| As a volunteer with Granny's Garden School you
are an important factor in our ability to offer hands-on learning opportunities
to our children. We need you assistance with tracking the number
of hours you volunteer with the program and how that time is spent.
We have created a Class
Garden Activity Report to assist you with tracking and reporting your
hours. It is important to our funders and to our corporate friends
that we have the support of the community. Tracking volunteer hours
is one way of documenting that support. We need to capture a realistic
picture of what is involved in bringing our programs to the community.
We ask you to be as specific as possible in describing the activites.
The timesheet is in Word.doc format. Let me know
if you are unable to access it. You can fill it in and attach the
file to an e-mail and send to Granny
or leave a hard copy in the Granny's Garden School mailbox at the primary
or elementary school. It will be a great help if you will submit the forms
at least monthly. Please tell us more: The timesheet tells
us how much time volunteers spend working in different parts of the program
but we need more information to really get a feel of what is happening
in the program, For example, it you are coordinating a class, on the timesheet
you might write - "Preparing for and working with class, cleaning up garden
area after class and putting supplies away." In addition, please
send a more descriptive e-mail report. See the example below.
Example
of a descriptive e-mail report
I went in at 9:00AM to Mrs. Engel's class
and stayed until 11:30AM. From 9 to 10 AM, we took the kids outside and
let them plant lettuce seeds. We discussed the "outside rules", tending
and care of the garden including weeding, insects, plant needs, difference
between fruits and vegetables and then we planted our seeds(and labeled
them), tended the garden, and harvested a few ripe vegetables. We also
took a lot of pictures and the students did get one stem of a flower which
they presented to Mrs. Engel.
On our way back to class I led them through
the perennial garden and had them all observe an orb web spider and web
that I had discovered the day before. Once inside, I gathered and washed
all of the harvested vegetables that we had(cucumbers and tomatos), and
cut them up, then we all sampled a nice and healthy vegetable snack with
some Ranch Dressing. Then Mrs. Engel and I planned for the future and what
she would like. We decided that I would go in every Wednesday from 12:30
to 1:30. She would like me to take 6 kids out for 15 minutes each(she has
24 kids in her class). We are planning to identify parts of the plant,
plant needs and we will do an experiment with picking a few white/light
colored flowers and then placing them in a container of water with food
coloring to see what happens to them. |
Free
coffee for garden volunteers.