...3 Cheers for Animals! - Session 3

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

"The girls use their imagination and problem-solving skills as they continue to explore how the needs of animals are similar to their own."

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

Session 3 - Tail Tales

Opening Ceremony:
Animals Around the World, page 45 from "How To Guide"
(Robin: Great Britain)

• Pointed out Sunny, the sunflower, 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 3 map to show where Sunny is from and then located Great Britian on a globe.
• Read “American Robin” (pages 6-7) from Birds, Nests and Eggs. Showed Tessa the picture of the robins on page 45 of the “How To Guide” and read the caption.
• Visited allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Robin/id for facts, photos, sounds, videos and more pertaining to robins.
• Crafted “Cheer-i Robin” to add to the Team Animal Mural. (I based my design on "Rockin' Robin" from Happy Hooligans.)

Tessa crafted a cheery robin with cardstock, crumpled red tissue paper and a wiggly eye for the Team Animal Mural.

Tessa's completed “Cheer-i Robin."

Story Time:

“The First Stories,” page 46 from "How To Guide"

• Read pages 16-23 from the girls' book.
• Discussed the story as directed in the “How To Guide.”

Spin-a-Tale, page 46 from "How To Guide"

• Tessa retold the story of how Robin, the red robin, became red in her own words.
• Shared information with Tessa about folk and pourquoi tales from this section of the “How To Guide.”
• Tessa created her own pourquoi tale by completing the “How the Zebra Got Its Stripes” drawing prompt.

Tessa's completed “How the Zebra Got Its Stripes” drawing prompt. First, she drew how the zebra looked before it got its stripes. Then, she drew how the zebra got its stripes...a striped snake slithered underneath the zebra's hooves. The snake's stripes transferred onto the zebra. The zebra graphic shows how the zebra looks today.

Fly, Fly Away, page 47 from "How To Guide"

• Tessa used homemade ribbon dance streamers and music from Girl Scouts Greatest Hits, Vol. 11: Amazing Daisies by Melinda Caroll to complete the activity as directed.

Tessa had a blast dancing with her streamers. I tied three three-foot-long pieces of grosgrain ribbon in their middles to two elastic pony tail holders. (Six pieces of ribbon in all.) Afterward, I sealed the edges with something akin to Fray Check. I created these dance streamers for each of our Journey girls. A simpler option would be to tape or glue strands of crepe paper to craft sticks or staple them to plastic straws. Even simpler...do what's listed the "How To Guide."

Tessa danced exuberantly during the Fly, Fly Away portion of the session.

Role-Play: Choices, Choices, page 48 from "How To Guide"

• Completed activity as directed. Tessa chose Scenario 1. Her completed cloud-shaped draw and write prompt is pictured above with her pourquoi tale.

Closing Ceremony:
Animal-Care Ideas, page 49 from "How To Guide"

• Tessa drew a picture of a favorite item that she uses to care for herself on a pink bird cutout. She placed the drawing (pictured above with her pourquoi tale) in her previously crafted “All About Me” nest.

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

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