Making Strides Breast Cancer Awareness Walk

 Saturday, October 23rd, we had 13 girls, 11 adults and 2 children participate in the Breast Cancer Awareness 5k.  

Alyssa, Hannah, Ally, Amber, Faith, Maddy, Ana, Rebecca, Allie, Ingrid and Alex.  Not pictured were Abby and Selena.

Shake it, shake it!!

Ingrid, Selena, Allie and Ana

More umbrellas needed as the rain did not hold off and the sign did not fair very well.

Selena, Rebecca, Alex and Ingrid getting a much deserved snack after the walk.

Ingrid

Beaver Creek June 2009

Christmas Party 2008

At the Breast Cancer Walk October 2010

 Ingrid!!!!
Number of years in Girl Scouts - 2
Favorite Color - Purple
Favorite Book - The Encounter
Favorite Movie - Edward Scissorhands
Favorite Song - My Sharona
Favorite Class - Recess
Favorite Food - Cheesy Noodles
Something you liked about today's activity - Making the pom poms, visors and the sign.
Something you would like to do at a future meeting - Play Frogger
Favorite thing you've done in Girl Scouts so far - Seeing Friends

Meeting Recap 10/21

Thursday, October 21st, we had our meeting in the gym due to Parent-Teacher Conferences.  Our troop is now 18 strong and while the gym gave us more room to spread out for the projects, it's also much louder than Mr. Otto's room.  Our focus for the day was Breast Cancer Awareness.  As our first community service project of the year, we were walking at Making Strides on Saturday.  We had three projects for this meeting.  Making pink pom poms, decorating visors (pink of course) and making and signing our sign.  The sign said "Shakin' it for Breast Cancer".  In conjunction with the sign, there was a group discussion about what breast cancer is, who has been affected by it and other personal experiences. 
Making the pom poms took much longer than our alloted 20 minutes with each group.  Fortunately, several parents stayed to help the final tying. 
We also took our first group picture with EVERYONE there.  With 18 girls, our full group opportunities might be few and far between.  I also have a silly group picture that I will upload within the next couple of days.

Roller Skating 10/19

Tuesday, October 19th, the Girl Scout Council invited all girls for a free skating night at Hoffy's Skate America as one of their registration events.  Three area councils joined in for the night and estimates had 140 girls skating.
From our troop, there were 11 girls present and a handful of parents.  Several of them participated in the speed and sock races while others used scooters and watched a movie.
Unfortunately, I left my camera at home and have no pictures of the girls.  I will note they are skating much better than the first time we went as first graders.
It was a great evening and I'm sure they all slept well that night.  :)

Miss Taylor

Taylor in 1st Grade

Beaver Creek June 2009

Crazy Dress-up Day

Eau Claire Humane Society 2010

Bridging to Juniors

At Valleyfair June 2010


Taylor, Taylor, Taylor.............
Number of Years in Girl Scouts - 4
Favorite Color - Purple
Favorite Book - "A Dog's Life"
Favorite Movie - The Blind Side
Favorite Song - Travelin' Soldier by the Dixie Chicks
Favorite Class - Math or Geography
Favorite Food - Nachos
Something you liked about today's activity - "We got to pick out something to do in Girl Scouts this year"
Something you would like to do at a future meeting - "Make Finger Puppets"
Favorite think you've done in Girl Scouts so far - "Valleyfair - Having fun with friends and the leaders"

Meeting recap 10/7

Yesterday we working on the Girl Scouting in the USA Badge.  We talked about the Girl Scout Promise and Law.  The Girls learned the handshake and the new quiet sign.  Additionally, we picked out some ideas for our Kaper Chart.  One new thing for this year will be our Blog Helper.  Each meeting, I will have someone add things to the blog with me.  Look for that to be coming soon.......
We also worked on our plan for the year.  The girls worked in pairs to pick and plan a badge to work on this year.  They were to decided what things we would need for the badge and any possible field trips that would tie in.  I will be going through their ideas today and am quite curious to see what they picked.
We are looking forward to a great year, filled with many surprises!!!

The Search is On......

We are looking for a new name for the blog.
Any ideas?  Please share and we will vote on them as a troop!!!!