MARCH- Animal Conservation, Education and Assistance Month

March 9th Meeting: Girls will be attending a local animal shelter where they will help the girls learn more about animals and animal care. This is in following our 2010 theme of Conservation, Recycling and Earth Awareness. Renata Coffey will be organizing this meeting as I will be out of town. Please look back here in the next weeks for copies of the permission slip. Any parent who is able to chaperon would be greatly welcomed.

MARCH 27th 8:30 PM

Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change.

Any family that would like to participate in earth hour will qualify for a Conservation patch for the back of her uniform. To Participate. a parent must go to : http://www.earthhour.org/Homepage.aspx

and sign up for the pledge. Please email me once this step is complete so I know how many patches to order. Once Earth hour is complete. Please email me of your families successful completion of Earth Hour 2010.

February 9th 2010 meeting

3:05-3:15 Walk the girls over to the church

3:15-3:30 Flag Ceremony-

3:30-3:50 Brownie Circle- Mrs. Winkler

a. . snack-Tess

3:50-4:20 Activity Session : Recycling Valentines Project**-

4:20-4:25 Clean Up

4:25-4:30 Closing Song/ Goodbye Bridge

** If you have old colored tissue paper, please send it with your Brownie,… Please do not go out and purchase.

Upcoming info

January:

22nd: cookie forms due

February:

· 9th : Meeting/Tess

15th cookie pick up

· 23rd Meeting/ CLAIRE

March:

· 9th Meeting

11th : cookie monies due

· 23rd Meeting/Recycled art projects due

April:

· 13th ^Meeting

· 27^{th Meeting}

May:

· 11th Meeting

· 25^th Meeting

May 28^th: Final Ceremonies all

Families contribute

COOKIE ORDERS COMING TO A CLOSE

Order forms due to Wendy Jan 22nd: Call 708-442-5246 to arrange a drop off time

Pick up cookies Feb 15^th

Monies due March 11^th

December 8th 2009 meeting

3:05-3:15 Walk the girls over to the church

3:15-3:30 Flag Ceremony- Mrs. Winkler/Mrs Coffey

3:30-3:50 Brownie Circle- Mrs. Winkler

a. intro to cookie sales

b. snack

3:50-4:20 Activity Session : Manners

a. Telephone manners /cookie sales- Mrs. Kanatas

b. Introductions/ door to door cookie sales- Mrs. Kowal / Mrs. Coffey

c. Manners and Friends- Mrs. Winkler

4:20-4:25 Clean Up

4:25-4:30 Closing Song/ Goodbye Bridge

Congratulations to all our girls for the hard work on their badges! You deserve them! Please take a look at the previous blog message for proper placement on the vest.

Thank you to the Daisies and their leaders for joinging us at out meeting. We had so much fun and it was nice to see all the girls together again. Cant wait to camp together in the Spring.

Saturday November 28th at 1:00p.m. is the tree decorating in the center of Riverside. I was going to send out a permission slip but since you will be driving your Brownie, it wont be necessary. We will do a flag ceremony and pledge, place our ornaments that we made at yesterdays meeting and then the girls will be free to leave. Hot Cocoa and cookies will be served in the park.

If we don't see you, please enjoy your Thanksgiving and families!

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Badges earned to Date:

Badges earned to Date: See diagram below for badge placement on your Brownies Vest.

ART TO WEAR

1. t shirt Art-camp
2. Decorate Your Clothes- buttons on socks-camp
3. Mask Making-camp
4. Knots-camp

GIRL SCOUT WAYS:

1. Special Girl Scout Ways-meeting
2. S’Mores-camp
3. Sit-Upon -daisy meeting
4. Be Prepared- meeting

MAKE IT, EAT IT:

Sloppy Joes -camp

Granola-Meeting

Mini Pizza-meeting

trail mix- friendship mix - camp

OUTDOOR ADVENTURER:

Packing Game- meeting

Build a shelter-camp

Planning for an overnight-meeting

Day hike-camp

TRAVEL RIGHT:

1. be prepared safety tips-meeting

2. Travel journals- camp

3. Game-packing: meeting

4. Hiking prep: camp

Meeting Tuesday November 17th

Tuesdays meeting is going to be a truly exciting meeting! We will share a meeting with our Daisy Troop, some old friends from last years troop and a few new friends to complete the circle.

During the meeting we will take part in our first community project , by working with our Daisy Sisters to create ornaments for the Riverside Trim a Tree. Permission slips will go out as well to attend and decorate our tree in the Trim a tree celebration Saturday, November 28th from 1:00 p.m. with hot chocolate and cookies in Centennial Park. Permission slips will be due back November 17th. During this meeting girls will receive a friendship fun patch as well as present one to her Daisy Sister. This patch can be sewn to the BACK of the Brownie Vest.

One of the most exciting events of Tuesdays meeting will be the handing out of badges earned so far. If your daughter did not earn a badge, you will see a list of requirements for her to complete.

Badges completed from now till January will be given at the Formal Investiture Ceremony.If you have any questions please feel free to contact me I can help you with badge activities.

NOVEMBER 17^th

^{Snack: Daisies}

^{Drink: Mrs. Winkler}

Daisies will join us for this meeting.

3:05-3:15 Walk the girls over to the church

3:15-3:30 Flag Ceremony- Mrs. Winkler

3:30-3:50 Brownie Circle- Mrs. Winkler

a. Introduce Guests

3:50-4:20 Activity Session (Colors and Shapes BTI pg.90 #2)

(Numbers and Shapes BTI pg.114 # 6)

a. Snack Session: during snack session: instructions for Ornaments ill be given

While the girls are eating.

b. Making ornaments: The three leaves of the trefoil depict the three-fold Promise.

To serve God* and my country,
To help people at all times,
And to live by the Girl Scout Law.

4:15-4:20 Girls will receive badges earned and present The Daisy sister with a Friendship patch.

4:20-4:25 Clean Up

4:25-4:30 Closing Song/ Goodbye Bridge

Badge tracking sheet

Hi , I came across this form to help you track your Brownies progress as we do our badges.

Meeting November 3rd

November 3^rd Meeting

3:05-3:15 Walk the girls over to the church

3:20-3:25 Brownie Circle-

1. Pledge
2. Girl Scout Pledge

3:25-3:40 Activity Session

a. Make mini pizza –Using camp resources wisely

3:40-3:50 Manners bti pg.68

4:00-4:10 Snack Abigail will be bringing a drink for the girls

4:10- 4:25 game with Mrs. Coffey (games around the world)

4:25 daisy circle, brownie smile song goodnight bridge

What a fantastic trip~

I am exhausted but its a good exhausted. What a great group of girls we have and a wonderful group of moms! I consider our troop blessed~

I sure appreciate all the thank yous but I had so much help that everything didnt seem a chore.

3 great co leaders

Joan: Thanks for taking Cami and sticking around for final clean up & last min trips to the store and for the last min phone sessions!~

Katie: our Troop hiker..... Kick back put your feet up you truly deserved it this trip .....Good call on the local park I have heard nothing but wonderful things about the hikes!

Renata: Thanks for being such a great sport having all your activities the ones that were put on the back burner and for all the tasty baking..... I LOVE LOVE LOVE THE granola recipe!

MOMS you cant be beat:

Julie....Whenever I saw you you were picking up something, wiping something or snapping a picture of it~ ..PS the pictures and muffins are/were wonderful!

Sally: Thank you for the Diet coke and bun run! Love your spirit and go with the flow attitude~

Lindsey: Thanks for your suggestions at the parent meeting, the muffins, the bun run..... If you cant tell I like the saying bun run..... we should have one every time.

Becky: You definately belong with this troop....you never were without a smile and were up for anything, thanks for lending a hand wherever was necessary and for hanging back for final clean up.

Christine: Thanks first and foremost for the 2nd trip back to the store. Paper towels should have been a priority on my list that slipped through the cracks.... I love that you offer feedback to how you felt things went...Because of you we had the 2 day trip with the built in free time and that went fabulous this year~ keep the suggestions coming.

Its all things things combined that made this trip seem effortless to me.

Look for some changes at next camp out from all your suggestions because we take all of them into consideration. Not only are these times at camp to spend time with our daughters but are building an example for the time to come when you no longer go to camp with them. So your suggestions become learning experiences for the girls.

I feel blessed to be a leader to such a great group of girls !

Yours in Scouting,

Wendy Winkler

OCTOBER 20th meeting schedule

OCTOBER 20th

3:05-3:15 Walk the girls over to the church

3:20-3:40 Brownie Circle- Mrs. Winkler

a. Pledge

b. Introducing homemade granola /Make it Eat it #1pg.38 BTI

c. Girls make granola

3:40-4:15 Activity Session

a. First Aid/Safety Sense #5

b. camp prep/

-Outdoor Adventure #2 BTI Pg119

-Travel Right#6 BTI pg 81

-.Learn 1 camp song Don’t wear no socks

-. Bandanna tricks pg 124 BTI

4:15-4:20 Snack

4:25-4:30 Closing Song/ Goodbye Bridge

My Momma Don't Wear No Socks

Leader: My momma don't were no socks!

Everyone: A ding-dong!

Leader: I saw her when she took 'em off

Everyone: A ding-dong!

Leader: (INSERT VERSES HERE)

Everyone: A ding-dong!

Leader: (COMPLETE VERSE HERE)

Chorus(Everyone)

A ding dong, dong, dong,

Dong-a-ding dong, dong dong,

Dong-a-ding dong!

She threw them in the tree... that dog refused to pee

She threw them ion a wire… that’s what caused the Chicago Fire!

She threw them up towards heaven... brought down a 7-4-7

She threw them on the wall... Now Spiderman refuses to crawl

She threw them in the air... Now the birds don’t fly up there.

She threw them in a boat... That boat refused to float

She threw them round the bend... that means THIS IS THE END!

Click on photo for complete packing list

* Items not on list.: Hat/ gloves, folding chair for campfire.

Healthy Habits meeting

Looking at these pictures you might initially ask....what has this to do with healthy habits.... Well actually a whole lot. At our last meeting we learned a great new yogurt snack that the girls made themselves.... Thank You Mrs. Kanatas! Feed the body.... We learned healthy habits and the role foods play to keep us healthy......feed the mind......We played fun games and learned a wacky camp song that made us all laugh.... Feed the soul! I say all in all it was an excellent meeting!

Our next meeting October 20th is a Camp Prep meeting. First aid will be the topic of discussion lead by Mrs. Kowal as well as a granola snack that the girls will actually bake and be a part of our trail mix during our camp hike at Trefoil Oaks lead by Mrs. Coffey~ More songs to come from Mrs. Winkler and as always learning more about what it means to be a Girl Scout Brownie!

Camp Parents: Reminder there is a camp meeting October 22 7:30 to discuss activities and procedures for camp. This helps us as leaders to make sure the everyone gets the best possible experience from camp and for those who have not camped with us to learn more of what to expect.

If you have not done so please turn in your camp fees as well as your troop paperwork and fees.

Meeting Agenda October 6th 2009

Snacks for October Meetings:

October 6: Mia Kanatas October 20th: Zosia Coffey

OCTOBER 6th Meeting agenda

3:05-3:15 Walk the girls over to the church

3:15-3:30 Flag Ceremony- Mrs. Winkler

3:30-3:50 Brownie Circle- Mrs. Winkler

(Girl Scout Ways BTI pg. 14) BA#2 Mrs. Winkler

a . Brownie Smile Song pg. 15 of BHB

b. Girl Scout Handshake pg.18 BHB

c. Friendship Circle pg. 19 BHB

d. Friendship Squeeze pg 19. BHB

3:50-4:20 Activity Session Healthy Habits - Mrs. Kanatas

a. Snack Session-Alternative

b. Learning Session-

(Eat Right, Stay Healthy BTI pg. 26) BA# 1 pg. 26 BTI-Mrs. Kanatas

c. Physical Activity session

(Girl Sports BTI, pg 28) BA#5 pg 31- Balloon Volley

(My Body, BTI pg. 45) BA#4 pg 45 Body Volley

4:20-4:25 Clean Up

4:25-4:30 Closing Song/ Goodbye Bridge