Parents Meeting - Notes from Monday 10/13

6 Mom's met and discussed a lot of items. This was a very productive session. Some changes are:

1) We will no longer have a snack - - we have a lot of things to do. Having a snack disrupts the flow and pretty much ENDS the meeting... AND - many parents felt that having snack AFTER activities (8:30 or so) is JUST too late. This will also reduce the clean-up efforts at the school and at home after the meeting.
2) We will rearrange the room so that kids are in smaller groups at individual tables.
3) We will have PLACE CARDS - so that children of various ages and attention spans are together. These are not PERMANENT seating assignments - we'll move kids as needed week to week. We are hoping to mingle the Supergirls and Mermaids, foster everyone getting to know one another, AND work on behavior for some of our younger kids.
4) THE KIDS are NOT to leave the room except to use the restroom. ADULTS will let latecomers in if the door is locked. We will not tolerate kids running up and down the halls any more.
5) We redesigned the Sewing Box project. I apologize to all for the leaders not providing enough instruction in advance so that everyone could come adequately prepared. We also apologize to those 4h'ers who have already completed t hese boxes. Please try to explain - that we needed to have boxes more consistent in size - and too many kids were unprepared on the 3rd. It is our hope that these completed projects can be put to use for other storage needs - - thanks for your u nderstanding...
6) We stressed that everyone should try harder to be in our room by 7:00 SHARP! Remember that often there are dances and sporting activities that will limit parking. Please factor this into your commute.
7) If you miss a meeting - please contact the leaders so that you can catch up... We will provide materials and instruction so that you can do this at home or get together with a small group outside of the meeting for help and to work together.
8) We need to stress to ALL CHILDREN (including mine) that they should treat the leaders as they do their teachers. Not interupting, not giggling, not walking all over the room... We have a big group and we need to work on respect for everyone. This goes for adults too - background conversations really make it hard for the leaders to keep the kids attention - and be effective. THANKS ---

g