Week 2 Puppets

Our SuperGirl attendees today were Greta, Mia, Ella, Traci and Angolina. My lovely assistant Peyton was there as well.
We started out with a name game to get to know each other and then went over the descriptive words we came up with for SuperGirl last week so everyone was caught up. Our newcomers had the same ideas about what SuperGirl should be like.
Then we jumped right into making our craft for the day, sock puppets, so the glue could dry for our puppet shows. Some had long hair, others were aliens with 3 eyes and one even had a cape.

It was fun to see their imaginations take over and each girl made them unique.
Once the puppets were drying we were off to the deck to enjoy some strawberries, string cheese, fruit snacks and juice. There we discussed how we did on our SuperGirl goal from last week. It seems everyone was saying kind things and they had some examples.

We focused today on saying kind things to ourselves and being confident.
Would a SuperGirl walk with her head down, shuffling her feet? No way! We stand tall, smile and say hello to friends. Greta did a great demonstration for us.

Everyone is unique and has talents and if you put your mind to something you can get it done. I asked them if they thought those girls that would be competing for a gold medal in the Olympics said they weren't good enough to win their whole lives? We all agreed that they told themselves they could win and must have lots of confidence and worked hard.

We need to tell ourselves things like:

I can do it
I have talents
I am unique
I am beautiful on the inside


Each girl told us what she was good at which included swimming, dancing, singing, art and even cart wheels.
Of course, we needed to show some of these skills off so we went to the yard and everyone showed us a talent. There were lots of flips, turns and sommersaults.

We also worked together as a team to pass a hoola hoop down the line while holding hands.

It was time for our puppet shows. The girls were split into two teams and given a scenario that they had to plan their show around.

1) You are on the playground and you hear someone saying mean things to another girl. What do you do?
2) You are new in school and you don't have any friends yet.  You are nervous and want to go home. What do you do?


They put on more than one show and had some great thoughts. They enjoyed making up their own "script". Great job!

For free play they ran around in the fort, danced and sang, played school and sat outside and had popsicles.

Our SuperGirl goal for the week:
Pick something that SuperGirl does and do it yourself (be brave, be helpful, be confident, etc.)




Another fun day! See you on Friday July 13th.

Week one was a success

I'm pretty sure the girls would agree that our first Friday morning together was lots of fun! Three girls who had signed up were not able to make it this week and as luck would have it, we had two girls ask if they could join us along with one big sister to help out so it worked out perfectly.
Today we spent some time getting to know one another by filling out a sheet with likes and dislikes, pets, siblings, future careers, etc. We talked about what a SuperGirl is like and we made a list of words to describe her. The girls had great thoughts and we wrote down: creative, happy, ,caring, helpful, kind, brave and confident, to name a few.

Then we moved onto our craft which was homemade journals. They really enjoyed the activity and I think I may find glitter around the house for days! It would be great if they would bring their journal with them each Friday. I'd like to encourage them to write down any thoughts or do some sketches in it throughout the week.

After snacks we sat in a circle to talk about our topic for today (and one theme throughout the summer): WORDS. The discussion included the following:

What we say affects other people
Saying something kind can brighten someone's day
We need to stop ourselves before we say something hurtful, it is hard for someone to forget what you said
What is gossip and rumors?
It's important to be trustworthy if someone confides in you

The girls had great observations about this and were very engaged in the discussion. We then stood in a big circle and played telephone a few times to see how easily a message can be misheard, misunderstood or flat out changed by someone else.

Ella whispering the message to Lily

After this we only had about a half hour left for free play which included chalk drawing, jump roping, playing in the fort and dancing, which lead to cheer leading poses!

Our SuperGirl goal for this week: Say something kind to someone every day.

We'll kick off our next meeting by talking about if and how we accomplished our goal!

Until next time...

Giving a Blog a try

I was thinking of ways to keep parents informed about how their daughters will be spending their time in the SuperGirls group and since I follow several blogs myself, I figured I would give blogging a try.

Each week I will take notes and pictures and post them here because if your girls are anything like my boys, I ask them how their day was or what they did and I usually hear "fine, umm...the usual stuff, or nothing new". 

I'm looking forward to our first meeting this Friday! If there are days you know your daughter won't be coming please let me know via email as that will help me purchase supplies and plan our day. 

If you were unable to stop by the meet and greet, feel free to come at 9:15am Friday and I will show you around. Also, bring the emergency contact form if I don't have that yet.

See you Friday!

Making sure I can insert a picture.
Me in 1st grade.