First meeting back...

5/9/13

This week was the first meeting back after the summer break and the girls, as always, were hyper! Sadly, I could only attend the first half an hour of the meeting due to a meeting at school (which I could have missed but still...) but I still managed to catch up with a lot of the girls and heard many stories of holidays.

We started the meeting as usual, with the girls singing the song and then their own six songs, while skipping round the toadstool (yes, we are a very traditional unit), and one six did show-and-tell. We then had a PowWow to plan the theme for our camp in a few weeks. Usually we would have chosen the theme well before we broke up to give us a chance to come up with some ideas for crafts and games but our Snowy Owl is running it because she wants her camp permit so we are letting her find some of these things out herself (although admittedly she's been getting some very strong hints that she's leaving things a bit late now). She has decided that we are going to do the Toymaker badge while we're there so she gave the girls the choice of a recent film, clothing designers or toymakers. Brownies, being Brownies, obviously chose the recent film theme and, when asked which one, the unanimous decision was 'Despicable Me 2'! I actually think this is a really good idea because there's a lot of different characters for all the leaders and sixes to be and there are loads of activities that can be based around it easily so I'm thoroughly looking forwards to this camp (even if the girls did decide I should be Gru after I had left..!). 

The girls were then split into their sixes for camp which caused much upset, as usual, because friends had been split up. We try to put the oldest 3 as sixers and then have a few girls who've been before and a few who haven't in each six because we've found that, if we let them choose, we end up with a group of younger girls who don't know what they're doing. This way, there are some girls in each six who know what is expected and can help the younger girls out. 

At this point, I had to leave. The rest of the meeting was taken up with games and songs, which is our standard first meeting back because they're never able to sit down and do crafts while catching up with friends they haven't seen for a few weeks! Apparently I missed some excitement though because one girl accidentally hit another in the face and caused a nose bleed while another fell over in game and a third started crying because she lost a game (quite a regular occurrence in our unit with girls who seem to think that's the only way to get attention...)! Part of me is glad I had to leave although I would never actually choose to miss a meeting.

All in all, quite an eventful evening!