3rd Lakeside Heights Guides

It promises to be a fun year full of surprises with the 3rd Guides. We have two Guiders who are brand new to Guiding this year. Both have been encourged, prodded, pushed and almost bribed for years to join. And both are already loving every minute and wishing they had joined many years ago... Jacquie and Dominique are these two new leaders.

We have Christie who was a camp councellor at Wa-thik-ani this summer and was invited to join us by our Junior Leader Linda.

And we have Michele, who will try to be the responsible one who calms things down.....

And of course we have our 18 wonderful, well behaved, fun loving girls. Our girls love to come together one night a week to have fun and be challenged.

( WOW we are now up to 20. Two new girls have joinged us. Welcome girls!!! )

In October Linda, Christie and one of their friends who was also up at Wa-thik-ani as a life guard, Vikki, took our third year girls for a week-end camp. Two of the girls have completed their Experienced Camper Badge and they have all completed their 24 hour adventure.

Meeting #1: We talked about the RCMP, canadian symbols and we did our RCMP posters. We played a few getting to know you games and we did some brainstorming as to what we want to do this year. And of course, we finished off with a campfire.

Meeting #2: Outside for Encounter and Exploring girls to do Outdoor challenges. Meanwhile the Discovering girls worked on planning their camp. We played the promise relay game after talking to the girls a little about what the promise was and what it means. We gave out the guide shop bags to the girls and had them decorate them as very few had them the week before. The girls will now have a guiding bag to bring their binders with their programs books, pencil and paper, their indoor shoes and their water bottle.Finished with a singalong.

Meeting #3: All levels worked on different challenges for the Our Community in their levels. We talked about patrols, and patrol leader elections. Played a few games led by Linda and Christie...need to get names of games and the rules. And finished with a campfire. First years were led by the third year girls in a wonderful game about Aliens and the promise.

Meeting #4: Patrol Leader elections, more work on community challenges. Game: Streets and alleys. Campfire.

Meetings mid-October to mid-November :

Game to find patrols, patrols choose their emblems, horseshoe, learned one legend and one famous woman and Symbols of Canada, 2nd years planned enrollment, 3rd years finished preparing for camp, slept over at the Buchanan's and left in the morning for Lac Adair. They worked hard at trying to complete the Outdoor Environment challenge. It is almost done.

1st years did history skits under the guidance of the 3rd year girls. 2nd years planned enrolment, played lots of active games.

Halloween party. Lots of fun games and Halloween sing along. reef knot with ties and licorice.

Trefoil Game in patrols (learnt at provincial training and was a huge hit.). 1st years- played promise popsicle stick game, and law bowling. 2nd years Skit for enrolment, Made invitations. 3rd years -knots (bowline and clove hitch) and thank yous. And set challenges. Played an observation game. Practiced the enrolment.

Meetings mid-November to mid-December :

Joined in remembrance day parade and food drive.

Enrollment, candlelight ceremony planned and run by the 2nd years with a skit about why one should join Guides.

Evaluated the enrollment, talked about the food drive and caroling. Learned about primary colors and how they mix and then painted faces on wooden spoons and used all sorts of materials to turn it into an angel to use in a plant pot. Girls used glue guns and for the first time in years no one burnt themselves!

Third years set their own challenges. Planned talent show. Made wreaths using red, green and hangers, sang Christmas songs.

Made wooden plaques using thin slices of logs and modge podged Christmas clip art.

Talent show, some girls are singing, dancing, playing the keyboard, performing a skit and a cook show: money and non-perishables will go for the food drive (decided by the whole unit as a service project Brownies and parents w attended). The girls had a great deal of fun doing this and the audience sure had a great time watching all the wonderful talent we have in our unit.

Our girls at our enrolment.

Meetings January to mid-February :

Friday Jan 11th, 2001

Started with a Tracking game outside

Talked about promise and law and worked on some of the Lady Baden Powell challenges.i.e how we use our promise and law in daily lives. Also discussed importance of wearing a uniform.

Evaluated food drive, and carolling, and talent show�girls enjoyed all of these especially the talent show. Brainstormed Ideas of what they want to do for the rest of the year Two new girls started their work on Promise and Law. 1st and 2nds years discussed winter emergencies and injuries 3rd years planned the next meeting- A skating party. Played a compass game.

Friday Jan 19th, 2001

Skating party; organized by 3rd years the skaters badge.

Friday Jan 28th, 2001

Evaluate the skating party.

Business Communication BADGE Friend of Linda's from Wa-thik-ani came in from Laval to lead the girls. She is in business in cegep and enjoyed doing this with the girls.

Newspaper scavenger hunt.� Included writing an ad for a guide event and learning how to place the

Prepare a advertising flyer for a Guide or other event.

Write a Business letter. These were quite interesting.

Learnt about phone calls and played broken telephone.

Friday Feb 2nd, 2001

3rd years teach Diana and Amanda-reef knot,law and helped Diana and Amanda find a game on Promise and Law to lead.

1st and 2nds: Knots and raise and lower flag.

Gave each patrol a part of history for two weeks from now for Canadian Guiding Badge and to perform for parents at the enrolment.

And gave info to Amanda and Diana to work on Guiding's beginnings in Canada

Cancelled a meeting due to bad weather.

Mid-February until mid-March

Christie ran a short meeting with 7 of our girls for the Volunteer through time event in Dorval.

Knots and flag raising, games, gave out charts of fitness badge. History skits for Canadian Guiding Badge, started scrapbooks forthe Lady Baden Powell Award.

Spaghetti Dinner to raise money for World Friendship Fun and enrolled two girls.

Prepare for camp night, brought the district parachute (very successful!).

Camp with Cedar Park Guides and Pathfinders: Naturalist, Interpreters, Snowshoer badges, Quebec Music Challenge, program work in round robin style: Knots, tracking, emergency skits,crafts. Candle light Guides Own.

Games we have Played

Crafts we have Done

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