Sunday, August 22

Hi gang -
Very busy day yesterday. Especially the nursery. We had one nursery aide call us in the morning and said she couldn't make it in that day, so we needed to replace her, and then there were two more "no-shows" for the nursery, so that really left us scrambling as parents were coming (and of course there were visitors!)

• We need to remove Ethan Benner (now a teacher) from the aide list, and Danny Meulners and Skye Beckley as well (college).
• Connie - we could use more animal crackers.
• Jocelyn, in the fall, please leave Julia Smith in the Kindergarten class (parent's request), and also, could you add Sebastian Araujo to the permanent roster? (birthdate 1/5/10) And also, could be have extra coloring sheets for the kindergarten class? They are usually about 5 sheets short each week.
• We need a new ink cartridge for our copier machine on our cart. It ran out this week as we were trying to make extra coloring sheets.

I think that's all. Enjoy your week! ~ Steve & Krin

Aug. 15th CM Report

Switching gears from Youth Camp to CM blog :)

Our nursery situation sounds like it is repeating itself. Last week we had 16 babies and 8 aides/helpers we pulled, in the room. Just way too many. It is very difficult to know what to say when visitors are apprehensive to leave their child because of how full it is in that room. It is very awkward for me to know what to say when the parent is hanging around in the hall and just unsure weather they feel okay to go back in the service.

Regarding aides: Danny Meulners and Kaitlyn were no shows on Sunday. I guess we can probably remove Danny, maybe you already did that. Also, we had two aides show up, Brandon Knechel and Monica Kemmerer who both said they were on for aides but were not sure when they were scheduled. We obviously used them both, but I wasn't sure if they get a schedule or are they to go to the website and find it out on their own. Just wanting to let you know these individuals had no idea when they were on.

A note from Stacy Smith regarding the Late Preschool class. She said they could really use some more toy cars/trucks, anything with wheels for the little boys in the class. The cars and trucks are favorites among the boys and she said they just don't have that many.

I guess that's all for now, onto my unending mounds of laundry!!!!

Teresa

Replay of Sunday, August 8, 2010

It was another crazy morning , this time the nursery. We had several visitors again this week with babies...so, their screams added to the couple of usual criers we have made for a stressful start. All the nursery aides were occupied trying to console a screamer with more parents waiting to hand their baby over so I went in to try to help. After a little time in there I needed to get working on attendance so I brought the child out with me and Ed walked the halls with him. Denise Randolph, who was a nursery aide, ran to the ladies room but I think she was just trying to escape for a few minutes! haha. Ed pulled two additional aides into the nursery and they all hung in there. My hat's off to Denise, Kay, Alana, Gabriella and Charlotte! Bad part of it all was, I just finally finishing taking attendance 10 minutes before the service was over - so security was a little lacks. Thankfully, it was not an issue.

Julie Bell plans to bring the first aid supplies this Sunday. Steve and Krin you can look for them. Also, Ed wanted me to tell everyone he put the extra coloring sheets in the plastic bin behind the burgundy 6th grade binder. I took a new bag of animal crackers last Sunday and plan to bring more pretzels this Sunday.

Ed and I love the new supply cart. What does anyone else think?

Also, the Visitor Sign-in Cards we needed were not there so I had the visiting families write the needed info. on a sheet of paper. Maddy told me when we got home Sunday, that we saw the Visitor Cards laying on the info. table in the Hub. Steve and Krin, you might want to go see if they are there again this week if they are not on the coordinator table when you arrive.

Several children forgot their name tags again. Is it possible to put a reminder on the

e-announcement about this? Last, Becky Jones would like Dana Dahling and Erica Dahling added to their family ID(#195). These girls are now Sierra Jones' step sisters and all come together when they come. Dana and Erica are both in the 5th grade class & should be added to that name tag list.

That's all for now,

Connie

Sunday, August 1st post game show

Well, it was a little bit of a crazy one Sunday. We had several guests and I used the very last Visitor Information card so if Jocelyn could print more by Sunday that would be great. I was able to hand out a few of the new CD's which was good.

Julie Bell needed Tylenol for Elizabeth so I got out the First Aid kit only to find every Tylenol, Motrin or Children's Aspirin tablet way outdated...like 2002. Thankfully, it was Julie needing it and not a visitor. Phew! Julie kindly offered to purchase the needed items to replenish our CM First Aid kits, since she is in the process of stocking the Youth Camp First Aid right now anyway. I also suggested she buy some Benedryl since we have some allergy issues, I wouldn't want any of us to be caught unprepared if for some reason there is a need for it.

Attendence was a little more time consuming than usual. It seemed like there were a lot of kids who were in class that had not taken their tags so my attendance sheets and the classroom sheets were not matching up a lot. Also, there seemed to be more kids coming to get their tags as the kids were going to class which just adds a little more chaos around the CM table.

Then the topper was that the Late Preschool teachers, Justin and Staci Smith, didn't show up. Sandra Arocho and her daughter Rebecca were aides in that class so Sandra suggested that Ed go get Jesus to help out. He did so and also Jan Landis jumped in. It seemed to go okay. Unfortunatley, one of our visitors was in that class; not sure what kind of impression we made.

Two babies should be added to the Nursery attendance and nametag sheets. They are Ilse Seasholtz (2/19/09) and Ethan Dailey (dob?)

Ed went to replenish the animal crackers for the nursery and the bag was on the shelf, opened, and the crackers were stale. We're not sure who is helping themselves and I'm not sure how to solve this one but this isn't the first time it has happened. Any suggestions anyone? I will bring some fresh animal crackers this week.

Last but not least, supplies that should be on the teacher supply cart seem to be making their way to our wheely coordinator cart. (scissors, glue sticks etc.) Ed redistributed everything and condensed a few items on our wheely cart so it is more organized. He put the napkins in the Rubbermade container with the cups if anyone needs them.

I think I remembered everything. I guess it will soon be time to distribute a new color of family ID cards. Also, kids moving up and classroom changes. Are we ready for all this?

Have a victorious week and Lord willing, see you all Sunday.

Connie