World Thinking Day

The following link is the World Thinking Day video the troop did this year.

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Daisy 2010-2011

Daisy 2010-2011

Enjoy the video of Troop 7318's awesome year!

(Click on the link above - Daisy 2010-2011)

March

Wow, it's been a while since I updated the Blog. We've had a busy three months. We started off the year with a visit from Rosie the Service Dog. The girls created get well cards for the hospital as we learned about being Considerate and Caring. The nurses were very thankful for the cards when I dropped them off.

The girls had a great time making bracelets, having to decide a fair and honest way to divide the beads.

As the girls talked about being Courageous and Strong, they earned a kickboxing patch and chose four different things they could do to show how they could be courageous and strong.

For World Think Day, the girls each shared items from around the world. What fun to see all the interesting things that have been collected and given as gifts.

The Girls collected items for the Samaritan's Inn in McKinney as we talked about Respecting ourselves and others.

Cookie sales were very successful. Between the booth sales and pre-sales, we sold almost 1000 boxes of cookies!!!!!

During our Journey we have discussed how seeds travel and blew trumpet vine seeds into the woods behind the school. We looked at different rocks and how they formed, followed by examining sands from around the world under microscopes.

December 13

Friendly and helpful - yellow

The girls finally earned their orange petals today, after remembering their bags for two meetings in a row. Each girl was also very excited to recite the promise and earn the blue center patch. I'm so proud of all our Daisies.

Have a good trip - Bon Voyage (French and Turkey)

We continued our journey today and met several of the characters in the story. The girls got to see the blue flower powered car with its bucket seats. Ask your Daisy what the car was made out of. Some of the items in the car we noticed on our nature walk as we looked for the colors all around us in nature.

We played a "what would you do" game, where the girls were given different options and had to chose what they would do, what would be most helpful. As we continued to work on our yellow petal each girl glued together six helping hand cards. Over the next several weeks, until our next meeting, the girls are supposed to do six helpful things. They get to give away their cards as they perform a helpful deed.

Gingerbread for Humanity

Go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arns7HpdLf0&feature=channel and see the video that the girls watched telling them about Habitat for Humanity. After talking about what the program does, and how that was a helpful and friendly thing, we constructed our own graham cracker houses. We raised $35 for Habitat for Humanity. I dropped off the money and they were very excited to have us participate in the program

We finished off the night with the Investiture for our three new Daisies: Conner, Lauren, and Maile.

We will have a Cookie meeting on January 3 at 6:30.

November 29 Meeting

The girls had a big night this week. I'm so proud of all our Daisies for remembering to bring their Daisy bags. We introduced the job chart today, and the girls were excited about their responsibilities. They are on their way to earning their orange petal.

We began our Between the Earth and Sky journey. The girls may go ahead and add the patch to their tunics. In celebration of the journey, we sang a song in different languages and looked at different places around the world. We also discussed solving conflicts, and brainstormed different ways to solve a problem. As we work on the Blue bucket part of the journey, we will explore our feelings.

This week the girls worked on learning the Girl Scout promise. We made a name tag, and added stickers as we completed different g

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es and activities to help the girls learn the promise. We made a card to take home to help learn the words and also it shows how they are supposed to hold their hand. The girls played charades, acting out situations tha

t demonstrated the different parts of the promise to help them understand the meaning behind the words. They put together puzzles and played a bean bag toss game as the said the different parts of the promise.

We will be building Gingerbread (graham cracker) Houses for our next meeting as we support Habitat for Humanity. Each girl needs to bring a small bag of candy and can bring an extra donation to the organization. Please see the parent letter in your child’s bag for more information.

The Caroling Date has been changed to December 15th at 6:15.

Girl Scout Promise

On my honor,I will try:

To serve God & my country,

To help other people at all times

And to live by the Girl Scout Law.

For our first meeting on Nov. 15 we worked on our Orange petal - Responsible for what I say and do

Take a look at what we did:

Sing: Amazing Daisies and Girl Scout Daisy

Play name game: Each girl says her name using alliteration (Laughing Lauren) After each name the group chants all the names.

Introduce the Girl Scout Promise with our troop banner: The girls decorated the banner with daisy flowers.

We made a Law poster together, using construction paper petals, to create the poster. The girls help glue them to the poster and we discussed how the Promise is the center part of the flower.

Each week we will add pictures from our troop meeting for each of the petals.

We then traced one of the girl’s bodies on butcher paper and cut it out. we named the person "Little blue." We talked about mean things people can say and do. Each time the girls thought of something we crinkled up part of Little Blue. After it was completely crumpled we tried to smooth it out. A Girl Scout’s job is to be responsible and not say things that might hurt someone on the inside.

We discussed the laws and used them to create Troop rules.

1. Attentive listening
2. No put downs
3. Appreciations
4. Right to Pass
5. Mutual Respect

Then, we used peel and stick felt daisy to decorate a pre-strung tag for the 8” vinyl tote. Totes will help your Daisies be responsible and bring their supplies to every meeting. Look for notes home in the bag. Each girl has a chart with all the petals. We will color them in as we earn them.

Sing: It’s a little bit of heaven

We removed our banner.