World Guiding - learn a game from another country and teach it to your unit.
Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Mbube Mbube - African game
This is a fun game led by one of the girl's as a Junior BP challenge. Everyone really enjoyed it, and they played it through many times.
World Guiding - learn a game from another country and teach it to your unit.
World Guiding - learn a game from another country and teach it to your unit.
Sunday, 25 October 2015
New in 2016
New flavours of Guide biscuits will be available in 2016, so I'm preparing our order and trying to estimate how our sales will be affected by different flavours and prices.
I'm hoping that the change is successful for two reasons:
1. I've always loved our chocolate biscuits - especially when making s'mores so i'm slightly devastated that I won't be able to have them anymore. Hopefully these new flavours will win me over!
2. This is the only fundraiser we do for our unit, all other fundraising is for charitable organisations. It's nice to have that extra bit of money the account to assist the Guides with paying for expensive events and camps.
I'm hoping that the change is successful for two reasons:
1. I've always loved our chocolate biscuits - especially when making s'mores so i'm slightly devastated that I won't be able to have them anymore. Hopefully these new flavours will win me over!
2. This is the only fundraiser we do for our unit, all other fundraising is for charitable organisations. It's nice to have that extra bit of money the account to assist the Guides with paying for expensive events and camps.
Thursday, 22 October 2015
Non-Formal Education through Girl Guides
Have a look at your term program. Do you focus on all of these methods of learning at least once? I know, that sometimes it can be a struggle when you are trying to get through a certain amount of programming in such a short time frame!
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| Credit: WAGGGS |
Read more about how Girl Guiding teaches youth through non-formal education on the WAGGGS website.
This example from the WAGGGS resource, 'Prepared to Learn, Prepared to Lead', demonstrates how a Free Being Me session applies the GG and GS educational method.
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| WAGGGS: Prepared to Learn, Prepared to Lead resource (page 35) |
Monday, 19 October 2015
Beautiful People
After we completed session three (part two) of Free Being Me, we had some extra time, so we were able to work on the extra activity I had prepared.
Girlguiding UK has a great badge program called Go For Its! This activity was found in the Life Wise activity pack and is listed under the Wellbeing activities (pages 2-11), which align really well with the Free Being Me program.
Activity:
Create the beautiful person you are using images from magazines to represent your personality. You can use any images except for those with people in them.
Here are some of the pictures that the girl's created. I think if I did this with older Guides they may be more concerned about staying within the lines, but the Brownies didn't mind. They really enjoyed this activity and had really great discussion about their personality traits!
Girlguiding UK has a great badge program called Go For Its! This activity was found in the Life Wise activity pack and is listed under the Wellbeing activities (pages 2-11), which align really well with the Free Being Me program.
The activity for Beautiful People is listed on page 2 and is activity number four. The template is available on page 3. I adapted the activity slightly, as I had the girl's represent themselves, rather than an imaginary person.
Activity:
Create the beautiful person you are using images from magazines to represent your personality. You can use any images except for those with people in them.
Here are some of the pictures that the girl's created. I think if I did this with older Guides they may be more concerned about staying within the lines, but the Brownies didn't mind. They really enjoyed this activity and had really great discussion about their personality traits!
Note: I ripped pages out of magazines ahead of time with images of nature, bright colors, animals etc. I knew the girl's would be distracted by adverts, celebrities etc. I'm glad I did, because they stayed on topic the entire time.
I definitely recommend this activity if you have the time!
Thursday, 15 October 2015
Secret messages to make someone's day!
Remember those great 'treasure inside of me' boxes that the girl's made for the initial Free Being Me meeting? As we have completed the FBM program, it's probably time to show you what was inside!
Read the original post about the boxes here.
Here are some excerpts, to give you an idea of the lovely messages that were written.
Read the original post about the boxes here.
Here are some excerpts, to give you an idea of the lovely messages that were written.
I hope these messages give the girl's a pick-me-up when they need it and remind them of their amazing lifelong 'sisters'!
Monday, 12 October 2015
Monday, 5 October 2015
WAGGGS and World Centres
WAGGGS has updated their website! Information is still being added, so hopefully the program ideas that used to be on the individual World Centre websites will be added soon.
In the meantime, here are the current resources available.
In the meantime, here are the current resources available.
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| Image credit: WAGGGS.org |
And i'm sure that everybody has heard that our fifth World Centre has been named!
From the WAGGGS website:
The new name, Kusafiri translated from Swahili, means 'journey' was chosen to represent and embody the Girl Guiding and Scouting journey as we deliver trainings, workshops and sessions to our members throughout the Africa region.
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