Volunteer Expectations
 
 
 
 
 
 
GCS parents make a commitment of 30 hours of volunteer service to the school each year.  Parents work in the classroom assisting the classroom teacher, serve meals to the children, garden, participate in holiday celebrations, catalogue library books, read to the children and design decorative displays. Parents who work are encouraged to come on Saturdays for Parent Work Days.
 
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In September, during GCS' first month, parents took the lead in building the school's playground with the help of supplies furnished by Home Depot.  They constructed bookshelves for the school's library, built cubbies for all the classrooms, repainted all of the school's iron fencing, laid 87 bags of soil and all of the sod for the lawn adjacent to the school's office, built a vegetable garden, painted U.S. and world maps on the school's play area and painted a sixtyfoot long Henri Rousseau themed mural to decorate the lunch area.  Since January, parents have been engaged on Thursday afternoons and Saturday mornings in painting two additional murals to adorn the entrance to the school building.
 
We thank all of the parents volunteers who have been working in the classroom, serving meals, gardening, working in the library, greeting cars at the entrance gate and performing a number of other jobs at school. We have many opportunities for parents to complete volunteer hours on a schedule that works for them.  Parents can sign up to garden, help with a parent satisfaction survey, assist in the classroom, monitor dance classes, work in the K-1 art classes, paint, or sew recital costumes.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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