Brownie meetings FTR
We started The Key to Me tonight.
The girls did some drawings and colouring and fill in the blank answers on a double sided sheet (side one - draw pic of family, label if wanted; side two - colour in cartoon of Girl Guide, fill in blank answers about colour/type of hair, interest and what they want to do in the future). Learned a new action song from Trinidad and Tobago (I let her go-go-go) done in a double circle where the inner circle moves clockwise and the outer circle moves counter-clockwise after each verse. Kids learned about one famous Canadian woman in their circle, and then each circle acted out a little skit or tableau to demonstrate key facts about that person. Lucy Maud Montgomery, Joannie Rochette, Clara Hughes, Alice Munro, Roberta Bondar. I also had a race car driver (Kelly Williams) and a pilot (Eileen Vollick) lined up in case the Guiders had an opportunity to do a demonstration.
We are off to Fort York this weekend (Saturday-Sunday) for a 24 hour immersion into the Life of a Soldier. We bring our own packed lunches, the Fort provides dinner, snack, breakfast and a bunch of activities from 10am to 8pm, and maybe a final session in the morning. Should be interesting to see how it goes with just one unit. (We often do sleepovers and camps with other units but we're flying solo this time.)
Next week we're doing a combined meeting with the Sparks (youngest branch, Kindergarten & grade 1 girls).
The girls did some drawings and colouring and fill in the blank answers on a double sided sheet (side one - draw pic of family, label if wanted; side two - colour in cartoon of Girl Guide, fill in blank answers about colour/type of hair, interest and what they want to do in the future). Learned a new action song from Trinidad and Tobago (I let her go-go-go) done in a double circle where the inner circle moves clockwise and the outer circle moves counter-clockwise after each verse. Kids learned about one famous Canadian woman in their circle, and then each circle acted out a little skit or tableau to demonstrate key facts about that person. Lucy Maud Montgomery, Joannie Rochette, Clara Hughes, Alice Munro, Roberta Bondar. I also had a race car driver (Kelly Williams) and a pilot (Eileen Vollick) lined up in case the Guiders had an opportunity to do a demonstration.
We are off to Fort York this weekend (Saturday-Sunday) for a 24 hour immersion into the Life of a Soldier. We bring our own packed lunches, the Fort provides dinner, snack, breakfast and a bunch of activities from 10am to 8pm, and maybe a final session in the morning. Should be interesting to see how it goes with just one unit. (We often do sleepovers and camps with other units but we're flying solo this time.)
Next week we're doing a combined meeting with the Sparks (youngest branch, Kindergarten & grade 1 girls).