6 Bridging Steps

Each step must be completed before the bridging ceremony in order to earn your "Bridge to Juniors Rainbow" bridge.

•1.   Talk with a junior girl scout or a junior leader to learn about junior girl scouting. Find out what they do as juniors and what it will be like to join a junior troop. (Done at meeting on 4/1)

•2.   Complete a junior Girl Scout online game. Go to http://www.girlscouts.org/  Click on: "go girls only". Then click on games. Click on my planet. Play the 4 games-map, water, sun and air. Write down and tell the troop what happens with the air quality, open space and energy use when you start filling the planet with more and more buildings and homes. (Needs to complete at home- write answers down and bring to meeting before 5/13)

•3.   Write a letter to a junior "pen pal." (Needs to complete at home- Bring in ASAP so can be given to junior girls for reply)

•4.   Create a poster or flyer to show troop what she learned from speaking with junior in #1 above. (Will do at an upcoming meeting)

•5.   Attend camping weekend/overnight outing with a Girl Scout...

BROWNIE TROOP 570

APRIL NEWSLETTER

REMINDERS - Please check the snack schedule carefully to see when your child is due to bring snack. We have assigned the girls randomly and are trying to accommodate those who missed snack nights due to snow cancellations or sickness so that all girls can celebrate their birthday and so snacks have been distributed equally. Therefore, some may be bringing snacks relatively close together. We will be celebrating many Birthdays from now till the end of year and wouldn't want them to miss out on their Birthday night! Permission form and any family payment for The Discovery Center are due now! Girls are asked to bring a ROCK for a Fathers Day craft ASAP. The rock should be roughly 4x4 (or slightly bigger) and about 2 inches thick, preferably oval, if possible. (It needs to be able to accommodate foam lettering and some stickers.) As the weather is getting nicer (some days!), please remind the girls to wear appropriate shoes (NO Heeley's, no flip flops, open toed shoes or heels.) We may be running around outdoors, jumping, playing games and other things as weather gets better and do not want anyone getting hurt....

BROWNIE TROOP 570

MARCH NEWSLETTER

REMINDERS - Good News... Beaver Lodge is finished and we may return there for our meetings, effective this Wednesday March 11th! Final dues payment was due on January 28^th!  If you haven't paid in full, please do so. As a reminder, your child may not attend any upcoming field trips or receive any further pins/try-its until the dues are paid in full. For you cookie lovers, please save any cookie packaging (boxes) you can after you eat them. We will be doing a cookie frame collage for a craft if I get enough. Also, please save any large Pringle cans (for Mothers Day craft) and cardboard juice/milk containers (for Easter craft). Field trip credit order of preference form was sent home and should be returned by March 18^th so we can apply appropriate credit to trips your child prefers to attend.

UPCOMING EVENTS-  

•·        We will be celebrating the Birthday of GS on Wednesday March 11^th. The girls will learn about how GS got started through the Boy Scouts and see past uniforms and books from both Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. We will also end our...

     The girls have been brainstorming since November with ideas as to what they would like to do with the proceeds the troop makes from the Annual GS Cookie Sale. It was a unanimous vote to spend the earnings on field trips. They threw out their many ideas for field trips they wished to take. After discussion, we narrowed the trips down to 3 trips. The 3 “Cookie Sales Field Trips” the girls decided on were Great Wolf Lodge, Knoebels Amusement Park and a bowling trip.

     During one of our January meetings, by a majority Vote, the girls decided the top choice that they want the money to be spent on is an overnight trip to Great Wolf Lodge. They would also like to spend a day at Knoebels Amusement park and go bowling. We researched their trip choices for tentative prices and availabilities. By allowing the girls to plan, choose and decide their individual and troop “goals”, it encourages and helps them stay focused on the end results and motivates them to keep selling to reach their goals. They are very excited and...

BROWNIE TROOP 570

FEBRUARY NEWSLETTER

REMINDERS - Please note: I have been informed by WLE office that Beaver Lodge will be having some major renovations done and we will no longer be able to use the facility for our meetings (until further notice.) Therefore, we will be having meetings at Miss Cheryl's house until we may return to the lodge.   The girls should bring a small wallet sized picture of themselves to our meeting this Wednesday (if they haven't already) for a Valentine's craft they are completing. Final dues payment was due on January 28^th.  Please return payment in envelope with scout's name and place in Miss Cheryl's folder. The cookie "pre-order" forms are due! Please return your cookie pre-order form by no later than this Thursday February 5^th! I must have it by then so I can enter our troops order before midnight. Girls should continue to sell cookies till March 23^rd! For you cookie lovers, please save any cookie packaging (boxes) you can after you eat them. We will be doing a cookie frame collage for a craft if I get enough.

UPCOMING EVENTS-

•·        Woodworking craft classes at Miss...

Cookie Sale Information Sheet

Our annual Cookie Sale will begin on January 16th and continue

Through March 23^rd, 2009.

Girls will be receiving their Cookie Sale packet on January 14th. Parents must complete the permission and authorization forms before girls may begin selling cookies. They may begin taking "initial orders" from January 16^th-February 2nd on their "Initial Order Card". This "initial order card" must be returned to Miss Cheryl by NO LATER THAN February 4^th. Girls should start taking as many orders as they can from now to February 2nd but should continue to sell cookies through March 23rd. (Girls will earn special incentive prizes based on the number of cookies sold during the "initial" ordering phase and then cumulative prizes based on the total cookies sold during the entire sale.) Cookies will be available to troops on or about Feb. 26th for delivery to your "initial" customers. Thereafter, all additional cookies can be obtained from Miss Cheryl by calling 689-0910 for pick-up at my home or to pre-order for pick-up at our regular meetings. Cookie sale officially ends on March 23^rd.  However, we will continue to sell cookies...

Craft Items Wish list

These are items we might need for future crafts. If you use or have any of these items you wish to get rid of and can kindly collect them for us, we would greatly appreciate it. You may send them in at any time.

Empty, clean LARGE Pringle cans

Empty "6 pack" cardboard holders (ones used for glass "adult beverages"    

               Or glass soda bottles

Wallpaper scraps

Empty, clean Tuna and Chicken cans

Empty film canisters

Empty, clean small Individual sized Pringle cans

Empty, clean Plastic laundry scoops

Empty, clean Cardboard ½ gal milk or juice boxes

Any old scrap fabric materials, lace, ribbons, towels, cloths, felt,

Any old puzzles you don't want anymore, puzzles missing pieces

Empty, clean WIDE Mouth jars- like old ball jars, pickle or peanut butter

           Jars

Cardboard egg cartons

Empty, clean Large Coffee cans

Unused Paper lunch bags

Yarn, string, buttons, beads, metal craft bells

Clean Foil pie plates

Shoe Boxes

Wire-type hangers

Empty, clean Baby juice bottles with lids and hugs juice containers

Empty, clean peanut canisters- the cylindrical cardboard type with foil

      Lining

Any old mismatched anklet type socks

Empty, clean cereal boxes

 ...

BROWNIE TROOP 570

NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER

REMINDERS - For the safety of the girls, All parents are asked to escort their child into and out of meetings. We occasionally have updates that are not necessarily sent home; but need to addressed with parents. Please check poster board at meetings or our troop website frequently for updates. Occasionally, we may need to speak with parents about upcoming events or check on certain things. It helps to save time and alleviates the telephone manager Mom from making unnecessary calls if we can catch you during meeting times. Girls should come to every meeting and GS function in Uniform, unless otherwise stated.  Our snack schedule is assigned on a rotating basis by the Snack Manager Mom. When it is your daughters assigned week, please send in enough snack and drinks for the entire troop. (Plan for at least 13.) NO MEETING ON NOVEMBER 26^TH DUE TO THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY BREAK.

UPCOMING EVENTS- "Bring a friend" Night is planned for Wednesday November 5^th. Anyone wishing to bring a friend or two to the meeting is welcome. We will show them what we do at Brownies; and then play games, crafts...