I have been doing planning for the remainder of our year and WOW!! are we going to have FUN! We are going to be working on quite a few more Try-Its, a few patches, making our community a better place, a field trip or 2, and camping!
I am going to include a tentative calendar for the remainder of our year, but remember it is always subject to change J
4 March- Complete Around the World Try It
Caring and Sharing Try It
11 March- Girl Scout Birthday Party!
Complete Caring and Sharing Try It
18 March- Art Center Field Trip
25 March- Continue on Brownie Quest, begin work on 3rd Key, plan Take Action Project
1 April- Work on Take Action Project
8 April- SPRING BREAK NO MEETING
15 April- Work on Take Action Project
22 April- Earth Day
Earth Is Our Home Try It
29 April- Plan our Camp Out
Travel Right Try It
2 May (Saturday) Day Camp at Mrs. Laurie’s house—much more info to follow
Complete Earth Is Our Home Try It
Travel Right Try It
Ready Set Go Camping Try It
Me and My Shadow Try It
Girl Sports Try It
6 May Complete Travel Right Try It
Complete anything unfinished or complete a new Try It
13 May Pizza Party and End of Year Awards (Final regular meeting)
16 May Bridging/End of Year Ceremony with all scout troops (tentative date—more info to follow)
The week surrounding the Girl Scout Birthday is Girl Scout week. During this week I will be giving your Brownie a calendar of activities to complete at home. If she completes at least 4 she will earn a Girl Scout Week patch. Also, that Sunday, 15 March, is Girl Scout Sunday. If your Brownie wears her uniform to the service of your choice there is a patch available for that as well. Just let me know.
Finally, in my research, I discovered 2 Try Its that would be very easy for your Brownie to earn at home if you have internet access. They are Computer Smarts and Point, Click and Go. I have attached the requirements to this letter. Your daughter needs to complete 4 of the activities to earn the Try It. Please let me know by our campout on 2 May if she does so I have time to order the patches.
I know this is a lot of information all at once. We just have a lot going on and I want to keep you as up to date as possible. Of course, we will have cookie booth sales in there somewhere too and I will let you know when as soon as I know.
Thank you for all your support and as always, if you have any questions just ask!
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Thinking Day
Thinking Day is this Saturday (21 Feb) at the Soldiers' Theater from 1500-1700. We invite all the parents/families to attend with your Brownie. As you know our troop has decided to share information about Egypt. This week at our meeting we will be finalizing our displays, learning a game we are going to share for our demonstration, and creating costumes. The help I need from parents involves 3 things.
1. Please have your Brownie wear a white T-shirt (and course her vest or sash) to the Thinking Day ceremony. This will be a part of our costume.
2. If you have anything at all pertaining to Egypt, we would love to be able to use it in our display. Please have your Brownie bring it to our meeting this week if she hasn't already.
3. I'm going to include a couple of sites that have Egyptian food. Please pick something from there--or anywhere--to make for a sample in our display. There are 75 Girl Scouts and we just need items for tastes--not meals.
http://www.touregypt.net/recipes/
http://www.egyptdailynews.com/recipes/recipes.htm
http://members.cox.net/ahmedheissa/Recipnew.html
Thanks so much for you support.
See you at Thinking Day on Saturday!!
Here is another updated Snack List
Brownie Troop 43 Snack List
Feb. 25 Haley F.
March 4 Jada
March 11 Girl Scout Birthday--Leaders bring snack
March 18 Alaina
March 25 Sophia
Apr. 1 Mackenzie
Apr. 15 Kobi
April 22 Kathryn
April 29 Anna
May 6 Haley E.
May 13 Haley F.
May 20 Jada
May 27 Alaina
June 3 Sophia
June 10 Mackenzie
1. Please have your Brownie wear a white T-shirt (and course her vest or sash) to the Thinking Day ceremony. This will be a part of our costume.
2. If you have anything at all pertaining to Egypt, we would love to be able to use it in our display. Please have your Brownie bring it to our meeting this week if she hasn't already.
3. I'm going to include a couple of sites that have Egyptian food. Please pick something from there--or anywhere--to make for a sample in our display. There are 75 Girl Scouts and we just need items for tastes--not meals.
http://www.touregypt.net/recipes/
http://www.egyptdailynews.com/recipes/recipes.htm
http://members.cox.net/ahmedheissa/Recipnew.html
Thanks so much for you support.
See you at Thinking Day on Saturday!!
Here is another updated Snack List
Brownie Troop 43 Snack List
Feb. 25 Haley F.
March 4 Jada
March 11 Girl Scout Birthday--Leaders bring snack
March 18 Alaina
March 25 Sophia
Apr. 1 Mackenzie
Apr. 15 Kobi
April 22 Kathryn
April 29 Anna
May 6 Haley E.
May 13 Haley F.
May 20 Jada
May 27 Alaina
June 3 Sophia
June 10 Mackenzie
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Feb Updates
Brownie Parents,
So much to tell you--where to begin…
1) We still don’t have word about the cookie dates. As soon as I know something I will let you know. Keep taking those pre-orders.
2) You girls have some badges today that they have earned up until now. We are working on some new ones--busy as always.
3) Thinking Day is coming up on 21 Feb. from 3-5 in the Soldiers’ Theater. More information will follow, but just to give you a head’s up--Thinking Day is a day where scouts around the world come together and learn about each other. Each troop has chosen a country and will be doing a presentation for all the other troops and families. Our troop has chosen Egypt. So far we have found out some interesting things such as what the flag looks like and how to write our names in hieroglyphics. We are going to be continuing to learn/do more with this is the coming weeks. If you have anything--books, souvenirs, other items from Egypt- we would love to see them and borrow them for out display on Thinking Day if possible. Please let me know.
4) In the process of Thinking Day we are going to be learning about other places in the world as well to earn 2 Try-Its--Around the World--and--People of the World. I have a “homework” assignment for your daughter to complete to help with this. We are going to make a “Troop Recipe Book”. Here is the requirement straight from the Try-It handbook
“Some foods you like to eat may come from other countries. Have you ever had noodles, tortillas, egg rolls, peanut butter, or quiche? Where did they come from? May food also were first eaten here. Did you know that American Indians were the first to grow corn, which they called maize? ;You can find out more information like this by making a “Troop Recipe Book.” Bring in family recipes. Each girl can share information about her recipe. Where is it from ? Who gave it to her? How do you make it? Put recipes together in a book. Why not try them for a special lunch or supper?”
Please try to have your recipe at the next meeting.
I guess that’s all for now. I will get you more information about cookies and Thinking Day as soon as I have it.
Thanks for lending me your daughter…
Laurie
So much to tell you--where to begin…
1) We still don’t have word about the cookie dates. As soon as I know something I will let you know. Keep taking those pre-orders.
2) You girls have some badges today that they have earned up until now. We are working on some new ones--busy as always.
3) Thinking Day is coming up on 21 Feb. from 3-5 in the Soldiers’ Theater. More information will follow, but just to give you a head’s up--Thinking Day is a day where scouts around the world come together and learn about each other. Each troop has chosen a country and will be doing a presentation for all the other troops and families. Our troop has chosen Egypt. So far we have found out some interesting things such as what the flag looks like and how to write our names in hieroglyphics. We are going to be continuing to learn/do more with this is the coming weeks. If you have anything--books, souvenirs, other items from Egypt- we would love to see them and borrow them for out display on Thinking Day if possible. Please let me know.
4) In the process of Thinking Day we are going to be learning about other places in the world as well to earn 2 Try-Its--Around the World--and--People of the World. I have a “homework” assignment for your daughter to complete to help with this. We are going to make a “Troop Recipe Book”. Here is the requirement straight from the Try-It handbook
“Some foods you like to eat may come from other countries. Have you ever had noodles, tortillas, egg rolls, peanut butter, or quiche? Where did they come from? May food also were first eaten here. Did you know that American Indians were the first to grow corn, which they called maize? ;You can find out more information like this by making a “Troop Recipe Book.” Bring in family recipes. Each girl can share information about her recipe. Where is it from ? Who gave it to her? How do you make it? Put recipes together in a book. Why not try them for a special lunch or supper?”
Please try to have your recipe at the next meeting.
I guess that’s all for now. I will get you more information about cookies and Thinking Day as soon as I have it.
Thanks for lending me your daughter…
Laurie
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Updates
The girls decided last week that they would like to learn about Egypt for Thinking Day. I'm really excited about this because there is a lot we can do with it. Today we are going to be making mosaics from beans. This is the first requirement in the Try-It Around the World. We will also be making a posterboard size Egyptian flag for our Thinking Day display. This will take care of our first requirement for the Try-It People of the World. As we learn more about Egypt and then more about the world following Thinking Day we will finish the two above listed Try-Its.
For Thinking Day, I will be asking the girls (and their parents) to help us with our display and the food we will need to prepare. If you have any wonderful items or ideas, please let me know. I will be doing more research as the weeks go on and will be letting you know of resources I have found. This should be a really fun/interesting project.
For Thinking Day, I will be asking the girls (and their parents) to help us with our display and the food we will need to prepare. If you have any wonderful items or ideas, please let me know. I will be doing more research as the weeks go on and will be letting you know of resources I have found. This should be a really fun/interesting project.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
WOW!! Long time no post!
Sorry about not posting over the holiday season--it was crazy in our household-as I'm sure you can understand.
We are now starting our new year of scouting. We are going to be busy, busy, busy as usual.
This afternoon at our meeting we are going to be going over all the "rules" and do's and don'ts of cookie sales. We do not know exactly when the cookies are going to get here, but we do know they are on the way and we want to be prepared. Your Brownie will be receiving a pre-order sheet to take orders on up until the cookies arrive. At that point, you will deliver the cookies and collect the money for your daughter's personal orders. We will then have 2 days of selling cookies outside the PX and Commissary. I will have a sign up sheet with times once we know the dates for sure. The money from pre-orders stays with our troop only--money from the booth sales will be split equally among all troops based on hours of selling time.
We will also finally be finishing up our Eat Right, Stay Healthy Try-It. It seems as that has kept getting pushed to the wayside, but today is the day:)
Coming up in February is Thinking Day. This is a day when Girl Scouts all around the world participate in activites to learn about other cultures. Our troop will be participating in a ceremony by choosing a country and doing some research and projects on it and presenting it at the ceremony in Feb. This afternoon we are going to brainstorm and hopefully come up with our country so we can begin putting everything together beginning next week.
Please watch for notes coming home today with all the information about cookie sales. They are VERY important!!! If you have any questions AT ALL, don't hesitate to ask.
We are now starting our new year of scouting. We are going to be busy, busy, busy as usual.
This afternoon at our meeting we are going to be going over all the "rules" and do's and don'ts of cookie sales. We do not know exactly when the cookies are going to get here, but we do know they are on the way and we want to be prepared. Your Brownie will be receiving a pre-order sheet to take orders on up until the cookies arrive. At that point, you will deliver the cookies and collect the money for your daughter's personal orders. We will then have 2 days of selling cookies outside the PX and Commissary. I will have a sign up sheet with times once we know the dates for sure. The money from pre-orders stays with our troop only--money from the booth sales will be split equally among all troops based on hours of selling time.
We will also finally be finishing up our Eat Right, Stay Healthy Try-It. It seems as that has kept getting pushed to the wayside, but today is the day:)
Coming up in February is Thinking Day. This is a day when Girl Scouts all around the world participate in activites to learn about other cultures. Our troop will be participating in a ceremony by choosing a country and doing some research and projects on it and presenting it at the ceremony in Feb. This afternoon we are going to brainstorm and hopefully come up with our country so we can begin putting everything together beginning next week.
Please watch for notes coming home today with all the information about cookie sales. They are VERY important!!! If you have any questions AT ALL, don't hesitate to ask.
Friday, November 28, 2008
Native American Cultural Observance
Thank you so much for coming to this event! I think the girls had a good time and I know I learned a lot. There were so many things to look at, learn about, and do. I will be ordering a patch for the girls that attended.
I hope everyone is having a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. I know my family is. On Wed., we will have a regular meeting. I'm still finalizing plans based on what supplies arrive in the mail:) I'm sure you all understand that. Danielle did pick up our angel tree names so we will be discussing that service project and what the girls things good ideas for gifts will be. Please remember to have your daughter bring $3 if you are able.
Thanks again and we will see you all on Wed.
I hope everyone is having a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. I know my family is. On Wed., we will have a regular meeting. I'm still finalizing plans based on what supplies arrive in the mail:) I'm sure you all understand that. Danielle did pick up our angel tree names so we will be discussing that service project and what the girls things good ideas for gifts will be. Please remember to have your daughter bring $3 if you are able.
Thanks again and we will see you all on Wed.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Fun Meeting Today!
We had a pretty low key, relaxing meeting today. The girls have been working really hard, so we took a bit of a break. We discussed their Smart Shopping activities--such great meals the girls planned! Then we decided to be festive and the girls made Turkey Wreaths. It was a really fun project and the girls did such a good job. I hope you find a special place to hang the wreaths.
Here is what I have received for volunteers for the Gift Wrapping in the PX--if you can help us out with the remaining times, please let me know. (Yes Kathryn is going to be there the whole time--that's what happens when I already have to be there:)) I will take as many girls in each time slot as want to come so.... sign on up:)
15 Dec (Mon)
1500-1530 Kathryn, Sophia, Haley E.
1530-1600 Kathryn, Sophia
1600-1630 Kathryn, Sophia
1630-1700 Kathryn, Sophia
16 Dec (Tues)
1500-1530 Kathryn, Anna
1530-1600 Kathryn, Anna, Jada, Alaina
1600-1630 Kathryn, Anna, Jada, Alaina
1630-1700 Kathryn, Anna, Jada, Alaina
24 Dec (Wed)
1300-1330 Kathryn
1330-1400 Kathryn
1400-1430 Kathryn
1430-1500 Kathryn
Parents,
As I’m planning out the remaining time we have before Christmas break I am realizing it is going to be REALLY busy, but also REALLY fun!! I hope you are all able to participate in as many activities as possible.
Here’s a quick run-down:
25 Nov (Tues) 1600-1800 in the school cafeteria we will be attending a presentation on Native American culture and how it relates to scouting. It should be a great experience--the girls who attend will each receive a patch. Parents/siblings are invited to attend as well--this event is open to the community. If you want your daughter to attend without you please make sure you return her permission slip to me.
3 Dec--we will have a regular meeting and hopefully finish up our 2nd Key and also our Eat Right Stay Healthy Try-It.
9 Dec (Tues) 1815-1945 Caroling in Villaggio. This is an annual event that the Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts do together. I have attended with my family the past 2 years and we have had a great time!! The Cub Scouts will be providing Hot Chocolate following and the Girl Scouts provide cookies so please bring a dozen cookies with you that evening. Girls will get a patch for this event. This event will be cancelled only for steady rain so please dress for the weather.
10 Dec--our regular meeting we will be working on gifts for our parents--so I will say no more…:)
We will also be putting together gifts for the Angel Tree project.
17 Dec--our last regular meeting before Christmas--we will be having a mini party and making Gingerbread Houses. If you are able to send in a bag of candy that day for decoration, I will provide the graham crackers (yep we are cheating) and the frosting. A patch will be provided for this activity.
So now the reminders of what we need from now until Dec.:)
Here is what I have received for volunteers for the Gift Wrapping in the PX--if you can help us out with the remaining times, please let me know. (Yes Kathryn is going to be there the whole time--that's what happens when I already have to be there:)) I will take as many girls in each time slot as want to come so.... sign on up:)
15 Dec (Mon)
1500-1530 Kathryn, Sophia, Haley E.
1530-1600 Kathryn, Sophia
1600-1630 Kathryn, Sophia
1630-1700 Kathryn, Sophia
16 Dec (Tues)
1500-1530 Kathryn, Anna
1530-1600 Kathryn, Anna, Jada, Alaina
1600-1630 Kathryn, Anna, Jada, Alaina
1630-1700 Kathryn, Anna, Jada, Alaina
24 Dec (Wed)
1300-1330 Kathryn
1330-1400 Kathryn
1400-1430 Kathryn
1430-1500 Kathryn
Parents,
As I’m planning out the remaining time we have before Christmas break I am realizing it is going to be REALLY busy, but also REALLY fun!! I hope you are all able to participate in as many activities as possible.
Here’s a quick run-down:
25 Nov (Tues) 1600-1800 in the school cafeteria we will be attending a presentation on Native American culture and how it relates to scouting. It should be a great experience--the girls who attend will each receive a patch. Parents/siblings are invited to attend as well--this event is open to the community. If you want your daughter to attend without you please make sure you return her permission slip to me.
3 Dec--we will have a regular meeting and hopefully finish up our 2nd Key and also our Eat Right Stay Healthy Try-It.
9 Dec (Tues) 1815-1945 Caroling in Villaggio. This is an annual event that the Girl Scouts and Cub Scouts do together. I have attended with my family the past 2 years and we have had a great time!! The Cub Scouts will be providing Hot Chocolate following and the Girl Scouts provide cookies so please bring a dozen cookies with you that evening. Girls will get a patch for this event. This event will be cancelled only for steady rain so please dress for the weather.
10 Dec--our regular meeting we will be working on gifts for our parents--so I will say no more…:)
We will also be putting together gifts for the Angel Tree project.
17 Dec--our last regular meeting before Christmas--we will be having a mini party and making Gingerbread Houses. If you are able to send in a bag of candy that day for decoration, I will provide the graham crackers (yep we are cheating) and the frosting. A patch will be provided for this activity.
So now the reminders of what we need from now until Dec.:)
- Permission slip for Native American Cultural activity if you are not attending with your daughter
- Dozen cookies for caroling on 9 Dec--permission slip if you are not staying with your daughter
- $3 for our Angel Tree donation (by 3 Dec)
- A family favorite holiday recipe by 3 Dec (these are for a holiday surprise)
- Candy for gingerbread houses (by 17 Dec)
- Money for brownie book/vest/sash if you have not given it to me or Mrs. Hacker yet
It really seems like I have been asking for a lot of stuff lately--if it is ever too much, please just let me know. I don’t want anyone to be overwhelmed.
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