Another successful meeting! Thank you all for your donations...we are ready to cut, color and glue to our hearts content!

Last night we introduced ourselves again and told the circle our favorite thing we did last week. After we all participated in the flag ceremony and fun songs, Heidi read the first chapter in our journal. We met the three BFFs and listened as they discovered a lone daisy in a garden full of weeds. After a delicious cupcake celebrating Madison and Mckenzie's birthday, we went back inside to start on our crafts. We talked about being honest and fair (light blue petal) while we made our own giant daises and pipe cleaner bracelets. By unevenly distributing the color beads to our girls, they had to figure out who had more/less and how to distribute all the bead evenly amongst themselves.

Upcoming events- We will be starting our own garden project very soon. Our investiture ceremony will be in the upcoming weeks where our girls will earn their blue circle for the daisy and their insignia with pins, and possibly a petal (all depends on what we get done the next couple weeks!). A field trip to Clayton PD and possibly City Hall is in the works for our Respect Authority petal. Also you should have already received an evite from Heidi regarding the Kiddie Walk on Oct.10th. This is a "if you feel like it" event. Please do not ever feel any pressure from us for the random get togethers we schedule. We will let you know when the event is important and we will apply pressure at that point!

Thank you so much for assisting in a successful first

meeting! I think we got off to a great start and that

your girls are ready and willing to learn more about being a

Girl Scout.

Next week's meeting is scheduled to be at my house,

however, we are going to look into using a neutral facility

(at no cost to the troop) to make it easier for our girls to

focus. We realized after the meeting that while we can

make the round robin meetings work, it would be easier on

our girls if we had a neutral room to go to every other

week. If it works out for us, we will be avoiding the

"newness" of each girls toys, backyard, etc.

Some of you asked about donating to the troop. Items

that we need are crayons, scissors, construction paper,

markers, really any crafty stuff you want to donate we will find a

way to use it. Please do a reply all to this email if

you plan on donating something so that we don't end up with

50 scissors. If you do not donate, please do not fret

about it! We are happy that you are donating your

daughter to us every other week!

One thing that Heidi and I are on the lookout for is a used wagon.

It will be used for a mobile garden. Because it will be more than

likely unusable after we are done with it, we are hoping to find an

inexpensive or better yet free one! Please let one of us know if you

happen to see one of a thrift store, garage sale, etc.

Homework - please read with your daughter(s) up to page 17 in your

journals. If they want to do any of the activities in those pages,

please feel free.

Thank you again for a great meeting! If you do not
hear. From me before Friday, our meeting on the 24th will be
at my house.

Daisy Details

Daisy Girl Scouts are named for Girl Scout founder, Juliet Gordon Low. In her kindergarten year she was given the nickname Daisy by an uncle.

Since Daisy Girl Scouts are in kindergarten, instead of the vest or sash worn by Brownie Girl Scouts and Junior Girl Scouts, Daisies wear a blue tunic. Daisies also wear an official Daisy Girl Scout pin on their insignia. Instead of earning patches and badges based upon completing tasks, the Daisies earn patches shaped like flower petals for participation in character education activities based upon the Girl Scout Law. The blue center patch of the daisy on the Daisy Girl Scout tunic is symbolic of the Girl Scout Promise. Each petal, in ten different colors, corresponds with the ten lines on the Girl Scout Law.

During meetings, we will discuss the meaning of the words in the law, and play games and make crafts to enhance the girls learning. Through activities, field trips, dramatic play and role-playing skits, the girls are given the chance to practice their new skill during the meetings. Once petals are awarded, they are sewn or ironed onto the girl’s tunic to announce her commitment to the principles each petal symbolizes.