Honest & Fair

Today the girls earned their Honest & Fair petal.  We started out with Mrs. Kollasch passing out the snack and asking if it was fair if she gave only her daughter all of the Goldfish, if it was fair if she gave only the girls in Mrs. Beltmann's class the snack, or if it was fair if just one table got it.  They all agreed NO!  As they were eating, I read this cute story about a little girl (ok, fox) who finds something that is not hers and she tells a lie and says that it is hers, when it really belonged to her friend.  She felt awful about lying and when she did tell the truth, nobody was mad at her and she felt much better.  I also asked questions if they thought some of these statements were fair or unfair...

*your brother or sister takes all of the cookies on the plate -unfair

*your friend gets 10 minutes on the swing and you only get 5 minutes - unfair

We talked about when playing a game that you should be fair and not cheat.

We then went on an egg hunt.  They were told they could find 4 eggs.

On your mark, get set, go...

I told my daughter to find 5 eggs, having 1 girl with only 3 eggs.  I said, is that fair that she got 5 eggs?  Nooooo!  I told them not to be mad at Olivia, that I told her to grab 5 eggs to show an example of being unfair.  The other girl was given the 4th egg.  :)

We then went back inside and did an Easter craft.  They colored their eggs and glued the chick in their egg.

Here is some of their artwork...

Rollerskating

Everybody get ready for rollerskating!!!

 We will be heading to Ozaukee Skateland in Cedarburg on June 16th!
Time is from 1-3:30pm.
More information to follow at a later date.
If you attend you will receive a FUN patch!

Spring Break

Just a reminder that there will be no Daisy meeting on Monday, April 9th due to Spring Break.  We will resume our meetings on Monday, April 23rd.  (don't forget to bring your plastic liter bottle-see post*April 23rd meeting)

HAVE A HAPPY EASTER AND A SAFE SPRING BREAK!!!

Earth Day Event

If anybody is interested in going to this, please contact me at tina_lara03@sbcglobal.net.  The RSVP date is April 12th, BUT, I would like to know a count of who is interested by Thursday, April 5th.  That starts Spring Break and I will be out of town that whole week.  As a leader, I am able to take 4 girls, 3 plus my own, on an outing.  So, if you can't make it and want your daughter to go, I can take her.  It does encourage parents to come too and enjoy the fun!  Cost is $5.00/girl.  Make check payable to Troop 6031.

Distribution of petals

We have decided that the day they earn a petal, we will be handing them to the adult that picks them up.  It is a little hectic with 18 girls trying to remember and gather all their stuff and get everything into their backpack.  We just want to make sure that they don't get lost.  If she goes to Champions, we will make sure that she has the petal in her backpack.

2012 Ava's Walk

Last year when my girls and I went to the First Annual Ava (Advocating Vehicle Awareness) Walk I saw some daisy troops in attendance. I thought this might be something that our daisy troop could be a part of. There is no fee for this unless you'd like to purchase an AVA shirt. Please watch the video below and let me know if you'd like to attend. The date is Sunday April 22, 2012 at 2:00pm.

What I would like to do is have an idea of who would like to attend and then I can print out all the registration forms and send them all in together. So just let me know. My email address is at the end of the post.

Here is the website where you can see the video.

GUARDIAN AVA

My girls enjoyed walking for Ava and have been asking to walk again.

Thank you!
Ginger

gkoltermann222@gmail.com

100th Birthday - Lighting the candle

Olivia

Lighting the candle in honor of Girl Scouts 100th Birthday celebration!

{if you have any photos that you would like to submit, please send them to me in an email and I will post them}  Thanks!

Addison 

Claire

Madalyn

Respect Authority

Today we had Deputy Niehus come and talk to us for our Respect Authority petal.  He told us about his job and showed us all the stuff he has to wear and carry.  They each received a goody bag. 

Here is our troop and the Deputy! 

We made Thank You cards for the Deputy and I will take those to his office this week. 

They all worked so hard on their cards.

Here are the cards that they made.  Great job girls!  I'm sure he will appreciate all the notes of Thanks! 

As a special thank you for him coming to our meeting, we presented him with 2 boxes of GS cookies.  The Shout Outs and the Thanks-a-Lots.

This was the take home activity for today.  Today is Girl Scouts 100th birthday.  They can color the cake and light the candle (with your help of course) to celebrate Girl Scouts!

Girl Scouts turn 100 on March 12, 2012

Juliette Low made a call to a friend, saying “I’ve got something for the girls of Savannah, and all of America, and all the world, and we’re

going to start it tonight!” On March 12, 1912, 18 girls gathered at her home in Savannah, Georgia and the first Girl Scout Troop in the USA was

formed.

How awesome that our meeting falls exactly on the anniversary date of when Girl Scouts was started and with the same number of girls!  I will be sending home a coloring sheet with a little poem and a birthday candle for the girls to CELEBRATE Girl Scouts turning 100!

Girl Scout SWAPS

I am really excited about this!  SWAPS!  This is something fun that Girl Scouts do.  Girls make little trinket type gifts that they exchange with girls in another troop.  They usually put them on hats, bags, lanyards, a trinket box or hang on felt.  Can you imagine keeping all these from when you were a Daisy and looking back on them when you are older? This is going to be our project for earning the violet petal- Be a sister to every Girl Scout. There is a facebook page dedicated to GS SWAPS and I have met this lady who is a Daisy leader of 18 girls too.  They are from Vermont.  Their troop has not done SWAPS yet either and would like to start and swap with our troop.  We will include a photo of our troop along with a postcard from our state.  How fun to learn about another Daisy troop in another state!

I have not planned this into a meeting, since we are kinda booked for the rest of this school year, so, this will be a take home project for the girls to complete and bring back to me so I can mail them out.  She will be given all the supplies and directions to make them.  They are very simple but, will probably require some help from you.  I will post a picture of the finished project so they can see what it looks like.

{image via Google}

Just an example of what SWAPS look like and how they can be displayed.  Maybe next year we will work on something to hold our SWAPS.  :)

Daisy petal meanings

April 23rd meeting

I'm posting this now, so, you can remember to save a 2 liter soda bottle.  Please wash it out and cut it in half.  We will be using only the bottom half of the bottle.  Please poke 2-4 small holes in the bottom of the bottle for drainage.  We will be earning our green (use resources wisely) and rose (make the world a better place) petals for this meeting.

Memorial Day Parade

MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!!

Our Troop will be marching (walking) in the West Bend Memorial Day parade on Monday, May 28th.  We will be meeting at Badger Middle school.  Line-up starts at 8:30am -9:15am.  Parade starts at 9:30am.   Your daughter will receive a 'fun patch' for being in the parade.

MORE INFORMATION TO FOLLOW AT A LATER DATE!!!

The Food Network-Cupcake Wars

On March 11, 2012, The Food Network's, Cupcake Wars, will have their baker's compete to have their cupcakes served at the Girl Scout's 100th birthday bash!  Make sure you tune in and check it out!

Build a Bear

Starting March 16th, Build a Bear will have this 100th Anniversary Girl Scout bear available.  You can also purchase the same uniform as your Daisy.  How cute is that!!!  If you purchase this bear, not necessarily the outfit, we will buy your Daisy the Build a Bear fun patch.  Please take pictures or bring in your bear to our meeting.  

Girl Scout cookies

 Out Troop still has these cookies available for sale that we need to sell.  There are 5 boxes of the Shout Outs left and 5 pkgs. of the Thanks-A-lot.  They are $3.75/box.  Please email or call me if you or anyone you know is interested in them.  I will personally deliver them to your house.

Next meeting: March 12th

For this meeting the girls will be earning the magenta petal - Respect Authority, which they will receive that day.  We will have a D.A.R.E. Officer be our guest speaker at the meeting.  Our craft will consist of the girls making a Thank You card for the officer.  I do believe they will receive a goody bag of stuff when I talked with the officer.  

Who is missing the blue center promise patch?

Somebody is missing the Daisy Blue patch in the middle.  We have one girl who has 2 of them by mistake.  Please comment who is missing it so we can get that to you.

Reminder:  we can not buy the petals individually if you lose them, they come as a full flower.  So, put them in a safe place.

Girl Scout cookie time!

We had 3 girls in the troop at the time the cookie sale started.  We sold a total of  336!  Way to go Lydia, Madalyn K. and Olivia!

Thank you to our cookie mom Jenny who picked them up for us and sorted them.  Next year, we will need a Volunteer Cookie Mom, from our troop, to be in charge!

I found these FREE printables and used them to attach to the orders.  Made it easy to see who it was for and what they owed.  Plus, it's an extra added touch to saying THANK YOU!

Girl Scout Troop 1509 Sings Friendship Song

If you YouTube Girl Scout songs, you can find lots.  We've learned 2 songs and will definitely learn more!  They are so much fun {even though I'm not the best singer!}!!!  :)

World Thinking Day 2012 {we can save our planet}

Here we have some Daisies showing us how they will help save our planet.  Please send me a photo of how your Daisy will help our planet.

Olivia-don't waste water.

Claire-turn off lights when no one is in the room.

 Addison

Excellent places to put your RRR tags girls!