November Meeting Debrief

There were many changes to this meeting this month.

Firstly, we skipped the tent set up activity all-together. It was delegated to me to do, as well as running the Early Bird activity. I was cleaning up from the moon tissue paper activity and by the time I was done with that, there wasn't enough time to do it. Besides, a couple of the dads were able to teach the kids a new knot.

We started with the moon tissue paper early bird activity. It worked out well, for the most part the kids enjoyed it and wanted to participate in it (kind of a challenge with our group at times).

During the meeting, we concluded that having the moon phases cookie activity would be better done at the end of the meeting, after the pot luck. Mostly because of the fact that it meant so many cookies for the kids right before lunch.

The low ropes activity was great. Bird Man did a great job. Had the kids working together, building team work, etc. Half of the group did that with Bird Man, while the other half learned this month's knot - a square knot.

Once they had the knot down, a club mom, Julia played ukulele & sang the Camp Fire Wish song with the kids, while club dad Nick accompanied on guitar. They seemed to really enjoy that.

Once both groups got done with the ropes, we had the pot luck. At the end, the phases of the moon with sandwich cookies project. Sang the Make New Friends song and then we were done!

I don't mind all the changes we had to the meeting this month, however, I do find it more stressful running meetings this way. I also feel less confident and more out of control during the meeting when things go this way.

All in all, a successful meeting, that can be improved upon in the future.

Until next time!
Alex