So this week we completed the Passport to Fun and Fitness Challenge.
We decided to tie this into our Being Healthy Keeper. This was also my new coleaders first ever meeting that she planned all on her own! I'm so proud of her. She was never in girl guides, but her daughter has just started and loves the program! Here's to many more years!
We started with the girls doing a bit of Yoga. This is made a little easier for us, because the local Yogi is also an elementary school teacher, and did a unit with most of the school on Yoga last month. We concentrated on the breathing, and relaxing, as having a healthy mind is also so important.
After Yoga, we learned a little bit of hip-hop. We have a Brownie this year in Sparks, as the time conflicts with her dance classes, so she got to earn the Show Your Talent for Dance Badge while everyone else was learning a bit of hiphop. She demonstrated a few moves, then helped the Sparks try them out. We did something she called the reverse cowboy, as well as the Zombie Walk. Before the Sparks started to dance we had them take the pulse and then take it again after dancing. Then we told them a little about how the heart is a muscle and it has to exercise too!
Then we played tag. Just plain old regular tag. Then we had the girls give ideas of how to make it a new type of tag, and vote on which one we'd play. It has to do with some markers, everyone carrying around some paper and a rubber chicken. They loved it. They called it Spark Tag, and I think that it might end up a regular kind of thing!
Finally we laid out supplies for parfait, and had they make up their own parfait. Emerald brought yogurt, granola, and three different kinds of berries. That being said, if we had to do it again, we would have bought more yogurt!
While eating, we sat in a circle and talked about breakfast, why it's important to eat a breakfast and what's in a healthy breakfast.
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