Hi everyone!
What a fun and busy Wednesday!
First: Thanks to all the girls that helped with the Greendale Cookie Kick Off Party! I know there are a lot of Troops that look forward to it every year, and they have your girls to thank for it. So, from me and from the 75 girl scouts from 9 other troops that had a ton of fun: THANK YOU! I know some of the little scouts were already looking forward to the day they can be helpers like your girls were, so obviously your girls were good role models and leaders to look up to!
Second: The girls did decide that we will register for the Discovery World Sleepover February 7-8th. I'll get those registrations locked in this weekend, so if your scout wants to go to the "Crazy for Chemistry" Overnight at Discovery World that Friday-Saturday, let me know now! (This is the response I need!) We can work out specific details as the night gets closer, but I anticipate at least one option for Friday Night would be a group shuttle to dinner and Discovery World departing from GMS right after the GMS February Dance wraps up, and a pick up from our house the next morning around 7:00AM.
Third: The fun stuff! I am actually very excited for the movie the girls are working on--even more now that they've started to storyboard and plan it out. Here's how our process worked, and what the girls came up with.
Before getting into serious work, we warmed up with a couple team/group activities:
A brain warm up activity: Rose/Thorn/Bud where each girl shared something that went well during their day--the rose, something that was a struggle--the thorn, and something they're looking forward to--the bud.
And a body warm up activity: Construction Time where the girls split into teams and used strings and rubber bands to build a pyramid out of paper cups without touching the cups.
Then it was "Director Time" We started by brainstorming ideas. The girls came up with too many to list here, but that brings us to step (2) narrowing down ideas. The girls decided that a 30-minute movie would be a good goal, and so they decided to narrow down their ideas to 10 movie "segments" covering different aspects of pedestrian safety, laws, driver responsibilities, and the results of not following the best practices and laws.
In no particular order, the 10 segments the girls will try to produce (and then will edit and arrange into a coherent narrative) are:
1) Montage including important statistics, such as how many kids walk to school, how many drivers don't obey stop signs, how many drivers don't yield the right of way to pedestrians at marked and unmarked crosswalks, pedestrian injuries/accidents/fatalities/etc., ages of people inolved in pedestrian incidents, how many pedestrians generally use the sidewalks and street crossings in Greendale, etc.
2) Interview Health Department, School, or Civil Engineering professionals or other government agent/agencies from Greendale or Milwaukee County
3) Interview the family of the girl with the memorial statue in downtown Greendale (if possible.)
4) Interview a police officer
5) Interview a person who was involved in a vehicle/pedestrian accident
6) "Do's and Don'ts" of pedestrian/driver safety
7) Monitoring a popular street crossing and tape/record cars stopping for pedestrians/not stopping for pedestrians.
8) Interview a crossing guard
9) Recap of pedestrian laws in WI/Greendale (Where do pedestrians have the right of way? What are drivers' oblgations? What are pedestrian obligations?)
10) Follow a kid's walk to school with a focus on street crossings and safety.
11) Blooper reel!
Which brings us to Next Week:
The girls decided they're going to try to knock out at least 1, and preferably 2 of the segments next week, and they decided that these are the job assignments between now and then:
1) Interview a police officer segment:
Job 1) Bring a Camera (Quinn S.)
Job 2) Prepare questions (Eva M., Teagan A.)
Job 3) Make a thank you card (Ellen W.)
Job 4) Get a police officer to come (Evie S.)
2) Do's and Don't's sement:
Job 1) Bring a Camera (Still Quinn S.)
Job 2) Script a scene re: "Look both ways before crossing the street." (Kendra P.)
Job 3) Script a scene re: "Pedestrians have the right of way/cars need to stop if there's a person ready to cross." (Colette B.)
Job 4) Script a scene re: "Cross at crosswalks" (Katie B.)
Job 5) Script a scene re: "Follow speed limits" (Quinn S.)
Job 6) Keep control of young children at crossings (Eirlan A.)
Job 7) Bring a small child (Ellen W.)
We'll see everyone next Wednesday and get filming--we're all excited!
Aleks
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