Meeting on Saturday, August 29 from 10-11:30 at TBPS

I'm looking forward to seeing all of you at the meeting today!  We're going to continue working on the first part of the Girl Scout Law, which is doing our best to be Honest and Fair.

In our opening circle, we'll practice the Girl Scout Promise:

And we'll read through the Girl Scout Law:

We'll sing "Make New Friends" in a round again, and we'll make sure to  practice listening as well as singing!

Then we'll listen to our theme song for today (click on the image):


We'll then play a couple of games to demonstrate being Honest and Fair:

1. A girl will tell a truth or a fib, and everyone has to race up to the happy (true) or sad (fib) face.
2. Girls each have a cup and the adults distribute different numbers of pennies to each girl.  Eventually, we have a conversation about why it doesn't feel fair and have them figure out a way to make it fair

Our badge activities will also focus on the Honest and Fair Theme:

1. We may draw Lupe the Lupine flower (she represents the Daisy Flower Friend for being Honest and Fair) on a "mural" with a limited number of supplies to practice sharing and being fair.
1. We will use mixed media to complete this project, so the Brownies will be completing Steps 4 & 5 of the Painting Badge.  At the last meeting, we did Steps 1-3, so they are now done with that badge!
2. Juniors will be completing Step 2 of the Drawing badge through this activity.
2. All girls will then have a chance to work with another girl to create a cartoon character or logo that represents being Honest and Fair.
1. Juniors will be completing Step 4 of the Drawing badge through this activity.

All of these activities help Daisies complete their first flower petal for their uniforms and help the older girls review the first part of the Girl Scout Law.

It's important for the girls to understand that they will start running parts of the meeting, so we'll talk about the jobs and then decide who will do each job at the next meeting (being fair about it, of course!).  

At the next meeting, we'll make a Kaper Chart that we'll use at each meeting and we'll start collecting $4 dues at each meeting (these are optional, but support our activities and equal $1 a week, if you want to use it as part of allowance...).  Here are some examples of a Kaper Chart:

At the Closing Circle, we'll sing a part of "Linger" and do the Friendship Squeeze!  This song is usually sung at the end of a camping session, so we'll only sing the first slide of that's shown on this video.