Ah'm ar-fully proud of this here document Ah cree-ated. I'm interum person-who-gets-yelled-at-all-the-time about preschool stuff at church (note: its the parents who do the yelling.) The official person-who-gets-yelled-at-all-the-time is on "maternity leave." Why would a person want "leave" from such a great job as that?
I made these instructions for my Sunday School teachers and nursery volunteers because I knew no one could come to a training meeting. And I didn't want them to show up in a room crammed full of two year olds with now idea what to do. Right thoughty of me, weren't it?
Summer Children’s Worker Team
Welcome and thank you! I am excited for all the fun we will have this summer.
By teaching, helping, or signing up as a substitute you are blessing the whole church this summer. Thank you so much.
This packet should answer your questions about the Summer Children’s Worker Team. If it doesn’t, please feel free to call me (Traci Hilton) at xxx-xxxx
Services for children, Summer 2007:
` Saturday night children’s church, newborn to age 5
` Sunday morning nursery, newborn to 23 months
` Sunday morning toddlers, 2 and 3 year olds
` Sunday morning preschool, 4 and 5 year olds
Our Obejective:
Each week we have two hours to teach small children about God’s love and lead them to Jesus. Our tools are the stories from God’s word, directed play, group games, music, conversation and our love and commitment.
Quick, but important, housekeeping reminders:
Saturday night and nursery class are in the nursery. Earphones are available for nursing mom’s who would like to continue listening to the sermon.
Toddler class is in the “whale room.” End of the hall with the bathrooms, downstairs.
Preschool is upstairs in the regular preschool class, end of the hall, right side.
Arrive ten minutes before service each week to pray for your kids, set up the class room, and welcome the children.
Take attendance each week, including teachers and helpers.
Tools for the job:
Each week’s lesson will be in an accordion folder in your classroom, labeled by date. Please pick it up by the week before so you can prepare for you class.
On the supply shelves you will find awards, stickers, and bubbles to be used for positive reinforcement, games, or crafts.
Upstairs, near the preschool classroom, you will find a supplies room. It is stocked with all sorts of supplies for your classroom, including stickers, craft supplies, and flannel graph. Please use these supplies freely in class to enrich your lessons.
Discipline:
Please watch each week for reasons to give the children an award. Great things to recognize are: using polite words, sharing toys, helping clean or set up, paying attention to story time. Use your imagination and try to award each child every week. Positive reinforcement should help minimize need for reactionary discipline.
When kids get out of line (running, yelling hitting, etc.) please redirect their energy or use some form of time-out to calm the child down. (30 seconds is usually sufficient.) Children who can’t be calmed or redirected may need to be taken to their parents to restore order in the class.
Ideas for reinforcing your story/lesson:
Review the story during snack or craft. Blow bubbles, hand out stickers, give high fives, to kids who answer the questions.
Use the picture Bibles, flannel graphs, or props to review by acting out key elements of your story. Make sure every child gets a turn.
Send home the parent take home page or a copy of the story (depending on what your curriculum offers) so parents know what they are learning and can review at home.
Final Notes:
If you are unable to teach your week please try to arrange to trade weeks with another teacher. We don’t have many substitute volunteers this year so let’s not over work them!
I am so thankful for all of you. I love our preschool age children and love working with them. You are a blessing to them. I pray that you are blessed this summer as you serve them.
This packet will also include:
` Children’s Worker Agreement
` Children’s Worker Application
` Nursery Pamphlet (for nursery volunteers)
` Nursery Maintenance and Guidelines (for nursery volunteers)
` Schedule
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3 comments:
Traci, i've had fulltime professional contracts at universities that don't reflect as much thought and care and word choice as this does.
it's so organized you nearly had ME convinced i wanted to teach Sunday school. ;)
but i have a question. what's a flannel graph?
lol. did it work? you covered absolutly everything, but the question is did anybody read it or prepare?
Thank you so much, Bon. I realy am proud of my finished product. When I started in the pre-school class they just dumped me in a room full of preschoolers. It had some toys, some crackers and a some crayons. It was utter chaos. My friends and I have put a lot of effort into creating a cohesive program with dedicated teachers so that the kids feel secure, have a good time, and learn that God loves them. I hated to throw it all away by giving them an out of control summer.
Ahh the flannel graph. :) It's a flannal board with pictures of people, settings and props either made of of flannal or glue-backed paper so they will stick to the board. I don't know if it was invented for church, but you can get them on any topic at all now. Put playgroup has foods and dinasours and sports, for example. When I was a kid it was my most favorite thing. But as a story teller I find there are much better ways to get most kids involved in the story. I like repeatable hand motions best myself. Like having a sign for corwn and everytime they hear king or queen they make the sign, etc. I like to have a sign for all the major nouns and verbs in the story.
Isn't that the question Brooke? I have no way of knowing, really, because I only have one sunday off from teaching a month, and I am really not going to go to any of the classes and check them out--I have a great fear of showing up and the teacher not being there and my having to teach instead. It's about time for me to take a hiatus, I think. My attitude isn't wasn't it used to be. :)I quite wonder if anyone read it. I put it together with the other papers in the "Also Included" list and delivered them in a bright orange folder. Very hard to ignore it lying around your kitchen, I thought. I know the four main teachers 9they alternate weeks)in the two year old class (Norah's class) have been doing an awesome job. So I hope the two nuerseries and the other preschooers are doing the same.
Blisses,
Traci
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