Gifts

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

Now is the time to think about making or purchasing a number of small, inexpensive gifts for the teachers and students we will be meeting in China and Japan.

Past study tour participants have worked with their own students in creating these small tokens. Bookmarks (featuring student art on California), booklets introducing themselves, as well as stickers and other small items have been popular.

Note that we will also need to bring more substantial gifts for some of our institutional visits, etc., but that we'll talk about this at the orientation.

Feel free to reply with suggestions and ideas on what kinds of gifts we can bring.

-Miranda

[Anonymous]

Are you suggesting perhaps a handful of "california" "u.s.a." key-chains and the like to handout to some of the students we meet? In Hollywood there are dozen of souvenir shops where we can pick out some inexpensive items. or are we talking about symbolic items like t-shirts from our elementary school? Children's books, or everyday items?[Edit by="dcolato on Apr 9, 6:33:43 PM"][/Edit]

[clay dube]

All kinds of things are appropriate for the middle and high schools we'll visit. Photos, hats, booklets, keychains, pencils, stickers, bookmarks, and a lot more are great. Things your students make will have more meaning for the recipient. It would be a good idea to bring the maker's email address, in case the recipient wants to write a thank you note. You might bring a yearbook as a gift to the school or just to show others.

[Anonymous]

Hello everybody,

This week is Barnes and Noble Teacher Appreciation Week, and teachers can get an 25% of all books. I bought a book on Los Angeles for a school gift for a pretty good price. Barnes and Noble always have nice coffee table books (especially in the Bargain Book area), so if anybody else wants to buy a school gift, this is a good place to look.

[Anonymous]

Recently I wrote an assignment for my students to create gifts. In addition to the bookmarks, students have created their own post cards by taking pictures of their favorite places around our school as well as the neighborhood. These students then have written notes to future students from China/Japan. Also students were given the option to create music CDs. As long as all songs were 'clean' my students selected their favorite songs, designed a cover and explained why they chose the playlist they did. This seems to have become the most popular option!

[Anonymous]

I did something similar. I gave "extra credit" if the kids made something or wrote letters with pictures that showed themselves. I kept what they made or wrote open to their own interpretation. I did explain who I was planning on giving these things to.

[Anonymous]

At the beginning of the school year I had students write bio poems and include a picture or draw a picture of themselves. As I was cleaning up last Friday I found them all and put them in a binder to show at schools. I had some luck in showing "Not One less" and then asking students to write notes on postcards I bought. I like Jaclyn's idea of having students create their own postcards with pictures around town. Our middle school yearbook would be a good idea if I can get one.

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