Context Matters

The event was great and I had many good memories. One of my favorite moment is the first costumer coming to my station. Her name was Evelyn and she was just adorable. We played the parachute activity where we made big and small waves, lifting the parachute up, and going under it. When I saw her smile and having fun, it gave me energy to keep on going with the parachute activity and making sure she is having fun. Another moment was when I was doing the bowling activity, and some kids were really enjoying the bowling activity. Despite setting up the pins again and again, I kept on smiling and cheering on the kids to do their best in the bowling activity. When they hit some pins, or a strike, I gave them high fives, and compliment that they are …show more content…
Context matters is knowing the uniqueness of the community where assets, people, the environment, and the history can be different from other community. When we learned that our station was near an open busy street, we figure that we needed an activity that can be safe so a ball or something will not fly out to the street. We learn about the environment that takes place at the event, so in order to insure safe activity, my group analyze different activities whether it can be done. Another example of context matter is the different age group of kids. I learned that with younger kids we should be at their level, by playing small and step by step into doing more challenging tasks. For Evelyn, the adorable and smiling child was 3 years old. My group and I started to do easy task like making small waves, then we move on to larger waves, and then we do more challenging tasks like running underneath the parachute. Evelyn was great and she was able to complete the activity. With older kids like Will who is 10 years old, my group and I knew he can do much more challenging tasks than Evelyn. He was able to understand what we were saying to them and he did the activity