Our last meeting in September was spent learning about the Promise and Law. As the girls arrived, they collected dues and were then given slips of paper with different values and actions (both positive and negative) and asked to put them on the sheet of paper labeled with the Guide Law they thought it was related to. After our opening and an active game, we reviewed the choices and discussed how some values could relate to more than one Law.
We then had the girls divide up into patrols and told them that each patrol was stranded on a desert island and needed to come up with 3 rules or laws that they thought were needed. After calling the patrols back together, we used the rules they had come up with and the values discussion to create a Unit Contract, which will be written out and signed by every member of the unit.
For the rest of the evening, we divided the group up and the 3rd year Guides worked to plan the Hallowe'en party while the 1st and 2nd year Guides did Promise & Law activities. The first activity was a Promise & Law Relay Race, where cards with pieces of the promise and laws were placed at one end of the room and the teams had to send one person at a time up to get a piece, and then put the pieces together make the promise and law. The second activity was called Keeping the Law and challenged each group to write down ways they could keep each of the Guide Laws. We then used these to play charades - guessing both what the action was and which Law it related to.
We ended the evening with a sing-song and Taps.
