Reflection Paper: Service Learning At Camp Ketcha

The Army went to great lengths to safeguard the health of its prisoners as mandated in the Geneva Convention. Of immediate concern was preventing the spread of infectious diseases. Shortly after arriving at his first POW camp in America, each prisoner received a complete physical exam. It included vaccinations against smallpox, typhoid, paratyphoid, and tetanus. At least once a month thereafter, Army medical corps officers inspected the prisoners for communicable diseases and vermin infestation.67 At Camp Cooke, POWs with minor medical problems were treated at the camp infirmary.

Leisure activities is part of the course content that we see that women begin to get involved

“Quote about high schools.” One other way to pass time in the camp was for teenagers and kids to take activities just like outside the camp. They had dance, acting, and baton twirling classes; there were even classes about Buddhism and Catholicism. Adults would teach the children in the community different skills or talents they had to pass the time, heal loneliness, and to keep their sense of culture and community alive in the

A second paid opportunity I have had serving children has been working as summer camp counselor for the past three summers. Each summer since May 2013, Warren W. Willis United Methodist Summer Camp has provided me with the opportunity to mentor a wide variety of children ranging in ages from rising fourth grade to newly graduated high school seniors. Here I have taken on many roles of mentor, advocate, listener, friend, small group leader, activities facilitator, etc. Here I have interacted with children and adolescents of all backgrounds and cultures.

To answer this question we must first understand the importance of play. If we understand, on the most basic level, that play is essential for a child to have a good health and wellbeing. Then it could be concluded that outdoor play needs to be considered as an important component of education and care. Outdoor play has recently been included in the early year’s framework across the UK. The Statutory Framework for early year’s foundation stage in England now includes an expectation that young children will be offered good quality outdoor environments in order to support their 6 areas of development such as; physical, intellectual, emotional, spiritual language, and social.

Another activity we have been involved in is volunteering at the annual Bauer Farm Harvest Festival, which led me to another service organization I have been involved

The volunteers are similar to the volunteers I work with every day at City Year. Everyone comes from different states and different cultures, but we are all share the same purpose. That purpose is to bridge the gap in the education

One of the FFA activities that I participated in is the Troy FFA Greenhand initiation. This activity gave us an opportunity to step out of our comfort zone and meet new people. One of the stations we went through gave us an opportunity

In 1939, the U.S. entered WWII to fight against Japan for the freedom of other countries such as the Philippines, Guam, and Thailand. As a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government decided Japanese and Japanese-Americans could not be trusted and imprisoned them in internment camps from 1942 to 1944. The three articles, “Camp Harmony”, by Monica Sone,“Japanese Internment Camps”, “The War Relocation Work Corps Pamphlet”, by M.S. Eisenhower, focus on this topic, but with different purposes for writing about it. The author of ‘Camp Harmony’’s purpose is to spread awareness of how unjust and unfair the Internment Camps were. The author of ‘The War Relocation Work Corps Pamphlet’’s purpose is to persuade while the author of ‘Japanese

Volunteering at McKenna Farms Therapy Services I was able to observe pediatric occupational therapy sessions. Not only did I get to observe Occupational Therapy sessions, but I observed Hippotherapy sessions too. What I found so unique about McKenna Farms is that they had Speech Therapist, Physical Therapist, and Occupational Therapist all together at one clinic. This allowed me to witness how the different types of therapy fit together and how the therapist would collaborate to find the best way to treat the children. My favorite part was finding ways to communicate with the kids.

Moreover, they may want to participate in other activities that they will enjoy doing. Students should be able to enjoy their life outside; not spending huge amount of it to

Sports provide opportunities to explore and develop young athletes. Young athletes can identify themselves apart from playing sports through connecting with others and building new relationships

1. In the summer of 2017, I volunteered once a week for 6-8 weeks with an organization called The First Tee, which works with youth to teach them life skills via the game of golf. Starting as young as 5-6 years old, the participants learn to play golf and develop their skills in the sport, but a large aspect of the organization’s mission is to teach children life skills such as integrity, honesty, and responsibility. Through golf they learn to be courteous to those around them and to always act with integrity as well.

One of the essential features of PTA Standard 1 states that, when welcoming all families into the school community, an excelling quality of implementation includes a “school volunteer program (that) reaches out to parents of all neighborhoods and backgrounds, identifies their unique experiences and skills, and offers varied volunteer opportunities.” Our school-wide events consistently seek to involve parent volunteers, and utilize their individual talents and interests. We have frequent theme days where parent volunteers do everything from put on workshops for our students, build haunted houses, teach children about their careers, cook healthy food, run lights and sound at an assembly, and even run weekly fitness and art classes. Our PTA members reach out to all of our school families to encourage them to reveal their interests and talents, and find ways to incorporate them into our theme days.

We can build a beautiful city, yes we can, yes we can. This was just one of the many songs I sang during my time as a camper, service worker, counselor in training, and counselor at Camp Saint Andrew. This camp was the foundation of friendships and memories, it helped young children to take that first step into the long venture of discovering who they were. This is one of the very few places that one encounters in life that is so inexplicably magical and that is the very reason it should not have been closed two months ago. Camp Saint Andrew should remain open because summer camps promote the psychological well-being of children.