An assistant chef assists children in preparing planned cooking experiences, mixing, measuring and preparing foods. This position requires a volunteer who enjoys cooking and preparing food with children three to five years old. The mealtime partner encourages appropriate socialization during mealtime through participation and example. They encourage children to learn self-help skills such as pouring, setting the table and serving their own food. Play-time partners encourage children to explore by helping them solve problems, ask questions and use words to describe their ideas and feelings during play.
Volunteers interact with individual or small groups of children during center time.
Field trip participation is not a weekly commitment. Activities include accompanying children to the zoo, fire station and other areas of interest. Unlike the field trip participant, volunteers in the general classroom must make a constant commitment. They assist teachers with daily activities in the classroom. Volunteers can also work with larger groups of children by being playground helpers or computer pals.