Fri, Oct 10: Emotions are healthy

It's ok to cry.
It's ok to shout.
It's not what you do.
It's how you get it out!

Our lesson Friday concentrated on emotions. Coach Jen led our girls through a healthy discussion about expressing emotions. Parents, you might think this was a heavy topic for our young ladies, but they really surprised us with their grown up attitudes in dealing with their emotions. Of course, we had plenty of laughter and joking around during the discussion! It wouldn't be GIRLS ON THE RUN without laughing, now would it?

Coach Jen helped us put our acting skills to the test while we demonstrated (silently) an emotion and let the others guess what it was. Boy was that hard. What? You don't think so? Well, you try to get someone to guess LONELINESS or EXCITED. See what we mean?

You'll see in our pictures that the girls were writing during this lesson. Part of our expression lesson was to have them answer questions about how they dealt with their emotions. [You may want to ask them what they do when they need to express themselves!] With a little warm up running, the girls hustled to one end of the playground to hear a question from Coach Jen and Coach Tanya and then quickly wrote an answer at the other end of the playground. Seems the answers started getting longer and longer.... could be that they weren't running when they were writing, now could it?

We also played BINGO! ... yeah, BINGO! As the girls ran a lap, Coach Connie pulled out a BINGO emotion the girls then mark on their BINGO card. With this game, four in row was a winner....and Carolyn was the first to get BINGO!

During our cool down we enjoy some cookies and did our group cheer. "Girls on the run is so much fun. Girls on the run is number one.....PASTA!"

Hope you have a PASTA day!

PS - Let us know how the 5k Beginner training is going. Marty's mom joined us in the running on Friday. Will you be the next to come out for a few laps?