Thank You Notes

I am sure most of you are familiar with the Flat Stanley project. It is a fun activity I have my first graders do toward the end of the school year.  We send out our Stanleys and wait patiently for our family members and friends to send them back.  While we are waiting we read a variety of Flat Stanley chapter books.  

After all the Flat Stanleys are returned it is time to write to our family members and friends a thank you note.  Thanking them them for all their efforts in writing back about Stanleys' adventures. 

I think is a good chance to teach the importance of writing a thank you note as well as teaching how to write a letter.  

Thank You Cards

Sorry I disappeared from blogging for a while.  Just like all teachers I was overwhelmed with school work and life.  I was literally making it day by day with school work I felt like I was correcting, recording, listening to running records, recording some more and prepping the next day.  When I arrived home I had to work on my gifts for my students......their little picture books.  It was school work non-stop.  I did take a lot of pictures of the end of the year and hopefully I can share them with you soon.

At the end of the school year my class gave me the cutest gift, a coach wristlet.

It is so cute.  I just love it.  

So I went to Walgreens to find a class thank you note and they had this adorable card.

It was so easy to create.  I just picked fourteen pictures from my Walgreens account and then placed them in the card.  I wrote personal thank you on the back of each card.  

I only wish I had one for myself, but they were 20 cards for $19.99 and I have 20 students.  I think this card is the perfect way to say thank you for a wonderful school year.  

Thank You Crossing Guards

A Big Thank You

This week we are making cards for the crossing guards to thank them for helping us cross the streets safely.

It is a big task.  

These wonderful people are out in the

rain

Snow

And heat

Just to make sure my little ones make it across the busy streets without problems.  

We are grateful!

(Crossing Guard Images are from Google Images)

Thank You Volunteers

I had many volunteers this year, however several came every week.  So my little ones made a little thank for my weekly volunteers.  We had six volunteers who came every week so this was a big project.  Our theme was owls this year so we tried to make owls.  My daughter thinks they look like monsters.

Last year my theme was frogs....

I think this is a cute idea.  I like that the children each have a part in creating the thank you gift.

Thank You Ideas

I need to start remembering where I find these good ideas from....but right now I am working with my class to make thank you gifts for classroom volunteers and room moms.    It is getting hard to think of new ideas every year.  I think I might try something like this for  the cover of the thank you cards.