I can't believe I only took a few pictures when it was Reese and Quincy's turn to host. In my defense, I was pretty sick that morning and focused on powering through for the first hour or so.
Julie is one very groovy little girl who lives in San Francisco during the early 70's. Her parents are recently divorced and Julie moves with her mom to an apartment above her mom's funky hippy shop on Haight street.
The girls made bead friendship bracelets just like Julie and her BFF Ivy do in the book. Then they were introduced to cheese fondue (served in awesome orange fondue pots thanks to Jennifer H. and Deon) and I had a white chocolate fondue too for fun.
While the girls ate, they answered some book trivia questions, and then I taught them about some famous female athletes. Julie's new school doesn't have a girls basketball team and the coach for the boys team tells her girls ate not allowed to play sports. Julie learns about some local Vietnam Vets making a change in their community by collecting signatures on a petition, and decides to give a petition a try to help her cause in wanting to play basketball. She succeeds and at tryouts earns herself a spot on the school basketball team, which had previously been all boys.
The book resells the story of Billie Jean King's famous "battle of the sexes" tennis match, so I taught the girls about a bunch of famous female athletes who have helped make advances in women's professional sports, overcome great social opposition, remained positive about health challenges, as well as promoting healthy body images for girls.
The girls each shared a few of their favorite sports and hobbies.
Finally, we hippied it up like Julie and her mom with some tie dye.
I liked how different each girl's color and pattern design was. Can't wait to see how these shirts turned out!
Here's Reese's shirt:
Quincy's shirt:
And Corbin's shirt (we had Jacob and Emma over to make shirts with Corbin after book club).
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