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You
may click on an individual question of interest, or scroll down to
see answers to all of the following questions:
1. What
all is involved in being a classroom helper?
2. What
crafts are involved?
3. What
is involved in recreation?
4. Snacks
- What do you need?
5. What
is required in doing Records?
6. What
do you do in Publicity?
7. What
do you do in the Kick Off Event?
8. What
is involved in Missions?
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What all is involved in being a classroom helper? |
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Classroom helpers
have two primary functions: getting the children from one activity
to the next (ie. walking them from the crafts room to the snack
room) and helping the teacher with crowd control while in the
classroom so that the teacher can focus on Bible teaching while
having to make the least amount of pauses to correct behavior as
possible. There is no prep work involved.
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What crafts are involved? |
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There is a Crafts
director, and Crafts helpers. The Crafts Director chooses the
crafts for the children to make and compiles a list of needed
materials/quantities. That person has a fair amount of preparation
work ahead of VBS, then will need to be present during VBS to
teach the helpers how to make the crafts work with helpers to
assist children. Craft helpers have little or no preparation ahead
of VBS.
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What is involved in recreation? |
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Recreation is
organized indoor/outdoor games the children play. The Recreation
Director plans the activities and gathers the needed materials.
The helpers learn the games and help the leaders with executing
the games with the children. That's a wild part of VBS!
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Snacks - What do you need? |
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The person in charge
of the snacks picks the foods to be served. The Snacks helpers
assist in preparing, serving and cleaning up. Ideally, the snacks
are prepared and waiting at the children's seat at the table to
expedite the process and cut down on mess. Since the specific
snacks have not been assigned, I don't know what foods are needed
but we will be putting out lists closer to VBS for donations.
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What is required in doing Records? |
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The person in charge
of Records is responsible for gathering the administrative
information from the families of children attending VBS
(registration forms, primarily) and during VBS, getting attendance
records from the classrooms to help in reaching out to families
after VBS.
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What do you do in Publicity? |
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Publicity is done
before VBS to spread the word in Raymore and surrounding
communities. Since VBS is an outreach tool, we are needing people
to go into the community, obtain permission from local businesses
to post flyers, then display them for patrons to see.
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What do you do in the Kick Off Event? |
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The Kick-Off Event
will be held Sunday 7/11. There will be many opportunities to help
plan the event and we need church members to just be present to
during the event to help with games, serving snacks, etc.
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What is involved in Missions? |
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Missions will be
taught during VBS, most likely while the children are eating their
snacks. We are hoping to enlist the help of people who have been
on mission trips or projects, but there is also curriculum
included in our VBS package to help with teaching about missions.
This will require some preparation ahead of time.
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