Saturday, March 20, 2010

The Final Photos




More Meeting Photos






And a couple more next...

Meeting on St. Patrick's Day


This meeting was another busy one. We decorated shamrock cookies, made green lemonade, played games and and learned about Ogham (ohm) message sticks in celebration of St. Patrick's Day. Irish people spoke a Celtic language called Ogham. It was made up of dots and lines. I made up (i.e. copied from a book) a secret code for our daisy troop using symbols to represent letters of the alphabet. Each girl was given the code-breaker sheet and had to find her name written on a wooden craft stick in "secret girl scout code" at her table setting.

Natalie brought a St. Patrick's day relay race games which required the girls to crab walk, bear walk, backwards walk and hop on one foot to win. It was fun to watch the girls.

We also made Jordan another Daisy shirt because of a defect in the shirt. Finally, we talked about bridging, the Sister Girl Scout Party, and I read a thank you from Ronald McDonald House to our troop.


More photos in the next posts...

Monday, March 15, 2010

WOW! Pop Tops!


Our local Ronald McDonald House couldn't believe the immense amount of pop tops donated from Troop 696! This photo is the cart of tabs from our troop placed next to the "house" of tabs they had. The staff was thrilled and are anxious to take the girls on a tour.

Build-a-Bear!


The girls of Troop 696 went to Build-a-Bear! This was what they chose to do as a reward for cookie sales and was paid for by their cookie funds. They each built a bear and received a girl scout bear tunic with fun patches for the Girl Scout and their bear. Too cute! They also got an Easter basket and candy (just a timely bonus).



Sunday, March 7, 2010

More Shelter Photos...




The girls had a nice visit to the shelter. They were all very well behaved, had great questions and listened well.

Animal Shelter Field Trip

We had a great visit to the Campbell County Animal Shelter. Lots of fun photos to share...





More coming...

World Thinking Day


World Thinking Day is February 22. It is a day that Girl Scouts celebrate international friendships. It is also a reminder that we are part of a global organization including 150 other countries. Girl Scouts highlight different countries every year. This year Haiti was one of the countries. The 2010 theme is "together we can end extreme poverty and hunger."

At our meeting, we spent circle time talking about what is was like to be hungry. I asked the girls if anyone had gone an entire day without eating when they weren't sick. We talked about being grateful for the comforts we enjoy. Each girl made a doll with a letter on the front. When finished, the dolls spelled T-H-I-N-K-I-N-G D-A-Y. This worked perfectly...11 letters and 11 girls. They were supposed to step up and say a part with their doll during an ending ceremony but we ran out of time and were just able to finish the dolls.



Stay tuned for our upcoming field trip new to the Campbell County Animal Shelter.