Monday 1/26

During this past meeting we worked on another Painting badge exercise:  The girls painted murals together.  We broke the girls down to small groups, and each group painted a unique mural that can also work as a cookie-booth sign, or a parade banner, or what have you.  Martha and I were really pleased with how well the girls were able to compromise and create really nice murals in a short amount of time.

For the next two weeks we will be working on the First Aid badge with a Children's Hosptial Nurse/Girl Scout alumna.  I am super excited about this because the girls will get to work with an expert, and because we have some nice donations to help make affordable first aid kits as one of the activities.

I'm guessing the week after that will be time to write Thank You notes....

REMINDER:  please bring your cookie pre-order sheets on Monday.

Cookies!

Last Monday we did our cookie kick-off.  Thank you so much for our families that were willing to participate, and made it a success.  Please feel free to ask questions or for help.

Just a heads up - Jan. 19th is MLK day, and there is no school.  As a result, there will also be no GS meeting that day.

Monday

On Monday my goal was a low-key meeting to come back from break.  We completed the inventor badge #3 - Make a needs list.  If your girl missed this meeting, the exercise was to go through a normal day and regular activities.  The second part of the exercise was to come up with an invention that might help with those activities.

We had at least three math-homework helping machines....


REMINDER:  next week we have our cookie kick-off meeting.  We will pick the girls up after school and bring them to the church, per normal.  However, we are planning activities for the girls until 6:30.  We ask that a parent show up at 6pm, so we can go over the information that the parents need to know.  We will be bribing you with cookies samples...

Welcome to Troop 44401 2015 edition!

I trust that all of our families had good holidays this year.  (Well, I know a number of us were hit with the flu, but, aside from that, I hope they were peaceful and thankful holidays for everyone.)

Looking forward into 2015 --

Jan. 5:  We'll be working on some of the inventors badge
Jan. 12:  We'll be kicking off our cookie sales, and the girls should earn one of the Brownie Cookie badges (getting to know your customers).  Please note that this is an extended meeting, and that parents are asked to spend approximately half an hour at the end learning about their roles in cookie sales.
Jan. 19:  MLK day.  I do not plan a meeting this day, as there is no school.
Jan. 26/Feb. 2:  I hope the girls will earn their first aid badge.  I am waiting on confirmation from our special guest on the dates.

Cookie sales are active between Jan. 16th (when girls can start presales) to March 15 (when all of our deliveries should be complete).

As always, please let me know if you have questions or suggestions regarding our troop.

Dec. 15

Hi Parents,

Right before break, on December 15th, the girls made holiday cookies.  I hope this was fun for the girls.  It also allowed them to complete one of the snacks badge activities - Trying a sweet snack.

Generally speaking, we have been making progress on a number of badges.  It is our intention to award every girl in the troop a badge when we have completed all five steps for that badge.  However, sometimes a girl needs to miss a meeting, and that usually means she misses one of the activities.  If your girl has missed any meetings, I encourage you to work with her to fill the badge requirements at home - most of them have accessible and fun options for the girl to do.