GECKO INC SERVICE

Our service group has had two more sessions where the group of children came to OSC to do various activities. In my opinion, the group has grown. Every individual has had a chance to work privately with one of the kids and interact with them through small conversations. Though not completely there yet, all members have gotten more comfortable with playing with the children and all taken up some sort of leadership roles. One of the sessions we started off with a team game, the parachute. With this we wanted to make it more educational, and focused our games around calling out the colors in english, and having the kids both listen and call out the colors for themselves. We then tried to have a team building activity with putting kids in groups based on colors but we had trouble explaining the rules of the game and decided to move on. 
We then split up and partnered up with one of the kids and played frisbee. Every group did their own thing and made up their own games and gave each of us a chance to interact with the kids we were in a group with. 
The other session we went by the wishes of the kids and spent time playing volleyball. All the children were really enthusiastic about the sport and enjoyed the activities. They requested to have an actual competitive game against us for next session. 
Since the session this week will be the last for the year, we decided to do something different. We are going to have a normal session, again with volleyball until about 3:45 and then take the kids to the pool to teach them how to swim and have a goodbye party. We think that we have built a good relationship with the group and their supervisors and that we will be able to continue this for next year. 

Taken by: Nishant Gr. 11

Taken by Nishant Gr. 11