I'm disappointed to share with all that are interested, that we will not have Tween Club this year. The number of registrants was very low so we decided to cancel this session. Tween club was designed around the 'club' concept. A group of girls is at the centre of all activities and programming for this group. We felt that without a significant group, the concept of Tween Club would be diminished.
It's with regret that myself, Kayla (my daughter and inspiration for the group) and our new leader Caitlin Fowler, bid all past and potential Tween Club members farewell for this year. We will have to evaluate whether we resurrect the program again next fall.
Take care for now, Patti
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Tween Club Cancelled This Year
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Monday, October 1, 2012
Introducing Caitlin - Our Tween Club Leader
Kayla will be returning this year to help out and of course I will be in and out to assist where needed.
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
Looking For Input
Our schedule is starting to fill in but we are looking for input from the girls. During our first meeting, being held Oct 9th, we will give the girls a chance to tell us what they would like to do this year. We will fill in the blanks with their ideas.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Getting Ready!
We are working on our 2012-2013 schedule and it will be posted soon. It's been a wild and wonderful summer and it's now time to pull our plans together for Tween Club. Caitlin, Kayla and I will be posting our plans in the next week.
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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Our Charity for the Bizarre Bazaar
We have chosen The Girl Effect as our charity this year. Click on the link to visit their site our preview THIS video to get a quick overview.
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The Friendship Garden
Tonight we planted our friendship garden. The girls all participate by bringing a plant, tools and adding their own elbow grease. I particularly like the sign and overall our lasagna garden looks marvellous. A special thanks to Doreen, Clara's Mom, for coming out to explain to us what a lasagna garden is and help us design something that we can all be proud of.
I do ask the Tweens and their families to take the time to pull a few weeds when they travel through McKellar park. Many hands make light work.
Thanks to all the parents for your participation in this project.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Date Changes
We had to change our April 17th meeting to April 24th so in order to spread things out we've adjusted all the remaining dates.
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Whoops!!! - Double Booked - No Meeting Tonight
Just received a call from Dovercourt. The Field house has been double booked and we will be moving our regular meeting to April 24th, next week. Apologies for the confusion.
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Sunday, April 1, 2012
Plans for the Spring
The spring brings it's own challenges. The girls want to get out and the nights are longer. The next three meetings will move around based on weather. The girls really want a treasure hunt and games day and we will have to move that to what ever day is the nicest. For that reason, this week we will be having Spa Evening.
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Starting Up in April
We will see the girls back again on April 3rd. Andrea and I are still pulling things together for April. I surveyed the girls during the February meeting and they seemed interested in a game day, art project and/or a beauty event. We will post the schedule as soon as we have things firmed up.
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Monday, February 20, 2012
April Activities
We will be looking for ideas for our April meetings. Looking back at the suggestions the girls originally shared in October, we still have a few options to consider including:
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Movie Night
The girls will be wearing their jammies, bringing stuffies and enjoying popcorn and Chicken Run this year. In past years, the girls have requested that the films be longer so we are trying a full length video this year.
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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Skating Update
We planned for this event to be earlier this year so we wouldn't run into weather problems. That didn't quite work out. We are going to cancel our skating plans and focus on emotions this week. We will be doing some drama around emotions including some work with music and a little Yoga too.
No skates required tonight.
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Friday, December 30, 2011
January 10th - We Start Up Again
Reminder to all that we have moved the schedule ahead one week this month because of the school holidays, vacation, etc.
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Sunday, November 13, 2011
It's Time for Some Healthy Snacks
Jen Brennen will lead us through a series of recipes and the preparation of a variety of healthy snacks. I can't let the secret out of the bag yet. We'll wait for the girls to share.
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Monday, October 31, 2011
All About Me Boxes
The girls have been asked to bring pictures, magazines, photos and anything else that represents their interests and passions.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Come Prepared to Play Outside
We're playing games in the park tonight, as requested by our Tweens, and doing a few Halloween crafts, also requested by the gals.
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Sunday, October 9, 2011
Getting To Know Each Other
We had a great evening of games and getting to know each other this past week. We played name games, move your butt (just for the fun of it), made posters about ourselves, and the girls made some recommendations for future activities. It looks like we had a few keys activities already planned that the girls wanted on the schedule including cooking, a party, games in the park and dance.
Our older group is smaller than usual this year so we are combining the groups and moving meetings to the first and third Tuesday of Oct, Nov, Jan, Feb, April and May. The schedule is outlined on the right of this site.
It looks like we have a great group. They were enthusiastic, involved and having fun last week.
Andrea, Kayla and I are looking forward to the coming year of Tween Club activities.
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
Welcome to Andrea!
This year's tween club instructor is Andrea Dark, both an headgaurd and swim instructor at Dovercourt. She is a third year political science and religion student at Carleton University. Andrea has always been involved in her community, whether it has been through being class president at her highschool, to helping organize her local relay for life, completing an internship on parliament hill or facilitating English Conversation Groups at Carleton. Andrea loves being active, meeting new people and having a positive influence on others! She looks forward to meeting all of you and sharing incredible memories with you over the next few months!
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Thursday, September 1, 2011
Getting Ready for This Year
It's been a busy summer and we are finally getting Tween Club ready for the upcoming year. More news on our leaders and our activities coming shortly. If the girls have any ideas or thoughts on what they would like to do this year, please leave them in the comments section of this blog post.
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Monday, May 30, 2011
The Tween Bake Sale
The weather was dull and grey and I have to say it was cold sitting out there for 3 hours. A hot cup of tea and regular breaks inside helped to keep us warm.
Thanks to all your baked goods and a few boxes of books from our house, we were able to raise $330 (which included a $100 donation from one family) for Harmony House.
It's unfortunate the weather wasn't on our side. I think next year we need to try the first weekend in June. We've never been very lucky with the last weekend in May. Time to switch things up next year.
Thanks again for your support and assistance. We will be in touch soon.
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Friday, May 27, 2011
Bizarre Bazaar - CANCELLED - But Bake Sale On!
We have canceled the Bizarre Bazaar due to weather. We can't set up the activities in the rain which changes the plan all together. We are scaling back the event to just a bake sale and me and my daughters can take care of manning the table.
If you have done your baking, please bring it by and we will gladly sell it to the Dovercourt swim lesson gang. The proceeds of the Bake Sale will got to Harmony House, our charity of choice this year. Feel free to drive up and we will grab your sweet treats from the window of you car. We will be set up under the awning on the parking lot side.
We will be in touch with a message for the girls next week and more news on next years program. I'm so sorry that the Bizarre Bazaar did not come together this year.
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
February Fun
We started off the month with separate sessions on emotions and a look into the mirror. Our mirrors allowed us to look at our natural beauty.
Just this week we enjoyed a beautiful evening of skating at the McKellar Park rink. We played tag and follow the leader and enjoyed a night together on the ice.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Jen Charbonneau Joins us Jan 25th
We will have a guest speaker, Jen Charbonneau at the end of the month. Jen joined us a few years ago and we thought it was time to have her back for an encore. Jen will lead a session that will focus on the tough emotion of stress. At our first session the girls talked about the stress of school, dealing with yelling parents, getting out the door in the morning, and other day to day stresses they have experienced.
Jen will help them identify the emotion of stress, provide some words to better communicate it, look at coping mechanisms and more. She will do a craft with the girls, a relaxation visualization (she will have CD's to purchase if your girls are interested) and she even has a small gift for them.
Looking forward to the session at the end of January.
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Labels: Jen Charbonneau, stress, Tweens
Happy, Confused, Excited and Sad
These are just a few of the emotions we felt during our individual sessions this month. The younger girls looked at different emotions and described when they felt them, how their bodies reacted during these emotions and who they confide in to deal with emotions. We played games, drew strength from each other and our individualism and the rocks that Anne gave us will help remind us of the strength we draw from both.
The older girls put their emotions into motion by putting together artistic representations of their emotions. One group used a musical approach to tell the story of feeling an array of emotions, another put on a play with a narrator and background sounds and the last wrote a song and included guitar playing from one of the girls. At the end of the session, the girls shared their emotions. Most were happy and content and a few were excited and tired.
We are but a spectrum of emotions. We are emotional beings after all.
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