Inventory lists

Hello fellow coordinators,

Just wanted to let you know that I sent out an email to Jocelyn to be forwarded to all the teachers regarding inventory lists. I anxiously await their feedback and will keep you all informed with what I receive.

Also, I forgot the napkins today that Krin requested but will try to remember for next week when Ed and I are on duty.

Connie

Coordinators report from Jan. 17th

The morning was relatively a quiet one which was a nice change of pace :)

We were fine with aides although two of them did not show up. Sam Reinford and Tanya Pampel.

Amy and Neil Frank need a new yellow ID card #121. There are 5 yellow ID cards in the box for the Millers, McAndrews, Crouthamels, Fishers and Moyers. These are all DaySpring families. I went over the names with another member from DaySpring and she believes these families have all settled elsewhere. So, maybe at the end of January we can get rid of these cards and take names off of attendance sheets.

Not sure if a new set up crew was on this Sunday as many bins were in the wrong rooms. Galen just did some rearranging before classes.

Regarding teacher supplies. The 1st and 2nd grade class had no crayons in their bin. We borrowed the kindgarten classes crayons. I guess we should figure out a supply list for each grade and try and get their bins stocked with what they need. Maybe that is in the process. Just wanted to note the need.

I think we should give an award to Gloria O'Brien. She is the only teacher who has faithfully signed in each Sunday in January!! :)

I think that's it.
Have a good week.
Galen and Teresa

Very Belated Blog

Hi!
It's Krin here, blogging from Dec. 27th & Jan 3rd. A bit late, I know. = (

• Please add the Coleflesh family to our permanent list (Temp. ID #903)
  Parents are Matt & Monica
  Lily 8/18/00 Reese 1/5/09 Nora 1/5/09
• Blake, do you know if the black curtain was found for the nursery door?
• Connie, we could use more napkins for the bin
• The weeks that we were on, there was not quite enough coloring sheets for several of the classes. Maybe the counts have gone up since the last time coloring sheets were copied?

I think that's all! -- Steve & Krin

Coordinators report from Jan. 10

Our morning started out very uneventful. Everything seemed to flow very well for the equip classes at 9:00. We arrived at 8:30. Galen took that time to put up signs and set things out for the children's ministry classes. I mainly directed families towards the equip classes and told them where the child care rooms were located. I did not need to register anyone. Galen and I sat in on the one class and came out around 9:40 to sit out front for registering children for church.

The first part of the morning went very smooth. A few returning visiting families but nothing out of the ordinary. Things felt like they fell apart once the children started heading to their classes. I had been asked for an aide in the 1st/2nd grade class as one of the teachers could not be there today. This would of been fine had my aides showed up. 3 of our aides never showed up and we could not find them. I believe the Suarez's are in Florida? Eden and Gabriella were on today and so was Becky Jones who we could not find. We have had to track Becky down before. This is where I get a little stressed . I know we have lots of people wanting to help but it's this last minute, trying to think of who to ask, trying not to use the same people all the time and today we seemed to have numerous young children crying off and on all morning. We pulled in Elyse as it's just easier to ask her then pull someone from the service. She was fine to help out. EP, LP and 1st and 2nd had aides. the kindergarten class was okay. A note for the nursery. I believe there were 4 adults in there today and they were all needed. They may have had only 4-5 babies but I think they were all crying for a good while in the beginning. Just note that I think two of the Sunday's we only have two persons scheduled for the nursery.

Right after we got everything calmed down with the aide situation we had an EP aide come out and tell us one of the children threw up all over the aide and the floor. This was a small fiasco to say the least. We did not know what to do with all the kids as there was really no other place to move them and we didn't want to combine them with the other preschool class. We pulled Jan from the service and he got out his shopvac, rubber gloves and chemicals and cleaned up the mess. Galen reconfigured the border panels and gave the class a smaller area away from the soiled area. Upon talking with the mom, the child had told her before class that she did not feel well. Another sibling was in the service because she had just been sick and they did not want her in the class room yet. I must confess Galen and I were extremely frustrated with the situation. We do not know how to convey to parents to please do not put their children in class if they are at all not feeling well, if they can help it. We totally understand children get sick very spontaneously at times. Ours have done it. But, if your child tells you they do not feel well, please take others into consideration at that moment. We felt so bad pulling Jan, yet again from the service. The teachers did so good at trying to keep things in control with all the cleaning and moving going on around the children.

A note of thanks to Jocelyn for the second sheets attatched to the attendance sheets. Thanks so much. I love it.

Have a good week everyone.
Teresa

Hello Children's Ministry Folk,

The last two weeks were pretty uneventful. Things ran smoothly; even the transfer of choir members from class to practice. We were also thankful all teachers were able to make it in spite of the weather.

Children are still forgetting to take their nametags in the foyer so several children whom I thought were absent were actually in the class when I took attendance. I completely forgot to have one of my children posted in the foyer to remind their peers however, so I'm partially at fault.

The kindergarten class was short a couple of coloring sheets. I know Ed and I had suggested not so many be printed, for all the grades, because it seemed they were not being used. Now, kindergarten is requesting a few more.

Ed and I went through the Visitor Information cards and discarded any that were from 2007 with the exception

of 3...Bauer Evans' family, Jim Donohue's family and Trevor Haynes family. We figured, Lord willing, they would visit again in the future and hopefully we coordinators will remember they already have a number and not give them another.

After children's ministry was over, it was brought to our attention that there were no Encouragment Cards in the Late Preschool folder. Maybe Steve and Krin can replenish that need. Also, for Steve and Krin, Sarah Walker donated a few chunky books for the nursery and I believe I forgot to put them in the nursery bins. They are in a grocery bag in our blue coordinator bin.

I also started numbering new Visitor Information cards at 400 on, hopefully this was a safe place to start.

I think that is it. Hope you are all having a victorious week. With God on our side who can be against us!

-Connie

Sunday December 6th

Busy...but fine. Just a couple of notes for Jocelyn:

• Could we please put the Jones boys on the permanent roster? They are the children of Heather Smith. (Family ID #856) (Richard and Alexander)
• Brendan Loux - 5th grade (Dayspring) Family ID #182, needs tags made
• Liana and Nolan Ploucher (Dayspring) Family ID #817 need tags and also the Mom (Arlene Ploucher) didn't get permanent ID cards.
• Ashleigh Stehr, David Seasholtz, and Tyler Dailey have all moved from Late Pre to Kindergarten. Please adjust this on attendance sheets and tags.

Thanks so much! -- Steve & Krin

Tags

Hello Coordinators!

It seems that there are several times when kids come in and completely bypass the nametags. One thought we had here is to have your kids stand by the table in the foyer and remind their friends to take their nametag. That way it is a reminder to them as well as a great way for the kids to greet and interact.

If you have any other ideas/suggestions regarding this, just let us know!

Thanks!