Last night I had the privilege of helping Megan and Charlotte’s Brownie troop at the Rockford area troop’s World Thinking Day. The girls ranged in age from Daisy’s (kindergarten & first grade) up to High School aged girl scouts. There are seven troops total in Rockford; however, it is the middle of cookie season so only six troops participated.
As part of celebrating, each troop made a poster about their
country with fun facts they wanted to share. On Tuesday night, Charlotte’s
troop worked on their poster and planned the presentation they wanted to do. I
had worked alongside Megan, the other co-leader of the troop, and another mom.
The other mom and I were the stand-in adults for World Thinking Day because Megan
had a cookie booth with Charlotte and the other co-leader is out of town.
Last night we had fun! I was so proud of the four of our girls
who were able to show up. They accomplished an excellent presentation. Representing
Mexico, they counted to ten in Spanish and had a sign with the Spanish number and
the English number on it that they held in front of them for the audience to
read. We gave them the choice to recite the numbers together or for each of
them to say the number they were holding. Because there are ten numbers and
only four girls, they had to remember to flip their sign after four and start
at the front of the group again with five. Two of the girls then had to make
sure they had nine and ten which were on separate pages showing. All four of
them never lost their place. Honestly, I thought it was a little complicated
for eight-year-olds. Shows you what I know!
I swear those four eight-year-olds did a better job than any
other group presenting. They were fierce. They stood up in front of the rest of
the scouts and parents with backs straight and heads held tall, they used their
stage voices, and they projected confidence. It was amazing to watch. You would
have thought I had a hand in their achievement. Nope! It was totally ALL THEM. The
other mom (helper) took a video of the presentation and sent it to Megan. Megan
texted me “… they rocked it!”
While I cannot share the video for privacy and safety reasons,
I did get photos of all the posters. Make your screen bigger and learn facts about
other countries folks!
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