Week 1 Reflection

This week was a great week to start of senior project. It was a beautiful week and Dani and I were kept busy all week. Starting off the week we were a bit stressed about the fact that we had to make $1000 so we took initiative to do a bake sale. At first we advertised the bake sale, bought the materials at the grocery store, and then freshly baked everything. At first when we went to retrieve our keys at the grocery store, we didn't have any idea what we would buy. However, after talking to Patty Durkin, she helped us form a list of things that we should buy for the bake sale (sugar, flour, eggs, milk, etc.) After she helped us make the list we were very thankful that she helped us because we realized how hard it would have been if we went to the grocery store without any idea what we were going to buy. The bake sale was successful and we made $170

The first morning we went to go meet with the principal of the elementary school, she told us we could work with the seventh graders. Originally, going into this project, Dani and I thought that we would be working with young children. However, after talking to the science teacher we learned we would be working to clean the AMS nature loop behind the school with the 7th grade class whom (as he put it) were “very difficult to deal with”. When the day came to bring the kids onto the nature loop and clean the trail, Dani and I were a bit nervous about whether or not our goals were realistic for this group of rowdy older children. Despite our doubts, the kids weren’t too difficult to work with and we successfully cleaned the AMS nature loop. In the end, while we didn’t make crafts with the kids, we feel that with the age of children we were working with, the activities that we did with them were appropriate and productive.