Happy Fall Y'all!! This year I am BLESSED with several parents that love to volunteer. Which makes me very happy! I have gone years that I have had 1 parent that can come in and help. Now, I know that some of you may not have ANY and I am sorry. So don't be jelly when I tell you that I have a parent coming in almost EVERY day this month. Say what?! YUP! You heard that right. This allows me to do so many things in my classroom that I may not have been able to do without their help.
I always make a calendar at the end of the previous month to send home with all volunteers. It includes volunteer name and time they are coming.
I have some "Thank You" cards set out with a little treat for my volunteers.
I always include directions on each project.
I have also included a friendly reminder. You could send this home a few days before your volunteer was to come in.
You can grab this volunteer freebie by clicking the cover page below.
These are super cute! I was wondering what do you have your volunteers do when they come into the classroom?
ReplyDeleteThank you Jean! I have them do basic prep stuff. I will have them trace patterns onto construction paper for craftivities; put student books together, cut out laminating, hang projects up in the hallway, I'm having them label all of my book basket books next week! Really, anything that I need :-)
DeleteThose are so cute! This year I am trying Sign-Up Genius. It's a website (free) where you can enter in all of the volunteer dates/times that you need and send the link to your parents and they sign-up so everyone can see what's open and what's taken. It also e-mails them a reminder, so once you enter your info., your job is done. I just used it for my parent-teacher conferences. Loving it so far!! Also works for parties where they're signing-up to bring in food, etc.
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Kathy, my school's PTO uses that! It is nice! They just used it for our fall carnival. Parents could see which activities still needed help. Very cool site!!
DeleteLove! I start my volunteers in nov! Excited because now I have at least a few:)
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