Hi CCES Parents!
Our amazing science lab facilitators, Becky Jones and Christine Nix, are graduating to middle school at the end of this school year, and CCES needs your help to continue offering this excellent resource to our students!
My name is Lindsay Walls, and I have volunteered to take over the administrative duties of the CCES science lab going forward! I am a former Fulton County teacher, a tutor, and mom to three kids who will keep me at Crabapple Crossing until the year 2030! My goal is to make sure your kids have the opportunity to experience all that our science lab has to offer, but I need your help to make that happen!
What does the CCES science lab offer?
· 3 different lab activities per year for every class in the school
· hands on small group science instruction
· multi-sensory exposure to science concepts that align with grade level specific Georgia science standards
· the opportunity for students to interact with scientific instruments and materials purchased for our lab by PTO and Glo For It funds
· a chance for you to participate in your child's learning
Sooooo...what do we need from you? to keep the science lab up and running for your child's grade level next year?
We are looking for parents to take on the job of running one grade level of labs for the 2020-2021 school year. We will need a leader or group of leaders for each of our six grade levels.
Grade Level lab volunteers will be in charge of running three grade specific labs each school year. Each lab schedule includes a parent training and usually six class lab visits (depending on the number of classes in the grade level). This volunteer position is roughly a 12 school day commitment, however, we can consider splitting those twelve days between multiple volunteers at each grade level if needed.
Grade level volunteers will facilitate the labs the way that Becky and Christine do now. This may include managing materials as they are used throughout the lab, running the station timer, setting up videos when needed, and filling in when there are not enough volunteers. Our top priority is getting our students in to the lab to enjoy this great resource that is already available to us. We don't want all the great lessons and materials we have to sit on a shelf gathering dust in the lab closet!
Interested? Even just a little....???
Please read the attachment for more detailed information, and join us for an informational meeting Tuesday, January 21st @ 9:30am to learn more about how we can SAVE THE SCIENCE LAB!!! If you have questions that are not answered in the attachment or you want to put your name in as a volunteer for next year, feel free to email me at linzowalls@gmail.com.
Hope to see you in January!
