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!

Meeting 18: May

Premeeting: Instead of adding more to our animal mural (the girls seem to be getting tired of that), I had Girl Scout cootie catchers for them to make! They mostly seemed to enjoy making them and getting their fortunes told.

Opening: Our usual pledge, promise, and law.

Song: We had three options, and our song chooser picked a cheer I had taught them a few weeks ago. It goes like this:

Leader: Hey Daisys!
Daisys: Hey What!?
Leader: Hey Daisys!
Daisys: Hey What?
Leader: Show me how to get down!
Daisys: No way!
Leader: Show me how to get down!
 Daisys: OK! D-O-W-N and that's the way we get down. Huh! D-O-W-N and that's the way we get down. (Girls do actions: D/O, stick one arm then the other out in front. W/N, put one hand then the other on hip. "and that's the way we get down", swing arms side to side in front of body while moving down. "Huh," jump and turn to side.)

Leader: Hey Daisys!
Daisys: Hey What!?
Leader: Hey Daisys!
Daisys: Hey What?
Leader: Shake your booty!
Daisys: No way!
Leader: Shake your booty!
Daisys: OK! Jump, shake your booty. Jump jump, shake your booty. Jump, shake your booty. Jump jump shake your booty. (Actions are exactly what the words say!)

Circle: We had our sister Brownie troop join us, so we played a name game to introduce everyone to each other.

Activity: We made birdfeeders from oranges, Crisco, oats, and raisins. The Daisys taught the Brownies how to do it, earning their Red Robin award. They made a huge mess, but they seemed to have fun! The activity went a lot smoother than the first time we did it, and the Daisys didn't seem to mind re-doing the activity, since they were helping to show the Brownies how to do it.

Snack! Yum yum!

Game: The girls were pretty worked up by this point, and we tried to play the Game Cube we made last time. There were probably too many to do it with (18 girls, in pairs), but they still had fun. After each team got a turn, we played Tiger, Cowgirl, Princess.

Closing: After Fists of Five, we did our Friendship Squeeze. I put a twist on it this week, asking each girl to say something nice about the girl whose hand she was squeezing. It went really well!

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