Girl’s Group
Lesson 1:
Review of last year, Who am I?, Group Rules
Who Am I? Complete the following sentence: My name is ___________, and the coolest thing
about me is__________________.
Lesson 2:
Self-Esteem
Self-Portratit
-Each girl will
close their eyes and picture themselves.
They will be encouraged to think about how they feel about their bodies,
families, home, school, friends, etc…
After a few minutes they will open their eyes. They will then put the images they thought
about on their piece of paper. When they
have finished drawing they will share their pictures with the group. Each girl will say something that they like
about themselves.
Lesson 3:
Positive Body Image
Slips of paper will
be placed in a cup with the following words:
hair, eyes, legs, arms, hands, ears, etc… The girls will pass the cup around and take a
slip of paper. Each girl will then say
something positive about the body part that she picked.
Lesson 4:
Popularity
Ask the girls about
a student in their class who is popular.
Why do others admire this person?
Each girl will then be given an envelope with their name in it. They will be told that inside their envelope
is the name of the coolest girl that there is.
They will try to guess who’s name is inside. Then they will open their bag.
Questions: How did you feel sing your own name in the
bag? Do you believe that you are the
coolest? Draw pictures of things that
make you cool on your envelope.
Lesson 5:
Fill me up
Each girl will get
a piece of paper with the outline of a body on it. The girls will decorate the face to look like
themselves. They will then pass the
paper around and each person will write positive messages on it.
Lesson 6:
Choices
Each girl will be
told that she is going on a sleepover.
Each girl gets to bring only three things in her suitcase. A suitcase, sleeping bag, food, and drinks
will be provided. Ask each girl to share
the things she would like to bring and their reason for bringing them.
Questions:
Was this a hard
choice to make?
How did you make
your choice?
Could there be any
consequences of your choices?
End with Choices in
Jar
Lesson 7:
Smart Choices
Decision Making
Scenarios:
Someone in your class said that she is not
going to invite you to her birthday party.
Someone has been
calling you names and says that she is going to beat you up if you tell anyone.
Someone in your
class said that you hair is ugly.
Someone said that
she is going to have a secret club and only some girls can be in it, while
others cannot be part of it.
Your friends always
laugh at the way a girl on your bus dresses.
One of your friends
said that you cannot sit beside her.
Your friend said
that if you sit beside someone else in lunch, she will not be your friend
anymore.
Your friend tells
someone that she cannot join in the game of ball that you are playing.
What is a poor choice? Can some poor choices be dangerous?
Lesson 8:
Recipe for a healthy life
As a group the
girls will write on two large pieces of paper.
One paper will have the recipe for a successful life and the other will
have the recipe for an unsuccessful life.
(eat healthy, get enough sleep, listen to my parents, do my
homework/stay up late, watch lots of TV, eat junk food, disobey my parents, not
do homework, get in trouble.
Have you ever made
an unhealthy choice? What happened?
Lesson 9:
Choices-Thinking Caps
Tell me some
choices that you make every day. (what
to eat, what to wear, whether or not to listen, whether or not to do homework,
whether or not to be nice to friends, etc)
Is it easier to
make a good choice or a bad choice? (bad
choice)
What helps you
decide what to do?
Do your friends
ever make poor choices?
Do you ever make
poor choices because you feel pressure from friends?
What are the
consequences?
Write some
suggestions for making good choices on your paper.
Each girl will then
wrap the paper into a cone and put it on her head to remember to make good
choices.
Lesson 10:
Rumors
Telephone
game: Whisper “it is important for girls
to learn healthy and appropriate ways to communicate with others”
Talk about what
happens with rumors.
Questions:
• Can you believe that someone said something if
you were not the one to hear it? Why or
Why not?
• What should you do if you hear a rumor that
someone said about you or someone else?
Lesson 11:
Talk it Out
What is conflict?
(a disagreement between people)
Tell me about some
conflicts that have happened with your friends.
What are some
negative reactions you could have to conflict? (yell, accuse, tattle, push)
What are some
positive reactions you could have?
(taking a break, talking to an adult, talking it out)
How can you stay
cool when you get in a conflict with someone else?
Lesson 12:
Problem-Solving
It is very hard to
fix problems with friends. What are some
problems that friends have?
(fighting over
friends, excluding each other, hurting each other’s feelings, and talking about
each other)
Each girl will
receive a popsicle stick and an outline of a girl. They will create their own puppet. Each girl will be given a conflict and they
will use their puppet to act out the conflict.
Conflicts:
• You are trying to talk to one of your friends and
she is ignoring you.
• Someone tells you that she will not be your
friend anymore.
• Your friend is trying to make you not talk to
another one of your friends.
• Your friend is saying mean things to you about
the way you look.
• You heard that your friend has been talking about
you.
• Your friend is teasing you about your shoes.
• Your friend hurt your feelings.
• Your friend told you that she would hang out with
you during recess, and she has been hanging out with different girls instead.
Lesson 13:
Talk to me
The girls will
learn how to act appropriately during difficult situations.
What is
communication? (getting your message
across to someone)
What is body
language? (Communicating without using words)
Today we will focus
on good ways to communicate with friends and teachers.
We know that verbal
language can be negative (yelling, putdowns, etc…)
How can body
language be negative (eye rolling, shrugging, sighing, etc)
Each girl will have
4 slips of paper and they will write a good way to communicate with
others. We will link them together to
form a chain of good communication.
Lesson 14: managing emotions
Feelings Pictionary
The following words
will be in a cup: nervous, sad, mad,
embarrassed, scared, jealous, surprised, annoyed, worried, and
disappointed.
Player must pick a
word out of the cup and try to draw it.
The drawer and the person who guess correctly get points.
Discussion:
Talk about a time
you lost your temper.
What are some
unhealthy ways to deal with emotions such as sadness, anger, or jealousy?
What seems to make
you angriest?
How do people in
your family act when they are happy, sad, or angry?
What are some
things that help you feel better when you are upset?
How do you solve
your problems when you and your friends fight?
Lesson 15: Friendships
Questions:
What does the word
friend mean?
What was it like
working as a team to complete the puzzle?
What are some ways
you and your friends work together?
What are some areas
in which you and your friends may have difficulty working together?
Lesson 16: Perceptions
Each girl will get
a piece of paper with an optical allusion on it. (Allusions)
The girls will take
turns presenting their picture to the group.
Each girl should look carefully at the picture and talk about the
different things they see in the picture.
Different people
can look at the same thing and see different things. We all have different reactions to
experiences as well. Two friends may
watch the same movie: One may love it,
the other may hate it. Two friends might
eat the same pizza: One thinks it’s the
best pizza she ever had, the other isn’t so fond of it.
Questions:
How do you feel
when your friends or family have opinions that are different from yours?
Do you ever feel as
though you should believe the same things that others believe?
Is it hard to
believe something or do something that differs from what others believe or do?
Lesson 17: Friendship
Have a selection of magazines available. Ask students to cut out pictures showing friends hanging out together.
The girls will each
pick one picture and write a story about the girls in the picture. We want to know about possible conflicts,
friendship issues, and ways to deal with the problems.
The girls will take
turns presenting their story to the group.
Questions:
What are some great
things about friendship?
What are some
common problems you and your friends have?
Lesson 19: Conflict Resolution
Each girl will
share a time that a friend has hurt their feelings.
The girls will then
pick scenarios and will role play the scenario for the group.
Was it hard to
think of healthy responses to the scenarios?
Which scenario do
you think would be the most difficult for you?
Lesson 20:
Teamwork
We will discuss the
meaning of the word “teamwork”
What are some great
things about working together as a team?
What are some
difficulties when working with others?
Questions:
What was hard about
working as a team?
