Coordinators update from Nov. 15

Lets see..........where to begin...., it wasn't that bad it just feels like we'll need next week to actually feel like we have some kind of handle on the situation :)

Thank you so much to Ed and Connie for helping out with registering everyone. That was so greatly appreciated. Thank you to Jocelyn and whoever else may have been involved in having all the DaySpring Families information filled out on yellow cards and name tags printed and compiled attendance sheet. That helped out tremendously.

Upon registering so many families in a timely manner I think I failed to stress to them to keep their yellow cards for future Sundays. Not sure how many will actually bring it back so I will probably be filling out new ones again. Also, we need more white Grace Kids Visitor Cards and also more CD's to hand out. I have a list of new families that did not get one. I will see that they each get one this coming Sunday.

We did tell all new families that the children are dismissed after worship. Apparently some individuals started heading out right after singing, probably aides, teachers etc, but this started a chain reaction with some of the new families thinking this was when they were to bring the children out. We did have a number of families come down with the children to empty class rooms. It was slightly awkward when they questioned us if the class would have teachers. Hopefully we can communicate better this Sunday that the children are dismissed following announcements. I was thinking on this later that asking teachers to come back as soon as singing is done would be a good spot for them to leave the auditorium. Some teachers do come back early but I would love to see all teachers in their classrooms when the children arrive. It just makes it so much nicer for the children and the parents to be greeted by the teacher. This should also apply to the nursery care givers. We had to pull two young girls to help with little ones who were waiting to be dropped off until the nursery aides arrived.

Regarding the attendance sheets. Would it be possible to print the sheets out up and down the long way making the grid narrower and longer, versus the shorter way and wider. That would allow for so many more names to be added and not use two sheets of paper. I believe the teacher's copies are going to be pretty much unreadable till the end of this month, especially after this past Sunday. I was still trying to figure out attendance and matching the right children up to the right class when parents started coming to pick up children. Hopefully next week I will actually feel like I know where everyone is atleast halfway through class. We had one little boy in EP we had no idea who he was, and he didn't tell us his name. He did have a name tag but apparently had come off at some point. It was not till the very end of the morning and we had finally checked off all the dayspring children that were here except this one lone little boy. Turned out he was the EP child!!!

Could Sherri Stehr have a new ID card made for her family. She has lost her card.

Regarding aides: I did not need him but just wondered if Dean Knepp should be taken off as he is probably needed to help with his own children since they are not going to CM currently. Also, note to myself but I'll pass along, yesterday we had tons of helpers wanting to help, in all the commotion of seeing where help was needed we ended up using two aides that were very vocal about wanting to help, but then we didn't use two individuals who were on the list assigned for yesterday. I feel bad about that and want to apologize to them, they both showed up and were assigned for yesterday but the more vocal eager helpers grabbed our attention. It was just extremely chaotic and decisions were made rather quickly.

Regarding the Christmas Choir children, we assume everyone was where they where supposed to be. We really couldn't even think about that!:)

Thanks for reading.
Galen and Teresa