09/27/14 Area Girl Scout Campfire and Sing Along

We saw several familiar faces at this evening's girl scout campfire. The singing was fun and the s'mores were tasty!

One Daisy had the creative spirit before going!

Meeting #3 091814

The Girl Scouts got a little dirty helping make a flower garden for Mrs. Hartshorn and Eastwood.  While we couldn't find any daisies to plant this time of year, we did have tulip bulbs and mums.  We found an abundance of earthworms while we dug, a spider and a slug and I think we have a picture below of the world's tiniest earthworm!

Thanks for your help, girls!

The Daisies finished activities for the Blue Bucket Award.  We've discussed feelings, what we can say to make others feel good, what others say that make us feel good and the girls spread a little sunshine to loved ones and residents at a local nursing home with these cards. Thanks for your thoughtfulness!

09/13/14: Ronald McDonald House Breakfast Service Activity

Bright and early this morning the Girl Scouts and their families arrived at Morgantown's Ronald McDonald House. This organization provides free and discounted housing for the families of critically ill children including children recovering from surgeries, preemies and those with a variety of other conditions.

Girls, parents, and adult volunteers helped mix, bake, cook, chop and melon-ball for 2 hours.  It was a great service activity and more than one family said they would love to do this again.  Hollie heard that by the end of the day, the food had been eaten and the dozen families staying here were greatly appreciative of the wide variety of food made and donated.

All of us Girl Scouts sincerely thank everyone for your donation of time, money, food and good thoughts!

Meeting 2: 09/03/14

We had a fun meeting this Wednesday.  The Daisies were learning about the benefits of worm composting and we made our own worm farm from a plastic bin, shredded newspaper, a little dirt and a few hundred worms. Mrs. Hartshorn is allowing us to keep the bin at the school and we will add any food waste from our meetings to the farm. We discussed what foods are biodegradable and which are appropriate for the worm farm.

From shredding newspaper and sign decorating to meeting the worms and feeding them, there was something for everyone.  The meeting ended with a cute worm craft and a new song.

This week the Brownies took their meeting outside to work on their "Fair Play" and "Making Games" badges.  The girls played beach ball boogie counting how long they could keep the ball in the air.  The girls then changed the rules and took turns coming up with new games to play with the beach ball and each other!

We concluded our meeting with the girls receiving their Bridging certificate, Welcome to Brownies certificate and "Making Friends" certificate that they earned at the last meeting.

Almost all of the girls have also earned their "Girl Scout Promise" badge by reciting the promise on their own.  

We're looking forward to our first service project at the Ronald McDonald House this Saturday! 

Meeting 1 08/20/14

Hi!

This year we have 16 Daisies and 8 Brownies.  We had a great first meeting and Hollie Brown (co-leader) made a Kaper Chart so that all girls can get a turn being responsible for things like choosing snacks, passing out snacks, helping with crafts and supplies, etc.

The Brownies got a brown folder and Daisies got a yellow folder that includes information like:
*  The Girl Scout Promise and Law
*  A chore chart--we hope girls can be helpful Girl Scouts at home and earn a little change to donate to a Salvation Army angel before Christmas
*  A calendar of the activities, field trips and service projects we will be doing over the next 4 months.

The Daisies also got a special Journey book called Daisy Flower Garden.  Each year the first grade teachers assign homework to their students of reading 20 minutes daily.  Please try to include this book (pages 5 - 31) as a reading activity.  Even though Sophia is now a Brownie, she has really enjoyed reading this book with me and doing the activities.

Our first service project will be making breakfast for the guests at the Ronald McDonald House on Saturday 09/13 from 7am - 10 am.  More details will follow.

Our next meeting will be 09/03.  Please remember to bring folders and books and wear your uniform if you have it!

Welcome Daisies and Brownies!

We are very excited to start our 2nd year as Troop 55860!  We have quite a few fun activities and service projects planned for this year and want the girls to see they can do many things to make their corner of the world a better, happier place.

If Daisies (1st graders) wish to get a tunic or a vest, they have earned all of the petals and center of the Daisy  flower as you can see below. This year we will work on the 3 rectangular Journey patches featured at the bottom of the tunic and vest.  The troop will buy these 3 rectangular patches for an end of the year celebration.

Brownies have the option of a vest or a sash and below you can see the placement of items:

Other patches considered "fun patches" can be sewn on the backs of both uniforms.    We will be earning a variety of patches and badges this year and will keep track of this information for all girls and ultimately buy these patches and badges and present them to the girls at the end of the year.

I've started on Sophia's Brownie sash: