CA+Mission+Day

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===Please sign up for volunteer hours or supplies for our Mission Days on Thursday, May 26th and Tuesday, May 31st. We also have some site preparation activities we need help with during the week of May 23rd through 27th. If you scroll down the page you can see who has volunteered already! If I have you down as "flexible" that means you indicated you would prefer this activity, but would consider another one if we need you somewhere else. If I've put you down for something you DON'T want to do, feel free to delete you name.===

=__WEEK OF MAY 23rd - 27th__=

**__PREPARE THE CONSTRUCTION SITE__** ( **Mon, Wed, Thu, or Fri**) - We need to clear the site of weeds and level it so we're ready to build. We'd love to have 2 - 3 parents for an hour or so each. We can do this in shifts, so you don't all have to be available at the same time. **(Required materials: garden rakes & hoes, gloves, plastic garbage bag)**

Volunteers:
Wednesday: Annette & Jerry Kerekes

==__MAKE ADOBE BRICKS__ **(** Thursday, May 26th – time to be determined based on volunteers**) - We have a recipe. This activity will require 3 - 5 parent volunteers for 2 -3 hours. Plan to get wet and muddy.** (Required materials: clay/soil, straw, hose, 2-3 large tin tubs - big enough for two 4th graders to stand in at the same time) //We're going to need 2 – 3 plastic bags of clean straw. If you have some you can contribute, we'd love to hear from you now! We have sources for clay and sandy pan in Lincoln and Sacramento. If you can pick some up for us that would be a great help.// **==

Jennifer Poncin
Jerry Kerekes Stacey Soares Sean Peyman David Pessin

=**__TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2011__**= =**__8:30 – 11:30 a.m.__**= =**__BUILDING THE MISSION__**=

Planned activities for this morning include painting and hanging a backdrop, building the mission with the adobe bricks we'll make the week before, and assembling the surrounding area, including cemetery, farm, fields, and orchards. We can use 5 - 10 parents to support these morning activities by supervising (students will be doing all the work!). We'll have "plans" to follow and materials to use.

Pablo Gonzalez
Kristina Royer Jennifer Robinson Annette Kerekes Stacey Soares Claudine Ehrhart Liz Krauss Bart Morefield

=**__TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2011__**= =**__12:20 - 2:30 p.m.__**= =**__LIVING HISTORY CENTERS__**=


 * We’re going to use the Living History Center down by Laird Road for our afternoon activities. **


 * This is where our parent volunteers are critical! We can only offer these activities if we have volunteers to coordinate and manage each one. We can provide lots of support materials, but we need you to bring each activity to life! **


 * These are some possible center activities. Please let us know as soon as possible if you can provide any of the necessary materials and/or volunteer to manage one of these centers. Even if you're not available the entire time, let us know. We may be able to use volunteers in shifts on some of the activities. We'd also like to hear any other ideas you might have about mission-period activities you’d like to offer. More activities means more happy kids! **


 * __TORTILLA MAKING__ - We have a recipe. **(Materials needed: 100 sandwich-size Ziploc bags, mixing bowls, mixing spoons, measuring cups & spoons, tortilla presses)

__Volunteers:__
Gayle Streng Tammy Stark


 * __POSOLE TASTING__ - We need a volunteer (or volunteers) to make two versions of posole (pork & hominy stew) for our students to taste. This was the standard mid-day meal at the missions. We’d like a traditional version with either pork or chicken and a vegetarian version. There are some good recipes out there on the Internet! **(Materials needed: crock pots for reheating at school, 100 small cups, 50 plastic spoons, and ladles for serving)

Dawnica Sanchez (pork version)
Jennifer Poncin (veggie version) Dianne Rudolph (pork version) Andrea Evinger (veggie version)


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">__GRINDING DRIED (INDIAN) CORN__ - We have a grinding stone. **(Materials needed: dried squirrel corn, available at many pet stores)

__Volunteers:__
Ed Chapin or Heather Chapin


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">__CANDLE MAKING__ - We have candle wicking. **(Materials needed: 2 large cans/small coffee cans, a pan, camp stove & fuel, wax)

__Volunteers:__
Christine Clark Stacey Soares


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">__BELL MAKING__ - Mission bells often helped define the mission. This center will give students the chance to fashion their own mission bells to commemorate the day. **(Materials needed: old baking sheets to hold and transport finished bells)

__Volunteers:__
Evelyn Bowers Kathy Ratermann Denise Davis


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">__LAUNDRY__ – Last year the students had a blast washing clothes with washboards in metal tubs! They might even make their own soap for this activity. We have recipes for home made soap if you need them. **(Materials needed: laundry soap ingredients, old clothes, large tubs, washboards or large rocks to beat clothes against, rope for laundry lines)

__Volunteers:__
Cheryl Isheim


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">__SOAP MAKING__ – This was another popular activity last year! We have the molds to make bars of soap, and even have some glycerine bars to start with. **(Materials needed: more glycerine bars, old cheese graters, bowls to hold the grated soap, camp stove & fuel, pans to melt the soap, add-ins like oatmeal and herbs, soap colorant)

__Volunteers:__
Karen Pessin Jennifer Poncin Deanne Rudman


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">__WEAVING STICKS & NATIVE AMERICAN GAMES__ – We have the weaving sticks and game instructions & equipment. **(Materials needed: yarn in natural and earth tones)

__Volunteers:__
Claudine Ehrhart


 * <span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial; font-size: 11pt;">__GOLD PANNING__ – Yes, there’s a trough already built in the Living History Center! We may be pushing a little bit into the Gold Rush with this center, but we figure that’s okay because that’s where our unit of inquiry will have taken us. **(Materials needed: sand, gold-painted medium-sized gravel)

__Volunteers:__
Alyssa Clark (flexible) or Carol Pollack Wendy Rose