Meeting Summary: Working on Theatre Try-It & Discussion on Optional Activities

After snack (thanks Alyssa & her mom), the Brownies spent most of the meeting inside the Brownie Circle.
Sarah recited the Girl Scout Promise and Bella recited Girl Scout Law.
Then, the girls spent a good portion of the meeting talking about activities some of them have participated in outside of the Troop.
First, we discussed the Thanksgiving Service Project. Each girl told the group why they enjoyed helping out and which task they liked the best and the least. (Least favorites, depending on which Brownie, was peeling carrots or picking turkey meat.) The Brownies really enjoyed doing this service project and told the leaders they would like to do a service project in the spring.
Next, Alyssa talked to the Troop about Girl Scout Night with the Worcester Sharks with the Central & Western Massachusetts Girl Scouts.
Afterwards, we talked about the Framingham Girls Scouts sing-a-long at the Town Tree Lighting. The Brownies from our Troop discussed what they liked about the event and their favorite song to sing. (Rudolph was the top choice.) We also passed around a copy of the local daily newspaper, in which the girls were featured in from the event.
Next, the six Brownies who participated in the Council-sponsored Jungle Safari event yesterday talked about their favorite activities.
After discussion time, the girls were split into three groups and worked on saying 4 tongue twisters. This activity showed the Brownies the importance of pronunciation as an actor, and is one of the requirements to earn the Let's Pretend theatre Try-It.
Tongue twisters practiced included:
* Which Witch Wished for Which Wish?
* Sally sells sea shells on the sea shore
* Buy blue blueberry biscuits before bedtime
* Chester Cheetah chews a chunk of cheddar cheese.
Some of the Brownies shared other tongue twisters they knew and a few Brownies created an original tonguetwister with their name.
NEXT, each girl picked a slip of paper out of a bowl and then had to act out what was written on it, without using their voice. This acting (charades-like) activity, was another requirement of the Let's Pretend Try-It.
Many of the girls felt that the activity they pulled was going to be easy for the other Brownies to guess, but they found out their assumption was incorrect.
For example, one girl felt playing the piano would be too easy for the Brownies to guess. But the girls first guesses, were typing, on the computer, playing a video game...
The girls had fun with this activity.
The Brownies still have to complete two more requirements before earning the theatre Try-It.
The Troop ended the meeting with the Friendship Squeeze, started by Sasha. Followed, by 1-2-3, Girl Scout Out.
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Our next meeting will be the Troop's holiday party on Monday, Dec. 22. The Brownies will be decorating mini-cakes (and eating them), as part of a requirement to earn a Baking Try-It.