This season, Girls on the Run Greater Boston will post an overview of each week's lessons for families/guardians to follow along with their participants over the next 8 weeks.
Girls on the Run
Lesson 19: Pass on the I Can! Power
The big idea for Lesson 19 was Pass on the I Can! Power. We reflected on our Mountain Mover season and celebrated how our I Can! Power has grown! During our workout, we passed on our learning by writing postcards to people we wanted to share the I Can! Power message with! The GOTR Goal was: Deliver your postcard and pass on the I Can! Power.
Questions and Conversation Starters
1. Who did you write your postcard to? Why?
2. What is a mountain that we can move together?
Lesson 20: Our GOTR Toolbox
The big idea for lesson 20 was Our GOTR Toolbox. During our workout, we moved and reflected on all we had learned this season and created Time Capsules to remind us about the tools in our GOTR Toolbox. The Time Capsules will be sealed and re-opened whenever we need a reminder of our I Can! Power and GOTR tools. They may be re-opened in a month, next year, or many years from now! The GOTR Goal was: Take your GOTR Journal home and share it with someone special!
Questions and Conversation Starters
1. What are some of the tools in your GOTR Toolbox?
2. Show me your Time Capsule. What did you include? Where should we store it to keep it safe?
3. Show me your GOTR Journal. What’s inside?
Heart and Sole (2x a week)
Lesson 18
The Big Idea in Lesson 18 was that we can choose to positively impact others. Today the girls focused on how they can positively impact others through extending the reach of their Girl Wheel. In the Activity, they physically demonstrated how one girl’s actions can impact many others through a relay. In the Workout, they completed a partner 5k. In the Journal, they created an action plan to extend the reach of their Girl Wheel to connect with those in their stretch zone.
Their Take Home Challenge for this lesson was to follow through on their action plan to extend their Girl Wheel to connect with others.
Questions & Conversation Starters:
1. How can one person’s action have a ripple effect on others? (Share an example from your life.)
2. What is your plan to extend the reach of your Girl Wheel to others? What person or group are you trying to impact? How can I help?
Lesson 19 **Combined with Lesson 20
In Lesson 19 the Big Idea was that my Girl Wheel can help me and others. Over the season, the girls have grown in so many ways and now have a clearer sense of their beliefs, their strengths, and the ways that they can act on behalf of themselves and others. In the Activity, they shared where they feel strong in their Girl Wheel (e.g., because I am strong in my Spirit, I can…). In the Workout, they traded ideas and putting movement to them. In the Journal, girls shared the outcomes of extending the reach of their Girl Wheel. (This concept is inspired by Harvard’s Making Caring Common Project. If you’d like to know more, go to: www.makingcaringcommon.org.)
Their Take Home Challenge for this lesson was to continue to expand the reach of their Girl Wheel to include others.
Questions & Conversation Starters:
1. How have you gotten stronger this season? How do you think that happened? (Share your thoughts and observations.)
2. What did you share about extending your Girl Wheel? How can I help you continue to extend your Wheel to positively impact others after Heart & Sole has ended?
Lesson 20
The Big Idea in Lesson 20 was determined by the team. This was our last practice before the 5k event, and we will focus on reflection. In the Activity, girls returned to a continuum activity from early in the season to saw how they’ve grown. In the Workout, they revisited their Girl Wheel SMART goals and shared successes and future plans. In the last Journal, they reflected on their Girl Wheel as a whole and shared their final thoughts about the season.
Questions & Conversation Starters:
1. Tell me about the activity. How have you changed since the beginning of the season in these areas?
2. What did you write in your final Girl Wheel? Where have you grown the most? (Share your thoughts and observations.)
Heart and Sole (1x a week)
Lesson 9 **Combined with lesson 10
In Lesson 9, the Big Idea was by stretching ourselves, we can positively impact others. Today the girls identified their comfort, stretch, and panic zones so that they could acknowledge their limits and how to push themselves to grow. During the first Activity, the girls defined their comfort, stretch, and panic zones with examples from their own lives. In the first Journal, they created an action plan to extend the reach of their Girl Wheel to connect with those in their stretch zone. In the last Journal, they reviewed and committed to the action to connect with those Wheels.
Their Take Home Challenge for this lesson was to follow through on their action plan to extend their Girl Wheel to connect with people in their stretch zones.
Questions & Conversation Starters:
1. Tell me about some of the examples from the activity. Which ones were in your comfort zone? Your stretch zone? (Share some examples of things in your own comfort and stretch zones.)
2. What is your plan to extend the reach of your Girl Wheel to others? What person or group are you trying to impact? How can I help?
3. KEEP MOVING: How are you feeling with the 5K event coming up? How can I help you prepare?
Lesson 10
The Big Idea in Lesson 10 was that my Girl Wheel can help me and others. Today’s lesson was a culmination of girls’ hard work and growth over the past nine lessons. In their Journal, the girls looked at their action plan for extending their Girl Wheel to others and problem-solved on how to move forward. In the first Activity, girls returned to a continuum activity from early in the season to saw how they’ve grown. In the next Activity, they shared where they feel strong in their Girl Wheel (e.g., because I am strong in my Spirit, I can…).In the last Journal, they reflected on their Girl Wheel as a whole and shared their final thoughts about the season.
Questions & Conversation Starters:
1. Today was your last day of Heart & Sole. How are you feeling right now?
2. How have you gotten stronger this season? How do you think that happened? (Share your thoughts and observations.)
3. What did you share about extending your Girl Wheel? How can I help you continue to extend your Wheel to positively impact others after Heart & Sole has ended?
4. What did you write in your final Girl Wheel? Where have you grown the most? (Share your thoughts and observations.)