I'm ambitious together with well, maybe a combat crazy when it comes to challenging myself to accept on tasks inwards Girl Scouts. Personal challenges equally a leader is what keeps it interesting for me! So I decided to accept on the aMUSE Journey inwards a Day. aMUSE seemed the best jibe for the venue nosotros chose together with for my girls' personalities.
Logistical details: Held on Apr 27th from 8 a.m. to v p.m. Seven girls inwards attendance from the same troop (originally 8 signed up). The session was held at a non-profit, amongst a large coming together room, breakout room together with kitchen. I was the solely adult overseeing the session.
I knew if the girls were going to piece of occupation for 8 hours, it had to last interesting. There are a pose out of resources on the spider web for doing a journeying inwards a day, journeying inwards a sleepover, or a journeying inwards a weekend. I would remove hold loved to create it inwards a sleepover but was express yesteryear the fourth dimension of yr together with my girls' busy schedules. It took me four days (several hours per day) of intensive planning together with nearly v hours of inquiry to pose together the day. Then an additional 3 hours to store for supplies. I would guestimate that total prep fourth dimension is 25-30 hours. I bought the bulk of supplies at 3 places: Michael's, the Dollar Tree together with Party City. Pinterest was an invaluable resources inwards putting this hateful solar daytime together.
Seven of my 8 Juniors attended the session which was held at my work, an ag didactics non-profit amongst an share (a converted farmhouse) on 200 acres. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 school, church building or community edifice would piece of occupation simply equally well. We also had access to a kitchen together with a divide breakout room. You demand lots of space! Originally the atmospheric condition was supposed to last moisture together with rainy but the Sun came out together with thus exterior fourth dimension was non solely possible but necessary. Remember that the adult book, "How to Guide Girl Scout Juniors Through aMUSE, It's Your Story--Tell It! Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Leadership Journey" is simply a guide. Think of it equally an outline, or a mass of ideas, rather than a lesson invention or curriculum. You create non remove hold to consummate or adhere to every unmarried activity or thought inwards the book. At many of the Girl Scout leader retreats together with trainings, the mind advice service unit, council together with seasoned leaders give: "don't larn bogged downwards inwards the details." The books are total of ideas, but are non "requirements." Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 journeying also doesn't remove hold to accept half dozen months to consummate or experience similar "school" to the girls. Get creative, speak to your girls together with invention what industrial plant for your troop.
The aMUSE Journey Award has 3 parts: Reach Out, Speak Out, Try out. The Reach Out Award is nearly agreement the many roles women together with girls play inwards the basis or thus them together with the leadership skills used to play them. The Speak Out Award an awareness of how stereotypes could concur people dorsum from trying on roles, together with and then taking activity to assistance halt stereotypes; together with the Try Out Award encourages the girls to remove hold the courage together with confidence to travail out novel roles. Below are pictures, anecdotes, hints together with do-overs from the day. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 detailed outline of how I did the Journey inwards a Day to follow soon.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Flurry of Roles!
Observation: I was surprised yesteryear how strongly some girls responded to existence assigned roles they thought weren't correct for them. One exceptional girl, whose mom runs a daycare business, did non desire the businesswoman role. I encouraged the girls to intend exterior of what they know nearly themselves together with visualize themselves inwards a role, no affair how unusual it may seem.
Ultimately they chose 1 operate they actually wanted to last "when they grow up".
Team Prop Box!
Take the Stage
Rather than writing "active" roles on index cards (page 31 adult guide), I downloaded the bill of fare game from: http://forgirls.girlscouts.org/print-play-character-cards/
Role Models
Rather than brand operate model dolls, (page 20-21 inwards the girl's book, each daughter was given a prepainted canvas. I instructed the girls to remove an activity phrase "I am", "I can", "I will", "I love", etc.
This activity took an hr together with was a favorite of the day!
Breaking the Mold
Do some words brand you lot experience powerful, similar you lot tin create anything?
Panel Discussion
Sharing Our Accessories
This is my Story! Where Will it Go?
Present Speak Out! Project
Celebrate Us!
Summary of the Day
If it were whatever other journey, completing it inwards a hateful solar daytime would non last possible inwards my opinion. Many of the journeys require activity projects that accept to a greater extent than fourth dimension together with planning than the "How to Tell Your Story" element of aMUSE.
The biggest limitation for me was evidently time. In the journeying planner that I was using, most of the activities were solely supposed to accept fifteen minutes. Most of them took thirty minutes to an hr (the canvases together with squad prop box took over an hour).
In my personal opinion, many of the journey's themes together with lessons overlap to the request of repetition. I was able to consolidate some of the sections yesteryear doing unlike activities than those outlined inwards the adult guide that jibe multiple lesson objectives.
Would I create it again? It was a hard hateful solar daytime inwards that the girls were restless. Although the activities were fun the girls were aching to expend energy. I was express yesteryear the atmospheric condition inwards the morn but inwards the afternoon the Sun came out. I would remove hold planned to a greater extent than outdoor activities together with maybe done some of the theatrical elements exterior if I had known the atmospheric condition would improve.
My master copy invention was to render Journey inwards a Day workshops to other troops. The strenuousness of the hateful solar daytime caused me to reconsider, or at to the lowest degree postpone the plan. Logistically this would require a pocket-sized daughter to adult ratio. Stations would remove hold to last planned out to the nth degree, run apace together with efficiently, which is non ever predictable. It would also last somewhat hard to remove girls together who don't know each other equally they may non experience comfortable plenty to create the to a greater extent than dramatic elements of the journey.
We did some things out of order, such equally nosotros had our panel give-and-take at the halt of the day. We did to a greater extent than fine art together with creative play, rather than mass work. Our Speak Out! Project was partly digital together with volition last presented online through this weblog together with Facebook equally good equally inwards video cast at our halt of the yr political party together with awards. The girls also presented their discoveries together with accomplishments to parents at the halt of the day.
Is it doable? If you lot are ambitious enough, absolutely! Most troops embark on a Journey inwards a Day thus that they are able to earn the Journey Summit Award. For us it was to larn a journeying done thus that nosotros could piece of occupation on our Bronze Award Project.
If you lot remove hold whatever questions nearly doing a Journey inwards a Day, delight experience costless to enquire questions inwards the comments department below. I volition answer them together with and then generate a FAQ.
