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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]21:12 here. We don't do journeys at all. Instead, we leaders have worked with the girls to identify goals for each year, and then we use those, along with our own goals for the troop, to design projects. No project lasts more than 2-3 sessions, and often it's less, though we do ensure continuity/connection from one meeting to another. For example, we have placed a lot of emphasis on women's history month. Last year we taught the girls about Title IX one week, then had a bunch of AU field hockey players come and talk to the girls about playing sports and what is needed to play at the college level. It was all about health, fitness, taking care of your body, setting goals, balancing priorities, etc. And then we did a session where the girls learned field hockey. This fall, then, we went to cheer on the AU field hockey team, who remembered us and were trhilled to have us there. The experience and related activities really resonated with the girls (and the moms). In our troop, we ask almost nothing of the parents so are not disappointed when they don't do anything. We also have a $100 troop fee so we have plenty of money each year to do whatever we want to do. We are very careful about communicating with the parents what we are working on and what our goals are, so that we have a lot of parental support (if not their time or effort). Overall, it's been almost entirely positive. I know we have a great troop - I think after reading the other responses, we may have even a better troop than I had realized![/quote] Thank you for your great ideas! I was wondering how to use the journeys for the my 2nd year Daisys and know I think we may go your route. I wasn't too impressed with the journeys and I thought the girls would get bored. I'm going to review my plan for next year.[/quote] I have second year Daisies this year. Last year we did the journey related to gardening and this year we did the journey on animals. I agree that they seem below the girls' level. We really used them for the general themes and as a very loose planning guide. For example, last year a community garden gave us a plot to use with the troop so our project was related to taking care of that plot and helping with mainentainence of the community areas of the garden. With the animal journey, we spent a couple meetings on how to take care of pets and then related that back to how girls take care of themselves. We learned about animals around the world and tied that in with World Thinking Day and learned about animals in the country we had chosen. We visited a stable where police horses were kept and learned about all about how the horses work with officers and then learned about other service animals. I like that there was a general theme, but we never used all the materials in the leader's guide and we often consolidated the ideas for a couple meeting from the guide into one. One more annoying thing from about the Journeys-- Throughout all of this, I tried to help my new, first year Daisies earn petals and that was pretty hard to do. Last year, for the first half of the year our meetings were centered on an aspect of the GS law in order to earn a petal. Once we started in on the journeys, that didn't happen so even our second year Daisies have yet to earn their last petal. [/quote]
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