Volunteer & Job Opportunities
We encourage you to involve yourselves in your child’s school. There are always a myriad of ways that you can assist. We will soon have a parent volunteer form available, soliciting your thoughts and availability for volunteering at Barack Obama Charter School. In this, our first year of operation, we are sure you have skills that could assist your child’s teacher or front office.Here are some suggestions to think about:
- Reading to your child’s class
- Listen to students with their oral reading.
- Organize and run a book fair.
- Become the school coordinator for all classroom volunteers.
- Be a technology docent:
- help with the student and teacher web sites
- Assist in the office:
- with attendance
- with record keeping for the lunch program
- helping the office manager during that busy first hour of the school day
- Making copies for the teacher
- Assist students with their data notebooks (extremely important student responsibility).
- Assist with the planning and attend a field trip.
- Help with before school, during lunch and after school supervision.
- Find out how to donate needed supplies and materials (recycle) for an art project.
- Help organize a student art display night.
- Assist with end of year Science Fair.
- Assist with the planning and implementation of a school garden.
- Setting up Performing Arts and crafts projects.
- drama class
- visual arts
- after school dance class
- crocheting, knitting and/or sewing class (even for the boys)
- cooking