Whew, here comes meeting #3! It already feels like it’s super close to Christmas, how did that happen? Have you started your shopping yet? I digress..
Here is what was in my lesson plan for Meeting #3:
– Mexico Theme
– Talk about Rules & Respecting our Meeting Time
– Talk about Clues for the Hear a Story section of our Journey (assign homework from our Journey Book)
– Get out the Map and talk about Mexico, and also about the Indian Blessing Bags project we are sending home with all the girls.
– Games & Songs!! Do at least three games or songs. Games (Dollar Dollar, Down by the Banks, and Sun & Ice – the Mexico themed tag game).
So what happened?
The meeting went SO well! We had emailed the parents a reminder to talk to their girls about how you behave at a meeting. I went in 10 minutes before the meeting to collect them because getting them all gathered takes FOR-EVER.
We sang Boom-chicka-boom (softly) through the halls and gathered into the room. We went over our Kaper chart and got the Bridge of Silence started, walked through, and did our Pledge, Promise, and Law. Our Kaper chart? The one I was so happy about? Well, I think I moved the pins LAST meeting, so I wouldn’t have to do it THIS meeting. Except I forgot, and moved them again. So all the girls were like ‘I did that last time’! Whoops. Seriously, I wonder where my brain goes sometimes…
Our Mexico snack was delicious with bread, quesadillas, and juice and our Snack Helpers did a great job passing it out. My co-lead’s daughter got sick and they ended up leaving early. This is a little sad because we were talking about clues and stories next, and since she is a first grade teacher (and taught 2nd grade the year before), she totally kicks butt at talking to the girls and knowing the right things to say. (I’m not super great at that part! I muddled through though!)
We talked about the Hear a Story award. I brought up Shali, from the story in our Girl Scout Journey and (re-read) the paragraph where Shali talks about being scared to read because she doesn’t know large words. I asked the girls what was the clue? They got it right away, and then we talked about ways to ‘change’ that. They had some great suggestions.
Then, I brought up Junie B Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus. This was GREAT because every single girl in the room had read that book! They all knew she was scared of the bus, and they all took turns telling me all the little details, which was awesome. Then we talked about ways to change. They had some (really hysterical) ideas. Some were silly, some were good, but they all had one. I was happy about that because we have two new girls this year and I’m happy that they are acclimating so well. We have such a happy little troop. I was a little distracted because I had girls asking to get water, and then to go to the bathroom, so some of them were saying some crazy things and I didn’t have a super great idea of how to respond but we kept moving it along. We then discussed Little Red Riding Hood, and ways to change THAT story.
Then, I assigned them the Hear a Story page in our book, to take home their passport and write down a story and something they would change about it.
** Never let your girls take things home that you need back. Ahh, hindsight.
Service Project
It was time for our 2nd service project of the year. Blessing Bags for an Indian tribe in Arizona who really needed these gifts (no running water or electricity in most cases) and the girls all choose Christmas paper and construction paper and will need to ‘decorate’ their bag after they fill it up. We discussed ideas of what to fill up in the bags.
Songs & Games
Then, time for songs and games! Overwhelmingly, the girls wanted to do a game first. We learned how to
play Dollar Dollar which two of the girls knew. It was challenging LEARNING this game, so it was really hard for me to teach it. I started off saying ‘left, right’ in how to move your hand from left to right, but I later changed to ‘pick it up, put it down, pick it up, put it down’ which I later remembered was how my teacher was saying it. Ahh well. This is why I’m not a teacher. I needed a rock or something, the piece of ‘fuzz’ we had was too light and kept flying out of people’s hands. But they thought it was hilarious.
Then, I asked them if they knew how to play Down By the Banks, and they ALL did. So I taught them Jigalo (Buffalo, Bungalow)… they all had a different word, so we voted, and the majority said Jigalo. So we all took a turn and they thought it was awesome. So that was good! Dancing and singing at the end of a meeting is such a great idea. It always ends on a good note.
We got invited to a Daisy Investiture, where our girls would be the ‘big girls’ and show them the Promise, Law, and then teach them a song. So the girls voted on the song they wanted to teach them, and that was that.
Our Friendship Circle Leader selected the closing song and we ended our meeting. On time! If only my co-leader’s daughter was well, it would have been perfect!
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