[kas327]

So this week we celebrated the 5th graders' 1000th day of school. I took the idea from some of my fellow PTers to do 1000 Valentine's cards for those in need. We were going to send them a children's hospital, nursey homes, a shelter for battered women, ect. Well, we worked on them, but they were not done during the time that I gave them. So, while I was working on RTI with a group, the rest of my class was working on the cards. I guess others in the district found out, a parent complained, and now we can no longer create these cards. If the kids want to finish, then they have to come in for recess or do them at home.

[Quatro]

This project supports so many curricular activities next time send a note highlighting which areas it supports so it is curriculm based. Scrooges are everywhere.

[musicbug]

Have the local newspaper take a picture of this project and mention that the kids had to give up recess to complete it. You'd get a bit of support, but the powers that be might get put out.

[Adamston3rd]

I simply do not understand some people's opposition to things? Did they give you an actual reason or just that a parent complained? It is a downright dirty shame that literally 1000 people will "lose out" because of one parent complaint...

I hope your students complete the project and prove themselves successful. (Perhaps you could through a geometry lesson in and discuss the symmetry of hearts...then accidental glue them on pieces of construction paper that are folded in half, then in Writer's workshop you could do a poetry lesson which they write inside their folded math papers)....

LK

[hot4teachr]

If you have 25 kids...Thats 40 cards per kid..Say they take 10 minutes per card- That is a whole lot of class time....I would never think it would be ok to use that much class time either. Sounds like a nice idea, but that would never be approved when I submit my lesson plans..

..If you have multiple classes that may be a different story though.