Meeting 19: May

We had a great meeting this week!

Premeeting: As the girls came in, I had them do pages 39 and 48 in their 3 Cheers for Animals Journey book. They also drew a picture of themselves doing the activities on page 39.

Opening: We did our usual pledge, promise, and law. The girls all have both the promise and the law memorized!

Circle: We read Gloria's Story (pages 41-47) from the Journey book. We also split into two teams and created animal riddles. One team said "It is fat and fuzzy and cute and has a pink nose. It sounds like this: 'squeek squeek'. It eats carrots and lettuce and lives in a cage. What am I?" It was a guinea pig! The other team said "It is black and white and furry and fuzzy. It sounds like this: 'chomp chomp'. It eats sticks and green leaves and bamboo. What am I?" It was a panda bear! Each team changed their riddle to the other team together. And both sides were able to guess the riddles!

Snack!

Activity: For our activity, we did the Japanese yoga from the Journey book. The girls were butterflies, turtles, and cranes!

Game: For our game, we did the Backwards Bingo from the leader's Journey guide book. The girls each had a bingo sheet with 9 animals on it. They had 5 Post It tags, and could pick 5 animals to mark. The It Girl called out animals as she picked them from a cup. When an animal was called, the girls could take their markers off their bingo sheets. The first girl to get all her markers off won! We played 3 rounds. We also tried to do a the Human Knot game. The girls have liked doing this in the past, but it didn't work out this time--people kept saying "ow ow" if hands got twisted, etc. So we scrapped the game, and instead sang a song (which we forgot to do at the beginning!).

Song: Our girls picked "Boom Chicka Boom"! They had a lot of fun choosing the different "styles". Two girls were even brave enough to be the leaders. One did "gymnastics style" and one did "girly-girl style".

Closing: We handed out the girls' Red Robin Awards that they earned last meeting. Yay! We did Fists of Five, and the Friendship Squeeze. We did the same thing with the Squeeze as last meeting, where the girls had to say something nice about the girl next to them as they passed the squeeze around. It was a bit difficult for some girls to think of things (boo), but I think mainly because they didn't know each other super well.

All in all, a successful, fun meeting. yay!