Recipe for Teaching: Gifts

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I always like to give my students a little treat around the holidays. I already had two books, Creepy Carrots and The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin, for my students (both $1 books from Scholastic).

When I saw Jennifer from Crayons and Cuties in Kindergarten share the image below, I knew I needed to add the pumpkin brick kits to my gift as well!

Creepy Carrots and The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin were both found in the Scholastic Book Club book orders for only $1 each. I thought they would be perfect for my students and I love that Scholastic has their bonus points program to use toward purchases.

I ordered the pumpkin brick kits from Amazon. It looks like they are currently sold out, but they came in a pack with 15 for $14.99.

I added a gift tag and student gifts are ready to be passed out on Halloween!

If you would like to grab the gift tag to use, just click the image below!

*It is not editable so just sign your name and you are good to go.

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I love giving my students a little gift at the beginning of the year. Usually I give them their gift during Back to School Night or Open House Night. Oriental Trading has the CUTEST Camp Adventure Backpacks and camping pencils that I knew would be perfect for back to school gifts!

These adorable Camp Adventure Backpacks come in three different designs. There is an owl, bear, and raccoon design included within the dozen you get.

These types of backpacks are perfect for coloring books, toys, overnight trips, etc.!

Since I will be teaching pre-k this year, I made a little tag that says, "I can't wait for our pre-k adventure!"

I am so excited to give these to my new group of pre-k students! I think they will love them!

Your FREE Back to School Student Gift Tags (found below) includes tags for grades pre-k - 5th grade.

To grab your FREE download, just click the image below!

*I received these items from Oriental Trading, however thoughts and opinions are my own.

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If you are a teacher, you probably love Target just as much as I do! I LOVE shopping the Dollar Spot and I always find the cutest things for my classroom! My teammate told me that she was giving her students the Christmas wands from Target to her students for Christmas gifts and I thought it was the perfect idea! I made a gift tag that goes perfectly with the Christmas wands from Target.

So if you haven't been to the Target Dollar Spot lately, right now they have the cutest Christmas items out! These Santa, Snowman, and Reindeer Christmas wands were just too cute to pass up. They are only $1 each. They actually light up when you tap them on something, which I'm sure the kids will love. I'm going to tell them to use them as pointers while they are reading!

To get these tags ready, I just printed them on white cardstock. I also have a black and white version included in the FREE download. The black and white versions would look festive printed on green or red cardstock. I just used my paper cutter to cut the tags in half horizontally and vertically. Super easy! Then I used a hole puncher to punch a hole in the left corner of the tag. I found some festive ribbon, looped it through the hole on the tag, and tied it around the Christmas wand.

I included two different options for you to use. One version says, "Have a WAND-erful Christmas!" and one version says, "Have a WAND-erful Winter Break!" To grab your FREE download, just click the image below!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-kLuB6C2FdhNWdnYzQzalUyR2M/view?usp=sharing

You might also be interested in these gift tags that you can find in my Teachers Pay Teachers Store!

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Holiday-Gift-Tags-2232044

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Teacher-Gift-Tags-2041574

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/End-of-the-Year-Gift-Tags-1868576

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Gift-Tags-Bundle-2896179

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I love giving a little gift to my students on Back to School Night. I also love giving my teammates a little gift when we go back to school. I created a gift tag for a student gift, as well as a gift tag that you can use on a gift for your coworkers.

I picked up some bubbles from the Dollar Tree. They come in packs of 3 bubbles for $1. What a great deal! I printed the gift tag, punched a hole in the gift tag, and used some ribbon to tie the tag around the bubble. Such a fun back to school gift for my incoming kindergarten students!

I also like to give my teammates a little back to school gift. I had picked up these adorable buckets from Target sometime during the summer. I stuffed some purple tissue paper down in the bottom of the bucket, added a bag of mini Reese's cups (yum!), and a $5 Target gift card. Teachers LOVE Target!

If you want to use these gift tags just click the image below to grab your FREE gift tags for back to school gifts!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-kLuB6C2FdhUUp2aHF6UnI5OTQ/view?usp=sharing

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I love giving my family a little treat for the holidays! Starbucks has had the CUTEST holiday shaped gift cards lately! During Valentine's Day they had heart shaped gift cards that were so adorable. When I went to grab some green teas a few weeks ago (my favorite!), I noticed they had Easter egg shaped gift cards! I had the idea to make some gift tags to go along with the gift cards.

These are the tags that I gave my family for Valentine's Day, however they could really be used any time of the year for the coffee lover in your life! They would be perfect for a teacher gift and "Teacher Appreciation Week" is coming up in May (May 2 - May 6).

And these are the Easter gift card tags that I am giving my family.

Aren't those Easter egg gift cards just the cutest?!?! If you don't want to use Starbucks gift cards on the tags you could also use egg shaped candy and attach them on the basket. I'm sure someone would love to get a Reese's peanut butter egg as a little treat - yum!

I have included both gift card tags in this FREE download! Just click the image below to grab your FREE gift card tags!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-kLuB6C2FdhSnZVMVVFdGpJQUE/view?usp=sharing

If you are looking for more gift tags, be sure to stop by my Teachers Pay Teachers Store! I have End of the Year Gift Tags and Teacher Gift Tags that you might be interested in!

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We had tons of HOLIDAY FUN LEARNING in our classroom before the Winter Break and I wanted to share some of it with you!

Jingle Bell Math Chat I have blogged about Math Chats before and I just love doing them with my students. I posted the picture with the jingle bells and then we talked about what my students saw on the picture. You can see all of the ideas they came up with. Tons of learning in this simple activity.

Jingle Bell Problem Solving To go along with the Jingle Bell Math Chat, I brought in a box with 15 bells. Some of the bells were red and some of the bells were green. I had my students work to determine how many they thought were red and how many they though were green. They were able to use red and green cubes if they wanted to help them solve the problem. I also differentiated this activity by giving some students the recording sheet with 15 bells on it and some students a paper with a blank space to draw the bells independently.

Gingerbread Cookie Math We decorated gingerbread cookies with icing, chocolate chips, marshmallows, jelly beans, and m&m's. I had my students record how many of each candy they used. They ate their gingerbread cookie after decorating and recording the number of candies. Yum!

Student Holiday Gift Tags I gave my students a container of white Play-Doh (thank you Walmart for having Play-Doh for 50 cents a container) as a holiday gift with a tag that said, "Do you want to build a snowman? Happy Holidays!" I told them it was "Snowman building Play-Doh." They were super excited about it! If you want to use these resources with your students, just click the image below to grab them for FREE!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-kLuB6C2FdhVnVKQS1kbDRLd28/view?usp=sharing

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So I'm pretty sure all of us teachers have had that, "Oops I forgot deodorant this morning" or "Does anyone have any Tylenol" moment at least once in your teaching career!

I thought that image was too funny and goes perfect with this post. However, I do have to say that I am good about putting deodorant on every morning except that one time that I didn't and had to stop on the way to work for some...could have used a Teacher Emergency Kit that day! I have seen a few Teacher Emergency Kit posts on Pinterest and Blog Posts. Lori from Conversations in Literacy has a great Teacher Survival Kit post and includes a lot of great things in her kit! Well all of these ideas got me thinking and I decided to put together Teacher Emergency Kits for my teammates as Back to School gifts! I think the idea of an emergency kit is genius because we've all had those moments of needing something and not having it. I started off with getting the containers. I decided to go with the Sterlite shoebox size containers from Target. They are less than $1 each!

Next I headed over to the travel section because I knew there would be the perfect sized items for an emergency kit. Originally I just picked up a few things and then the list just kept growing! **You know your list of items has grown when your husband says to you, "I'm assuming these waters are for your Teacher Emergency Kits???" :)

Here is a picture of what everything looks like inside the kit:

Each kit has: *A bottle of water *2 mini bags of pretzels *1 box of m&m candy *Altoids *lint roller *Tylenol *deodorant *nail file *lotion *hair bands *dental floss *toothpaste/toothbrush *Tide to Go stick Here is a close-up of everything:

I'm excited to give these to my kindergarten teamies!! I may have also made one for myself!!

If you are thinking this is something you would like to make for your teammates, I am including the Teacher Emergency Kit label as a FREEBIE! Just click the picture to download! I laminated the labels and then hot glued them on the lid of the container.