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**Hippy Website:** []


 * Goldin Center**- Where Family Gathering Nights take place []

Photos from our volunteering in January 2012

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 You can “scan” your form with your signature, and then email to Vikki Porter the co-director of the HIPPY program at vporter@coa-yfc.org or you can fax at Fax: (414)263-8383. Let me know if you have questions.
 * Volunteer Background Check Form: [[file:Background Check Form 01-09.pdf]]**

**Family Gathering Night #1 - January 9, 2012**

4:30-5:00 - Set up/Preparations 5:00-5:25 - Dinner and Craft 5:25-6:45 - 3 Breakout sessions (approx. 20 minutes each - repeating) 1. David Stokes - Live Animal Show 2. Creating and Playing Board Games **(Group: Lindsey, Michelle, Jessica, Laura)** **Here is the handout that families will receive about the games. I emailed this to Geri to copy for Monday night.**
 * Here are the lesson plans for the four games (so we all know what to do).I will bring copies for group members, but the games are very self-explanatory. **

3. Movement Activities/Games in the Gym **(Group: Kim, Katie, Matt)** 6:45 - Clean Up - Number of Participants: Margie mentioned that 300 people is the largest crowd they get, but knows that January and other months may be much less. **Resources and Documents**
 * Notes:**

Board Game Group Planning (Insert your ideas, plans and information here ): Jessica- I will make up the sheet with all the extra activities to be sent home with the families. (For example, I SPY, Simon Says, etc.) Michelle, if I get this to you this week sometime, can your co-worker translate it again? Once I have the sheet I will e-mail Michelle and attach it to our wiki here. Thanks!



Laura-I made the game board masters and emailed them to Geri. Geri forwarded them to Margie and they are also located below. I will make some finished samples for the families to look at. If anyone comes in late we can give them the sample games. Jessica- Thanks Laura for making those game boards already. They will work great! The next thing we need is the lesson plans for the dinner time-make and take board games and then the lesson plans on how to play the games. CORRECT? Michelle, if I remember correctly, you and your students were making some dice? ** see below (Michelle) ** Hi guys- So, I am feeling a bit "out of the loop" because I had to leave Bravo early when we had dinner on the 19th. Apparently I missed a ton! But, it looks as if we are planning board game stations. Are we setting up the activity so that the different groups play standard board games (already created) or are we creating board games for them and then having them make their own versions? I will touch base with Michelle at school tomorrow. Also, Michelle- if you and your students don't have time to make dice I have plenty of dice in my Everyday Math stuff....I think I even have some foam ones from a Nasco kit, I'll look. Unless we need large dice or something fancy I don't know about it. Laura and Jessica, please let me know what I can do? Create something, print something, run copies of something, get prizes/treats (I don't know if that's frowned up or not), etc. I don't want to be "that" group member :) Thanks--Lindsey 1/3/11 @ 10:07 am- Michelle- I have the dice pattern. Lindsey and I will make 50 dice total, each family will easily be able to take home 1 for their own use at home. As for making something during dinnertime, I thought they were going to assemble their game boards using a file folder and then decorate? I thought that's what we discussed. Could be remembering wrong, though! Lastly, if we could get someone else (maybe someone from Kim's school?) to translate any future items for this time, that would be great. My coworker was happy to help out, but she spent a lot of time translating the 3 games, and I'd hate to ask her again so quickly. She said it was hard to translate because of the vernacular that we use when we play games... they don't have a lot of the same phrases. Kim-Yes, we were going to have them create their own boards using file folders. I need a week in advance for translation. (That is the "rule" at my school if we are asking for help. Most teachers/aides speak Spanish, but writing it is a lot harder task for them) Laura (1/3/12 at 4:00pm) - I think that glue sticking the games on and coloring the squares for the color game will be more than enough for the craft time during dinner. Does anyone have a good (easy/basic) lesson plan form? I'd be happy to fill it out and email it to Geri. Jessica- No Problem Michelle! I understand. I e-mailed them to you today, but you can just read them over with Lindsey if you like and let me know if I have any errors I need to change before I e-mail it to Geri. Kim, do you think anyone at your school would mind translating the 8 game rules? I know that this is short notice for them to do this, so if we can't do it this time, that is okay. I have attached it up top under my first post. Laura, for the lesson plan can we just type up the objective, materials, and then the plan of what to do? This might work for both groups. Kim-I'm sure that would be fine. I was just iffy on anything lengthy. Email it to me when you get a chance. I just saw that attachment now, that wasn't there the other day? After looking at it I don't think I'll be able to have anyone translate it. We have some stuff going on at my school and one teacher is moving classrooms while the rest of us take her kids in our rooms. It is a bit crazy. Jessica-Kim don't worry about it. I figured that translating was going to be a more difficult task. I just e-mailed it to Geri. Laura: Here are the lesson plans for the file games. Movement Game/Activities Group Planning (Insert your ideas, plans and information here ): Katie-Already got "Hungry Animals" game instructions translated into spanish by Michelle's co-worker (thanks again Michelle). The families will use animal movements (crab, bear, frog, seal, etc) to collect bean bags (food) for their team. Team with the most at the end is the winners. But mostly this is just a fun way to get great exercise for muscles that we rarely use. I can bring the bean bags. Kim-I am bringing cds with movement songs on them that I will do with the families. (Bear Hunt, Five Little Monkeys, Animal Action, Freeze, Bop Until You Drop, Five Little Ducks) Also, I can make up a sheet describing the songs even though the songs are self explainatory. Hopefully I can get it translated and I'll send it to Margie. If there is anything with the movement that needs to be done I can help Katie and Matt too.

Matt- I think just the one game will be enough to fill the twenty minutes.....to be sure, I can lead the group in some warm up exercises or cool down stuff to fill the remaining time. Laura (1/3/12 at 4:00pm) - I know I'm in the other group, but I'm wondering if you made an easy/basic lesson plan form? It would probably be easiest for HIPPY is the two groups use the same form. Thanks! Jessica-I was thinking that we could maybe type up an objective, the materials and then the plan. I thought this might work for both groups. Kim-I did one for my music/movement and it has topic, objective, materials and description of activties where I explain the songs Laura - I will write up plans for the 4 file games based on Kim's statement above. Do we need these for the night of the 9th or for HIPPY at a later date? Jessica- Laura, I thought Geri wanted the lessons for hippy, but on the 9th. Would you like me to help out with this in anyway? Do we need a lesson plan for anything else besides the 4 games?

__Items Needed Emailed to Margie on 12/15 to Margie:__ - File folder for each family - Copies of 4 game boards for each family - Boxes (2)? Of fruity Cheerios for game pieces - Crayons/Markers to decorate the game boards during the FGN - Glue Sticks to glue games to file folders - Tape – to put together dice - A CD Player – for the movement activities (teacher has a CD she would like to play) - Small Ziploc baggies for game pieces - Large Ziploc bags to keep games and pieces in


 * Game Boards**


 * Planning Document #1 (12/19/11)**