I found this on my phone last night!

Murals & Science of Spa Photos

Girl Meeting this Sunday!

We'll see you at 3p this Sunday at TBPS to work on the "Science of Spa"!

I put a notice out on Front Porch Forum for snowshoes and now have 4 pairs for us to use!  We live in an amazing community!  If you would like to give your girl a pair for the holidays, please let me know and I will bring them on Sunday or to school.  She can use them when we go snowshoeing as a troop, and we will donate any unused ones back to the Council so other girls can use them.  Each donor received a tax donation credit for 2015, too.

For our "Science of Spa" meeting, this is what I have planned for this Sunday's 3pm meeting at TBPS:

• Brownies - Home Scientist Badge
• At home - grow rock candy
• Meeting: Make pepper dance with a balloon (static)
• Meeting: lemon & lime density
• Meeting: Blow up a balloon without your breath (baking soda & vinegar) + use for cleaning products!
• Meeting: giant bubbles (glycerin) + use glycerin for spa products
• Juniors - Different Badges!
• Flowers badge #3 - Flowers are healers/are calming + make bath beads!
• Digital Photographer badge #2 - photograph friends
• Staying Fit #3 - Create a stress-free zone
• Jeweler #3- Make a bead bracelet or
• Jeweler #5 - Make jewelry for someone

Let's see what we can get done!

Geocaching Catch Up!

I had this blog posting in "drafts" and didn't know it - so sorry!

The good news is that Sarah and Celia noticed that our geocache has already been found 5 times!  Our cache is called "Be a Scout" and is available at www.geocaching.com.  I'll post the quotes of the folks who found it and then follow up with the badge requirements you can finish at home.  Please let me know when your girl finishes the badge so we can buy it for our Badge Ceremony!

"Saw this come online when I was at the car dealer's, and within walking distance of my house! Couldn't wait to get home, grab the dog Max, and get out and walking. Did a very familiar walk of about 0.3 miles each way, around the corner to the parking area, then across the field to the disc golf course. The container was well hidden, and fallen leaves this time of year make things even tougher. At one point Max was sniffing with interest at a spot, but no, the cache wasn't there. Coordinates are right on the money, and after a short search I found it. I had a lot of great times in Girl Scouts during the 1960s when I was growing up. Geocaching was still almost 40 years in the future, but we were happy with hikes, nature walks, and camp."

"Once I chose a parking spot (it looks like all three possible parking areas are about equidistant), Casey and I ventured out on the soggy, muddy trails (you warned us!). The GPSr took me right to a promising area before it started bouncing. I checked a few places before returning to the original GZ and making the find. A nicely stocked and hidden cache! I too was a Girl Scout, every year I could be one, from Brownie through Senior (they didn't have Daisies then). I was also a G.S. camp counselor at Camp May Flather in Virginia, and my camp name, Waffle, was the basis for our family's caching name. Scouts rock! TFTC!"

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The five steps of the Junior Geocaching badge involve: 

 • Preparing for your adventure - done!

 • Learning to use a GPS receiver - you may want to brush up with her on this!

 • Making a trade item - done!

 • Going on a geocaching adventure - done!

• Taking part a travel-bug’s travels - we did some, but try to follow the trackable Sara included!

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Brownie Letterboxing badge involves:

1. Have a family member hide 5 things around the house and follow their clues to find the objects.
2. Choose a special stamp - done!
3. Create a clue - create one for our letterbox, and please send it to me!  You can:
1. Create a "fill in the blank" clue ( Clue: "Look ___ the slide at the park" Question: "What is the opposite of  over?")
2. Create a scramble ("Look under..." is written "Kool rndeu...")
4. Search for a letterbox in a new place!  (www.letterboxing.org)
5. Make a letterbox - done! (http://www.letterboxing.org/BoxView.php?boxnum=69479)

PSST: Check out this website for coding: 

http://www.theproblemsite.com/reference/mathematics/codes/

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Daisy Flower "Considerate and Caring" Petal:

1. Listening - done if she stayed with the group!  Watch this video!
2. Feelings - talk a bit more about how she feels in Girl Scouts or hiking in the woods.  Here's another video!
3. Considerate of the outdoors - staying on the trails and not widening them.  Done!

The International Festival is this weekend!  Our calendar showed it on Saturday, but as I look at the schedule for Waterbury's Holiday Stroll, it seems that Sunday would be a better day for going to Essex Fairgrounds.  It opens at 10a, so we'll have to head out around 9:30a.  Get in touch (498-3947) if you'd like to carpool and encourage your girl to wear her uniform to the Festival!

Here is the Holiday Stroll lineup for Saturday in Waterbury:

Saturday night is the Festival of Lights, and we've whipped up a Girl Scout lantern - wear your uniform and come find us to walk together!

Invite a friend to join in the fun!

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Geocaching & Letterboxing Photos

Troop Meeting this Sunday

Please note that we'll be meeting at the Green Mountain Club tomorrow at 3!

Meetings this Week!

Just a reminder to check the blog the day before each of our events for last-minute information.

Tuesday's Community (Adult) Meeting where we get to learn about troop finance along with other leaders in the area will be at Aldrich Public Library in Barre (Boardroom) from 6:30-8pm.

Wednesday is the Troop (Adult) Meeting at 6 at Cork, when we will:

1. Finalize the troop activities for this Sunday's 3p Geocaching meeting (thank you, Sara!)
2. Put the rest of the troop (adult) meetings on the calendar for the year.
3. Review the common badges across girl levels to determine activities for future meetings.

Sunday at 3p is our Troop meeting at TBPS!  Please check out the Safety Checkpoints here to learn more about geocaching.  Please make sure you bring:

• sturdy footwear
• warm clothing/jacket/gloves/hat
• a small item that your girl can leave in a geocache we make (no bigger than a Ball jar)
• water & a small snack

For Girls » Veterans Day: Time to Say Thanks!

http://forgirls.girlscouts.org/veterans-day-time-to-say-thanks/

Dates Determined for Troop Activities!

If you've received this as an email, take a look at the blog (girlscouts30228.blogspot.com) for upcoming events!

When we add, delete, or modify events, we will also post a blog notification.  However, you can choose to connect to this calendar on your phone or computer, too.  That way, any updates will automatically show up.

If your computer calendar accepts iCal, click this link:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/girlscouts30228%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics
You will see an iCal downloading, and when you click on it, the calendar will automatically be in Outlook.

If you want the calendar to show up on your iPhone:

-Copy the URL above.-Tap the "Settings" icon, then scroll down and select "Mail, Contacts, Calendars."-Tap "Add Account" and select "Other."-Select the "Add Subscribed Calendar" option, fill in the Google Calendar URL in the Server box and click "Next." Change any settings you see fit before saving the calendar. You do not need a username or password.

Fall Product Sale in a Nutshell (Pun Intended)

Go to:

https://girlscouts.qspgao.com/eTools/WelcomeParticipant

Click on:
New Registration

You will enter your information on the left and your girl's on the right.  It will then check the troop roster to make sure you're connected.

You will get a confirmation of your girl's online ID.

The easiest step is to send out an invite for online magazine sales, but you can take video or photos from your phone and upload them into the site from your phone - so give it a shot if you have time!

For a visual overview of the process and rewards, click on this .pdf.

Sales close on Sunday, so bring any info with you to the parent meeting!

Great Girl Scout Families

Apples!

Last week for fall product sale!

I'm assuming you have already received emails from Council about this fall fundraiser, but I was finally able to get some quirks worked out so that our troop could participate!

This is our best way to get some funds into our troop account quickly!

Parent meeting next Sunday

I'd like the adults to meet from 4-5:30 on Sunday the 25th to discuss troop plans and put together our calendar for the year.

We can also review any steps you might still need to complete your volunteer status.

Please bring your calendars, the Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting, and ideas for the year!

We'll meet at my house: 85 Clover Lane - turn onto East St (across from Hen of the Wood), take the first left onto Clover Ln, and it's the last house on the left.

See you there!

Apple picking today!

Let's get together at 4p to pick the last of the season's apples...looks like we might need to dust off some snow!  We'll meet at the Rands' house to keep it inexpensive, so please bring your reusable bags!

160 Lonesome Trail...Red house and barn across from country club...please park at the red barn!  Call me at 498-3947 if you have questions!

Apple Picking Photos

Meeting on Saturday, August 29 from 10-11:30 at TBPS

I'm looking forward to seeing all of you at the meeting today!  We're going to continue working on the first part of the Girl Scout Law, which is doing our best to be Honest and Fair.

In our opening circle, we'll practice the Girl Scout Promise:

And we'll read through the Girl Scout Law:

We'll sing "Make New Friends" in a round again, and we'll make sure to  practice listening as well as singing!

Then we'll listen to our theme song for today (click on the image):


We'll then play a couple of games to demonstrate being Honest and Fair:

1. A girl will tell a truth or a fib, and everyone has to race up to the happy (true) or sad (fib) face.
2. Girls each have a cup and the adults distribute different numbers of pennies to each girl.  Eventually, we have a conversation about why it doesn't feel fair and have them figure out a way to make it fair

Our badge activities will also focus on the Honest and Fair Theme:

1. We may draw Lupe the Lupine flower (she represents the Daisy Flower Friend for being Honest and Fair) on a "mural" with a limited number of supplies to practice sharing and being fair.
1. We will use mixed media to complete this project, so the Brownies will be completing Steps 4 & 5 of the Painting Badge.  At the last meeting, we did Steps 1-3, so they are now done with that badge!
2. Juniors will be completing Step 2 of the Drawing badge through this activity.
2. All girls will then have a chance to work with another girl to create a cartoon character or logo that represents being Honest and Fair.
1. Juniors will be completing Step 4 of the Drawing badge through this activity.

All of these activities help Daisies complete their first flower petal for their uniforms and help the older girls review the first part of the Girl Scout Law.

It's important for the girls to understand that they will start running parts of the meeting, so we'll talk about the jobs and then decide who will do each job at the next meeting (being fair about it, of course!).  

At the next meeting, we'll make a Kaper Chart that we'll use at each meeting and we'll start collecting $4 dues at each meeting (these are optional, but support our activities and equal $1 a week, if you want to use it as part of allowance...).  Here are some examples of a Kaper Chart:

At the Closing Circle, we'll sing a part of "Linger" and do the Friendship Squeeze!  This song is usually sung at the end of a camping session, so we'll only sing the first slide of that's shown on this video.