Service Learning Visit 2

This visit was harder than last time's visit for my group. They were definitely more comfortable around us which contributed to a more unsettled environment. Kids who where eager to write paragraphs last time where way more reluctant this time around. Overall last time the kids where a lot slower in doing their work and the mistake we made this time was telling them that the crafts where saved for after we write our paragraphs. Naturally, they rushed their exercises to get to the crafts. This put us a little ahead of schedule compared to last visit which was perfect time wise. There is also one girl in our group that likes to do as she pleases. For example, she decided to draw a city instead of a picture of her family, and I had to kind of stern with her and make sure she understands that it's important that we get to our goals.  Those where the only challenges we had, which compared to other groups is very minimal. I think that the biggest victory this visit was that the paragraphs the kids wrote where actually really good. It took a little to get them to really get the idea of what to write about. At first they only wrote about their parents and then after we observed their writing, we made them go back and incorporate things about all of their family members. Once they had a good idea of what to write about, they did a relatively good job writing their paragraphs. Their sentence fluidity was much better, and some wrote a lot more than the the paragraph from last visit. I think that overall the positives are a lot more than the negatives. I think that once we establish that relationship where they are comfortable around us while also recognizing our authority.