Coordinators report for 4/29

Pretzels are needed for the Early and Late Preschool stock.  Low in both classrooms.

Still having issues with needing another lower table for the preschool rooms.  I think both low tables were in the late preschool and early had no tables set up.  I think we are frustrating the set up guys.  One week they are told one thing and then it get's changed till the next week.  I guess it would just be the best to obtain another lower table as both classes use them and Late Pre is a fairly large class needing two.

Nursery was an issue again.  Only one aide showed up and she had tons of crying babies with parents staying in until we could round up helpers.  We did get 3 young girls but again, we should of tried to find another adult as there are so many crying babies it seems and the younger girls just aren't sure how to best help out in that situation.  We were desperate and just grabbed who was closest at the time.

Have a great week. 
Teresa

Sunday, April 22nd

Sunday was an unusually crazy day.  Only 2 of our 5 nursery workers showed up, and those 2 were teenagers, and we had a large amount of crying babies.  I was trying to grab people to help, but was a little more difficult with the youth being in the VOM assembly.  (Thank you Teresa for jumping in there!)  Also, two of our classroom aides needed to be looked for, which just made drop-off time very chaotic.

Also, not having a specific gameplan for the after-service meeting was not good.  Teachers, parents, helpers, etc. were asking us questions, there was much confusion, and we really did not have any answers to give them because there was no set plan (it kept changing up until the end.)  I just felt badly, because in the parents eyes, I really felt like it looked like we didn't know what we were doing.  If we could come up with a very specific gameplan ahead of time next time, that would be great.

Joce, thank you for putting a note in the announcements about the nursery toys.  I will grab the bins on Sunday, and go through them, and re-stock the nursery.

Brenna Seeley (1/24/11) needs nametags.  I believe she is on the roster, but there has not been nametags for her.

The Knaubs are in need of new ID cards.

And Blake, I'm not sure what to say about the table situation for the preschool classes.  I know that you and Steve had talked on Sunday about moving the low table from Early Pre into Late Pre so that Late Pre could have two low ones, but I do feel like Early Pre might miss theirs, because I know that they do use if for coloring and for play.  So, if we are unable to buy another low one, I think keeping a low one in Early, and just using one low and one high in Late, might be best.

That's all for now!

Steve and Krin

Sunday, April 15

Hi Guys -
Very easy and laid back day. I'm not sure who is on for the last Sunday of the month, but just wanted to let you know that the 6th grade class will be meeting on the fifth Sunday because of Easter.

Blake, the purple CD player from the nursery was missing this week. Steve went to the closet to see if he could spot it, but did not see it. Is it possible to check with the set-up guys to see if they have seen it? The nursery does use it quite often. We borrowed early preschool's for them to use this past week.

Jocelyn, would it be a big pain for you to send out an e-mail to the mothers of younger kids to see if they would have any nursery-aged toys that they would be willing to donate? I was thinking to maybe send it out to moms of nursery-late preschool classes? The nursery toy selection is really poor and boring (Denise Randolph said this past week, that there are toys in those boxes that were there when Morgan was a baby. Yikes.) Anyhow, my thought was that I will put a labeled box in the foyer this Sunday for the moms to put their donations in. I guess just ask for fun and interesting gently used toys.

I think that's all for now!
Steve and Krin

April Fool's Day Report

After finally recalling what my password was I am able to blog!

As Jane mentioned last week, we are in need of yellow temporary tags...we are down to one.

Jocelyn,

Gwen Knepp couldn't find Mari's sticker last week. It should be on the Kindergarten sheet of labels. I'm not sure if Gwen just didn't see it on the K sheet or if it was on the wrong sheet? Just double check this before printing the labels out for Sunday.

Staci Smith requested 2 tables in the Late Preschool class. There were too many children to fit around one table to do their coloring this past Sunday.

Ed requested that the aides, even though they are assigned to a specific class, still come to the coordinators before reporting to the class they are serving. Maybe we can talk about this more at our coordinators meeting in May.

We were able to answer Mike and Lianna Kemmerer's questions, who were filling in for kindergarten, before class and as far as I know all the other teachers who were teaching for the first time had a good experience. The morning seemed to run smoothly for both them and Ed and I - no one played any April Fool's jokes on us! By the way, who wrapped Jeremy's car in saran wrap?

Lord willing, see you all Sunday.

Connie

March 18th & 25th

Quickly blogging about our two weeks as coordinators before Connie & Ed have a chance to get on here :-)

We need more yellow visitor cards. Hoping they had enough to get by today because it was pretty low.

That's all. Everything went smoothly.

Thanks, Jane