For extra's the teachers bring in, it's always related to little things with projects. For example, they did a big section on dinosaurs. At the end, they put on a Museum Night for parents to come in. They had fossil exhibitions in which the teachers bought clay fossils and the kids "excavated" them, then put the fossils together to see what kind of dinosaur they discovered. Little things like workbook pieces around holidays and stuff like that.
Our teachers also give gifts to the children around Christmas and again on Valentine's Day. These include things like books, notepads, pencils, etc.
The fossil thing seems really cool. Is this a public or private school ? I thought the workbook pieces (worksheets around a holiday theme) was pretty standard curriculum.
The teachers do give gifts during holidays -- usually it is grade level workbooks from the dollar shop.
I disagree Val. I never excluded a child from the card and quite honestly, because of that, I never kept track of who gave or didn't give and couldn't tell you today who gave or didn't give. It is the Humanitarian in me that is going to say that I choose to believe that most people would rather include children then penalize them for decisions made by their parents. And I really try to believe that most teachers would feel the same way.
While I agree with this, in general, I think some room moms can be pretty aggressive, for lack of a better word, when it comes to things that they are very vested in. I do think that excluding children from the card list is pretty standard practice -- maybe this is regional ?
