Our Eighth Meeting: January

Pre-Meeting: When did I stand up for something? in journal

Opening

Song: Can a Woman?

Circle: Talk about women scientists; share journal

Snack

Activity: Magnet Hunt -- guess if things are magnetic or not and put our hypotheses to the test!

Game: Dots Game

Closing: Give Petals!

Our Seventh Meeting

Premeeting: Journal: If you could change one thing in the world what would you change? Draw it.

Opening:

Song: Flea Fly or Little Green Frog

Circle: Share Journals. Read Sunny’s Story

Snack

Activity: Make a mural based on the story

Game: Poison Apples or Snowballs - Roll up newspaper into balls and wrap in duct or packaging tape to keep into "balls". You could also make "sock balls". Divide area into 2 teams/2 sides. Set a timer and teams throw "balls" across at other team. When timer goes off, team w/ fewest SNOWBALLS on their side of the divided room wins.

Closing: Secret Agent Task: Think of 3 Nice Things You Could Do. Do one before next meeting.

Our Sixth Meeting: November

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Premeeting: Journal 5 things I’m thankful for

Opening:

Song: Father Abraham or Boy and a Girl in a Little Canoe

Circle: Share Journal Things and add one to ThanksgivingTree

Snack!

Activity: What’s in the Bag? << Describe what characteristics were without looking

Game: Buildingeach other up! - Each table has a bag of a few things: marshmallows, stick of gum, straws, index cards, paper clips, etc.  Each table has 5 minutes to see who could build the tallest structure without it falling, using only the on the table.

Closing:

Our Fifth Meeting: October

Premeeting: Journal Question

Opening

Song: Alice the Camel or Princess Pat

Circle: Share Secret Agent Fairness Task. Read JulietteGordon Low story

Snack

Activity: Make I Am Collages in journal

Game: Handshake Game—teach GS Handshake

Closing:

Our Fourth Meeting: October

We had such a great meeting this week! The girls were really excited to earn their very first petal, and everything went according to plan -- I love it when that happens! Here's what we did:

Premeeting: The girls wrote in their journals about their favorite ice cream flavors.

Opening 

Song: Our choices were either the Daisy Girl Scout Song or "I'm a Little Daisy." We sang the second, and while it wasn't their favorite song ever, I like that they learned a song specific to Scouting.

Circle: We shared our journal entries, and then we read the Lupe story in the Daisy Scout Handbook and answered the questions at the end. I also told the girls the three steps we needed to do to earn our Lupe (Honest & Fair) petal.

Snack: We had a lot of choices for snack, yum! To earn our Honest and Fair petal, we had a whole bag of Goldfish that the girls had to decide how to divide up fairly. They didn't like my suggestion that myself and my coleader got to eat them all! :) In the end, they decided that each girl should get 6 Goldfish. Yay!

Activity: This is the only thing that didn't go entirely to plan. I would suggest doing this with older girls. I'm not sure if our leaves weren't pressed long enough or what, but they did not want to stick to the mason jars! The leaf lanterns did turn out pretty cute (we added flameless tealights inside), but I'm not sure how long the leaves stayed stuck on. Ah well, the girls really liked doing it and thought they were "beautiful!"




Game: We played the Right/Left game. Basically, you sit in chairs in a circle and every time you hear the word "left" or "right," you move one seat in that direction. They loved this game -- I'm glad I printed off extra stories so we could play several rounds!

Closing: I put Secret Missions for Operation Lupe in the girls' mailboxes, and so I explained what they were all about in our closing circle. Basically, the girls were challenged to practice being honest and fair in two different ways before our next meeting. I hope they are excited about being secret agents!


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