...3 Cheers for Animals! - Session 2

It's Your Story - Tell It!: A Leadership Journey
Girl Scout Daisies

"Girls explore the many ways that caring for animals is like caring for themselves."

Download ...3 Cheers for Animals! - Session 2 handout.

Session 2 - Caring That Counts

Opening Ceremony:
Animals Around the World, pages 37-38 from "How To Guide"
(Lion: Iran)

• Introduced the Flower Friends and then pointed out Tula, the tulip, on "The Flower Friends and Their Girl Scout Law Values" poster. (May also be found in the back of the "How To Guide.")
• Used ...3 Cheers for Animals! - Session 2 map to show where Tula is from and then located the Netherlands and Iran on a globe.
• Visited National Geographic Kids: Animal Creature Features for facts, photos, sounds, videos and more pertaining to lions.
• Wrote two facts about lions on orange strips to help form the lion's mane for the Team Animal Mural.

A sample of the lion I designed for the Team Animal Mural. The girls wrote two facts about lions on orange strips and then used them to create the lion's mane at the following troop meeting.

Story Time:

“A Purr-fect Surprise in the Garden,” page 38 from "How To Guide"

• Read pages 6-13 from the girls' book.
• Discussed the story as directed in the “How To Guide.”

Animals Safe and Sound
(with Guest Speaker), pages 39-40 from "How To Guide"

The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) provides some absolutely wonderful teaching resources on their Web site. In lieu of a guest speaker, we used some of the Cats, Dogs, and Us materials for this part of the Journey.

• Watched Cats, Dogs, and Us video. (This super, high-quality 20-minute video is a near perfect fit. I highly recommend it! Scroll down to “Classroom Video” and then choose either “Vimeo” or “YouTube.” If you have problems streaming, Vimeo allows you to save the video to your desktop to play offline. I copied the video onto blank DVDs for the other girls in our Journey group.)
• Completed IFAW Animal Explorers: Dogs & Cats activity booklet. (Awesome! Fits with the aforementioned video. Please note that the file is graphic-intense. I ended up having to print it one page at a time. Otherwise, half of the pages printed funky for some reason.)
• Instead of creating an “Animals Safe and Sound” chart, completed “Team Talk” draw and write prompt cards to place in the Team Birdbath.

Tessa had a lot of fun with IFAW's "Animal Explorers: Dogs & Cats" activity booklet. She especially enjoyed making the simple origami dog on the last page.

Get Creative!

All About Me Nests, page 41 from "How To Guide"

• Read pages 14-15 from the girls' book.
• Used a paper lunch sack to create an "All About Me" nest as directed in the "How To Guide." (In the packets I provided to the rest of our Journey girls, I included brown paper lunch sacks and a variety of colored feathers, yarn, pom-poms, colored paper for cutting out leaves, and crinkle paper. They could use whatever else they might have on hand at home to craft their nests as well.)
• Tessa drew a picture of herself showing one way she takes care of herself on a blue bird cutout. She placed the drawing in her "All About Me" nest, which she took to the next troop meeting so others could view and enjoy her work.

Tessa remembered a sack of abandoned faux flowers in our basement that she decided to use to craft her "All About Me" nest. She learned how to use a hot glue gun at the fall camporee she attended a couple of weeks ago, so I let her have at it. This was her first time doing something like this, so I provided some pointers on floral arrangement along the way. 

Tessa's completed "All About Me" nest. I think it turned out pretty doggone cute...or, should I say pretty tweet!

Closing Ceremony:

Being Courageous and Strong, page 42 from "How To Guide"

• Colored "Courageous and Strong" coloring sheet. (This was an optional activity that Tessa did on her own time.)

The majority of Tessa's completed work from "...3 Cheers for Animals!" Journey, Session 2.

Looking for more activities to complement the ...3 Cheers for Animals! Journey?

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