Service Learning Reflection

    This year my first year seminar class did a lot of service work inside and outside of the class room. Being someone that loves kids, I thought all of the activities we did were really fun. Meeting the kids that live in the community and thinking about how they could potentially be taking this seminar, doing the same things we were doing is crazy to think about. It was really fun to do different activities with all of the kids and help them do whatever the task was. Some of them were difficult, even for us college kids when we had to test them out, but the kids are really clever and caught onto what we were doing pretty quickly.

   For some of the projects, we did a scavenger hunt/unlock the box with the kids. There were clues that one of us would give the group and from there they had to figure out the numbers/letters combination that would unlock each of the locks. We helped them through each part of it, but a lot of the kids understood how to do whatever the task was. It was really fun and rewarding to see them get so excited when they got through a lock.

   We tested this in class, which was really fun for us to do. We're all pretty competitive and going head to head against our classmates was super fun. It ended up being the same activity we did with the kids which made it a lot easier to help them succeed with the activity. All in all the activities we did together were really fun. I liked getting to have fun with everyone during these exercises.

   Another one that we did was helping kids identify fossils and helping them find fossils in their dirt pans. Watching the kid's reactions to finding out that one of the fossils was poop was hilarious. I was also really surprised how much they knew about fossils and about geography in general. It was really fun helping them out and furthering their knowledge about fossils.