coordinators report from Aug. 29th

Ahhhhh...... the blissful, serene atmosphere surrounding the nursery this past Sunday was breath taking. Wish you all could experience it!!! We had 3 nursery aides come atleast 10 min. early. They were well prepared for the 9 little ones they took care of last Sunday. A huge thank you to Kerry High, Karin Cook and Rachel Gardocki (sp?)!!

Wish all area's went as well, but that would be asking for a little bit too much :)

This past Sunday again we had, I would say, atleast half the children not getting stickers until they are on their way too class. This is so disruptive to many areas of our role as coordinators. It seems that many are developing this "habit" of just picking them up on the way to class. We had to totally rearrange aides as one class jumped up atleast 7 students and we had to take time (twice) to copy more papers for a teacher who needed more then what she had planned on going off the first run through of our attendance sheet. The biggest challenge is having these children bombard our table when we are trying to work with aides, usually checking in later visitors etc. It really needs to be addressed.

Regarding the new 6th grade class. We have some very confused parents. We had at least 3-4 families ask us if there was going to be a class for their child? They all seemed confused as to what ever the move up paper said for that grade. We felt at a loss, we assumed there was going to be a class. It would be great to send an e-mail to all those parents to let them know exactly what is going on with that class.

The Knepp family would like all 3 of their children to remain in the late preschool class. Also, Dean is working to get someone to be with Myka on the 5th Sunday. There is no one scheduled specifically for Myka and Dean had someone in mind he was going to ask, they could not help this past week but we pulled Jess Miller. He will let us know who to put on the schedule.

We have been handing out the new ID cards. The Friedrichs are not putting their child in children's ministry so she told us to keep their card. She said to remove them from the list for now. #133

Remove Brandon Reinford from the aide list if you havne't already as he is in Oregon for a while. Also, Ethan Benner said to remove him as he is teaching right now.

One more plea to ask teachers to try and come to class a little early to greet the children and parents. Not sure if the worship time was longer before children were dismissed but we had a fairly large number of parents meandering down the hall with their children waiting to go into class and no one was around. The children had not been dismissed yet but there seemd to be many parents bringing the kids down awhile.

I keep thinking I am done and then I see one more note!! The Zimpfers asked me after class about the memory verses and the procedure for handing out prizes. The kids in the Kindergarten class told them, if they say one verse they get a prize and they can keep saying that same verse every week and get a prize each time. The Zimpfers didn't think that sounded on the up and up but weren't sure so they gave them prizes. Not sure if there is a general guideline to follow or if all teachers do their own thing.

I do believe that is all for now. I'm a little nervous for this move up Sunday!!! I hope your around Blake! :)

Teresa