Sea Turtle Display

As part of our final requirements for the Sea Turtle Badge our troop has to put together a school display. Mr. Gruel has very kindly given the Girl Scouts the use of the display cabinets in the front hallway during the month of December for the display.

We are asking all girls to submit one item to go inside the display case related to Sea Turtles. It could be a turtle painting with some facts, a small display with ideas to help sea turtles, a sketch of a sea turtle with all parts labeled. Anything related to educating the school about sea turtles would be perfect. Parents are encouraged to work on this with their daughter.

Originally we had asked for all items to be submitted by this Friday (Dec. 3rd) but we will take them on Monday, Dec. 6th as well.

Thank you for your help!

My Heritage Badge

Here is a badge we thought that girls might enjoy working on their own to earn. Click on the picture to see the requirements in a larger screen.

Honey Horn Field Trip - Video

Honey Horn - Field Trip

We had a great time on Saturday's field trip to Honey Horn Plantation on Hilton Head. We learned lot of new things about the importance of our enviornment and got to play in the sand and mud. We are putting together a slide show of our trip and will be posting it shortly.

Special thanks go out to all our drivers (Katelyn's mom, Faith's mom, and Gabby's aunt) who made it possible for all our girls to go!

Meeting 10/29

At our Oct. 29th meeting girls rotated through three Halloween stations. The first group made moon pie owls, the second group made oreo spiders, and the third group made ghostly nutter butter cookies.

The girls were definitely nice and sugared up by the end of the meeting :)

Carpool Volunteers Needed

We have a shortage of vehicles this Saturday for our field trip and in our current situation we can only take 11 girls. We need a couple of more parent volunteers who would be willing to take some girls in their vehicle.

You would need to stay with the program the entire day and have valid proof of insurance.

If you would be willing please contact Eve or Nichelle via email.

Field Trip - Saturday, Nov. 13th

As a reminder we have a field trip to Hilton Head Island this Saturday, November 13th as part of our wildlife badge.

Paperwork went home with girls and will need to be returned signed by a parent or guardian.

We will leave from Mossy Oaks Elementary School at 9 a.m. (the program starts at 10 a.m. on HHI). We should return to the school between 3 - 3:30 p.m. (we will call parents on our way back).

Girls should be dressed in jeans, socks, and sneakers. They should wear layers on top that they can take off when the weather warms up. The first program will be on the beach so it will be a little chilly. If they have a girl scout vest or badge please wear it for our pictures.

All girls will need to bring a bagged lunch with a drink. We will be eating between programs (the first program is a beach ecology program and the second program is a salt marsh program).

The cost is $3 per girl and is due either before or at the time of departure.

CHECKLIST FOR SATURDAY (girls will not be able to attend unless they have the items below):

- All paperwork filled in? (permission slip and carpool waiver)

- Proper dress (jeans, socks, sneakers, layered tops, girl scout vest/sash - optional)

- Lunch (with drink)

- Money: $3

If there are any questions, please direct them to either Eve or Nichelle. Thank you!

Hairspray - MAKE UP DATE

We are going to watch the movie Hairspray this Friday, November 12th. This is a make up date, as we were unable to watch the movie last month due to technical difficulties.

We will have a late pick up time of 5:30 p.m. to accomodate the length of the movie.

No Girl Scouts - 10/22

Just a reminder that there is no Girl Scouts this Friday, October 22nd due to parent/teacher conference schedules.

Our next meeting will be on Friday, October 29th.

Hunting Island Video Slideshow

We had a great time on our Hunting Island field trip Saturday. The weather was excellent (couldn't have asked for a better day) and the girls were awesome. After we learned about sea turtles we ate our lunches and climbed to the top of the lighthouse (all 167 stairs!). Thank you parents for the bagged lunches and adhering to the prompt pick up and drop off times

Above is a slideshow that we put together using Mrs. Heaton's and Mrs. Tyson's pictures of the event. It is embedded on YouTube but on a secure unlisted channel that you can only get to from this blog. Enjoy!

Meeting 10/15

We couldn't get the video of Hairspray to work today (boooooo!!!!). The girls were troopers and handled it very well (yay!!!!!!!). Luckily it was a BEAUTIFUL day and the girls got an opportunity to socialize and play outside. We told them that we would regroup and try again another Friday.

On the plus size Ms. Tyson did an OUTSTANDING job with our Kidsville pumpkin entry. She took all the girls patches and made our own pumpkin "patch" :)

Our pumpkin, and the others collected, will be on display at Lobeco Farms and then auctioned off, with proceeds going to CAPA.

Swim Badge Update

I followed up on our swim badge order was told they have been back ordered. I got a call that they are expected in this week and they will send out as soon as they come in.

Once they come in they will be passed out to girls at our meeting. Thank you for your patience!

Sea Turtle Event - THIS SATURDAY

Just a reminder that this Saturday, October 16th is the Sea Turtle event at Hunting Island.

Time: Meet at Mossy Oaks at 10 a.m. with a firm departure time of 10:15 a.m. Girls will be returning anywhere between 2-3 p.m. (we will make phone calls as we get ready to leave Hunting Island). All girls must have someone to pick them up at Mossy Oaks (if you need to make other arrangements, please talk to one of the troop leaders).

Permission Slips: Signed permission slips will be required for all girls.

Dress: Girls must wear jeans and sneakers. We are recommending a white shirt and their girl scout sash or vest if they have one (if not...no worries...jeans and a white shirt is fine).

Transportation: We will carpool as much as possible. Those girls riding with other parents will be required to sign a waiver at drop off.

Food: Girls will eat lunch at approximately 1 p.m. at the base of the lighthouse. Please pack a lunch and drink for your daughter. We recommend a light snack prior to leaving due to the later lunch time.

If time permits we might explore the beach or climb the lighthouse. We will not be swimming (so no swimsuits or towels please!).

If you have any questions, please contact one of the troop leaders.

Meeting 10/8

We finished up our journals at this week's meeting with a coat of decoupage on the cover and making our beaded book marks. They turned out great! All journals went home with girls at the end of the meeting

Girls also helped us with a pumpkin decorating project when they were done with their journals. We entered our troop into the Kidsville pumpkin decorating contest. At the end of the contest pumpkins will be raffled off by Kidsville Magazine to support CAPA.

We are dressing up our pumpkin like one of our girl scout patches. Girls helped by drawing other patches to go on the sash. Ms. Tyson (our super talented Asst. Girl Scout leader) is working on the pumpkin this weekend (due to the short turn around time). We got a pretty impressive pumpkin and I can't wait to see the finished project.

Please note, two permission slips went home with girls at this last meeting. One is for our movie "night" and the other was for the turtle program next Saturday. We need the turtle paper work back as soon as possible to establish a head count for the Hunting Island staff. That can be dropped off with homeroom teachers or with Ms. Tyson, Ms. Perry, or myself.

As always, thank you for your continued support of our troop :)

Turtle Program at Hunting Island - Oct. 16th

Our Girl Scout service area (363) has organized a FREE turtle program at Hunting Island State Park on Saturday, October 16th at 11 a.m. The program will last approximately 2 hours and would be followed up with lunch at the beach (please bring your own lunch).

Girls will earn a Sea Turtle "Try-It" badge unique to Girl Scouts in this area.

They are strongly strongly strongly encouraging car pooling to keep parking costs down.

This is a great Girl Scout (and educational) opportunity for the girls and we hope we can get a group from our troop to go.

Information will go home with the troop this Friday (Oct. 8th). Please return as soon as possible so we can give a head count. Thank you!

Movie "Night"

As part of our work on our dance badge our troop will be watching a musical at our October 15th meeting.

The girls voted at our last meeting and we will be watching the movie "Hair Spray" (which beat out Anne and Summer Magic). The movie is rate PG and we will send home a permission slip at the October 8th meeting for both the movie and late pick up time of 5:30 p.m. (instead of 4:30 p.m.).

The girls are excited and are looking forward to this event!

Meeting - 10/1

We spent our meeting this past week working on our journals, cutting out magazine pictures and words and painting our covers. We should finish this project at our next meeting with decoupaging.

Swimming Pictures

Here are some of the pictures that we took at the pool while working on our swimming badge. Sadly we were so busy I didn't get a lot but the ones I did get were priceless :)

Thank You!

A special shout out goes out to Destini's mom who, when picking up her daughter's Girl Scout sash, purchased Girl Scout hair bands for the troop.

All the girls LOVED them and immediately put them on. I told the girls that it made me sad that I have short hair :)

Thank you for thinking of us and keeping us "in style"!

Journals - MAGAZINES NEEDED

The girls are making personalized journals out of inexpensive composition books (my sample is pictured above).

We told girls on Friday that they can continue to cut out pictures/words from magazines they have at home (after first asking!) and bringing them in this Friday to add to their collection. The girls are going to need letters to spell out their names and probably about 20 other items (other words/phrases or pictures).

They should be looking for a variety of sizes in order to create some contrast and should be able to pick one thing (word/picture) to be their focal point (usually the biggest item).

We did run out of magazines and are doing an all call to parents to send in magazines if you can on Friday.

Thank you for your continued help and support!

Our Meeting 9/24

We had another great meeting this week. Girls finished making their friendship braclets and we started our next project, a personalized journal.

We ran into a painting problem with the journals but girls rallied nicely and we moved on to cut out magazine pictures/words for the cover. Next week we hope to have those finished.

Girls are also excited about the upcoming Honey Horn trip. We talked about earning the $3 for the trip so feel free to make a list of chores :)

The swimming badges are on order and as soon as they come in they will be handed out.

Revised Snack Schedule

The snack schedule has been revised and reposted. To view it at anytime click "Snack Schedule" under the labels to the right hand side ---------------->

November Event - MARK YOUR CALENDARS

I am very excited to annouce that we have booked an event, to coincide with our Wildlife Badge, with the Coastal Discovery Museum for Saturday, November 13th.

The tentative agenda is as follows (with more details to come):

10:00 - 11:30 a.m. Beach Field Study

11:30 - 12:30 a.m. Bagged Lunch

1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Salt Marsh Explorers

The event is going to be led by the Director of Eduction and excellent teacher and wildlife educator (and a good friend of Mrs. Heatons).

The cost will be $3 per person (our troop will off set the full cost with cookie sale money from last year). We strongly encourage parents to have the girls earn the money through chores :)

As we get closer to the date, we will post more details. Until then....mark your calendar and start earning that $3!

Swimming Fun

We just completed our first badge (yea!) Girl's completed the following list of swimming tasks to earn their swimming badge:

- Watch a water safety video

- Recall three water safety tips

- Wear a PFD and pull someone out of the water with it

- Treadwater for 1 minute

- Cooperate with someone trying to rescue you

- Rescue someone without getting in the pool

- Come up with a buddy check call and practice use it

- Glide Swim

- Kick Swim

- Crawl Swim

- Back Stroke

- Side Stroke

- Jump in the water

- Bring something up from the bottom of the pool

- Dive in the pool (if safe)

- Move in the water like an animal

Good job girls (and thanks to the parent volunteers who helped us out!).

How To - Make Friendship Bracelets

To see a larger picture of any of these slides just click on it. Enjoy!

Our Meeting - September 17, 2010

Today was a fun day in Girl Scouts. We started with a get to know you bingo game that Ms. Nichelle introduced to the girls.

There was quite a lot of paperwork we passed out today (permission slip for swimming, Girl Scout registration form, and transportation form). This is pretty typical at the start of a new troop. We had the girls look over the snack schedule and realized we had missed four girls (oops!). The list will be redone and reposted to include those we missed.

We looked over the blog and showed the girls how they can make comments. As we work on our technology badge they will get more into blogging and learning about internet safety. Permission slips will go home to allow girls to blog and post pictures hopefully next week. Currently I have verbal permission from a few parents so pictures, at the moment, will be limited to those girls only.

We also discussed the requirements for the swimming badge we are working on. Girls watched a short YouTube clip that was downloaded about water safety and how to use a snorkel. Please note we told the girls if they don't feel comfortable with any of the swim activities they could simply let us know and they could pass without penalty.

Girls also learned how to make friendship bracelets out of yarn. We didn't have time to finish but they got to take their practice bracelet home. We will probably finish those up next week.