Kindergarten is unlike any other school year. For most children, it's the first time they've spent a full day away from home, in a classroom, with a teacher who becomes — for those hours — the most important adult in their world. At the end of that year, the kindergarten teacher deserves more than a candle.
The challenge, of course, is that five and six year olds aren't exactly prolific writers. That's fine. This book is designed for exactly that.
You order it on Amazon — it arrives in 1 to 4 business days. When your child sits down with it, they'll find printed questions with spaces to write and draw. For kindergarteners, a parent can write the words under dictation: "Tell me what you want to say, and I'll write it for you." Your child draws the pictures. Those drawings — crayon sun, lopsided house, teacher with curly hair — are exactly what makes this gift irreplaceable.
Then you film a short video. Your child says a few words to their teacher, you upload it by scanning the QR code inside the book, and no account is needed.
When the kindergarten teacher opens the book and sees those wobbly drawings and hears that small voice in the video, something happens that a gift card simply cannot do. She sees herself through the eyes of a child who just spent their first year trusting someone outside their family.
The book also includes lined pages and to-do pages for daily use — practical as well as sentimental. Videos are automatically deleted 7 days after first viewing, or 2 months if never viewed.
Kindergarten only happens once. This book captures that year in handwriting that will never come back.
