So, recently, we have had several changes to our Girl Scout troop.
We had two leaders leave, leaving us with two leaders including myself left, and took four girls with them. It's something that happens in troops and I was sad that it happened to ours.
Now, we are down to twelve girls, two leaders, and one very involved mom, and two regular involved moms. We still have our wanted even numbers of Daisies and Brownies; 6 Daisies and 6 Brownies.
Having even numbers on both sides leaves to have fun with Big/Lil' Sister projects and activities in the future.
Just before the losses of two leaders, our main troop leader came up with a different seating arrangement.
This year, we had each of the girls have their own set of supplies, and as leaders, we would set them out at their seat before each meeting. We had the girls in assigned spots, accounting for personalities at every turn. We kept snarky ones away from each other, put quiet ones with louder ones to help bring them out as well as help mellow the loud ones. Overly sensitive ones stayed away from ones that are more abrasive as well. When you get to know your girls, it's not as hard as it sounds to arrange seating.
We meet in a conference room, so it is large and spread out. We had the girls sit in a large horse shoe shape with a single table at the opening for the leader.
The change we made was to the arrangement of the tables.
Evelyn is that Brownie in the front
Instead of having these skinny table in a horse shoe, they are now arranged to make large tables.
2 Daisies and 2 Brownies to a table; each table had a table leader, chair leader, supply leader, and trash leader. Table leader is responsible for making sure the three others do their jobs.
In this new arrangement, every Girl Scout gets to have important responsibilities on simpler levels.
When it comes to Girl Scouts, it's all about teaching the girls to be responsible and care for others.
During our first trial of this new arrangement, Evelyn was the leader for her table, and she did a great job. It seemed easier to have the room cleaned up when each table had their own girl responsible for cleaning off one table, one girl at each table responsible for only four chairs, and one girl at each table responsible for only four sets of supplies.
It's surprising what little changes can do.
