Tuesday, January 21, 2014
Another Snow Day!
We did get our cookie order in. Since this is our first year for all the girls to sell cookies, and our troop is relatively small, we had a troop goal to sell 100 boxes. We actually sold 372 cookies! Our troop did really well and greatly exceed their goal. Congrats to our girls! They will vote later on what they would like to do with a portion of their proceeds.
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Tuesday, January 7, 2014
No Meeting Today
Keep warm.
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Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Holiday Party & Count It Up! Leaf
The first part of our meeting was decorating holiday cookies. They had lots of fun decorating and eating!!
All sugared up!
We got to work on our Count It Up Leaf. Our Cookie Sales season is starting and this will be our first year for us to sell cookies. Our council is a Super-Six Council with cookies this season - that means we are only selling the top six types of GS cookies.
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| Cookie Money Worksheet |
We then practiced selling cookies by role-playing. The girls would take turns knocking on a closed door and practice selling cookies to Michelle when she opened it.
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| Would you like to buy some Girl Scout cookies? |
Some of the girls even pretended to be kids at a house who would help their mom choose cookies to buy!
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| Which cookies are your favorite? |
We then decided on a goal for our upcoming cookie sales. Since we've never sold cookies before, and know that some girls may sell much more than others, we came up with a troop sales goal of 100 boxes. We used a copy of an example goal chart from a page in the GS Daisy Guide.
The girls then went home with their second financial literacy petal, Count It UP!
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Investiture, Rededication & Money Counts
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I have a copy of an older GS Ceremonies booklet from the Girl Scouts Delaware-Raritan, and pulled from there to create today's ceremony.
We followed the the first two activities outlined in the Daisy GS Guide. We laid out different coins and discussed their value and how they equate to paper denominations. The girls also received a Money Worksheet, found from Troop 500.
The last activity was assigned as homework for the girls. The task was to determine how much things cost.
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| Budget Cards worksheet given as homework. |
The girls were given Budget Cards (also found from troop Troop 500) worksheets to take home. Their assignment was to price out the cost of a few activities that we could do as a troop with the cookie money we will be earning. Their parents would assist them with this.
The girls went home with their first leaf petal for the front of their vest!
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Food Drive for our Community
Notices for this collection were distributed to our neighbors last week. (Click here for a Word doc version).
The girls pulled two wagons up and down our street and collected 77 pounds of food from our neighbors. That is a few pounds more than our collection last year.
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| All done! |
The food was delivered to Loudoun Interfaith Relief to help those in need here in Loudoun County.
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Juliette Low Bday, Pumpkin Craft
First we had our Easy-Peasy Pumpkin CakeMix Cupcakes. The girls loved them!
Then we played a Kim's Game of Juliette Gordon Low. A Kim's game is where you show several objects to represent a story. After the story is read, an item is removed from the display, and the girls would have to guess what was missing. The girls have a great memory because they were good at this game.
We made small stuffed pumpkins today for the fall season and for Juliette's birthday being the same day as Halloween. A small plate was used as a template to cut circles of orange fabric before the meeting. During the Kim's game, the moms helped by running some thread around the edge of the fabric circles. We didn't want any little fingers getting poked by a needle during our activity.
Small leaves were cut out of green felt and a raffia bow completed our craft.
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| Ta-Da!! |
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Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Girl Scout Camp-Theme Kaper Chart
The theme for our kaper chart is camping, because Girl Scout love to camp. We used part of a trifold foam board that was leftover from a prior school project. There are sleeping bags on our chart, each with a job on it. (Click here to download a Word doc of the sleeping bags.) The bags were taped/laminated onto the board, and a slit cut for an opening in each bag to make it a pocket.
The girls were each given a friend, printed on cardstock, in need of her GS uniform. We had some Daisy uniform pages printed, and the girls cut out the hair and clothes to represent themselves and glued them on to their paper doll. These little dolls were also laminated for durability and ease of sliding in and out of the sleeping bag pockets. Each doll friend went into a sleeping bag.
The jobs we have so far are:
- - Snack Assistant
- - Flag Holder
- - Pledge Leader
- - Friendship Circle Starter
- - Kaper Chart (rotates the jobs at the end of the meeting for next time)
We have a few open sleeping bags on our chart to allow our troop to grow. As we get new girls in our troop, we will have a new job added to an open bag. ☺
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