Coordinators report from July 26

A quiet morning as far as visitors go, no big glitches to speak of from the morning.

A few notes from the mornings happenings.

We are still having some difficulty interpreting this nursery/early pre/late pre school moving up situation. I saw a move up roster in the bin, I saw two cards in the box to be given to parents telling their child they can be moved up. Brandon and Sara Walker moved up their son Chase today from early to late preschool. We looked at the date sheet and neither the Walkers' nor I could quite figure it out. It seems like age wise he should move up, but the dates don't match up for him to move up. Sorry we are having problems with this, but Krin can't figure it out either, so we are not alone.

Skye Beckly showed up today to be an aide but we were well set, as Charolette Coulson also showed up as an extra and we used her as well as the others on the schedule. Skye asked if he could be put on the schedule?
I assured him his name will be added and someone will contact him.

Regarding aides, Bob Seasholtz requested always having a female aide, either with Myka or the extra aide be a female when he and Kevin Benett are teaching together in late preschool. The little girls are apprehensive with the two male teachers if no females are present. I think the policy would be to have a female be an aide with the two male teachers regardless.

We could use more Grace Kids Visitor information cards in the bin.

Regarding our coordinators meeting. Krin and I talked this morning and wondered if we could try and have it a week night to be able to have it sometime in August before the new Fall schedule starts? Also, I thought it might be a good idea to ask the teachers to share any concerns or questions they might have for the coordinators via e-mail that we could address at the meeting.

One concern we have we'd like to discuss at the meeting is the large class sizes. The kindergarten had 19 last week and 17 today and that class will be combined next year with another class (1st and 2nd grd.) It just appears like controlled chaos at times. One teacher told me it's just Bible babysitting! I think we really need to address this. We don't feel adding more aides to the room will solve anything. Just something we wanted to discuss at the meeting, also an idea for the Hub cards but we can wait to discuss that as well.

That's all for now. Till next week.
Galen and Teresa