Songs and Ceremonies

Agenda

Introductions and Welcome

  • Meet Christine, what Christine needs to be her best!

  • Meet Participants

  • What you'd like to get out of today?


How I start a meeting with Songs:

  • I’ve got that Girl Scout Spirit

  • Head and Shoulders


Practice Flag Ceremony with Highlights Handout

Daylight Taps, by Lady Baden Powell

Thanks and praise / For our days
'Neath the sun / 'Neath the stars / 'Neath the sky
As we go / This we know / God* is nigh


Review Kinds of Girl Scout Ceremonies

  • Bridging / Fly-Up

  • Flag Ceremonies

  • Founder’s Day / Juliette Gordon Low Birthday

  • Girl Scout Birthday (March 12)

  • Opening, Closing, Retiring

  • Investiture, Rededication

  • Award Ceremonies

    1. Highest Awards (B/S/G)

    2. Journey

    3. Court of Awards

    4. Pinning

  • Scouts’ Own - Topic (Never religious)

Value of Singing!
Opportunity for enthusiasm, breaking out of the shell

Tools: Throat Coat. Water Bottle

Song Leading Rules:

  • “Everyone sing it Nobody’s Way”

  • There is “no right way to sing it”

  • Different versions in every region


Scouts’ Own Ceremony

  • Theme - A Sister to Every Girl Scout

  • Decorate, Plan, Do -- Silent In, Silent Out

  • Poems, Songs, Quotes

  • Girl Scouts Together

Songbook List for 2020 VIVE

  1. Girl Scout Spirit

  2. Head and Shoulders

  3. Announcements

  4. Boom Chick Boom

  5. I've Got that Girl Scout

  6. I'm Glad I am A Girl Scout

  7. When'ere You Make A Promise

  8. O! How Lovely Is The Evening

  9. Don't Wear No Socks

  10. Going to Kentucky

  11. Little Sally Walker

  12. I Wish I Were a Little Bar of Soap

  13. Sippin' Cider

  14. Littlest Worm

  15. Banana Slug



Songbook List for 2019 Northern Lights

  1. Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

  2. Banana Slug

  3. Grace: Hark to the Chimes

  4. Grace: Bless our Food (Make New Friends)

  5. Grace: ‘Neath These Tall Green Trees

  6. Going to Kentucky

  7. Girl Scout Spirit

  8. A Pizza Hut

  9. Johnny ver Beck

  10. I Love the Mountains

  11. O! How Lovely is the Evening

  12. Whene’re You Make a Promise

  13. Girl Scouts Together

  14. Linger

  15. Walk, Shepherdess, Walk

  16. White Coral Bells

  17. My Mamma Don’t Wear No Socks