Sunday, Sept 19th

Oops...I realized that we never blogged from last week which means many things were not taken care of for this week...Sorry Ed & Connie!!!

So I'm not sure how much of this the Reeds will also mention when they post from today, but for what it is worth here is what took place on the 19th...

*There are two yellow cards #204/#211 with the last name Dahling on them, Becky Jones says they belong to her (step grandchildren I think?) and she would like them added to her #182, then they can be thrown away. She would rather have one card for all then three sets.

*We are out of the yellow visitor cards, so I made temporary cards out of pieces of scrap paper, but we really need some official cards made up

*the 5th grade teacher asked if they could have a new, updated set of scripture memory log sheets and encouragement card log sheets. The ones in the red binder are from last years class.

*there is/was only 1 visitor CD left, so we need more of those

*Dave & Tricia Mellinger requested on more copy of the book Big Truths for Young Hearts for Brendan Loux who was not on the 6th grade roster but is in that class, also Tricia wondered if you could order a few extra copies to have on hand for visitors

*Sean Dailey needs to be moved from the 3rd grade attendance to 2nd grade per Dave's request, they plan to keep him in 2nd grade for this year. His birthday is 8/31/02

*all our aides showed up (or at least sent subs in their place), so everything there went smoothly

*Amy Loux would like their son Brendan added to the 6th grade attendance as he will be participating in that class, he will also need to be added to the name tag label sheet

So there's our belated post, sorry for any inconvenience. Jane

Sunday, Sept 12th CM update

So what was thought to possibly be a crazy CM morning since move-up Sunday was actually pretty quiet and peaceful. The few things that did creep up were manageable and not all happening at one time :-)

* need to add Gunner Freed (1/6/10) to Rob & Jess Freed's ID for the nursery

* James Alleman is on the K attendance and needs to be moved to Late Preschool (his bday is 6/24/06)

* Alex Ripley (9/2/05) needs to be moved from the LP roster to K (his parents want this), this is a good thing since the K class is very small and the LP is rather large

* Charlotte Coulsen did not show up so we put Kyle Clemmer in LP to help with Myka Knepp, then had Lianna B. & Alyssa M. pulled from servie to help in EP (thanks Blake for your hand with that)

* Sydney Herr is also going to move from LP to the K class so the attendance sheet will need to reflect that change

* the Muelners swapped with the Suarez's this past Sun & next, but she did not know which day's in Nov. the Suarez's will be taking yet

* in EP a little girl vomited but thankfully it was in an area that was easy to clean up, we had her pulled out of the class and had her parents paged

* Matthew Willis bumped his head pretty hard in class and we used one of the ice packs from the First Aid kit (but it didn't get cold)...I did not know until later that there is more located in the snack bin on the cart. I'm only saying this in case anyone else did not know that because I wouldn't have thought to look there.

That's the latest update, tune in next week as the story continues...

CM Blog for Sept. 5

• Ilsa Seasholtz needs to be added to the Nursery attendance sheet as well as the sticker sheet, #223
• Sydney Herr, Aaron and Caden Landis all will move into the Kindergarten class this coming Sunday. They are currently in LP, but have fall birthdays. Blake and parents all agree the children should move up. The LP class is quite large.
• Some medical issues to report. Aiden Smith had some asthma breathing problems while playing outside and Myka Knepp and Isabelle Loux both fell off swings and got some cuts and scrapes.
• We are in need of a seperate Red Folder for the 1st and 2nd grade class to be divided. We placed both attendance sheets into the one red folder, marked for 1st and 2nd grade.
• We could not locate the LP red folder anywhere. We placed the classroom attendance sheet in the bin along with the coordinators copies. We have it marked.
• There are still some ID yellow cards to be handed out as well as move up letters. Most of the cards and letter's left are families that we do not see very often or have stopped coming.

Have a good week.

Teresa

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

Sunday, August 22

Hi gang -
Very busy day yesterday. Especially the nursery. We had one nursery aide call us in the morning and said she couldn't make it in that day, so we needed to replace her, and then there were two more "no-shows" for the nursery, so that really left us scrambling as parents were coming (and of course there were visitors!)

• We need to remove Ethan Benner (now a teacher) from the aide list, and Danny Meulners and Skye Beckley as well (college).
• Connie - we could use more animal crackers.
• Jocelyn, in the fall, please leave Julia Smith in the Kindergarten class (parent's request), and also, could you add Sebastian Araujo to the permanent roster? (birthdate 1/5/10) And also, could be have extra coloring sheets for the kindergarten class? They are usually about 5 sheets short each week.
• We need a new ink cartridge for our copier machine on our cart. It ran out this week as we were trying to make extra coloring sheets.

I think that's all. Enjoy your week! ~ Steve & Krin

Aug. 15th CM Report

Switching gears from Youth Camp to CM blog :)

Our nursery situation sounds like it is repeating itself. Last week we had 16 babies and 8 aides/helpers we pulled, in the room. Just way too many. It is very difficult to know what to say when visitors are apprehensive to leave their child because of how full it is in that room. It is very awkward for me to know what to say when the parent is hanging around in the hall and just unsure weather they feel okay to go back in the service.

Regarding aides: Danny Meulners and Kaitlyn were no shows on Sunday. I guess we can probably remove Danny, maybe you already did that. Also, we had two aides show up, Brandon Knechel and Monica Kemmerer who both said they were on for aides but were not sure when they were scheduled. We obviously used them both, but I wasn't sure if they get a schedule or are they to go to the website and find it out on their own. Just wanting to let you know these individuals had no idea when they were on.

A note from Stacy Smith regarding the Late Preschool class. She said they could really use some more toy cars/trucks, anything with wheels for the little boys in the class. The cars and trucks are favorites among the boys and she said they just don't have that many.

I guess that's all for now, onto my unending mounds of laundry!!!!

Teresa

Replay of Sunday, August 8, 2010

It was another crazy morning , this time the nursery. We had several visitors again this week with babies...so, their screams added to the couple of usual criers we have made for a stressful start. All the nursery aides were occupied trying to console a screamer with more parents waiting to hand their baby over so I went in to try to help. After a little time in there I needed to get working on attendance so I brought the child out with me and Ed walked the halls with him. Denise Randolph, who was a nursery aide, ran to the ladies room but I think she was just trying to escape for a few minutes! haha. Ed pulled two additional aides into the nursery and they all hung in there. My hat's off to Denise, Kay, Alana, Gabriella and Charlotte! Bad part of it all was, I just finally finishing taking attendance 10 minutes before the service was over - so security was a little lacks. Thankfully, it was not an issue.

Julie Bell plans to bring the first aid supplies this Sunday. Steve and Krin you can look for them. Also, Ed wanted me to tell everyone he put the extra coloring sheets in the plastic bin behind the burgundy 6th grade binder. I took a new bag of animal crackers last Sunday and plan to bring more pretzels this Sunday.

Ed and I love the new supply cart. What does anyone else think?

Also, the Visitor Sign-in Cards we needed were not there so I had the visiting families write the needed info. on a sheet of paper. Maddy told me when we got home Sunday, that we saw the Visitor Cards laying on the info. table in the Hub. Steve and Krin, you might want to go see if they are there again this week if they are not on the coordinator table when you arrive.

Several children forgot their name tags again. Is it possible to put a reminder on the

e-announcement about this? Last, Becky Jones would like Dana Dahling and Erica Dahling added to their family ID(#195). These girls are now Sierra Jones' step sisters and all come together when they come. Dana and Erica are both in the 5th grade class & should be added to that name tag list.

That's all for now,

Connie