Impact Activity

For my impact activity I went to Fern Elementary to voulunteer at their afterschool program and I worked with the kindergarteners and the first graders. In this activity I learned so much just by analyzing the kids. I learned that when interacting with kids, you have to have paitence, creativity, and be very energetic because they could get bored really fast. And while I went through this experiance I kept in mind that this will help me to get to the level I want to be in before I go to school for Psychology by "learning to deal with people" as Ms. Frankel said. From this experiance I've learned that I'll do fine in being in a enviroment with working with people, because to me working with kids is a very big task. And if I could do that then I could be able to work with anyone.

Some activity's that I did with the kids was help the kids with thier sight word flash cards, arts and crafts, two group games called (silent ball & down by the river), and at the end the kids just had free time by playing with twinker toys. While helping one of the girls with thier flash cards I really began to understand better ways to help her by breaking up the words and sounding them out. And in arts & crafts I helped the kids design fliers to give to thier parents, to inform them about water play day. This had to be the most challenging part of the experiance because everyone wanted me to help them with thier flyers and sometimes the kids were shy, so it was hard to understand what they wanted. In the two games I noticed that no matter what age people are they are able to work well with eachother and was acctually suprised to see how much they got into it. This was my favorite part of the day becuase I really got to interact with the kids.

Through this whole experiance I feel that I have really learned a lot. I feel that the research that I had done beforehad had really prepared me to do this activity, becuase it gave me a insight on how it would really be like to interact with people and understand where thier comming from or what they need help with. And from that I feel like I'm confident that I really do have a natural skill or passion for this type of work enviroment or job. Even if it's not just with children. So in conclusion I feel that overall this has been a good experiance for me.

Helping kids with flash cards



Arts & Crafts