Practice With Purpose!

To keep with the staying fit patch we already earned, we next worked on the practice with purpose patch!

The first thing we did was think of a fitness goal and we wrote letters to our P.E. teachers Mr. W and Mrs. Murphy in hopes that they could give us some advice on how to reach these goals.

 

Next we did a couple of "Just Dance" videos because we talked about the more you practice something, the better you will get.  So we tried this by dancing.

 

Then we played a game with dice where we had to do various exercises to help us get stronger.

 

Next we went to the gym and practiced some different skills.

First we tested our speed by having a partner roll a through our legs and we had to run and grab it before it reached a certain point.

 

We also practiced speed by chasing others while running through hula hoops.

We then practiced balance by standing in a hula hoop and trying to push on the other person's hands and getting them to step out of their hula hoop.  The girls really had fun with this one.

Staying Fit!

So the girls decided to move into the direction of earning some patches. So we started with an energizing one....staying fit!

To start, we started by warming up with  some lunges.

 

We warmed up our arms too.

 

We did some leg exercises.

 

And did some push-ups.

 

Then we watched a short video on eating healthy.

 

We made "my plates" where the girls created a healthy meal using the healthy food groups that they learned about.

 

We then tried a calming exercise by doing some yoga.

 

But then we headed to the gym to get our heart rates up.  We played this game where there were hula hoops around the gym.  The girls would run laps around the gym until we yelled "stop."  Then they had to find a hula hoop and there was an activity in each hula hoop that they had to do.

 

Some had to do toe touches.

 

Some had to do high knees.

 

Some did jumping jacks and some did squats.

 

This quickly wore them out but we taught them one more exercising activity that they could take home. It's called Fitness Uno.  You divide into teams and pass out the cards face down.  Based on the color, depends on what kind of exercise the person who turns over the card does.  The number is how many reps you do.  The first team to get through all their cards wins!  

 

We tried it and it was tiring but so much fun!

 

Hope the girls taught their families this fitness game!

First Junior Meeting!

Well I know I am WAY behind with posting about our meetings this year. But now I am ready to catch up! We kicked off our first year as Juniors by discussing what direction we wanted to head in.  The girls filled out sheets like this.

 

We brainstormed things we want to do with our cookie money and trips that we want to take.

 

We also reviewed the Girl Scout law and promise.

 

I talked about some of the journeys that we can take as Juniors.  There are 3 of them:  Amuse, Get Moving, and Agent of Change.

 

We played little games that gave us a peek into what that journey might be like.

 

With the Get Moving journey, we played this dance game that had us up and moving.

 

With the Amuse journey, we acted out what we want to be when we grow up.

 

We also broke the girls up into patrols and had them create a poster talking about which direction we should move to and what trips they might like to take.  We talked about getting a troop crest as well and they voted on the troop lei.

 

The girls decided that they would like to earn some patches first so that is the direction we headed in.

 

What a great group of Juniors we have here!