Food on the grill

Here Mr. Jordan started to put charcoal on the bottom of the grill and then light it so the food can be cooked.

Grilling Outside

Today we went outside to grill the food. The weather was nice and cool we all had a good time to put food on the grill.

The Quiet Iowa City Public Library

Hello we had an exciting morning at the Iowa City Library. We volunteered at the Public Library. What we did was we got a tour and we put books together for the newborns at the Children's Hospital. During the tour we found out that 120 people work at the public Library. Also it was banned book week at the Library. Some people read the Hunger Games book and it was a banned from the Public Library. One thing we learned was that Harry Potter moved from the Children's section to the adult's section because he grew up. The most interesting fact was that 1.4 million books were checked out of the library.

picture of Andrew, Jordan, Evan, Travis , Mentor Michelle, Ellie, Elliot Ben at Library during A banned book week 

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Elliot stuffing the packets together 

Travis by the big book 

First Volunteer Experience

This week was beautiful weather and for the first volunteer experience we went planting. We were on the corner of Linn and Market by High Ground Cafe and RSVP.

We planted bulbs in the ground. To plant the bulbs, we had to dig the holes, put fertilizer in, drop the bulbs in, and cover them with soil. We also picked up some trash and did some deadheading which is picking up the dead parts of a plant. Some of us swept and hauled garbage bags.

We wore vest and gloves. We wore the vest because we were not hit by cars. We wore the gloves to keep hands clean and to protect us from thorns.

We are looking forward to getting outside and planting next week with Linda and Carol.

Andrew and Carol getting bulbs out.

Jordan, Ben, Elliot, Ellie digging

The group listening to Linda

Linda helping Elliot and Evan drop the bulbs.

Andrew sweeping the sidewalk after planting

Jordan and Michelle digging the hole

Welcome!

Hello, welcome to our new third year blog post. We will be updating the blog every Monday and Wednesday for Household Management and Service Learning. We are excited to share what we've learned with our parents, the REACH staff, and friends. We are happy to help the environment and the people of Iowa City.

This semester we would like to eat pork chops, spaghetti, and tacos. We are going to volunteer in different places. We are excited to help at the animal shelter. Their are dogs, cats, rats, birds, and snakes that we want to help. If there is a snake there Ben will put the snake around his neck!

Thank you for visiting are blog post we will be updating it every week, so stay tone for more fun with the third years of 2015.