Kindy christmas cards

[Bloom]

Just after some feedback and advice please. I got a note from the kindy saying that if the children want to give Christmas cards or candy canes please make sure they are not named and are handed into the teacher by this date.

I have seen other parents bringing in cards for their child to give to all the other children. I hadn't intended on doing this but I was wondering if it was weird NOT to. My DS1 won't be fussed if we don't - he's very easy going and as he is a year younger that all the other kids, he's not that switched on socially.

What do you think? Are kindy cards to fellow students a social "must do"? Or optional.

[~Kim~]

I never have. Totally optional I reckon. My DD1 has only shown an interest this year at the end of year 1. She did transition and two years of preschool before that and has never been interested before.
What the heck do they mean 'not named'?

[Astrid]

Thought it was optional. I try to avoid it, but DD2 sees her big sister doing them for school so she wants to herself.

The unnamed thing is odd. If anything it is a great chance for them to practise writing.

[Bloom]

Thanks lovelies.

The un named thing is so that the teachers don't have to spend hours handing out the right card to the right child. It can have the name of the child it is from but not a specific name for the "to". If that makes sense.

I am reassured that not doing them won't make me and my son a social outcast.

[Astrid]

Normally we just stick them in the pockets that newsletters go in as opposed to the teacher handing them out.

[HotI]

I wouldn't like the unnamed thing. the point of doing them (for us) is to chat to dd about what she did this year with that specific child, what message she would like to give them.