Be a classroom mentor, assist students with: Special Projects, Math Facts or Sight Words and other Language Work. You can also help by "Publishing" Student Books

Read to children or listen to them read.

Do you like to play an instrument? Do you collect bugs, rocks, or stamps? Do you have a hobby that is particularly interesting? Think about how you can share these special interests and tie them into the classroom curriculum.

Contact a teacher to share travel stories and/or artifacts from different cultures.

Help children work on a "Life Book"¨ or similar project, providing a sense of legacy.

Do activities leading up to school events and/or after an event to expose children to new ideas from a historical, multi-generational, and life course perspective.

Help with the annual Spring Musical by building sets or sewing costumes or assisting with rehearsals.

Join forces with the classroom parents to help plan special events and fundraisers.

Help teachers prepare for lessons: cutting, tracing, copying, collating.

Be a judge at Interest Fair and prepare to be dazzled. This is our version of the Science Fair. It's one evening in February, we feed you dinner and then release you to be amazed by the students.

Partner with other grandparents or parents and start a club at the school or join an existing club and assist adult leaders with activities that interest you or your grandchildren.** (Ideas: chess, gardening, crocheting, painting.)

Create a "Lunch Bunch" and join your children or grandchildren and their friends for lunch one day a week.

Contact the school office about helping serve hot lunches one or two days per week.

Help in the Library or in the Music Library organizing, filing or helping children with their selections.

Chaperone field trips or school dances.**
 

 

 

 

* = Gerantophobia: the fear of getting old. Let our children remind you of what it's like to be young!

**There are certain requirements that need to be met before you can be put in charge of a group of children, such as chaperoning a dance, leading a club or driving for field trips. If you are interested in volunteering for these types of activities, call the school office at 614-291-8601 to get the information. It's best to call at least 2 weeks before a scheduled event.

 

 

To enroll in one of the "Protecting God's Children" workshops, go to www.virtus.org to see when one is scheduled near you.