The actual Clean Up Australia national cleaning day lands on what ever the 1st Sunday of March each year is.
Traditionally the Hazelwood and Churchill Girl guides have concentrated their efforts either around the Glendonald Park [the playground and BBQ area] or the Hazelwood South Hall.
Over the years it was found that the youngest Guides got easily bored with the whole thing after about one half hour. The older Guides got distracted after about one to one and a half hours. So now there is a flip side to the service activity.
Coinsiding with the day is a Teddy Bears Picnic and Activities in the Park (about one hour worth). Usually the Teddy Bears picnic starts at just after morning tea time. And the Activities begin about three quarters of an hour later. This way the youngest ones can go back to cleaning up the Park or just progressively make their way over to the Activities in the Park.
needless to say to have these activities going on there needs to be Adult volunteers. Please feel free to speak to the District Leader and ask for the necessary plans, paperwork and other District Team Members participation schedules.
Catching up on all these activities might be easier when you are invited to 'meet' with others with the District Facebook group.
Showing posts with label March. Show all posts
Showing posts with label March. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Learning to march
Learning to march sounds boring. Done the right way is fun. We had fun. Even when you are asked to go back and do it again. And again.
First you start with remembering what one is your left foot! Once it is pointed out that Guide Salute with their Right and shake with their left things are easier. The left foot is the lead foot. we often mucked up.
To correct that there's the skip step. The one where you do a half step and repeat it a few steps later. That way the marching is all back in rhythm again.
Then when your finally moving when do you know when to stop. besides the person in front running stopping and you running right into them. That's where listening to the commands come into it. And doing the commands helps too.
Marching involves swinging the arms. The other arm to the foot that is moving. Or you may end up out of balance and falling into someone else.....the ground hurt's when there is no one to stop you falling.
The hand does not go further than the knee. If you swing the hand too far the steps get out of rhythm.
It took us a really fun time to get this marching stuff under control. then we got new people and we had to show them how it was done. That was really funny cause we realized how funny we looked when we begun to 'March'.
We learned to March so that we could be on parade and escort the colors when the Second World War Board of Honor was brought back to the Hazelwood South Hall. Then we did Australia Days, and Anzac Days. Everytime there was something that we wanted to march in there was new things to learn too.
We were working on our Explore: guiding, Our World and Friendship badges, others doing sections of our Create: Feet, hands, Ears badges. Some of us were doing more to their Junior BP and BP badges,
First you start with remembering what one is your left foot! Once it is pointed out that Guide Salute with their Right and shake with their left things are easier. The left foot is the lead foot. we often mucked up.
To correct that there's the skip step. The one where you do a half step and repeat it a few steps later. That way the marching is all back in rhythm again.
Then when your finally moving when do you know when to stop. besides the person in front running stopping and you running right into them. That's where listening to the commands come into it. And doing the commands helps too.
Marching involves swinging the arms. The other arm to the foot that is moving. Or you may end up out of balance and falling into someone else.....the ground hurt's when there is no one to stop you falling.
The hand does not go further than the knee. If you swing the hand too far the steps get out of rhythm.
It took us a really fun time to get this marching stuff under control. then we got new people and we had to show them how it was done. That was really funny cause we realized how funny we looked when we begun to 'March'.
We learned to March so that we could be on parade and escort the colors when the Second World War Board of Honor was brought back to the Hazelwood South Hall. Then we did Australia Days, and Anzac Days. Everytime there was something that we wanted to march in there was new things to learn too.
We were working on our Explore: guiding, Our World and Friendship badges, others doing sections of our Create: Feet, hands, Ears badges. Some of us were doing more to their Junior BP and BP badges,
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