Meeting #2 // October 5th, 2017

This meeting we decided to split the group up into Daisies, Brownies, and Juniors, so as not to overwhelm the new/younger girls with all the people. So, there will be 3 different sets of activities. Feel free to skip to your Girl Scouts age group to find out what we did. Also, if you scroll all the way to the bottom there will be reminders,  information, and sneak peaks of what we will be doing this Thursday, the 19th.

We began the meeting like we always will, by reciting the Girl Scout Promise and Law.

Daisies: We will be working on earning the center of the Daisy Flower first. The daisies began by reading "Pinkalicious: Pinkie Promise" by Victoria Kann. We discussed what a "pinky promise" is and if it is good to break a promise. We also discussed what to do if you break a promise. We then moved on to a coloring page by TwistyNoodle.com that had an outline of the flower petal that will be on their vest/tunic once the complete all the petals. The colored in the center of the flower with the blue color. They also traced their names on the sheet below the flower. These will go in their Daisy scrapbooks and they will color each petal as we work on them. After this they finished by gluing flowers with letters on them to spell out honor into a garden (one of our important words in the Girl Scout Promise), and then coloring it. 

Brownies: The Brownies started out with the Juniors on a tour of the church kitchen. We will be working on our Snack and Money Manager badges, so this was perfect for them to see the different areas of a prep station. From there they were shown different types of candy and candy bars and were told how much sugar (in tsp/Tbsp) were in it and together they put those amounts into cups and compared them to the actual candy (Step #1). It's amazing how much sugar kids (and adults) don't realize are in our everyday sweets. After that they were able to work together to make an energy snack, No Bake Monster Energy Balls (Step #4). They didn't have enough time to roll them so they could take them home, but they will be able to take them home at the next meeting. They all got to take home a spatula to remember what they made and to use to make something else.

Juniors: The Juniors also started out with a tour of the kitchen(Step #1). They are going to be working on their Simple Meals and Business Owner badges. Next they brain stormed together different business that they could create themselves out of things that they loved to do or had a passion for (Step #1). From here they filled out the Guide to Writing a Business Plan by BizKids.com (Steps #2).

We ended our meeting in the friendship circle. Each girl crosses their arms and holds the girls hand next to them. Then one by one they make a wish and squeeze the hand of the girl to their left, which signals that girl to make a wish and so on and so on, until we are back at the beginning. It's all done in silence (at least that's the goal ;) ). I hope that all the girls had a good time and I can't wait to see them again this week to celebrate Halloween and Girl Scout founder Juliette Gordon Lowe's birthday.

REMINDERS:

• Dues MUST be turned in to this week's meeting, unless you have discussed with me an alternative, they are $40 for the year. 
• We also need all Girl Health and History forms turned in at the beginning of this week's meeting. 
• I will be posting a separate post about Nut/Candy and Magazine orders later today. It will be linked here.

NEXT MEETING INFORMATION:

• All girls may wear their costumes to the meeting (don't worry if you haven't bought one yet or weren't planning on it...throw on a witch hat or draw on a cat face)
• We will be frosting cookies at the meeting, if your Girl Scout has any allergies PLEASE notify me immediately.