May 15, 2014 "Making The World A Better Place"

"Making the World A Better Place"

Rosie Petal

We heard Rosie's story about making the beach a better place.

We had a beach themed meeting, with beach towels, beach balls, fun umbrella cupcakes

from Ms. Julia, and healthy fruit, pretzels and crackers served in sand buckets.

It was like a Daisy Scout beach at SBA!

Everyone brought a book to donate to Ronald McDonald House

 to help make the world a better place.

Marie lead the Pledge of Allegience, and Sophia was the flag bearer. 

Olivia lead the Girl Scout Law.

Iris was the song leader.

Some former girl scouts visited, and did the Girl Scout Promise with us.

Ms. Brandi, Ms. Donna, and Ms. Elizabeth.

Ella Jane's Kaper was snack set up.

SBA Beach!

We had a special guest,

Mr. Sabo!

For are craft, we all wrote the Girl Scout Promise on a Trefoil, and decorated it.

We had so much fun on the playground, that we didn't have enough time for everyone to finish the craft, so some girls can finish it at home.

Thanks, Amy, Erica, Julia,  and Candy for helping!

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Using Resources Wisely Petal

We did a craft project with recycled materials.

We used milk cartons collected by Chef Dan for the planter, cups for the pot, popsicle sticks for the plant name, and leftover water from snack to water our

Impatiens that we planted.

We decorated with construction paper, and colored earths out of recycled cardboard. 

We talked about recycling, ways to use resources wisely,

and read the story of "Clover" from the Daisy handbook.

We also made shirts for the girls to wear to our Daisy Scout Nature camp the following Saturday.

The girls are really getting the hang of the Girl Scout Promise, The Girl Scout Law,

and did a great job with the Friendship Circle this week!

Thanks to the parent volunteers, Hanna, Alice, Robyn, and special guest, Iris' grandparents from California. Robyn even made Daisy Scout cupcakes! Yum!

We had a fun time April 26th at our Troop 186 Nature Camp and Edwin Warner Park.

We learned about "Growing in the Garden".

Our nature guide, Sydney, told us about planting, making soil, the green house,

and even let us taste some yummy India Mustard in the garden... well yummy to some.

We listened to storys and drew pictures of a garden

in the beautiful Edwin Warner nature center.

We measured ourselves agains different veggies. The corn was taller than all of us!

We spent the rest of the day outside, having a snack including "earth" Cupcakes, playing in the dirt, and going on a storybook nature hike. 

Thanks to the moms, Julia, Lauren, Robyn, Emily, Erica and Amy for helping with the camp.

Thanks Amy for donating the shirts.

March 27, 2014 Meeting

Earning the Honest and Fair Petal.

Petal Purpose: When girls have earned this petal, they'll know how to be honest and fair.

Lupe the Lupine (loo-pin) is the flower that represents the Honest and Fair Petal.

The girls listened to a story from the Daisy Scout Handbook about Lupe. 

She was faced with a situation where she had to make the right decision that was honest and fair. Some pigeons had delivered a gift of freshly made cheese from Dairyland Farm for Lupe to share with all the flower friends. Lupe was really hungry and considered taking a piece for herself before she shared, and hiding the evidence. She began to open the box, then stopped and thought, "This present is for everyone. It wouldn't be fair to eat some by myself. And it wouldn't be honest to pretend I hadn't eaten any."

We discussed:

• Do you think it would be fair if Lupe ate a piece of the cheese? No, because the cheese is a present for everyone. 
  

• Agreeing with what is right; Treating people in a way that does not favor some over others. 
  
  
  
  
  
  During the meeting the girls colored a picture of Lupe the Lupine, and made a Lupine bookmark.
  
  
  
  We used washable ink pads for fingerprinting the Lupine petals, but there were still a lot of blue fingers after washing.
  Hopefully the fingers are back to normal now.
  
  
  
  
  As we will each meeting, we started off assigning jobs or as they are called in Girl Scouts - Kapers. 
  
  
  Uma helped lead the Pledge of Allegiance, 
  We said the Girl Scout Promise. 
  "On my honor, I will try to serve God and my country.
  To help people at all times, and live by the Girl Scout Law."
  
  
  Larkin helped us say the first line in the Girl Scout Law.
  "I will do my best to honest and fair"
  We talked about what a promise is and what in means to be honest and fair.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  We learned a new Daisy song. Maggie did a great job as song leader.
  The girls had lots of energy and added some dance moves to the song. 
  
  
  
  Ms. Brooke and Ms. Jami flipped a coin to decide which game to play.
  We played the Truth or Fib game. Each girl took a turn being the caller. If a fib was called they ran to the side of the room with a sad face. If a truth was called they ran to the side of the room with a happy face. Here are some fibs we heard, "Every month in the year is November", "You are all 10 yrs old", Some truths were, "We all go to school at SBA". 
  
  
  When we had snack we had a fairness lesson.
   We had 7 apples, but 14 girls. The girls decided we could cut the apples in half to be fair. 
  Thank you to Ms Erica - Annika's mom for providing snack.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  We ended the meeting with the friendship circle and the friendship squeeze. We are still mastering the art of squeezing hands lightly and only when it is our turn. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Everyone got a certificate and a Light Blue Honest and Fair Petal
  to add to their Daisy Scout Uniform.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  If you have the girl scout hand book, you might enjoy reading the Lupe the Lupine story again with your daughter. 
  Here are some other books about honesty and fairness you can find at the library:
  
  
  "Sarah's Little Ghosts" by Thierry Robberecht
  "I Am Honest" by Mary Elizabeth Salzmann
  "I Am Honest" Henemann Read and Learn
  and "Being Honest" by Jill Lynn Donahue
  (the teachers read this book in class on Thursday)
  
  
  Thanks to Ms. Candy and Ms. Julia for helping out.
  Also thanks to a special guest Ms. Cathy - Caroline's grandma who was in town visiting from Philadelphia.