4th of July march

EARTH HOUR SATURDAY MARCH 26th

Earth Hour 2011

will ask the world to:

Switch off your lights for Earth Hour at

8.30pm, Saturday 26 March 2011 

and celebrate your commitment to the planet

with the people of the world

Camp Pokanoka

Cami Grant and I will be heading up to Camp Pokanoka during the spring Break to take a look around.
We will get more pictures for you  of the facilities....

June 3-5^th Camping Things to pack…..

BUG SPRAY  

Swim suit  

BUG SPRAY 

Good walking shoes  

BUG SPRAY   

Mess Kits

Did I mention BUG SPRAY?

Girls asked for Tents...... I opted for TABINS instead..... a tent/Cabin

Shower and washroom nearby~

Each Tabin Sleeps 8

Here is the Kicker .....Outdoor cooking..... so when the girls plan the meals they will have to plan accordingly.

I am not called Fearless Leader for nothing~

Another Successful Site Sale

81 boxes of cookies in 3 hours.  27 boxes per hour

$82 dollars in DONATIONS~  $27.33 Per hour

Not a bad Day for our Troop

Thanks Mrs. Kawiecki, Mrs. Adams for coming out with the girls

Mollie, Lulu, Cami, Emily and Claire you all did a great job!

Great Backyard Bird Watch 2011 This Weekend!

http://www.birdsource.org/gbbc/howto.html
  Friday, February 18, through Monday, February 21. Please join us!

The Great Backyard Bird Count is an annual four-day event that engages bird watchers of all ages in counting birds to create a real-time snapshot of where the birds are across the continent. Anyone can participate, from beginning bird watchers to experts. It takes as little as 15 minutes on one day, or you can count for as long as you like each day of the event. It's free, fun, and easy—and it helps the birds. We'll be adding updated GBBC materials for the next count as they become available.

 
What you need to do:

Ask your parent to register you and then send Mrs. Winkler an email ( I need to know how many girls will be participating)
Completer the bird watching results Feb 18- Feb 21
Send Mrs. Winkler an email saying you completed GBYBW2011

 
Its that easy!

 
Happy Bird watching~

Our ever expanding Post Card Exchange!~ February 8th meeting

Postcards will be written February 8^th with the help of several of our Moms~

Look at the attached map to see where we will be writing. Ask Mom or Dad to look them up on the internet and see if you can find out a few interesting facts about the places we will be writing.

Also start thinking about what you want to include in your postcard.  We will be breaking off into small groups and each girl in the group will be required to send one postcard to one of the areas….

Cookie Sales Jan 9 - 27th

All your last years favorites are available once again this year.

$4.00 per box : Payable on delivery

Donations will be accepted as well: Please contact Mrs. Winkler if you have any questions concerning donations.

WWF DONATION

To the World you may be one little Brownie Troop 
but to a Sea Turtle you are the World ~

Food Drive goal continues......

Even though we don’t have a meeting in December …Please feel free to call me to pick up no –perishable items for the food pantry!  We still have a ways to go for our goal~

Meet our Troop Turtles…

Meet our Troop Turtles…

Butternut and Trefoil , named after the 2 camps that we have attended.

Click with you mouse in the water or on land to feed them and watch them eat.  Click and hold with your mouse and you can stop them from swimming away.

Visit them daily and Enjoy,

Mrs. Winkler

In honor of veterans day ........

What are the odds that two of our Dads take out the same shirt 1 day of the year?

The girls tried to carry the flags all the way through........

Riverside Food Pantry is empty~ Please help.

I have just received the following email   

asking for our assistance in helping fill

the Riverside Food Pantry.

At each of our meetings I would be

happy to bring a box and bring any

non perishables to the Village offices

afterwards.

-----Original Message-----
From: C. Spale
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2010 8:59 PM
To: Wendy Winkler
Subject: HELP, PLEASE

Dear Friends,

We have just found out that the food pantry at Riverside Township is

empty. Our village and a friend   both gave cash donations to help start

it again., but we decided with Sue and Guy that we would start collecting now , 

nonperishable food, not expired Please bring next week to the village or

to the library where Bob Lifka okayed it too.  

We send many people there and we have to have a lot to keep it going

esp. over winter months.

My Brownies made these Holiday pumpkins in no time at all.

My Brownies made these Holiday pumpkins in no time at all.

Supplies: 

·      

            10: 1 in strips of scrapbook paper. 

      ( I used 10 different papers)

·         rafia

·         toilet roll tube

·         1 solid color scrapbook paper

·         hot glue gun

·         2 paper brads

Directions: 

1.      Cut 10 different papers into 1 x 12 in strips

2.      Trace and cut solid paper to wrap around toilet tube and secure with glue

3.      Gently poke brad through paper strips 1 in from top ( may use hole punch)

4.      Continue doing this to all 10 papers strips

5.      Turn strips to the other end and continue poking second brad in.

6.      Secure brads

7.      Spread papers to form a sphere.

8.      Glue toilet tube to inside of sphere securing it under the brad

9.      Glue other side of tube to brad as well

     10. Make a bow out of the raffia and   secure to top sphere.

Ornament Making Party 11/6 for Zoo Tree Trimming

We will be making recycled ornaments in our troop separably at a meeting. If you wish to make an additional one for the zoo please feel free. Parents will still need to order the patch from the zoo and or make reservations if they plan on attending either the open house or the actual Zoo tree trimming.

This is not a troop sponsored event and a parent must attend with a Brownie

Our Service Unit has purchased a tree to decorate for Brookfield
Zoo's Holiday Magic. The theme of our tree will be to make ornaments
from recycled items. If you cannot attend either event as a troop,
please let your girls and their families know that they can participate
as individuals. All troops in Service Unit 411 are invited to the
following:

Ornament Making Party
Saturday, November 6th

Noon to 5:00pm
Mater Christi School
2400 S. 10th Ave. (corner of 10th & 24th)
North Riverside

Please note: 10th Ave. is one-way going north on the 2200block and
one-way going south on the 2400 block. Best way to get there is to take 1st avenue to 24th street until you get to 10th.

This is an Open House Party, meaning, you can come for an hour or stay
the whole time. If you cannot attend the tree trim but want to make
ornaments, please join us. We'll make sure that they get on the
tree. You are also eligible to purchase a patch because you are
participating by making the ornaments.

Please bring:

· adequate chaperones, especially for the younger girls as
they might not be able to do all the work on their own

· ornament ideas, materials, and tools (for example,
scissors, glue, paint and brushes, anything needed to make your
project), plus extra materials to share with others

· newspaper or plastic so we can cover the tables

· snacks and drinks to share (we will provide cups, and
napkins)

Anyone who has ideas for recyclable ornaments can post the ideas on the
Yahoo Group site. Let us know if you have materials but don't know
what to make with them. For example, I personally have many CDs, lids
from laundry detergent and corks. What can I do with them? Brookfield
Zoo lists the following as NOT allowed on the trees:

Materials NOT Allowed on Trees

• strung Styrofoam "peanuts"
• ornaments made of dough (even if varnished or shellacked)
• glass items or objects with jagged edges
• unlaminated paper
• tinsel (or icicles)
• straw
• food items: food on strings (popcorn, cereal, cranberries, pasta,
etc.), dog biscuits or other dry pet food, items containing bird seed
(such as pine cones or ice cream cones dipped in peanut butter or suet),
candy canes, anything valuable (Brookfield Zoo is not responsible for
ornaments/decoratio ns that are missing or stolen)

Completed ornaments will be used to decorate our tree at Brookfield Zoo:
Community Tree Trim

Brookfield Zoo

Saturday and Sunday, November 20th & 21st
10:00am to 5:00pm


Patches: $4.00

You can get a patch even if you just make ornaments and cannot attend
this event. It is recommended that you order your patches as soon as you
know how many you will need. For tickets, if you use a credit card, the
deadline is November 19 in order to get a printable ticket. If you use a
check, you need to print off a form and allow yourself enough time for
your order to be processed and sent to you before the event. You will
pay quite a bit more if you wait to purchase admission at the gate.

Badges we have earned

Plants

Safety Sense

Cookies Count

Earth and Sky

Earth is our Home

October 19th Meeting

*Meeting October 19^th: 3:15 -4:30

• 2 new girls from Blythe  , Alessia and Mazzy!
• This meeting will center around troop business and what to expect for the year
• Girl should bring a water bottle for snack
• Plastic bag recycle begins tomorrow…..Bring in your plastic grocery bags for         our troop recyclerMOLLIE to take to Riverside foods for recycling     
• Clean up Girls Mia and Lulu will stay 5 min after the meeting for clean up.
• Please bring dues $60 made out to GS troop 41588 our secretary Quincy will collect    and record.

Next meeting October 26^th

October 19^th Meeting

Snack: Emily

Focus: Journeys Family and Friends

           What it means to be a Brownie

3:15- 3:25 Snack

3:25- 3:30 Flag Ceremony

3:30-4:10 Brownie Ring

·                     Read discuss page 12/13 of BHB

·                     Uniform

·                     Teach Brownie Smile Song

·                     Teach Friendship Squeeze –Significance

·                     Teach Girl Scout Hand Shake- when where to use it.

·                     Hand out awards

4:10- 4:25 Craft

4:25     Clean up

4:30     Brownie Bridge/Closing

Horseback Riding and Water park November 13th

Click here to download a permission slip