Camp information June 3rd -5th

Camper may arrive 4 pm on the 3rd
schedule to follow

Camp List

CLOTHING

•             4 t shirts

•             2 shorts

•             2 long pants

•             1 swim suit

•             4 panties

•             1 hoodie sweatshirt

•             1 poncho

•             1 pajama

•             1 bandana

•             Sunglasses

***** PLEASE BRING EXTRA PANTS, SHIRT, SOCK AND SHOE FOR CLAY PITS... *MIGHT NOT MAKE IT HOME*

FOOTWEAR

•             4 socks

•             1 flip flop/ crocs for shower/swim

•             1 gym shoe

•             1 boot  hike/rain?

TOILETRIES

•             1 Shower caddy/bag *shower is a distance from Tabins

•             2 Towel , Swim/Shower

•             1 wash cloth

•             1 bar soap/ body wash

•             1 small hand sanitizer

•             1 shampoo

•             1 conditioner

•             1 brush/comb

•             ? head bands hair rubber bands ( if needed)

•             1 toothbrush ( please bring a holder or a zip lock for this)

•             1 toothpaste/floss/mouthwash

•             Medicines: labeled in zip lock

•             sunscreen

•             bug spray

SUPPLIES AND TOOLS

•             Small lightweight backpack or fanny pack  ( vinyl with rope handles ok)

•             Hammer

•             Chisel

•             Eye protection goggles

•             Flashlight

•             extra batteries

•             duct tape... ( they have pretty colors at Home Depot)

•             Rope . min 10 ft

•             work gloves\

•             Fold up chair

•             sit upon: if you made one.

•             Mess kit , plate, bowl, cup, spoon knife, fork, dunking bag

•             water bottle

ENTERTAINMENT *things that are starred are optional

•             small painbrushes for craft

•             pencil, pen, scissors

•             book, magazine for down time

*deck of cards

*hoola hoop

*playground ball

*crayons, paper

WINKLER: Lawn Bullseye

FOOD DRINK SUPPLIES

2 jugs of water. 1 preferable frozen

Saturday morning  cereal in a zip lock.

These will be collected on their arrival so that no food is left in the tabins.

FOOD + BUGS AND ANIMALS + SLEEPING ARES= not good.

VOLUNTEER KITCHEN LIST : we need everything….. we have nothing~

* 4 oven mitts

* BBQ utensils

measuring cup

4 several small coolers WINKLER1

platters need 3      WINKLER1

Plastic bowls Large

can opener

lighter WINKLER1

wood matches

broom2

dustpan2

vinyl table clothes 4 Kawiecki

trash bags  WINKLER1

recycle bags  WINKLER

3 tin foil   Kawiecki

1 saran wrap Kawiecki

zip locks gallon/quart size Kawiecki

clothes pin

cutting knife

2 cutting board  WINKLER1

Please download this waiver for tomorrows fishing

                                      FISHING WAIVER MUST BE SIGNED 

Photo books now available on Shutterfly

                                                     Click here to view our 2010- 2011 Photo book

Penny Drive Begins

Beginning March 22, our Troop will be hosting a Penny Drive

to Raise Funds for  our 100 Year Celebration trip to

Georgia.

To collect is really easy.

1. Find a jar/container with lid

2. Tell friends and family That you are saving  pennies for Brownies.

3.Using coin King at the Riverside Bank    Count your coins.

4.Fill in deposit slip  and deposit funds into your Troop 41588 Girl Scout Account

( Mrs. Winkler will give each girl 2 deposit slips with our account #)

5. turn in Deposit slip receipt to Mrs. Winkler

You will be surprised how fast the coins add up

This fundraiser will continue on through next year so once you fill your jar, start again.

Happy 99th Birthday Girl Scouts~

March 1912 Violet troop
First Girl Scout troop formed in the United States

REMINDER NEXT COOKIE SALE

Saturday March 12th        9:00am 12:00pm

Jewel Osco  438 Madison Street    Oak Park, IL

Those girls who have not participated in a site sale 

should plan on attending.

If you have done a site sale and would like to participate

again you are more than welcome.

Please contact Mrs. Winkler to let her know you will be attending.


We have roughly 60 boxes to sell so hopefully we wont need the full 3 hours.  Please bring a slip of paper with the phone number you can be reached should the sale end earlier than planned.


Joan Kanatas and Christine Kawiecki will be the moms in charge during this sale.

To view all of our Rock climbing photos Click here.

What a fantastic family evening. 

Despite the illness and the out of town Brownies we still had a great showing. 24 people including parents, siblings, cousins and friends came to learn about wall climbing and enjoyed a night of Pizza afterwards.

It was especially nice after working so hard at our successful site sales….. I cant say enough about how proud I am about the way the girls conducted themselves and the great job they did.

I was amazed at how fearless all our climbers were! I think we should definitely try this again~

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The big kids at the little kids table

First Site Sale a HUGE SUCCESS~

Thank you to the moms and girls who came out to make this a success....

Mazzy and  Matia, Becky and Tess , Briyana and Romy, Quincy and Lindsey and Mia

On average the Girls scouts formula states that you should sell roughly 20 cookies per hour of sales...

We sold roughly 150 boxes.....~    For the 3 hours of sales that averages to 50 boxes per hour~   Way to go girls.....

Thanks to  Mrs. Anderson and Tess, My Hubby , Cami, Ms. Terese, and Mrs. Kanatas  we were able to load, unload, sort and tag all 1700+ boxes~

I just love saying that~ 1700+ boxes.

Please call me or email ( its best)  to set up your time to pick up cookies.

When you are there you will get the following

1.         Your original cookie sheet

2.         A receipt  for  the cookies that you are taking with totals

3.         A Thinking Day Patch…… were  not in , in time for the meeting

4.         20 Thank you business cards that you can attach to your cookie orders.

5.         Permissions slip needed PER CLIMBER  ,adult and child, for next weeks field trip to Pav Berwyn.  If you are just coming along and not climbing, no permission slip is needed. Please bring with you to the event.

 

World Thinking Day Event Feb 22nd Berwyn Moose Lodge

Girls must fill out registration form that was emailed

Dont want to give everything away....

But we surpassed last years sales by 348 boxes…..Way to go girls you really worked hard.

Please remember that ½ of all sales proceeds will go to pay for our 2012 Georgia Trip.

Donations for trip can still be taken till March 7^th .  All Georgia Donations and cookie Money will be due

March 7^th!

Grocery Bag Recycling Continues

Meeting::January 25th

1.     ~~~TROOP PHOTO~~~    Girls need to be in Dress uniform

·        Khahi/Brown: Pants, leggings, skirt

·        Shirt: White or Blue

·        Dress shoes if Possible

·        Have them bring a brush to touch up in the bathroom before picture.

2.     ** Do you have Pinecone?  If so bring them to the meeting please**

3.     *** Cookie Sales forms Due Wednesday Jan 26^th****    May bring to Tues meeting

Snack: Tess

Secretary : Amber

Recycler: Mazzy

Clean Up: Zosia and Alessia

Am. Flag: Lulu

Am. Flag CG:Molly

GS Flag: Mia

GS Flag CG: Quincy

Caller: Tess

Focus: Journey Quest Rap up, Completion on Animal Badges, Bridging to Junior

3:15- 3:20 

3:20- 3:30 Flag Ceremony

3:30-3:45  Brownie Circle/ Ring

Secretary Minute: Gather any materials not already given to her.

·        Troop Business

·        Site Sales

·        Food drive

·        Plastic bag recycle

·        Badges hand out

3:45- 4:00 Activity AS A TROOP:

Pinecone Bird Feeders

4:00-4:05 Clean up

4:05-4:25 Sing a long: New song for you~!

4:25- 4:30 Clean up

4:30  Friendship squeeze : tess  /Closing

February 19 6-7 p.m Family Climbing Wall

Spring Flower Fundraiser

Are you planning your beautiful spring garden in your head already?   Let us help.

                                                            Click here for your Spring Flowers

Look what the rest of the year has in store for us!

* Please check back often and I am just uploading more information for the year.

January

18: meeting: Recycled Scarves

25: Meeting:

26^th: cookie sales end

February

8^th: Thinking Day Postcards

13^th: Cookie Pick up ( you will be called)

19: first cookie Site sale 
Jewel Osco 7525 West Lake Street River Forest, IL 60305 i
9:00am12:00pm
22nd: Meeting: Bridging to be discussed
22nd: Thinking Day activities  with Council 6 pm. : Be discussed later

26^th: Tentative Climbing wall :Berwyn Pav Family night Girls free. 

More information to come

March

8^th: meeting
12th: 2nd Jewel Osco 438 Madison Street Oak Park, IL 60302
9:00am12:00pm  

22^nd: meeting

26th: ** Bonfire at Boy Scout cabin for Earth Hour 6:30 -9:30

** Activities needed for bridging, 

Our troop awards for cookie sales will be given out.

 Council awards date has yet to be determined.

April

12^th: Meeting: Hosted by Mrs. Adams

26^th : Meeting

May

10^th: Meeting

24^th: Meeting

June

3-5 : Camping at camp pokanoka

Grocery Bag Recycling Continues.

Thinking Day Postcard Exchanges 2011

We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common. Juliette G. Low

Our Membership has been accepted to participate in the 2011 Thinking Day Postcard exchange

February 22, 2011 is  World Thinking Day, girls participate in activities, games, and projects with global themes to honor their sister Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in other countries. World Thinking Day is part of the WAGGGS Global Action Theme (GAT) based on the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which aim to improve the lives of the world's poorest people. The theme for World Thinking Day 2011 is girls worldwide say "Empowering girls will change our world."

World Thinking Day not only gives girls a chance to celebrate international friendships, but is also a reminder that Girl Scouts of the USA is part of a global community—one of nearly 150 countries with Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.  WAGGGS selected five countries of focus for World Thinking Day 2011 to represent the five WAGGGS regions:  Bolivia (Western Hemisphere), Cyprus(Europe), Democratic Republic of Congo (Africa), Nepal (Asia/Pacific),Yemen(Arab Region). 

Our Brownies have the opportunity to exchange postcards with girl scouts just like themselves around the world! This activity will complete our making connections patch of our Journeys series.

During the Holiday break I will be contacting the girls to get an idea of what countries as well as states they would like to exchange with.

Please feel free to contact me via email with this information as well.

Meeting Updates….November 30th

 Meeting Updates….

What a wonderful meeting.  Ms. B was our special guest and she discussed what SHE did as a Brownie and even brought her old uniforms. It brought a smile to my face to hear the girls eager to explain what they do to her and compare badges. As a leader I was seeing any one of our Brownies talking 20 years in the future to special Brownies they know about what they did and showing off their uniforms and badges.  


This is what I will think about as I plan meetings.  Will this make for a memorable learning moment when it is all said and done? The only memory I still don’t foresee our girls having is TENT camping as a Brownie…..at least I am not going to be sleeping in the tent~J  

Ms. B also stayed with us to complete another part of our Journeys Badge….Connections to other Brownies.  We made photo cubes using photos from our lasts events.  I am sure your Brownie has shown you hers by now.  I will bring the photos to the next meeting as well and the girls may take home any they would like. 


Our second project was a little foreshadowing of things to come.  I prepared a sample of t-shirt rings to have each girl participate in making a scarf for Ms. B as a thank you for joining us.  Each girl joined 3 rings by tying them together.  She then worked with the other Brownies at her table to connect all of their rings.  Once that was done they joined the rings strands from each table together making one long scarf. The results were fantastic. I know the girls are now really excited to make their own scarf’s in January!

Please read the following note to your Brownie:

Mrs. Winkler,

Thank you so very much for allowing me to come in and share!  I had a fantastic time and absolutely love the scarf.  I wore it to school today to keep me warm with this December weather that is fast approaching, and even got a chance to get a picture with all of the Ames girls with myself wearing the scarf (a much better picture than just me).

These brownies have a special place in my heart always and it was definitely a memorable experience!

Thank you again,

Miss B.

COOKIE SALES 2011

Cookie Sales time again~ 

Some key facts about 2011 sales

·        Orders officially Begin January 9^th

·        No new cookies this year / Same favorites as last year~

·        Still just $4 a box

·        Cookie Mom: Therese Kourim~ we love Therese. For those of you who don’t know Therese, she is Wendy’s neighbor and has no children in the troop but loves being involved with the Girl Scouts and our Troop.  She must because she will be going on her 3^rd year in a row as Cookie Mom~

·        Prize structure is back to being cumulative so the prizes on the order sheet are the prizes our girls get. IE: if our Brownies sells 200 boxes she gets , certificate, patch, pen, journal, stuffed toy, storage box, fashion portfolio and beanie cap~

PLUS: if as a troop we average: 100+ boxes per girl

·        Gloves (match the beanie)

If we average 125+boxes per girl

·        ILEAD tshirt

We already know we are a “Super Troop” but we have the opportunity this year to earn the cookie “Super Troop” as well.

·        Girls must participate in 2 site sale  Check: Mrs. Kawiecki has offered to organize this and as soon as sites are announced in the council we will let you know our dates and times.

·        Girls must sign up for online Cookie Club: We will take care of this from the Cookie Moms end and get you the details.

·        Girls must donate cookies to with the military or local charity.   Check: boxes will be donated to the Riverside Food Pantry and/or the British Home.

I will be updating this Frequently so look for the POST: COOKIE SALES 2011