Sunday, September 22, 2013

Scott and I definetly felt rusty this morning after a long break from coordinating and it showed.

We had two different teachers out sick and needed to find replacements for the on a whim.  So if you see Scott and Bev Silver thank them for serving in the 2nd grade classroom. 

Wendy Freed was also out, but we did not replace her with another adult.  Couldn't find one.  However, without even trying we managed to replace her with 6 youth helpers.  HA!  It just happened by circumstance.  Sam Stehr was there to help for Sean Daly, who didn't need him.  Jade and Michaela were in there to help with their own younger siblings.  We put Charissa in there because she was the floater.  And Brian and Sarah were on the schedule to be in there.  So needless to say Joanna had plenty of extra hands for that very large and very busy class.

Scott spent a chunk of time talking with the Massey family.  The would like Joshua to officially be moved up to Late Preschool.  So his name tag and the new attendance should reflect that.

What do we do when an older sibling comes to pick up their younger sibling, but they do not have their parents ID card?  Do we let them through on a temporary card, just let them through or do we send them back to their parents to get the red ID card and come back with it?  I had two different older siblings without cards this past Sunday and I really did not know how best to handle it.


It felt like a very busy morning, but I know I was also overwhelmed to be back.  We had a few visitors, some questions including a few teachers thinking the CM meeting was that afternoon rather than the 28th.  We had several bathroom breaks.  A teacher who didn't bring snack looking for something to offer her kids.  And then the stuff mentioned above. 


I think I am going to be the first person to bring this up.  I don't really know how others feel about it.  But I really struggled with the new set-up in regards to where the coordinators table is.  I totally get that it needs to be that far up the hallway because of the nursery change.  But I am petitioning we find another classroom for the nursery and move the coordinators table back down.  It is WAY to far away from the bathrooms to feel like you are keeping things secure yet being able to serve for the potty breaks that occur.  Also, the speaker is just above the table and it while I thought I would appreciate being able to hear the music and the service I actually found it very loud and distracting.  It was hard at different times to have the noise from the speaker above and having disucssion or answering questions with teachers at the same time.  At one point I felt like I was yelling just to speak over the noise from the service and I twice I had to ask them to repeat their question because I couldn't hear them.  So I wanted to share my two cents for what it is worth.  I know I personally don't like change, so I really tried to keep an open mind all morning, but that location for the coordinators just wasn't working for me.  I would love to hear others thoughts.

Jane (and Scott)