Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Girls in the Lead
One of the challenges that our girls have been working on is International Day of the Girl. The girls have had the opportunity to talk about female role models, and why we need girls in the lead. For one of the activities to the challenge, they were able to create postcards that included words and pictures on why they think it is important to have girls in the lead. Here is some of the ideas that they have come up with.
Monday, December 16, 2013
WOW! We've been busy
It has definitely been a while since the last post. Our girls have been very busy with lots of activities in the community, becoming a brownie and completing badges and challenges. The past couple of months the girls have been learning their Brownie promise. They did a fabulous job in learning it, and now all them are officially Brownies.
To recap the past couple of months here is a summary of all the activities that have been done.
One of the keys that the girls have been working is Key to the Community. The goal of this keys to teach the girls about their community and allow them to get involved. We talked about types of things are in a neighborhood, what other types of neighborhood there is, and jobs that are in the community. The girls were able to create their own community on pieces of construction paper. They also created posters that illustrated different types of jobs in the community. In the Spring, we will hopefully be taking a walk to the Local Library in the neighborhood for a fun field trip and to take a walk in our community.
Before Thanksgiving, our girls learned about diversity and how everybody has differences and abilities. We focused of learning a little of different types of disabilities and experiencing what they can be like. We began by passing around different paper dolls. The girls named what differences they had and the similarities that they had with the doll. Then, each doll went around but they had to name one thing that a person with a disability can do that they like to do. The options were endless for them to choose from. We discussed various types of disabilities that the girls asked about it. Some of the activities that the girls got to do we're putting mittens on their hands and attempting to pick up as many pennies as possible for a physical disability such as Cerebral Palsy. They read a book backwards and upside down for dyslexia. Lastly, the girl's favorite activity was being able to blindfold a partner The other partner had to guide and give direction. They had fun guiding their friends and getting a small glimpse of what it is like to be visually impaired or blind. The message that I wanted for the girls to take out of this meeting is that everybody is different and different talents that shine through.
What is a Halloween without at least one party to celebrate the only Holiday where anyone gets to dress up in any costume and get candy. Our Sparks joined us for this event. The girls painted their own pumpkins, wrapped a ghost in gauze and make little jack o'lanterns out of baby food jars. They also got to have their face painted and snack on some sugary treats.
This year, we completed the International Day of the Girl Challenge. We focused on girl empowerment and what it means to be a girl for the first half of the meeting. The girls created posters in groups about what it means to them to be a girl, and were also asked to draw anything that girls can do. Some of the ideas were: skating, playing hockey, becoming a teacher, becoming a doctor, skateboarding and many more. In a discussion, the talked about being able to become engineers, and construction workers when they are older. One of the girls suggested that they would like to be an astronaut.
Here are some of the posters that the girls created:
To recap the past couple of months here is a summary of all the activities that have been done.
One of the keys that the girls have been working is Key to the Community. The goal of this keys to teach the girls about their community and allow them to get involved. We talked about types of things are in a neighborhood, what other types of neighborhood there is, and jobs that are in the community. The girls were able to create their own community on pieces of construction paper. They also created posters that illustrated different types of jobs in the community. In the Spring, we will hopefully be taking a walk to the Local Library in the neighborhood for a fun field trip and to take a walk in our community.
Before Thanksgiving, our girls learned about diversity and how everybody has differences and abilities. We focused of learning a little of different types of disabilities and experiencing what they can be like. We began by passing around different paper dolls. The girls named what differences they had and the similarities that they had with the doll. Then, each doll went around but they had to name one thing that a person with a disability can do that they like to do. The options were endless for them to choose from. We discussed various types of disabilities that the girls asked about it. Some of the activities that the girls got to do we're putting mittens on their hands and attempting to pick up as many pennies as possible for a physical disability such as Cerebral Palsy. They read a book backwards and upside down for dyslexia. Lastly, the girl's favorite activity was being able to blindfold a partner The other partner had to guide and give direction. They had fun guiding their friends and getting a small glimpse of what it is like to be visually impaired or blind. The message that I wanted for the girls to take out of this meeting is that everybody is different and different talents that shine through.
What is a Halloween without at least one party to celebrate the only Holiday where anyone gets to dress up in any costume and get candy. Our Sparks joined us for this event. The girls painted their own pumpkins, wrapped a ghost in gauze and make little jack o'lanterns out of baby food jars. They also got to have their face painted and snack on some sugary treats.
This year, we completed the International Day of the Girl Challenge. We focused on girl empowerment and what it means to be a girl for the first half of the meeting. The girls created posters in groups about what it means to them to be a girl, and were also asked to draw anything that girls can do. Some of the ideas were: skating, playing hockey, becoming a teacher, becoming a doctor, skateboarding and many more. In a discussion, the talked about being able to become engineers, and construction workers when they are older. One of the girls suggested that they would like to be an astronaut.
Here are some of the posters that the girls created:
It has been a busy year so far, tonight we will be getting ready for Christmas by having a Christmas round robin of crafts and maybe a couple treats to go home with. Stay tuned for posts about the outings that we have been on so far, and maybe some craft and games ideas to take back to different units. There are new badges posted on the badge challenge page. Feel free to complete the badges over the Holiday break and bring them back to present to the unit in the new year.
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