Reflection On Children's Fair

During my service learning project this semester, I had the privilege of serving our community by participating in the 36th Annual Children’s Fair hosted at SUNY Broome Community College. After being an active student educator and experiencing the roles of our community, there has been a lack of diversity offered to families and children. The Children’s Fair was able to offer families and children a various amount of diverse activities and learning opportunities offered throughout our community. To be diverse in a community means to have opportunities for any child, no matter the age or development of the child, involved in various events and activities. When offering various activities for families and children of different ages and stages, they have equal access to attend the event and enhance all forms of development. For the learning center, “Under the Sea," we made all activities adaptable and open-ended. The activities enhanced the development of children from …show more content…
All children are different. They all learn and grow differently and they each have their own bodies and mind. However, as a society, we still treat them like they are the same. There are not many opportunities for children to participate in, except for the basic playgrounds. As a community, we should have different opportunities for any child, even a child with disabilities, to be able to engage in. As a community, we offer very few or little events for families and children to take interest in developmentally appropriate activities. There should be concern for the lack of diversity throughout ones community. To help solve this, the community needs to come together to offer more events that help enhance children’s development with appropriate activities and games. Once there are more low-cost, hands-on engagement for families and children, there will be a difference in the way people see diversity and civic