May 5th

Things were relatively quiet most of the morning till about half way through class. Combination of the filming crew making the mother's day video, various classes heading outside using 3 different exits and the service seeming to end a little early (or maybe it just seemed that way) teachers and us caught off guard as half the students were either outside or being filmed when parents were heading towards classrooms for pick up.  This was one of the moments where we as coordinators felt like the most inept people and doubt if any of the return visitors will even come again as we literally could not locate their children.  Extremely embarrassing and causing me and Elyse (she takes after her mom) to feel so stressed.  Elyse was a huge help on Sunday as it seemed Galen and I were both called to help in a variety of needs for different teachers and aiding this filming crew.

The moral of our Sunday, when the last song is being sung, head outside and have teachers and students return to classrooms asap.  Also, as coordinators, go around and check all 3 outside doors to make sure they are closed.  WE had 3 that were propped open.  Wondering Blake if you would like to make a universal rule for all teachers to only use the cafeteria door to go out??  The fact these classes were all going out different locations was one of the reasons we could not find some of these students.  We did not realize there was a class at the little separate playground down at the end of the hall outside. I do not like to have to give another ""rule" but it definitely helps when the classes go by our table for us to visually see who is going out.  Just a thought.  This was the first Sunday things were like this and I realize the filming crew were taking kids outside as well and that just added to the chaos. 

Why is it the children that you sort of lose, temporarily, are the families that are newer to the church or a visitor coming back 2nd or 3rd time. ugh!! We had 3 we were trying to find :)

Enjoy your week.
Teresa