Girl Scout Troop 1138

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Barbie I Can Be.... Anything! Patch

Our girls did activities today to earn their Barbie I Can Be... patch.

Each girl received a copy of the Petal Power and Follow the Honeybee's Trail Daisy activity pages from the Barbie I Can Be booklet. We reviewed these activities, and also talked about all of the different jobs we learned about from our field trip to the Costco warehouse.

The girls received a copy of the last page of the booklet printed on card-stock. This page contains the Barbie and Teresa dolls to be cut out to make paper dolls.

After carefully cutting out these dolls and their stands, the girls received a copy of papers containing career outfits. There was one page of career outfits in the Barbie booklet, and a separate pdf file of more outfits. The separate file of outfits are in black and white to allow the girls to color their own career outfits. We talked about what these different career outfits were all about. The girls each cut out their favorite profession outfit for their doll.

The girls were able to take these pages home to continue coloring and cutting at home if desired. They also went home with a copy of the Go Online page from the Barbie booklet to learn more about inspiring women at home.

The girls went home with their own Barbie patch today. Only one patch may be requested at a time from the Girl Scouts, so we had each mom order a patch for their daughter ahead of time so that we would have them in time for today's meeting. (If you want to download a free digital version to iron on to an uniform, click here.)

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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Snow Day... Again!

Winter has given us many snow storms this year. Just when we thought we were clear for Spring, we've got another round of snow to cause school cancellations. We were to do our Barbie I Can Be... patch at today's meeting, and we will just wait until our next meeting on the 18th to do them. See you then!

Snow on our pine trees today.

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Costco Field Trip!

We had an awesome time today on our field trip to our local Costco. The store's manager, Mr. Keith, gave the girls the grand tour of all of the departments and jobs that make up this membership warehouse. Each child received a Costco name badge with their name on it. Mr. Keith told them this would be their orientation to the warehouse, as if they were a real employee.

We started at the Customer Service Desk, and headed to the Tire Center, then thru the main entrance to the Photo Center then the Optical Center. We stopped in at each department to learn a little about how it is run. Mr. Keith explained how Costco stores, tracks and displays their merchandise, and how employees maintain the appearance of the warehouse.

We continued through warehouse to the back of the store where the Bakery is located. Mr. Keith explained how much the bakery department produces every day. We even got to sample free cookies while here.

On to the Meat department to meet the butchers and then to the Produce department. All of the employees would greet our troop as we visited their department.

We explored the back dock where the trucks deliver the goods from the depot to the warehouse. We watched an employee demonstrate the forklift and how it is used to move and store the merchandise.

We continued the tour through the food sections of the store and went to visit the Pharmacy and Hearing departments. From there we went through the Employee Lounge and management offices. Mr. Keith then gave each of the kids a free backpack they could use in school.

We finished our tour at the Food Court, and were treated to complimentary pizza, lemonade and churros for our group.

Such an awesome field trip! We will use some of what we learned today about different jobs for the Barbie I Can Be badge.

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Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Valentine / World Thinking Day

We had our meeting to celebrate Valentine's and recognize World Thinking Day this month. The girls created Valentine critters to send to two troops. We are exchanging care packages with Troop 5029 in San Diego, California, and with Troop 344 in McDonald, Ohio.

The girls each completed an About Me page for the Daisy troop in California.

We packed up the notes, a letter about our troop, the critters and some goodies for our Girl Scout friends. We then got to open the care packages we've received from them. The girls were so excited to open the packages and read about their GS friends across the country.

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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Another Snow Day!

Schools are closed today - in anticipation of the 8" of snow that is expected, and the deep freeze that will follow. Our meeting today is cancelled today as well. We were to work on our Valentine / World Thinking Day exchange with a troop in San Diego and another troop in Ohio. We will work on that at our next meeting instead. Hopefully, the snow will not be falling on our meeting day next time.

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

Our meeting is cancelled today, along with today's field trip to Costco, due to our county closing school due to the severe weather we are having. We will reschedule our field trip.

Keep warm.

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.

Cookie Money Worksheet

Our cookies sell for $4 per box, so we worked with the girls to learn to figure out how much multiple boxes cost, and how to make change for their customers. We helped the girls complete the questions on the back of their Cookie Worksheet to help them understand. If you would like to modify the worksheet for your own needs, download the Word doc version here.

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.

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!

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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