Our March club meeting was a field trip to The Children's Ethnobotany Garden, part of the Cultural Center (?) of Balboa Park. We had a very Rastafarian style tour of the garden, including some planting. Then they had some free play with each other, while adults organized the pot luck.
We ate, enjoyed the fresh air and good company and then sang a Rastafarian-style garden song followed by our Make New Friends song.
A good time was had by all!
See you next month!
Alex & Christina
A record of the Meetings and Goings-On of our Family Community Club
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
January Meeting Debrief
This month's meeting, overall, went extremely well. I handed over running different parts of the meeting to parents that were there and they stepped up and did a wonderful job. The group was self-reliant and cohesive.
The Early Bird Activity: the kids weren't really into it, they were distracted and wanted to run around and play. I decided that was just fine with me and skipped it.
The Adventure kids enjoyed working on planning out how to design their beads on their vests. They were busy doing that, while the Starflight group didn't have anything to work on. I actually meant to bring a little sewing activity for them, sewing thread through card stock, but I forgot about it in the rush to get the meeting together.
Starflight started their meeting by reading the Camp Fire Wish and then were shown the helper pockets they were going to make. They went over to their table and started working on them. (Trail to Knowing Me, Family Helper, p. 14)
Adventure took some more time working on their designs on paper before heading over to start their discussion about learning to plan. A parent helper worked with them and they excitedly had many ideas about what activity they could teach the Starflight kids. (Trail to Family & Community, Planning for Success, p. 80)
Then the kids made some forts and ran around Cahito for a while before starting lunch. Everyone enjoyed themselves and each other during the meal.
We forgot to do our closing circle and sing our closing circle song. It completely slipped my mind! Oops!
Thank you everyone!
Alex
The Early Bird Activity: the kids weren't really into it, they were distracted and wanted to run around and play. I decided that was just fine with me and skipped it.
The Adventure kids enjoyed working on planning out how to design their beads on their vests. They were busy doing that, while the Starflight group didn't have anything to work on. I actually meant to bring a little sewing activity for them, sewing thread through card stock, but I forgot about it in the rush to get the meeting together.
Starflight started their meeting by reading the Camp Fire Wish and then were shown the helper pockets they were going to make. They went over to their table and started working on them. (Trail to Knowing Me, Family Helper, p. 14)
Adventure took some more time working on their designs on paper before heading over to start their discussion about learning to plan. A parent helper worked with them and they excitedly had many ideas about what activity they could teach the Starflight kids. (Trail to Family & Community, Planning for Success, p. 80)
Then the kids made some forts and ran around Cahito for a while before starting lunch. Everyone enjoyed themselves and each other during the meal.
We forgot to do our closing circle and sing our closing circle song. It completely slipped my mind! Oops!
Thank you everyone!
Alex
Friday, January 4, 2013
January 2013 Meeting Agenda - Learning Leadership & Responsibility
This month we'll work on our leadership skills.
Early Bird Activity: See The World From an Ant's Perspective. Lie on your belly and notice: How do things look from here? What do you notice that you didn't see when standing up? Imagine you are an ant. What would you like to explore - a blade of grass, a pebble, a fallen leaf?
Draw a picture of what your world would look like if you were an ant, or the size of an ant.
We'll split the groups up, to start working on individual meetings.
Starflight
The younger children will be working on their personal leadership, through identifying ways they can help out at home. Parent leaders (need volunteers) will ask the children to name some jobs they do at home to help their families. After brainstorming and discussing these jobs and how we feel and how our families feel, the children will pick 5 jobs and write or draw pictures of them on 5 cards.
The group will make little pockets for these cards to be stored in, and hung up at home. When they want to say thank you, they can pick a job to do, or make a plan with a parent about when to do their jobs.
Time permitting, we'll play a game where the kids act out a job they can do at home and the rest of the group can guess what it is they're acting out.
Adventure
The children will work on the planning process. We'll read a story together about leading & brainstorming. We'll talk about how there is planning done for our Camp Fire meetings and talk about ways the Adventure kids can help plan the group activity for next month. We can then lead a brainstorming session about activities that the group can lead the younger kids in - whether it be a craft or game that they think the kids would enjoy learning and that they would enjoy leading and teaching the younger kids in.
Explain that we will be getting together again before the next month's meeting to plan everything out so they will be successful.
Open up discussion about their feelings about taking on this new responsibility.
Time permitting: a movement game
Potluck, closing circle/song.
(Starflight - Trail to Knowing Me, Family Helper, My Family and Me. p. 14, Adventure - Trail to Family and Community, Planning for Success, Learning to Lead, p. 80)
Early Bird Activity: See The World From an Ant's Perspective. Lie on your belly and notice: How do things look from here? What do you notice that you didn't see when standing up? Imagine you are an ant. What would you like to explore - a blade of grass, a pebble, a fallen leaf?
Draw a picture of what your world would look like if you were an ant, or the size of an ant.
We'll split the groups up, to start working on individual meetings.
Starflight
The younger children will be working on their personal leadership, through identifying ways they can help out at home. Parent leaders (need volunteers) will ask the children to name some jobs they do at home to help their families. After brainstorming and discussing these jobs and how we feel and how our families feel, the children will pick 5 jobs and write or draw pictures of them on 5 cards.
The group will make little pockets for these cards to be stored in, and hung up at home. When they want to say thank you, they can pick a job to do, or make a plan with a parent about when to do their jobs.
Time permitting, we'll play a game where the kids act out a job they can do at home and the rest of the group can guess what it is they're acting out.
Adventure
The children will work on the planning process. We'll read a story together about leading & brainstorming. We'll talk about how there is planning done for our Camp Fire meetings and talk about ways the Adventure kids can help plan the group activity for next month. We can then lead a brainstorming session about activities that the group can lead the younger kids in - whether it be a craft or game that they think the kids would enjoy learning and that they would enjoy leading and teaching the younger kids in.
Explain that we will be getting together again before the next month's meeting to plan everything out so they will be successful.
Open up discussion about their feelings about taking on this new responsibility.
Time permitting: a movement game
Potluck, closing circle/song.
(Starflight - Trail to Knowing Me, Family Helper, My Family and Me. p. 14, Adventure - Trail to Family and Community, Planning for Success, Learning to Lead, p. 80)
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Beads- trails and colors
Each of the five trails in campfire has its own bead color. Each meeting the children will earn a bead, which they receive the next meeting and can sew it on at the start of the meeting.
Here are the different trails and their associated beads:
Trail to Environment - brown
Trail to Family & Community- yellow
Trail to The Future- red
Trail to Knowing Me- blue
Trail to Creativity- green
Here are the different trails and their associated beads:
Trail to Environment - brown
Trail to Family & Community- yellow
Trail to The Future- red
Trail to Knowing Me- blue
Trail to Creativity- green
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