Monday!
Last Wednesday some of the games I planned for the girls didn't quite workout. So to keep them interested in Girls' Club I knew I need to plan something great. However, all weekend nothing came to me. Then, as I was biking back from class on Monday it click... WATER BALLOONS! So I rushed to K-Mart to buy them and my roommate helped me fill them up just in time for Girls' Club.
This Monday the girls actually had homework to do, I have to admit I'm a little rusty on my 5th grade math skills. Next we played a name game. I had three sets of stick notes, one set with everyones name, another with famous people (like Justin Bieber), and a third with food. For each set everyone put a sticky note on there forehead so you could see what everyone elses' card said, but not your own. Each girl had to guess what thier card said by asking questions. The first round (with each others names) went really fast because the girls just used the process of elimination to guess, but the next too rounds were fun and the food round got a lot of laughs.
Next we headed outside and did relays with the water balloons along with a water balloon toss. It was a lot of fun and the girls really liked the water balloons, but they were all gone pretty fast. After the water balloons we played a game of chain tag. This was a big hit as well!
Overall Monday was a good day, everyone was involved and had fun. My highlight was when one girl said "I can't stop laughing."
( I forgot my camera, it would have been great day for pictures!)
Wednesday!
Wednesday was fun as well. It was a little harder today to motivate the girls to participate. I think the water balloons really help brake the ice on Monday, I'll need to think of similar ideas for future days.
On Wednesday I remembered my camera and we took some fun pictures, I wanted to spell out Girls Club, but my camera stopped working so we only got to Girls. The G had to be cropped in, can you tell what it says?
Thursday!
On Thursday we went on our first field trip to the beach! Only about half of the girls were able to come. That gave me the opportunity to spend more one on one time with the girls who came. We flew kites, went in the water, and tried to play volleyball. The weather was more suited for kites than balls. It was really really windy-- sand got everywhere! Here are a few pictures from on top of the bluff, can you see the wind blowing in our hair?
Alexia
The girls really enjoyed the beach trip. Nelly cam along as the chaperon and it was relaxed and fun. My highlight of the trip was when Jazmin shared a lot about herself while I waited with her for her mom to pick her up.
-Kristina
p.s. Next week there will be Yoga and Swimming!
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