Volunteer Opportunities Besides Teaching

You Want to Support the RE Program, But You’re Not Ready to Teach . . .

Tell Tina that you’d like to help and what you might like to do, and she can match your skill to the appropriate class or lesson. Here are some suggestions:

• Provide an extra set of hands for craft projects
• . . . or outdoor projects
• Lead a cooking or craft project
• Teach kids about a skill or interest of yours (weaving, drawing, architecture . . . ?)
• Read a story
• Participate in a skit
• Play music
• Lead a sing-along
• Involve kids in a social justice project
• Teach a dance
• Teach something in another language (including sign language)
• Build something with the kids
• Provide a snack
• Be a chaperone for a sleepover or lock-in
• . . . or a field trip
• Offer to drive for a field trip
• Help with (or volunteer to lead) a One-Room Sunday School
• Download music
• Lend your tech skills
• Be a “buddy” for a child with special needs

Ask the teacher! Different things will always be useful in different grades, for example:

• The Nursery can always use extra hands to hold babies
• PreK through grade 2 can always use extra hands when the kids go outside
• Grade 2 needs volunteers to bring in their pets
• Grade 3 can use help with cooking projects
• Grade 4 might like performers to help act out Bible stories
• Grade 7 always needs drivers to transport kids to local churches

Visit the classroom, and participate as much or as little as you like! Check out the curriculum overview online, and see if a particular topic looks interesting to you.

If you’re still not ready to commit full-time but you’d like a “taste” of teaching, here are some options:

• Add your name to our substitute teacher list
• Be part of a teaching team—four or more teachers who rotate responsibilities, so
• you’re only in the classroom every other Sunday (or sometimes less!)

For more information, contact DRE Tina Schultz, tina@firstparish.info