April 7th - meeting recap

Thursday, April 7th, we worked on the badge "Consumer Power".  The girls worked on plans for a summer trip, a family meal and looked at advertising for adults vs kids.

Brianna

Brianna in 4th Grade

Christmas Party 2010 with Alyssa, Ana, Taylor and Allie

Brianna and Hannah with their toilet paper bride, Amber.

Number of years in Girl Scouts - 2
Favorite Color - Red and Purple
Favorite Book  - Junie B Jones
Favorite Movie - Twilight Series
Favorite Song - Last Song by Miley Cyrus
Favorite Class - Old school Mrs. Seraskie Art Teacher
Something you liked about today's activity - working with kids
Something you would like to do at a future meeting - Go to Action City

Meeting recap - March 17th

Thursday, we ventured across the street to Rachel's Place as part of the Caring for Children Badge.  The girls were broken down into groups to work with the 4 different age groups.  Emily and Amber worked with the infants.  Paige, Brianna, Abby and Hannah worked with the 2 and 3 year olds.  Selena, Rebecca, Taylor and Alyssa worked with the 4 year olds.  Alex, Ingrid, Allie, Maddy, Faith, and Ana helped the school-aged children.  Each of girls had brought a book to read to the kids.  The 4 year olds also did some puzzles and Memory.  2 and 3 year olds had some fun with blocks.  And, after playing some card games, the school aged children ended with some red light, green light.
Rachel's Place gave each of the girls a rice crispy treat that the school aged kids had made and all of our girls asked if they could go back again soon.  They all did such a wonderful job working with the kids!!

Cookies, Cookies Everywhere!!!

We picked up cookies at the CVTC parking lot this year.  Like last year, they had two semi's with two lines of vehicles.  With the amount of cookies we had, we had two appointment times back to back.  As we drive down the line, volunteers have counted out the number of cases and we load them.  This year the girls sold 2704 boxes of cookies.  The troop also ordered some extras to make our starting total 2787.

 One of the three vehicles we used to transport the 231 cases to Maria's house for sorting.

Temps were much lower than last year's cookie sort.  We were very fortunate to have so many great helpers.  Extra special thank you to Katelyn and Kelly, Faith and Tammy, Ingrid and Cheri, Alyssa, Dave and Maria, Allie and Tina, Ana and Rachael.

In addition to helping sort, the girls were also helping with loading vehicles.  All of the cookies were sorted and picked-up in record time.  And over-all, we were off very few boxes.  Woo Hoo!!!!

Amber

First Grade

2nd grade at Beaver Creek

Crazy Dress-up day in 3rd grade

On the way to Valleyfair with Katelyn and Alex

4th Grade

Number of years in Girl Scouts - 4
Favorite Color - Black
Favorite Book - Flat Stanley
Favorite Movie - Fat Albert
Favorite Song - Take it off
Favorite Class - Science
Favorite Food - Pizza
Something you liked about today's meeting - Dancing
Something you would like to do at a future meeting - Go to the Plaza
Favorite thing you've done in Girl Scouts so far - Go to Action City

Meeting recap - March 3rd

March 3rd, we discussed some things for our upcoming trip on the 17th to Rachel's Place.  We talked about behaviors, games, and snacks that are age appropriate for different age-groups of children.
We also started working on some other items for our camping trip.  They brainstormed some scavenger hunt items and made their current idea of a map.

More to come on badges we'll be earning during our summer outing......

Katelyn

Heading to Valleyfair

First Grade

At Beaver Creek after 2nd grade.

Dressing up Toilet Paper

Fourth Grade

 Number of years in Girl Scouts - 4
Favorite Color - Purple
Favorite Song - Take it off
Favorite Class - Science
Favorite Food - Spaghetti
Something you liked about today's activity - Statue Game
Something you would like to do at a future meeting - Go to Florida
Favorite thing you've done in Girl Scouts so far - Go to Humane Society

Meeting recap - February 17th

At our meeting on the 17th, we finished the "On our Way" badge.  The girls also did some planning for our camping trip this summer.  They listed foods they would like to eat, things they needed to pack and things they would like to do while camping.
The top suggestions made were:

Food
Smores
Hot dogs
Apples
Donuts
Chicken
Toast and Toast w/cinnamon and sugar
Eggs
Bacon
Sandwiches
Hamburger
Fruit
Pancakes
Waffles

Things to do
Hike
Scavenger hunt
Shadow puppets
Eat
Sleep
Climb trees
Hide & seek
Play in sand
Make overs
Play
Star gazing
Color/draw
Crafts
Games
Plays
Obstacle Course

Things to pack
Stuffed animal
First aid kit
Blanket
Pillows
Clothing
Tooth brush
Tooth paste
Hair brush
Bug spray
Book
Flashlight
Towel
Sleeping bag
Journal
Deoderant
Hair things
Toilet paper
Shoes
Sunscreen

Next we will doing some voting on the top ideas and break into groups for cooking meals.

Faith

Faith, Emily and Ana

Selena and Faith creating their restaurant

Number of years in Girl Scout - 1

Favorite Color - Blue

Favorite Book - Junie B Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus

Favorite Movie - Last Song and Hairspray

Favorite Song - Taylor Swift's Our Song

Favorite Class - Art

Favorite Food - Macaroni and Cheese

Something you liked about today's activity - The crafts

Something you would like to do at a future meeting - Do a play or go camping

Favorite thing you've done in Girl Scouts so far - Making food

Sledding

To turn in the Cookie order forms, we met to go sledding, on Sunday.  The girls had a great time and even a few parents went down the hill also.  We will definitely have to do this again some time.

Sledding were:  Maddy, Ana, Ingrid, Taylor, Allie, Katelyn, Abby, Alyssa and Alex

Meeting recap - February 3rd

February 3rd, we focused mainly on making crafts from old cookie boxes.  Each box can make two note pad holders, one mini post-it holder, and one bookmark.  We will be using them at our cookie booths.  We have some finishing touches to take care of and the signs to make yet.  But then we will be all ready for our cookie booths.

Alyssa

Alyssa in 1st grade.

Horseback riding in 2008

Beaver Creek at the end of 2nd grade.

Valleyfair at the end of 3rd grade.

Alex, Maria and Alyssa at Valleyfair

Selena, Rebecca and Alyssa at Annie

Alyssa

Number of years in Girl Scouts - 4

Favorite Color - Blue

Favorite Book - Time to go to Sleep

Favorite Movie - Game Plan

Favorite Song - You Belong with Me

Favorite Class - 2-T, 3-S, 4-A, 1-B & Science

Favorite Food - Sub

Something you liked about today's activity - THIN MINTS!!!!

Favorite thing you've odne in Girl Scouts so far - Go to Valleyfair

Meeting Recap 1/20/11

Last night we talked all about COOKIES, COOKIES, COOKIES!!!
Our goal for the meeting was to discuss goals.  Personal, Service, and fun goals.
For our Service goals, the girls each wrote down an idea and then they voted.  Their ideas ended up basically into four main ideas.  Helping adults and children with cancer, helping animals, helping those who don't have food and helping those at a nursing home.  And, at the end of the vote, we had a tie!  Helping people with cancer and helping nursing home residents.  So, we decided to do both!!  Several wanted to help children with cancer so we talked about the possibility of collecting stuffed animals and/or making scarves and hats for them.  For the nursing home, the over-whelming choice was to do a talent show. We have also decided our donated cookies this year will go to the nursing home.

Allie

Allie at Beaver Creek after 2nd grade

Allie and Madison at Action City

Crazy dress up day in third grade

Valleyfair at the end of third grade

Intermission of Annie, fourth grade

Allie Brummond

Number of years in Girl Scouts - 3

Favorite Color - Lime Green

Favorite Book - Dark Diaries

Favorite Movie - Salt

Favorite Song - Hey Soul, Sister

Favorite Class - Mrs. Finder

Favorite Food - Mac 'n Cheese (Kraft)

Something you liked about today's activity - making the travel postcards

Something you would like to do at a future meeting - go to Valleyfair

Favorite thing you've done in Girl Scouts so far - Going to Valleyfair

Meeting recap - January 6th

This week's meeting was all about Travel.  We discussed problems that come up when you travel, places to go, how much things cost and how we as a troop pay for it and they made post cards out of travel magazines.

Some of the problems they came up with were:
If someone got sick.....
If there was an accident.....
If there were icy roads.....
If your flight was cancelled.....
If there was stinky road kill.....
If you went camping and a bear ate your face.....
If you forgot your shampoo.....
If you get a flat tire.....
If you miss your flight.....
If a bear ate your food.....
If there is road construction.....
If your son fell in the fire pit while the mom was in Vegas.....
If it's too wet for camping.....
If you hit a deer.....
If there is no room at your hotel.....
If you get lost.....

Some of the places they would like to visit:
Illinois (In the fall)
Kawii (not sure of spelling)
Ocean
Florida
Florida
Mount Rushmore
Wyoming
Tennessee
Jungle

We hope to spend more time on this badge after we work on Cookies at the next meeting.  Two short weeks til cookie sales begin!!!!