Do you send home "good news" about what your students are learning? Do you have a newsletter or spot on your school's webpage? Do you have a family fishing day incorporated into your program?
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All parents, grandparents, etc are always invited to our fishing event. The parents love performing the skill stations with their child and the children love showing off. All students receive free rods and reels and many families have stated how their son/daughter enjoy taking their own special rods and reel to the lake when the family goes on an outing.
I leave the class participation open. I tell the kids that their parents or grandparents or even friends in the community that talk about it, are more than welcome to come by and try their luck. Last week on our fishing trip, I actually had one parent come down to help out. Happens to be the school board president as well. She had a great time and really liked what we were doing.
I offer for kids to have their parents come when we fish, but I don't push. Our school has a policy that all volunteers have to have a background check. The paperwork says that it could take 3weeks to have the background check completed. I normally don't plan far in advance, "more of a shoot from the hip" kind of guy, myself. Our fishing trips are planned a week or two ahead of time, making the paperwork a real problem. I would love to have parents take a bigger part in the program, I guess when the next bunch of kids come in, I need to have them get their parents a background check before we even have an event planned.
I always invite parents to attend my classes. I had a display at our literacy night where I talked about our upcoming fishing unit and handed out copies of the Coastal Angler fishing magazine. I plan to place news on my website and in the school news in my biweekly "Coach"s Corner". I will be using parent volunteers for my fishing trip as I did on our lagoon trip. I also will finish the fishing unit with a Saturday family fishing day.
Parental involvement in essential to my kayaking program. Parents of students with special needs are always very nervous the first time their child participates in one of our kayak tours. Parent involvement is always encouraged to ease the nervousness of parents and child when they make their initial journey onto the water. As parents expose themselves to meaningful contact with nature they are excited to come back and contribute to the overall wellness of our program. They realize that this is not just a field trip for their child ,but an experience with nature that they would otherwise not be part of if it wasn't for this kayaking program!
"The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endagered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable."- Richard Louv
Our school participates in Take Me Fishing Houston/Hutsell. The program is designed to invite students along with their famililes for a day of fishing at our local park. The event also includes stations such as casting, fish prints and knot tying. We also have door prizes for the students that are donated by local businesses. Our local Katy area Bass Masters support our event by coming out to weigh & measure fish before they are released back into the water. Texas Parks & Wildlife is also involved by helping to provide equipment and license waivers for the day. At our event last year, we had 270 people come out for this event. This year will mark our third annual Take Me Fishing day. We recently had our first planning meeting where 30 faculty members from our school attended to sign up for volunteer positions. This event has helped us to successfully involve our families in our fishing program.
As usual, I stopped on my walk to school this morning and chummed my favorite spot in the river. It snowed here Sunday, and I have chummed the river in our park every day since. It was still dark, but I can recognize the tracks in the snow, they are mine. What really gets me, is there aren't any other tracks. No one has come down to enjoy the river all week.
It used to be hard to cross the 5lines of traffic on the road that borders the park. Now I can do it with no problems at all, the traffic is way down from what it used to be. That explains why gas is $1.66 this morning rather than around $4.00, the way it was a few weeks ago.
I've noticed that it is much harder to get kids to throw in a $1so that we can have cookouts and other activities.
This morning I was out with buses as I usually am. It was 17 degrees, and there were kids walking in to school with no coats. Some kids go without coats because they think they have some sense of style, most of the kids I saw this morning were just cold.
Maybe, with times being what they are, people will go back to activities that they can afford. Things like fishing, from the bank or small boat. Maybe families will come together and enjoy activities outdoors that their kids will always remember. Lets hope so, and lets be someone that families can turn to for advice on how to do it.
I teach elementary school and we actually require a parent or some other adult to be with the students on our fishing trip. We usually work something out with kids who can't get a family member to attend but we have a one to one student/adult ratio on our trips. This has been a strength of our program, our numbers have tripled from last year. It has been a wonderful bonding experience. This year we also had some families camp over, & our bus drivers now grill hamburgers for everyone. It's a fun, safe, outing.
The students and families get involved in our fishing program right from the beginning of the year. In the middle of October, we have red ribbon week which is just say no to drugs. This year we added a twist of "I'm hooking on Fishing, Not on Drugs". The students posted what they are hooked on to my bulletin board. We gave out baggies with gummy worms in them and attached a postcard that shared many examples of things they can do instead of drugs. Next, I started my tank to get ready to hatch the salmon eggs and attached a webcam called the salmon cam for families to view. In the school newsletter, I always give an update on the salmon eggs for families without a computer. In science class, they have connections when learning about animals. So I guess, I hook them from the beginning and involve them as volunteers in our Fun Fishing Day events. I'm asking high school students to be assistants to each of the stations.
Involving families is important because when the students leave our classrooms and the fishing trip is over, we don't want them to never pick up a fishing pole again. That is why it is crucial to peak family interest as well. I personally try to make connections with parents at sporting events, concert, and conferences and talk to them about fishing and what our goals are. This is easier for me because I teach in a small district. I hope to have a great turn out in the spring.
Starting in January our new school newsletter will include updates on our fishing and boating educaiton programs here at Melbourne High School. For us it was as simple as contacting the person who is in charge of our school newsletter (which is online) and getting information on how to get information in there. This turned out to be as easy as him telling me to email him a "story" and he will publish it. So from now on, everything we do in the program will be broadcast to every family in the school. Even without doing this, at our parent conferences, parents had heard about our program and were coming up to me with offers and suggestions. I think this will help more people find out about what we offer and hopefully gain us more donations of time and or money.
We haven't yet involved families directly with our program (in the future, YES!), however we keep the public updated with periodic news releases. Because of this, there is an older gentleman who LOVES to fish who found out about what we are doing. He is so supportive and he keeps bringing in fishing books and magazines that he no longer wants. This morning he brought in a whole bag FULL of fly tying magazines. We are so excited to be getting all these wonderful resources!
Just getting ready to kick off my HOFNOD fishing unit at my high school and wanted to share some great ideas for involving the community and familie in your fishing and boating programs. For the past 5 years I have invited the local fly tye club to come to my school and assist me with teaching fly tying. Most years I am able to get 6-10 local fly tyers to come to my PE classes and work 1 on 1 with my students. I also send home a news letter to parents and grandparents who also may be fly tyers and might want to come to one of our 3 days of tackle crafting during my fishing unit. Another way to involve the community is to call your local newspaper and invite them to come to your school and do a story on the volunteers that work with your students. It is great PR for your program and a great way to reach out to the community and tell them about the positive things happening in your PE classes.
I added a web cam to my salmon take so my families can look at the salmon whenever they want during school hours. When my classroom is dark, my salmon tank is dark and you can't see them. I would add a light but the salmon babies like it dark and they win! I got a grant from Sam's Club to purchase a laptop to help run the web cam.
Our student's parents are welcome in the classroom at any time, but we communicate most effectively with a journal that goes home each day with each student.
Shelly and I will be having a fishing contest between schools, May 9th this year. We haven't worked out all the details, but the plan is to require the student fisherman to come with a parent.
The idea is that keeps each child under the direction of an adult, even when they are spread out on the lake in boats.
I have also encouraged some of the carp fisherman in the area to join us, to give tips and encourage parent and child alike. The parent and child can act as a team. Maybe, the child fights the carp and the father/mother nets the fish to shore. I am thinking that a picture of student and parent with the fish would be a nice touch.
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