| Buying an end of the year gift for a special | | | | bracelets. We were sure that unlike other charm |
| teacher can be a difficult task to for sure. This | | | | bracelets she may have, this one was going to be |
| year instead of the same old coffee mugs, | | | | very personal and unique. |
| calendars and desk sets I deciding to do | | | | Since school, teachers and kids seemed to be the |
| something a bit special. My son's teacher loves | | | | most appropriate theme, we started looking |
| jewelry and always has some very unique | | | | through books on charm bracelets that showed |
| bracelets on, so I decided to talk to the other | | | | various ways to arrange the charms. We also got |
| Mom's and see what they thought about a class | | | | some great ideas for special teacher charms. |
| gift. Charm bracelets are so in fashion and | | | | Apples were big on all the teacher themed charm |
| versatile that I thought this would be the perfect | | | | bracelets. Several of the kids picked out apples of |
| match. | | | | all different sizes, shapes and styles. There were |
| There are so many different designs, styles and | | | | also charms that included books, pencils and |
| types of charm bracelets that we had to try to | | | | number one teacher messages. |
| narrow it down. All of us Moms started looking at | | | | All of us Moms got together and selected a disk |
| what type of jewelry the teacher seemed to like | | | | type of charm that we engraved with the year |
| and we agreed on a very simple yet beautiful | | | | and a special message of thanks from the |
| single strand type of bracelet. There were some | | | | parents. Since the class had done some neat |
| votes of gold charm bracelets and some for | | | | projects and gone on some great field trips we |
| silver, so that was the next big decision. | | | | also included these types of charms. |
| Two weeks before the end of the year class | | | | At the end of the year class party the kids were |
| party we met and decided that Ms. Murray wore | | | | thrilled when Ms. Murray opened her gift and told |
| more silver than gold, so we agreed to select | | | | them how much she loved charm bracelets. The |
| from a variety of silver charm bracelets we all | | | | message charm as well as each charm from the |
| liked. | | | | kids looked just beautiful. This was such as hit as |
| Since each one of our children had different likes | | | | a class gift I am going to consider charm |
| and favorite things about school, we decided that | | | | bracelets for other teachers in the future. |
| each child should add his or her own charm to the | | | | |