SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES
IMMEDIATE NEEDS
Mid-Mester Elective Period Options
If you have a skill or hobby that you would be excited to share with our secondary students during the elective period from 12/7-1/29, please let us know. These could be long-term elective options or short-term offerings. We want to be able to offer our students as much as possible. Remember that hours spent sharing your skill can be included in your family’s service to the school.
Elementary Lunch Heroes (you do not have to be an elementary parent to help)
Kindergarten 11-1130 Thursdays and Fridays
1st grade 11-11:30 Mondays and Thursdays
2nd Grade 11-11:30 Fridays
3rd Grade 11:30-12:00 Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays
5th Grade 11:30-12:00 Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays
(It is possible to do 3rd & 5th graders at the same time)
Mid-Mester Elective Period Options
If you have a skill or hobby that you would be excited to share with our secondary students during the elective period from 12/7-1/29, please let us know. These could be long-term elective options or short-term offerings. We want to be able to offer our students as much as possible. Remember that hours spent sharing your skill can be included in your family’s service to the school.
Elementary Lunch Heroes (you do not have to be an elementary parent to help)
Kindergarten 11-1130 Thursdays and Fridays
1st grade 11-11:30 Mondays and Thursdays
2nd Grade 11-11:30 Fridays
3rd Grade 11:30-12:00 Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays
5th Grade 11:30-12:00 Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays
(It is possible to do 3rd & 5th graders at the same time)
Service Hours for the 2020-2021 School year.
Families will log and keep track of their service hours through RenWeb. The Service Hours Log can be found in the “Family Information” tab on the home screen of RenWeb ParentsWeb. If you have not been recording your service hours in RenWeb, please get those updated in the system. If you need help with this process, please contact Joanna Hampton at joanna.hampton@dcamail.org.
If you logged hours this summer for the next school year and did any work before July 1, please put July 1 as the date and then list the date/project you’ve worked on in the notes section.
If you logged hours this summer for the next school year and did any work before July 1, please put July 1 as the date and then list the date/project you’ve worked on in the notes section.
How Can You Help at DCA?
Continue to pray for the school year! Tell others about DCA!
Please contact the DCA school office 540-552-7777 or office.dayspring@gmail.com if you’re interested in helping with any projects. The list below is not exhaustive as various needs arise during the year. We look forward to working with you as we have a great year learning and growing with your students.
SERVING DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR
There are plenty of opportunities to serve regularly during the coming school year. These include teaching an elective, manning entry desks in the gym and main building, study hall proctors, classroom helpers, lab aides, substituting, helping out during lunches, helping with morning drop-off and afternoon pick-up, regular cleaning rotations, etc. If you would like to volunteer for one of these regular time slots throughout the year, please contact Joanna Hampton (as soon as possible): joanna.hampton@dcamail.org
We need parents to man welcome desks in the Gym entry way.
○ Tuesdays and Thursdays: 1:45-3:15
We need parent volunteers to help as lab aides.
- 8:30 - 3:00 M-F
- can be broken down into days/times that fit your schedule, but would love to put together a regular schedule for each week if possible
- Volunteering one morning or afternoon a week would be a great help in keeping our children safe this year!
- Drop off help 7:45-8:30.
- Pick-up help 2:45-3:15.
- Needs exist all day every day
- can be broken down into days/times that fit your schedule, but would love to put together a regular schedule for each week if possible
- study hall proctor availabilities:
○ Tuesdays and Thursdays: 1:45-3:15
We need parent volunteers to help as lab aides.
- Looking for someone who can help by pulling items needed from the garage to prep for labs and then put them back in the garage afterwards. Could be a once a week after/before school activity?
- Some lab aide opportunities will exist throughout the year for Chemistry, Physical Science, Earth Science, Science 6, and elementary classes. If you're interested, please let us know.
- The teacher can have that 30-minute lunch break
- Even if you only have one day a month available, the teachers would appreciate the help.
- K-2 Lunch 11:00-11:30; Recess 11:30-12:00
- 3-4 Recess 11:00-11:30; 3-5 Lunch 11:30-12:00
- If you would be willing to be on the substitute teacher list to help out when teachers are ill or have a need that keeps them out of the classroom, let us know your availability, grades willing to cover, etc.
- You may sub for pay or for volunteer hours.
- We’re looking for someone to help oversee athletic uniform inventory, storage, etc.
- We need help with concessions for home games
- We need admissions table workers and clock/bookkeepers for home games
- Contact Athletic Director Justin Hawks justin.hawks@dcamail.org
- Do you play an instrument you’d like to share with the K-5 students?
- Would you like to sing with the students?
- Do you have a science background or particular interest in science?
- Join other parents and teachers in the review of textbook curricula.
- Let us know what area of science and we’ll match you up with some textbooks.
- Each team will review about 4-6 textbooks per subject.
Activity/Elective Period Options
If you have a skill or hobby that you would be excited to share with our secondary students during the elective period from 11/30-1/29, please let us know. These could be long-term elective options or short-term offerings. We want to be able to offer our students as much as possible. Remember that hours spent sharing your skill can be included in your family’s service to the school.
If you have a skill or hobby that you would be excited to share with our secondary students during the elective period from 11/30-1/29, please let us know. These could be long-term elective options or short-term offerings. We want to be able to offer our students as much as possible. Remember that hours spent sharing your skill can be included in your family’s service to the school.
Upcoming Events to get on your calendar where volunteers are needed
- 2/26 Kindergarten Open House – we’re looking for helpers and servers
- Mar (date TBD) Math Olympics
- 4/15 Open House – we’re looking for a variety of helpers – coordinating children’s activities, greeters, servers, tour guides, etc.
- 4/24 Pig Pickin’ – we’re looking for set-up, servers, clean-up, etc.
- 4/26-4/30 Book Fair & Readers are Leaders week – we’re looking for helpers to set-up the book fair, work during the book fair, be guest readers for readers are leaders week, etc.
- 4/29 Fine Arts Extravaganza K-12 – we’re looking for helpers with the elementary music program, set-up, clean-up, etc.
- 5/6 K-12 Field Day – we’re looking for a coordinator to set-up games; volunteers to run the games; volunteers to prepare/serve lunch, sno-cones, etc.; helpers with clean-up, etc.
- 5/29 DCA Graduation – we’re looking for food prep, decorating, servers, clean-up, etc.