Announcements
NEW FAMILIES: If a new family comes to your door, please accept them. Let the WL Staff know if you need more people. Will will find an extra person to staff your room with to accommodate for the extra child.
Children having a difficult time: When a child is having a difficult time, we would like for the Class Leader to STAY in the room to lead the room. Please either have another SGL or a Coach walk the child in the halls. Under NO circumstances should a SGL leave go outside Waumba Land doors and/or past the Host Team.
Classroom MUSIC: If the classroom music coming from the speaker is too loud, HOLD the "next track" button down for a long time and it changes the volume. You will be able to get the music to the perfect volume for your classroom when using the SD card.
3s & Prek SGLS & Large Group:
- COUNTING KIDS Before and After LG:
- It is imperative to countthe total number of children in your room BEFORE you go to large group and place that number at the top of your roster.
- If any children are brought to you DURINGLG add those children to your count.
- When you return to your room AFTER LG, count to make sure you have the right number of children & that no child has accidentally moved to another room.
- Do not takethe children to the bathroom during Large Group. When the Large Group Team gives you the 5 minute warning, please make sure children use the bathroom at during the 5 minutes before traveling to Large Group.
- Please make sure that children keep their shoes on before, during, and after Large Group.
ALL SGLs MEDIA RELEASE:
- We have been working hard to get every parent to sign a media release for their child. If the parent has given signed the card, their consent either YES or NO has been placed on the child’s sticker.
- CLASS LEADERS: We are placing BLANK Media Release cards in your classrooms in the drawer marked "Incident Reports". If a child does not have a release marked under allergies please give their parent a card to sign. Thanks for your help.
3s Small Group Leaders: We have placed wipes, diapers, and gloves in the cabinets in rooms 120/121 and placed it in the bathroom in 122/123.
2s Small Group Leaders:Please assign a volunteer to check to make sure the children do not have wet/dirty diapers during the hour.
Differences between classrooms:
Children MOVING Rooms for a day:If a child has to attend a room different from their assigned room please use a sharpie and cross through the assigned room number on the tag and write the temporary room number for the day (this is for safety purposes for evacuation and also to make sure if a child gets turned around during LG we place them in the correct room)
Kids from OVERFLOW: If a child is in your room because they came from an overflow room please write JUST TODAYnext to their name. This will help us make sure that she/he does not get added to your roster.
- Example: Joie Cantrell (just today)
Class Leaders: If a child brings personal items to the room (i.e. toys, blankets, stuffed animals, etc). Please ask the parent- for the hour, would you like to hold onto your child's item and/or for us to place it in the cabinet during the hour? Also, class leaders please make sure that the children do not bring ANY items to Large Group.
Apprentice Meetings: Apprentice meetings are currently being held every Sunday morning at 8:30am in the Volunteer room. If you serve first hour and you would like to have breakfast in Waumba Land, you will need to arrive before 8:30am. Please do not enter the volunteer room while meetings are being held. If you need something quickly, please ask your Coach or a staff member.
Going to the bathroom during large group: When the Large Group team gives you the 5 minute warning, please ask all the kids if they need to go. For the kids that have to go to the bathroom each week during LG.... please ask them specifically to go before LG. Please try to prevent at all cost taking the kids to the bathroom during large group it is a huge disruption. THANK FOR YOUR HELP WITH THIS!
Diaper Stickers--- Wet/Dry stickers Babies/Crawlers/Toddlers Volunteers: Please make sure to place the "wet/dry" sticker on the childs diaper not on the child's t-shirt.
3s/Prek Small Group Leaders: When you are coming to Large Group and leaving Large Group, please make sure to place a small group leader at the FRONT of the line and another small group leader at the BACK of the line. This will help the children stay know where to go and make sure that they do not get mixed up with another class. thanks!
When Kids Check-in Late to WL after Classes have Traveled to Large Group:
- Please make sure the the Class Leader takes the evacuation bag and Roster/clipboard to Large Group & sits on the far right of the class's line so that they are able to check-in the late children once they have traveled.
- 3s/Prek Coaches: Please make sure to stand outside the LG space for the first 10 minutes of LG so that you can walk the child to their correct line.
- HOST TEAM:
- Please do NOT take the kids to their room line UNTIL all the classes have traveled to LG. Tell the parents that it will only take a few minutes and for safety reasons, we cannot take their child to their line until all the classes have traveled.
- Once ALL classes have traveled, walk with the parents & child to Coach--- we need to make sure that their normal room HAS NOT REACHED MAXED CAPACITY and they can go in that room. The Coach will know and will be able to direct you to the proper line.
- THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HELP! Lots of moving parts but you make it safe for everyone - kids, parents, and the classrooms!
3s/Prek @ 9:15 hour: Please leave your rooms organized and ready for the next hour. Please make sure to place the following back in the clear bin for the 11:00 hour: the Bibles (marked on correct page for Bible story), journals and circle time pages are back in the bin and also that the activity bags from the beginning of the hour have their correct supplies and instructions. THANK YOU for your help!
Diaper Stickers--- Wet/Dry stickers Babies/Crawlers/Toddlers Volunteers: Please make sure to place the "wet/dry" sticker on the childs diaper not on the child's t-shirt.
Going to the bathroom during large group: When the Large Group team gives you the 5 minute warning, please ask all the kids if they need to go. For the kids that have to go to the bathroom each week during LG.... please ask them specifically to go before LG. Please try to prevent at all cost taking the kids to the bathroom during large group it is a huge disruption. THANK FOR YOUR HELP WITH THIS!
*Food & Drinks*:
- Finish your breakfast before entering into the classrooms in the morning. Do notbring food or drink in classrooms. If you need to store food/drink, it will need to be placed in the cabinets for the hour you serve.
- If a parent brings food for the class, we cannot accept and/or give the food to the other children in the room. Please tell them that because of allergies that we cannot accept the food.
Classroom Music: In Toddlers-Prek, Waumba Land is switching from CD players to bluetooth speakers. FYI... When using the SD memory card... you CANNOT change the sound of the music so it is on it's loudest volume.