Camp Invention

Have you ever underrated something and then experience the thing you underrated and don’t underrate it anymore? This was me before I work at Camp Invention at good Shepherd for a week. Camp invention is where kids have fun while being encouraged to creative problem solving, teamwork and entrepreneurship. During camp invention, I lead a group of 1st graders around to different stations, where they did different activities and if they ever needed help or needed to look at something from another perspective, I helped guide them think creatively for themselves and build their confidence so they know they have the ability to dream and create things. After camp invention, I understood what it was like to be a teacher and how difficult it can be and

This would become difficult for me because I had to help guide them to be creative but sometimes the kids just pouted and refused to do anything. So usually I would go on a little walk with them, since we were in the Good Shepherd school we just walked around. I did this to help them clear their mind and just forget the activity so when they came back from the walk, they had a fresh mind and hopefully figured out what to do. During the walk I would just talk to them and had small talk like what do you have for lunch or ask them about their outfits because everyday we had a theme to dress as. The walk really helped with clearing their minds, to me this was me using my gifts from God to be patience with the kids that were struggling to do activities and also be creative too, because I at first didn’t know how to help them work, but it eventually came to me and I really think that was God helping me out. Camp invention also helped me develop another gift from God which was leadership. I had to lead a group of around 15 1st graders around a school, if that doesn’t sound hard to you, just let me tell you it was hard. But by talking to other leaders, I eventually go the kids to listen to me. Once they started listening to me more, I started to really enjoy going to camp