Guider Training is fantastic

I haven’t had the opportunity to take a Guider training in a while and I had kind of forgotten how valuable they really are.  Thank you to the organizers of January Thaw Guider Training Day in Ottawa.  I had a lot of fun yesterday and it was an extremely useful mix of leader skills, networking, [...]

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Sing Ontario Sing 2011

Every year we approach our singing program in an unplanned, let’s see what happens kind of way.  The result of that is that we end up repeating about eight favourites through the whole year – and year-to-year.  Then we look at the Sing Ontario Sing program around Spring Camp - and we have a LOT of songs [...]

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Sing Ontario Sing!

Have you done the Sing Ontario Sing (Updated Feb 2012 after GGC Ontario Website change) challenge?  Ontario Girl Guides sets this challenge annually with a whole new set of songs on the list.  The idea is that girls are exposed to different songs (not the five or so that they hear and request each week).  The [...]

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Key to Camping: Sing & Shout, Safety First, and Lost & Found

We’ve got a lot to cover tonight.  Here’s the plan. 6:30 Arrival Game – Going with Double Simon Says from Becky’s site.  Our original plan was to try to do a matching game for Dress Right, but I can’t find anything online and it was a big job to make one.  Does anyone have a [...]

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Key to Camping: Camping Know How

We’ve got a camp booked and are launching into Key to Camping.  We need to be careful that not all the girls are going camping – but they’re still going to get a lot out of the skills learned from K2C. Here’s our meeting plan for tonight. 6:30 arrival – Camp word search 6:40 Circle [...]

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