3/4/13 Meeting

We had a lot of girls out sick tonight so I figured I’d post a note about what we did and what we’re doing next week.

Tonight we went over our “Hear A Story” worksheet and the girls got their “Hear A Story” patch.

The patch is part of a larger set, you can sew it on now or choose to wait until she receives all of the patches. Here’s how the finished patch set will look. They will go above the WOW! Journey Patch Set. If you need help remembering where it goes on the vest refer to: Brownie Vest Patch Placement

The Daisies who completed their worksheet go the rose petal, for learning how to change a story "to make the world a better place." 

We also played a couple of games, one of which was “Change a Story” relay, we’ll play again next week if there’s time. But the girls who were there this week got in some practice, so watch out!

You can bring your worksheet in next week if you missed. Here it is if you need to print it out. 

Next week we’ll be starting on the “Change A Story” part of the Journey. Girls need to think about real life stories in their community, find clues about them, and how we can change the stories.

I gave the girls a couple of examples:

A group Brownies looked for stories in their town and saw that there was a piece of sidewalk missing. Their clue was that it forced handicapped people to use the road which wasn’t safe. They changed the story by petitioning the city and getting local businesses to donate the materials to complete the sidewalk. They changed the story!

Another group of Girl Scouts was looking for stories in their small rural town and they had a really hard time doing it because they didn’t have a library! Their clue was that kids didn’t have a place to get new books to read and it’s expensive to buy a lot of new books! They changed the story by building a Little Free Library  (http://www.littlefreelibrary.org/), finding an adult to be its caretaker, and placing it near the park so that kids could come get books! 

So this week they need to look around our community for stories, find clues about them, and think of ways to change the story. We’re going to choose a project to start on next week from the ideas the girls bring in. Help your girls think of ideas that are

1)      Doable, we can’t build a swimming pool but we might be able to build a duck pond.

2)      Helps girls in our community

3)      That actually changes their community so that they will feel a sense of accomplishment after finishing. Ie. Not picking up litter that will be back again next week. Not that there’s anything wrong with picking up litter but in the examples I gave the girls get to walk by that sidewalk or that little library and think, “I helped do that!”

I hope everyone feels better soon! See you next week. 

Thinking Day 2013

 Every year on February 22 Girl Scouts honor their international sisterhood with Girl Scouts and Girl Guides around the world. This year we had our Thinking Day Party on Saturday February 23 and each girl chose to represent a different country and brought a food served or grown in that country to share with everyone.

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The girls listen respectfully to each other as they give presentations on their countries. 

Charlotte chose France

Kambell choose China and told us a story about Chinese New Year and a three mouse race. She brought in a bracelet that represented the story.

Caroline chose Mexico.

Mamie chose Italy

Jay chose St. Lucia which is where her father is from originally. 

Gracie chose Ireland

Macy and Maddie chose Mexico and are wearing traditional Mexican dresses.

Anna chose Japan.

Claudia chose Venezuela, which is where her parents are from originally, and she is wearing a traditional dress.

Dee chose Zaire Africa, and brought her Uncle to talk to us and show us some things he has from when he was stationed there.

All of the girls shared wonderful information about the different countries they were representing!

Dee's uncle stayed and gave us a very interesting presentation and answered a lot of questions that the girls had about his time in Zaire!

He brought a variety of items from Zaire, including traditional artwork, jade jewelry, and clothing!

Money from Zaire

The girls greatly enjoyed his presentation and asked a ton of  questions!

After we learned about all of these wonderful countries, we got to try some of the food! And it was all delicious! We had French Apple Clafouti, wasabi beans from Japan, A pistachio dessert from Italy, Chinese fortune cookies, Mexican dip and tortillas, a cookie from Venezuela, potato soup, and more! The girls obviously enjoyed all of the food because they kept coming back for more!

All in all we had a wonderfully entertaining and informative day! Caroline and Kambell even gave us a demonstration of the Mexican Hat Dance, without the hat!

February Dates

Awards – Due to the Girl Scout Shop revamping it’s website they will not guarantee a delivery date for the badges I’ve ordered, and also a few of the badges are on back order, so the Awards Ceremony will have to be postponed until we get the badges in. 

Feb 11th – Valentine’s Party at my shop, I’m bringing drinks and cupcakes, if anyone else wants to bring something that’s fine, but you don’t have to. 5:45 -6:45

Feb 18th – Regular meeting at the WC. 

Feb 23rd – Thinking Day 12pm – 2pm (meeting place TBA) We’ll have our Thinking Day festivities. Each girl should choose a country and learn something about it to share with the group and also bring a traditional food from the country she chooses to share. (A snack or desert, something simple) She can dress like they do in that country or bring a poster with some fun facts about it. It can be as in depth as she chooses to go with it. Girls will earn a patch for participation. 

Feb 25th – Regular Meeting at WC or Awards if badges are in.

Florence Little Theater

Trip this Saturday to the Florence Little Theater. Meet at 9:30 in The WC parking lot, returning at approximately 2:30. Bring $5 for lunch. Please let your girl use the bathroom before you drop her off. 

I apologize for the short notice but we'd like for the girls who are available this weekend to get a chance to go. We will take in a play of 3 Billy Goats Gruff, get a tour of the theater, and get to ask questions of some of the people who work there. The troop is paying the fee for the girls, if any parents go I think the price is $3 but someone is calling me back to confirm this. We'll have lunch afterwards at CiCi's Pizza. 

Depending on the number of girls who are going we may need a couple of moms to volunteer to drive so we need a headcount of everyone who is going, and if you are willing to drive by Friday so that we can make sure everyone has riding space.

Award's Ceremony Coming Up!

At the last meeting we finished up our Philanthropist badge. If she didn't bring her poster she can bring it to the next meeting. If she missed both of the last meetings the requirements to complete the badge are:
1. Learn What Every Person Needs (want/need poster) 2. Investigate How to Help People Who Are Hungry 3. Find Out How to Help People Who Need Clothing 4. Know How to Help in Times of Emergency 5. Think--and Act!--Like a Philanthropist (We are completing this as a group by donating our cookie proceeds to the Animal Shelter)

There is still time to work on extra badges, the girls decided they wanted to have a simple Awards Ceremony combined with a Valentine's Day party so it won't be until mid February. I'll need all make up or extra badge work turned in by February 4th.

Mrs. Donna will post what you need to do if you missed any of the meetings where we worked on the First Aid Badge.

Also if your girl has made an academic achievement please let us know so that we can recognize her for that. I wrote down what the girls in 3rd grade at Latta Elementary received during the Awards Ceremony last week but otherwise please let me know.

Meeting 10/9/12

TUESDAY! October 9nd 2012 

5:45 - 6:45 at the W. Center

Working on: Girls need to turn in all work that has not been turned in yet and the paperwork for any optional badges you worked on. Anything that is not turned in on Tuesday will not be awarded at the ceremony!

We will be preparing for the ceremony next week and choosing which badges/petals to work on next.

What to Bring: $1 dues, Binder, Girls who worked on the WoW! Journey this summer should return their Water Promises, badge requirement form for optional badges. 

10/7/12 Hiker Badge

Sunday October 7th 2PM -4PM
At the state Park

Working On: 
Brownies will be finishing their "Hiker" badge and Daisies will be working on their petals. Also girls who participated this summer will be finishing up their WOW! Journey.

What to bring: 
Wear sturdy shoes, sneakers or boots, as we'll be tromping through the woods. Bring a trail snack and water for the hike, and bring your binder with the "trail signs" handout I gave out at the last meeting. Girls who worked on the WoW! Journey this summer should bring their "Water Promises" handout so we can finish up the Journey.

Below is the handout I gave the girls on hiking clothes and food:

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