Family Night Cards & Volunteers Appreciated!

Well, we seem to be rolling along at full speed in our new school year! Today I have just two small things to get our blog communication started: some family night cards I saw over the summer, and a hopeful request for volunteer help!

First, I noticed these printable family night cards for sale online ($9). Of course, you could make your own for much less money with your own ideas that you family has brainstormed themselves. Each card has a different activity, like craft night, movie night, outdoors night, etc. These might be fun to put in a hat and let one of your children "draw" one out each week to see what the family will do together, or just to use as reminders of all the fun family activities that are possible when you're in a rut.

Lastly, I know that we're all busy and overscheduled, but if any parents, guardians, or family members out there have a little bit of extra time now and then and wouldn't mind helping me with a few tasks to keep the school counseling program running efficiently, I'd love to hear from you! Having extra hands makes a huge difference!

The things I most often need help with are counting pretzel sticks into ziploc baggies, counting and distributing snack bags for several classrooms weekly, folding or cutting papers for classroom lessons, and sticking labels on my "backpack mail" newsletters and putting them in teachers' mailboxes.

Most of these tasks will likely take 30 minutes or less (probably rarely more than 1 hour), and I am more than happy to work around volunteers' schedules. Some of the jobs can be taken home or done here at school at times that work well for you. For the snack bag distribution, though, it would be best to have someone who could come on Thursdays or Fridays as standing commitment (could be once a month, or hopefully even less frequently if we get several volunteers to share the days!)

If you might be willing to help with the Thursday/Friday job or the "as-needed" tasks, please email me and let me know. I'll set up a schedule of dates for the Thursday/Friday volunteers, and for the "as-needed" tasks, I'll just email the people who are willing to volunteer when I anticipate one of those jobs coming up and you can write me back if you're available to do it. Thank you so much for your consideration. I cannot tell you how much your extra pairs of hands mean to me!

Thank you very much for reading! We're glad you are here!