The month of February can be a loooooooong month! Sometime there are no breaks to look forward to. Judy Domeny Bowen sings about the February Teacher Blues in her album Teacher Therapy. What better way to liven up the month than to have a little fun?:)
The idea for Fabulous Friday’s in February came from a colleague of mine that is a principal at on the other Willard Schools. Rhonda does Fabulous February and does something for each day of the month. I am not able to keep up with that so i just do Fridays. You would have to decide what works for you. With everything that is going on with our economy and all the job stress, we need something to lift our spirits. Maybe you can tweak this to work for your school.
This year we are going to have a theme..”Guess Who?” You may have done a rendition of this in your school but I am going to lump them all together into 4 Fridays.
Below is the letter to the teachers. I put this on fancy Valentine paper and then put it in their mailboxes.
“We have a theme this year!!! Below is a list of the Fridays in February and the PICTURE that you need to bring to participate. Nikki will be creating a bulletin board outside the office that we will change weekly to display our mystery pictures. This is meant to be as little work for you as possible. Just for fun!!! You can start turning your pictures in to Nikki ASAP. If you do not have a picture you are welcome to check out my digital camera to take some. Each week there will be a “form/test” that goes with each theme for you to guess and turn in your answers. Since this will be in the hallway you are welcome to have your students help or play along.
Feb. 6 – Guess who’s…Feet?
Feb. 13 – Guess who’s…Spouse/Significant other?
Feb. 20 – Guess who’s…Pet?
Feb. 27 – Guess who’s…on Vacation?Secret Pals: We also have Secret Pals in February. This has been a lot of fun in the past so if you have never “played” let this be your year to try it out. Someone from Service Committee will come around for you to draw your secret pal Jan. 30 and the sneakyness begins Feb. 2nd. We will have the BIG REVEAL Monday February 23 after school. Everyone is welcome to come to the BIG REVEAL”
You are definitely right! The upcoming month can be a testy one for our teachers. Between benchmarks and a limited number of days off, this sounds like a wonderful idea to help keep up the moral of my school. Hope you don’t mind if I look in to doing something of this sort as well at my school. Thanks for the post.
Absolutely! That is why I do this to give others ideas and for them to share ideas with me. If anyone can get anything from this they are free to use it. You just have to let me know how it goes:):):)
I really like these ideas….nothing too time consuming (which is a huge plus for teachers)…and more importantly, it’s fun. I’m going to pass this on to my principal and hopefully we can get some this going on at our school. Keep up the good posts…I really enjoy listening to your podcasts.
If you need anymore ideas I would be happy to share.I may have to upload all my Feb. ideas to my blog because so many are interested in them. Thanks for listening and reading:):):)
I think these ideas are really awesome. But can you further describe Secret Pals? I’m really curious.
Thanks!
Bill, Many schools do the Secret Pal thing differently but here is what we do. The weekend before Feb. starts we draw for our Secret Pal. Our Social committee heads this up. If you choose to participate you have to fill out a form with all your favorite things so that your Secret Pall has something to go by.
For the whole month of Feb. everyone is leaving secret treats for their secret pals. In their mailbox, on their desk, on their car, in the hall by their classroom, sometimes we get pretty elaborate. Mostly it is just snack treats in the mailbox. It can be as big or small as you choose to make it. I like to give a treat to my secret pal every day. On Valentine’s Day there are some pretty elaborate gifts. On the very last day we have a celebration and you have to bring one last gift that you reveal yourself. I can’t remember how we start but you have to try to guess who your secret pal was before you take your final gift.
Every year is different. Not all the staff participates but they can all come to the reveal at the end because it is so fun.
One other school in our district does Secret Pals in December and/or just the week before Christmas. It’s pretty fun.
Let me know if you need more info.
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