What is site rotation?
In a site-rotation program, students spend most of their time with a
small group of same-age or mixed-age children. A Circle Guide leads a
group of six children to seven rotation sites with specialty leaders.
Preschoolers have separate classes.
Friendship Trek sites include:
- Trailhead (Openings)
- Campfire Bible Stories
- Buddy’s Bible Challenge
- Wilderness Crafts
- Backpack Snacks
- Survivor Games
- Friendship Summit (Closings)
(We recommend you recruit one person as site leader for openings and
closings.)
Site rotation uniquely addresses the challenges of staffing, recruitment,
and space usage.
- Recruitment is easier because jobs match volunteers’ interests
and strengths, such as crafts, music, or snacks.
Volunteers do what they love best.
- Volunteers have less prep work. Site leaders
have one job. They prepare 20 minutes of activities
and repeat them several times throughout the day. Each site leader
has a Leader Guide for
easy, creative, and fun planning.
- Circle Guides have little prep work and enjoy building
relationships. They lead small groups of six to every
site. Circle
Guide Books give them everything they need to lead small-group
activities.
- Space usage improves because you only need six
areas for one to 150 kids. (Remember, opening and
closing share space.) If you have more than 150 kids, simply add another
set of the five rotation sites to make 10 areas plus a space for opening
and closing. The Director Guide offers detailed
information to plan programs of different sizes.
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