{"id":1287,"date":"2012-05-08T14:19:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T18:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/abc\/?p=1287"},"modified":"2012-05-08T14:19:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T18:19:18","slug":"may-8-teacher-appreciation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/abc\/2012\/05\/08\/may-8-teacher-appreciation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"May 8 \u2013 Teacher Appreciation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1289\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/abc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2012\/05\/teacher-appreciation-week-day-20121-150x1371.jpg\" alt=\"teacher-appreciation-week-day-20121-150x137\" width=\"150\" height=\"137\" \/><\/p>\n<p>May 8 \u2013 Teacher Appreciation Day<\/p>\n<p>Today is a day to honor teachers \u2013 if your child is in school he or she might want to make a card for the teacher.\u00a0 Preschool age children 3-5 love playing school.\u00a0 Let the child be the teacher and read you a story or give you homework.\u00a0 You might want to invite some dolls or stuffed animals into the classroom as well.\u00a0 You may also want to check out some other ideas by going to the <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/aupairinamerica\/school\/\">APIA School pinboard<\/a> for lots of teacher appreciation gift ideas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 8 \u2013 Teacher Appreciation Day Today is a day to honor teachers \u2013 if your child is in school he or she might want to make a card for the teacher.\u00a0 Preschool age children 3-5 love playing school.\u00a0 Let the child be the teacher and read you a story or give you homework.\u00a0 You  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/abc\/2012\/05\/08\/may-8-teacher-appreciation-day\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[420,501],"class_list":["post-1287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pinterest","tag-teacher-appreciation-day-teachers-teacher-kids-school-children"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>May 8 \u2013 Teacher Appreciation Day - ABC Blog (Annapolis, Baltimore &amp; 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