: Teacher appreciation week My 1.5 year old attends a private day-care/Montessori school. This is teacher appreciation week, and I am at a loss as to what to do to express my thanks. Since this is a day-care setting, even though

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Bring them something that they can share rather than individual presents.

Maybe you can bring them lunch or send cupcakes or chocolates or coffee.

Alternately, find out if there's something that the classroom really needs that they would benefit from. Teachers have a bad habit of spending their own money to enrich the school so saving them from that by finding out that the classroom really needs a new ____ might help.

At my son's school (also a small Montessori) they're celebrating all week by having parents sign up for potluck lunch/snacks. I think this is a really great idea. Maybe you can see if any of the other parents want to go in with you on something like this for tomorrow? You might check with the head of school to see if any of the teachers are vegetarian or have other dietary restrictions.

In future, it's always a great idea to talk with your other parents ahead of special times like this to see if they want to pool funds and then you can break that up among all of the teachers... so instead of you giving them each a gift certificate, as a group the parents can give them each a gift certificate (of course, depending on how much people can afford to give).