Wow, how did the year go by so fast?
From our opening camp based on the B.C. Tidy Camper challenge to our upcoming District Camp, the Camp O'Winners (based on the Canada Summer Games and planned by our Rangers!) it's been a rush!
18 energetic and curious young ladies made up our Unit this year. Nine of them are flying up to Guides.
What will next year bring?
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Circle Sixes
Circles, or Sixes as they used to be called, are an important part of Brownies.
First, it provides us Leaders with a nice way to organize the Brownies. We break them into small groups and now we have ready made groups of kids who know each other. It offers them an identity as well. They aren't just a Brownie, they are a Pixie, an Elf or a Sprite.
It provides the older girls a level of additional responsibility and a leadership role as well. In our Unit, my Sixers and Seconders (the "leader" and her back up) are responsible for checking to see who attended that days meeting, handing out any worksheets or information we have for the girls, and collecting anything we need collected.
Each Six (because traditionally, you put six Brownies in each group) has a song they sing. These songs provide us with a ready made opening. The girls gather in their assigned parts of the room at the beginning of the meeting and their Sixer or Seconder checks them in. After that, when we call them to order, the girls line up and as we call their group, they skip around the toadstool and form a circle.
After all the different "magical little people" are in the circle, we sing our Brownie song together and say our Promise, Law and Motto! It's a great and traditional way to start our meeting.
Until next time!
Fluffy Owl
First, it provides us Leaders with a nice way to organize the Brownies. We break them into small groups and now we have ready made groups of kids who know each other. It offers them an identity as well. They aren't just a Brownie, they are a Pixie, an Elf or a Sprite.
It provides the older girls a level of additional responsibility and a leadership role as well. In our Unit, my Sixers and Seconders (the "leader" and her back up) are responsible for checking to see who attended that days meeting, handing out any worksheets or information we have for the girls, and collecting anything we need collected.
Each Six (because traditionally, you put six Brownies in each group) has a song they sing. These songs provide us with a ready made opening. The girls gather in their assigned parts of the room at the beginning of the meeting and their Sixer or Seconder checks them in. After that, when we call them to order, the girls line up and as we call their group, they skip around the toadstool and form a circle.
After all the different "magical little people" are in the circle, we sing our Brownie song together and say our Promise, Law and Motto! It's a great and traditional way to start our meeting.
Until next time!
Fluffy Owl
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Brownie Badges
It's the beginning of our year, and often we are asked by parents what to do with all the Brownie Badges we earn.
img credit: Girl Guides of Canada Brownie Book
See above for placement of your Badges.
Have a badge that isn't one of the types shown above? Well, those guys belong on our Camp Blankets!
See more about that in another post.
img credit: Girl Guides of Canada Brownie Book
See above for placement of your Badges.
Have a badge that isn't one of the types shown above? Well, those guys belong on our Camp Blankets!
See more about that in another post.
Welcome to the 2016-17 Brownies Year
We are going to head out this weekend for Cold Weather Camping!!!
Img Credit: GGC Ontario
Img Credit: GGC Ontario
We are headed to Birds Hill Park for the weekend. We will be doing Basic Camp Skills, and the BC Tidy Camper Challenge. Our Brownies will come home full of super fun camping facts!
Img Credit: GGC Ontario
Img Credit: GGC Ontario
We are headed to Birds Hill Park for the weekend. We will be doing Basic Camp Skills, and the BC Tidy Camper Challenge. Our Brownies will come home full of super fun camping facts!
Friday, January 31, 2014
Art in the Community: Working on the Key to the Arts!
At the end of the last meeting I spoke to some of you and passed along the following message: in your travels over the next couple of weeks, if you see some interesting Art in the community, please get out that phone and take a photo of your Brownie with the Art!
This could be an interesting snowman, a sculpture for Festival du Voyageur, one of the Bears (formerly of Broadway Fame), or even some neat graffiti.
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http://www.themuralsofwinnipeg.com/Mpages/SingleMuralPage.php?action=vscroll&photo2=Y
Here's a Neat location on the Underpass on Kingston Row and Dunkirk!
Here's a Neat location on the Underpass on Kingston Row and Dunkirk!
Once you've take said photo, you can email it to our 99th Brownies gmail address. I'll put them all in a presentation to be shown at our meeting on the TV.
Next week our meeting kicks off a Month of exploring our Four World Centers (there are actually five now! But we're doing the Original Four). We start is Mexico at Our Cabana. Coming up is also Valentines Day (we'll be "visiting" Switzerland, land of Milk Chocolate!) India and England are also on the agenda.
See you next week!
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Cookies Rising
Tonight our meeting will be all about COOKIES!!!!!
As Girl Guides, we need to get PUMPED to sell our Cookies! Our Brownies tonight will try something new with cookies (A milkshake... YUM). We'll complete our requirements to earn the year one or year two Cookies Rising badge through a few games, safe selling techniques, drinking milkshakes and learning the history of the Girl Guide Cookie.
If you want, check out this awesome flikr page and see if you can remember all the boxes!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlguidesofcan/sets/72157626208261011/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/girlguidesofcan/sets/72157626208261011/
Also, make sure you see our OWL-fully cute Enrollment invitations! they're a HOOT!
See you tonight!
Fluffy Owl
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Our First Meeting
is tonight.
We will be welcoming our new Brownies and following a Welcome to Brownies meeting by Guiding with Jewel.
We are going to learn a few songs, play a game (Evolution) and make a couple of crafts. The first craft is a key themed name tag. The second is a "promise squirrel." He will have the Brownie Promise on acorns. (paper nuts only!)
Looking forward to the new Guiding Year and meeting the girls tonight!
Fluffy Owl
We will be welcoming our new Brownies and following a Welcome to Brownies meeting by Guiding with Jewel.
We are going to learn a few songs, play a game (Evolution) and make a couple of crafts. The first craft is a key themed name tag. The second is a "promise squirrel." He will have the Brownie Promise on acorns. (paper nuts only!)
Looking forward to the new Guiding Year and meeting the girls tonight!
Fluffy Owl
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