Girls Can Do Anything (Stuff I Love Post 5)

[smallhobbit]

Yes, this time it's Guiding and specifically Brownies.  They may drive me up the wall at times, but if I didn't love it, I wouldn't be doing it.

Last week, we celebrated Chinese New Year (a little early, but who cares).  The Brownies got to make a dragon, and a lantern, and a red envelope, as well as doing a Spot the Difference puzzle.


Then this week I led them in the first activity of the Skills for my Future theme, for which we shall do the Live Smart skills builder.  My topic was jobs, and although I had to adapt the activity to work on zoom, we covered the main points.  I looked at five different occupations: cook/chef, librarian, engineer, ambulance driver and costume maker.  We began by showing some props for them to guess the occupation (photos of an ambulance only), after which they had to think what sort of things someone with that job would do, and then what skills would be needed/what sort of person would like the job.  Finally I had them standing up and acting out the job - I haven't a clue what most of them were acting, but they enjoyed it.  After which I asked them whether they knew what they wanted to be, so there were rock stars, dance teachers, an author, a Spanish teacher amongst others.  The best one was an MP!

Which brings us to half term and a week off, so we can regroup and then carry on again.

Comments

[luthienberen]

A lovely Chinese New Year icon!

What a fun activity for the girls and you. I like the spread of jobs, it is marvellous to see the variety and ambitions the girls have - encourage them when young x

Hope you have a peaceful half-term week.

[smallhobbit]

Yes - it's the badge the Brownies were given for completing the Chinese New Year activities.

I had to chose jobs where it would be easy to hold up props I could find at home.

And thank you!

[corvidology]

So... you keep a close eye on the one who wants to be an MP right? Right! :D

[smallhobbit]

Any MP who has been a brownie has to have received a good grounding.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Oh, fun. You are doing good work with the girls!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you. They seemed to be enjoying themselves.

[margaret_r]

It must have been fun watching your little actors, even if you couldn't work out what they were doing:)

[smallhobbit]

It was. They all took part enthusiastically

[adafrog]

Sounds fun.

[smallhobbit]

Yes, the Brownies have enjoyed themselves.

[rusty_armour]

I think it's great that the Brownies learned about another culture by celebrating Chinese New Year. All of the crafts involved with that badge sound like a lot of fun. I would have loved that back when I was a Brownie.

It's good that you want to teach the girls about jobs and the different occupations available to them. It's pretty funny that you couldn't tell which jobs most of the Brownies were acting out. At least they seemed to have a pretty good idea of what they want to be when they grow up, even if this is likely to change for a lot of them.

[smallhobbit]

We've been covering a number of cultures this past year - something I'm keen to do anyway, but also lends itself to doing by zoom.

They're 7 to 10 years old, so their acting ability isn't always great. Plus looking at them in a small picture over zoom makes it much harder to see the actions. I'm sure if we were to ask them again in 10 years what they wanted to do it would all have changed, but for the moment the fact that they believe they can do things is the most important.

[debriswoman]

Sounds like an entertaining topic:-)

[smallhobbit]

We aim to entertain ;)