Help feed the less fortunate day

Today is the help feed the less fortunate day for A.J.'s Wonderful Week of Spectucular Service. What we are doing to raise awareness is we colected hundreds of paper bags (the type that they give you at the grocery store) and glued a piece of colorful construction paper to one side. We then wrote out a message on the paper asking for donations of non-perishable food items to be put in the bags. All food collected would go to Catholic Charities for their food bank to feed the hungry. We worked out a system so that we dropped off the bags at people's houses and put the collection date on the bag so that way all they had to do was put the bag back out on their doorstep with food in it for us to collect. Simple! I think it is good that we aretaking the initiative to make these bags to collect food. Not only are we being creative in making the bags to put the food in, we are also helping out Catholic Charities and feeding the hungry; three great things in one!
2.5 hours Creativity & Action

Active Day

Today is the wonderful week of service active day! Myself and plenty of other community volunteers are raising awareness about being healthy and active by going on a group run to a local park and playing fun, active games while we are there. We have been creating a video that shows all of us engaging in fun activities that are good for you and help you stay active. For example, in the video we are stretching and warming up before we work out, we run, we play jumprope and catch and we are eating healthy snacks such as fruits and vegtables. It has been alot of fun and good excercise as well.
5 hours total. 5 hours Active.

First Knitting Lesson- Knitting for Babies

Today was the first day of kitting lessons for the Knitting for Babies project that has started in partnership with IB CAS and Vista High School Character Leaders. The project focuses on teaching high school students to knit in order to make blankets for Project Linus, http://www.projectlinus.org/ a non-profit organizations that provides babies in need with blankets for comfort and warmpth. I have taken up this project as one of my IB CAS projects because I have a passion for knitting and I like to help others; whether it is making a blanket for someone, or teaching someone a new skill, I enjoy it nonetheless. About 8 people showed up for today's lesson held at my house and I realized a few things throughout this experience of teaching others to knit. 

1. Everyone has different skill levels. Some people picked up knitting instatly much like I did a few years ago. Others have some more trouble visualizing how all the stitches come together for the end result of a blanket. But this is completely okay, although some people may get impatient after a while of trying to learn, it is best to be encouraging and supportive by answering all questions and demonstrating the knitting techniques that have worked for in the past.
2. When we work together with a goal in mind, anything can be possible! We began to talk about the blankets we would like to make and the difference we would make to a child with our blankets.
3. Planning is key. We were supposed to have our meeting at a local park today, but it began to rain, so we moved the knitting inside! Also we have all agreed to meet every Friday in Mr. Hanlon's room until school is out for 30 minutes during ELP to talk about our project and knit.

Today, I spent a total of 3 hours knitting and teaching. 3hrs of Creativity