National Youth Service Day!
So today is the ACTUAL National Youth Service Day, but since the youth program and computer lab staff (i.e. Wendy and James- VISTAS- and Mikaela) don't work on Friday, we had our event yesterday.
IT WAS SO RAD
We did a kid clean-up outside of Skyline with over 20 kids! I sent away for the NYSD info from Youth Serve America, and registered our project online with them. I doctored up the posters with our own Skyline Kid Clean-Up posters, and we told all the kids about it the day before. I used the YSA service learning curriculum guide to plan the activity, and we followed the PARC model of service learning- Preparation, Action, Reflection, and Celebration. I drew a little map thing on the blackboard in the youth room. I also made stickers (okay I used Publisher's label maker) that said "Official Clean-Up Kid that the kids loved.
When we started, we talked about why cleaning up trash was important and why we should take an active role in our community. We talked about the rules and what was going to happen for the whole project.
Then, we went outside and cleaned up trash! It was so awesome, the kids were so into it and picked up tons of cigarette butts and posed for pictures discouraging smoking because it's gross. the kids are such hams for the camera so I got great results.
We ended at the playground and played with the kids for a while- I beat everyone on the swingset. Even though 'it's not a competition' I still won. Ha.
We went back to the youth room and had a discussion about where we think the trash came from and we determined that the adults and teens shouldn't smoke but if they were going to they should throw away their butts. The kids thought of some great ideas for making signs to go outside where we found the most butts, so I feel another service project coming on!
We talked about volunteering and how that day we were all volunteers in our community, and the kids really made the connection of what it means to be a volunteer. They said that it was fun and we made a difference, and they realized that that was exactly the reason that the volunteers (we had two out there with us) come to Skyline.
Then we had yogurt parfaits and everyone was happy.
It was an overwhelming success, tell you what! next, I'm going to show the kids how to put the pictures on the computer and a group of us are going to write up a page to put in the monthly newsletter that will go out in May so everyone at Skyline will know that the kids volunteered in their community (this is the computer part- I am in CTEP after all!). It's going to be great.
IT WAS SO RAD
We did a kid clean-up outside of Skyline with over 20 kids! I sent away for the NYSD info from Youth Serve America, and registered our project online with them. I doctored up the posters with our own Skyline Kid Clean-Up posters, and we told all the kids about it the day before. I used the YSA service learning curriculum guide to plan the activity, and we followed the PARC model of service learning- Preparation, Action, Reflection, and Celebration. I drew a little map thing on the blackboard in the youth room. I also made stickers (okay I used Publisher's label maker) that said "Official Clean-Up Kid that the kids loved.
When we started, we talked about why cleaning up trash was important and why we should take an active role in our community. We talked about the rules and what was going to happen for the whole project.
Then, we went outside and cleaned up trash! It was so awesome, the kids were so into it and picked up tons of cigarette butts and posed for pictures discouraging smoking because it's gross. the kids are such hams for the camera so I got great results.
We ended at the playground and played with the kids for a while- I beat everyone on the swingset. Even though 'it's not a competition' I still won. Ha.
We went back to the youth room and had a discussion about where we think the trash came from and we determined that the adults and teens shouldn't smoke but if they were going to they should throw away their butts. The kids thought of some great ideas for making signs to go outside where we found the most butts, so I feel another service project coming on!
We talked about volunteering and how that day we were all volunteers in our community, and the kids really made the connection of what it means to be a volunteer. They said that it was fun and we made a difference, and they realized that that was exactly the reason that the volunteers (we had two out there with us) come to Skyline.
Then we had yogurt parfaits and everyone was happy.
It was an overwhelming success, tell you what! next, I'm going to show the kids how to put the pictures on the computer and a group of us are going to write up a page to put in the monthly newsletter that will go out in May so everyone at Skyline will know that the kids volunteered in their community (this is the computer part- I am in CTEP after all!). It's going to be great.
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