{"id":681,"date":"2016-08-14T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/educatingamerica\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2016-08-14T10:00:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T10:00:34","slug":"back-to-school-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/2016\/08\/14\/back-to-school-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to School Shopping???"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wrote this last year and felt it was worth repeating.<\/em><\/p>\n

If you’re out and wandering through the back-to-school sales, consider making additional purchases.\u00a0 Toss extra ‘somethings’ into your basket that you can give to a school or a shelter for a deserving student. Here are a few ideas:<\/p>\n

a beginning kit for a budding author (notebook, pen, pencil, eraser)<\/p>\n

art supplies (watercolors, an art tablet and colored pencils)<\/p>\n

student study aides (dictionary, thesarus, atlas of maps)<\/p>\n

something for an athlete ( band-aids, shoe laces, a water bottle)<\/p>\n

a tote or backpack, a pencil pouch filled with pencils<\/p>\n

Think of how you feel when someone gifts you and you’re not expecting it! Your small, caring gift may be just what a student needs to begin the first day\/week of school. It’s a first step into showing a students that you value education enough to step forward.<\/p>\n

I suggest you wrap it in a clear plastic bag (so the person who hands it out can see the contents and give it to the appropriate child) and write a brief note, something like:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0 Welcome back to school! I’ve selected a few items to get you started. Enjoy your year! (signed, A Friend)<\/em><\/p>\n

FYI: I discovered I could make a contribution at my Dollar Store’s annual back-to-school drive by selecting items and paying for them as I checked out. Of course I couldn’t add a note, but I know somewhere, children will enjoy the small white boards I gave to the effort.<\/p>\n

Ready to do MORE?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sign up to help in a classroom near where you live of work. An hour a week can help a teacher support 1, 2, 3 or a group of students. Your time is an amazing gift; even better than a box of crayons!<\/p>\n

Let me know how you decide to help. I’ll share our list of ideas next month. Maybe we can all make this back-to-school donation an on-going idea as we shop.<\/p>\n

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I wrote this last year and felt it was worth repeating. If you’re out and wandering through the back-to-school sales, consider making additional purchases.\u00a0 Toss extra ‘somethings’ into your basket that you can give to a school or a shelter for a deserving student. Here are a few ideas: a beginning kit for a budding\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,18],"tags":[134,52],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-thoughts","category-ways-to-support-classrooms","tag-back-to-school","tag-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/educatingamericablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}