reader book that explores the basics of Earth Day and some things we can all do to be kind to the planet. You can print it in color or black and white and have kids color it themselves.

Speaking of coloring pages, Preschool Mom has a collection of coloring pages with color versions that you can use as posters in the classroom as well as having kids color the black and white ones.

I love all the printable hands on activities from Differentiated Kindergarten, which help kids build fine motor skills with an Earth Day twist. You’ll find printable mats for use with playdough, geo boards, snap cubes, pattern blocks and Legos, as well as a Q-tip painting activity. You can get these when you sign up for emails.

Here are a few more quick printable Earth Day activities for your kiddos:

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