Girl Scouts: Meeting Recap (One more email coming later too.)

Hi everyone,

Just a recap of what we did today (and yesterday) at scouts.

First:  THANK YOU!  To Mrs. Heinz, Mrs. Pogorzelski, Mrs. Schrank, Mrs. Skibicki, and of course Ms. Kelly as always for making this meeting great!  And also a huge thanks to Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Pintar for the snack and drink for today!  You all are the best!

What did we do?

Since the badges we're working on involve seeing ourselves as the main characters in a story that encompasses the whole world, we started the day playing a couple games that girls play around the world that are similar and different from games we play here in the US.  We played a game from Italy called "Cencio Mollo" which is an Italian version of "I love you but I just can't smile" where the girls tried to get each other to laugh.  We also played a game called "Banyoka" from Africa where the girls made living snakes by sitting together in long lines and then raced the snakes against each other.

After that, we broke into small groups and wrote a story where we were the main characters and had to work to help solve an issue we had found in our school, family, community, or planet.  When our stories were written we shared them with the whole group and then the whole group voted on which story we will use to inspire us as a whole group to do a project to help with that issue in real life.  Our Wednesday group voted to work on helping kids eat healthier by finding ways to make sure the healthy food served at school also tastes good.  Our Thursday group voted to work to stop kids from smoking.

In the future, I'll get people who are involved in both of these (probably students in the Teens Against Tobacco Use group at GHS, and the Food Services Nutrition consultant from Greendale Schools) to visit our meeting and we can start putting our stories into action!

Next month we'll be doing something entirely different though:  Ms. Kelly is working out the details, but if all goes as it should, we'll be visiting the nursing home that we visited last year at this time to do crafts and play games and sing songs with the residents there.  That was a good experience for the girls and for the residents last year, so it is definitely worth repeating.  As more details are available I'll send them your way.

Finally, I'll be sending another email in a moment about an opportunity we have for the girls to visit a Milwaukee Wave soccer game with all sorts of extra activities for Girl Scouts.  So check that out when it comes through.

Thanks again everyone, have a great evening!

Aleks