Reflections of Service Learning Experience
As the night began, I realized how important it was to help out our community. As the administrators of the school began letting their elementary students and families start entering, I saw so many kids coming and gathering around everywhere. We had plenty of kids. My role was to put water into cups and cornstarch into ziplog bags when running out. But their were so many kids that I had to eventually help my partners Jackie and Diana. So I had to leave my role apart and start teaching the children how to make OOBLECK. Their were so many kids, we were putting in work everytime students would come. I had to help them because of the children were just standing around waiting for Diana or Jackie to help them they would of gotten bored and left. During our experiment, I was able to observe the little children and the parents. I was determining that the children were getting excited in the way that they would mix the cornstarch and water so aggressively, they would sometimes come again for a second try. The parents seem happy that their children were learning concepts and ideas of constructing things on their own. The parents would also explain to them how to do it after we were done instructing them. My partners reactions seem very stressful because we would run out of supplies and materials so we had to kinda stop and make the children wait like 5 seconds. The families and the children were having plenty of fun making OOBLECK, they were surprised that they can make oobleck with house keep materials. After this experience, I gained that all children are the same, they view/see things and think differently. I personally have 3 younger sisters that are approximately the same age as the children. I am kinda rude to my sisters just like every other brother and sister. That's the kinda of love we tend to show our siblings. I learned how to be more pollite to children even though it can be very frustrating. So I feel like I gained an experience to be more understandable with children and that my sisters deserve the kindness of me more than anyone. Lastly, their was this one old lady that came to our table asking how to make Oobleck. She wanted to make some but Diana couldn't understand her so Diana just gave her some in a ziplog bag but I feel like the old lady wanted to make some because she didn't have the opportunity to go through this when she was younger, I feel like she wished she had the opportunity to.
