Feliz Navidad

Here is short video of our float on the move.



Our first, last and only parade float turned out lovely. Thanks to all of you who helped pull this off! The girls had a blast. Here are some more pictures from Ms. Angie.

We'll gather again in January :)

Meet Josefina Book Club Meeting

Tonight while mom's made hundreds of paper flowers for our float, we discussed Meet Josefina. We talked about Josefina's adventures and how she stood up to her fear of Florecita the goat. What are we afraid of: black widow spiders, snakes, scary roller coasters, roaches, tigers, donkeys, and reared up horses.

We also got to learn about how some women in Mexico prepare wool for weaving -just like Tia Dolores did in our book. Here is a video of Ms. Alisa on a Teacher Expedition to Oaxaca learning to spin wool.



Here are more pictures of women in Oaxaca at the Women's Cooperative: Las Mujeres de "Vida Nueva" showing us all the steps needed to prepare wool for weaving beautiful blankets. We even got to touch a blanket Ms. Rachel brought home that these women made.





















There are some fun games you can play while you learn more about Josefina at the American Girl Website.

Finally, we colored hammered tin suns (another craft straight from Oaxaca).

More Parade Prep (or) "Somebody's Something is Stuck to My Elbow"

Tonight? More parade prep. We assembled close to 40 tissue paper banners! Stay tuned for pictures of our completed float. In the meantime, here are more pictures of flag making.

Brownie Magic

We employed our most princess-like manners at Brownie Magic this past Saturday. Ms. Angie and Ms. Anjela took charge this weekend and escorted us through science experiments, puppet shows, singing, Green Starlette demonstrations and much more. Here is more proof of our exciting day at Camp Whispering Pines.

Next Float Assignment

All of the activities we are doing related to our Nine Flags Festival float and our book club selection are steps for earning our Hispanic Heritage patch.

Here is your next assignment. Each girl needs to make a Mexican flag to hold during the parade. Any format is fine.

Here are some ideas:
Mexico Flag Coloring Page
Flag Coloring Activity

Here is some information about the Mexican Flag:
February 24th is Mexican Flag Day
TIDES pictures of the Mexican Flag
the Eagle and the Snake

Making Float Decorations

Tonight we began the crazed process of making float decorations. Ms. Alisa taught us how to make tissue flowers -just watch the video so you can make thousands of needed flowers :)



We also made cut tissue paper art. Both of these crafts were inspired from Ms. Alisa's TIDES teacher expeditions to Mexico.

Here are more pictures from our first Mexican craft night...

Meet Josefina at the Nine Flags Festival

This is news to the few of you who were not at our last meeting...

Because the troop had such a blast participating in the homecoming parade...

and the theme of the Nine Flags festival this year is Mexico...

We have altered the plans for our Book Club party to include entering a Meet Josefina float in the Nine Flags Festival Parade. The girls are ecstatic about decorating a Meet Josefina float. Our next three Monday night meetings, the afternoon after Brownie Magic and the day of the festival will be dedicated to making Mexican crafts with Ms. Alisa to decorated our float. We will hammer out more details at our November 17th meeting. Meanwhile, the girls started brainstorming while they were waiting to be picked up Sunday morning.

You are not coloring until someone claims this underwear!

PowWow in the Pines in Pictures...

Nicole and Miriam very excited about camp...unfortunately it is 8:30 Friday night

A beautiful start to our day at Camp Robinwood

Activity 1

Many games involving sticks...

and arrows

PB&J on the green

Learning the basics before hitting the water

Stories with Navajo...this is when we learned the legend of Red Wing and the origins of Spanish moss

Downtime, puppy games, and wish come true rituals

one, two, three SWAP

A quick breeze through McDonald's and we are on the way to Miriam's house for smore making and slumber partying

Pj's, sleeping bags and the first chapter of Meet Josefina marks a nice end to a busy day

Breakfast!

Our final activity...recording our favorite things from our PowWow in the Pines ADVENTURE (a bigger one than you might imagine)!

Halloween Time

Cute costumes, incredible snacks, and happy girls made for a great Halloween party. Our three new Brownies also completed activities two and three of the Dancersize try-it.

Next Monday night we will plan our trip to Pow-Wow in the Pines.

Just a reminder that the girls will want to have SWAPS to trade at this event. There is no set number of SWAPS they need to make, but I would recommend at least 25.

SFA Homecoming

Preparing to march in SFA's Homecoming parade.

Fall Festival

Caroline, Miriam and Nicole having a blast on a Hayride at Ms. Angie's fall festival!

Investiture and Rededication

Monday night was a great one for ceremonies and celebrations! We once again celebrated the magic of the Brownie elf and recited the twist me and turn me words to invest three new girls into our troop.
Welcome Skylar, Caroline and Sarah :)

We finished off our evening with cupcakes in honor of Juliette Low's birthday. You can see more pictures from the evening here and here...

We are almost ready to find the first key in our Brownie quest. Please complete the final activity together (in your Brownie Quest book). If you missed either the first star activity or the second activity about the law, then please complete those. Bring all completed activities to our Halloween Party on the 20th.

Remember, we are not meeting next Monday night. In lieu of our meeting, we will picking up our fall products from Anjela.

Have a great week!

Snacks

Here is our fall snack schedule.

October 13 - Jennifer
October 20 - No Meeting
October 27 - Everyone (Halloween Party)
November 3 - Corrie
November 17 - Angie
December 1 - Nicole

Thanks Yolanda!

Second Meeting

Miriam & Caroline
What a night! We shared our secret sister stars, went on a GS promise scavenger hunt and learned a little more about what our GS promise means.

Next Monday? Party :)

We will have a short investiture ceremony (for the new girls), a rededication ceremony (for the returning girls) and eat birthday cake in honor of our founder Juliette Low.

If you have not already read the new Brownie story, then you might want to do that before Monday. If you're daughter is interested, then here is another version of the story.

I will take care of bringing the cake and paper goods.

Please have the girls wear their new troop t-shirts and vests next Monday night.

We will use the "secret sister" SWAP in our ceremony.

Pictures from last night :)


Juliette Low

2008-2009 Try-its, Pins & Patches

Here is a summary of the activities we complete that will help us earn our awards and recognitions.

Brownie Quests (The Three Keys)
First Key:
activity 1 - 9/29; we completed the "discovering me star"
activity 2 - 10/6; we completed the "discovering values" activity
activity 3 - 9/2; we turned in our family activity and received our first key patch








Try-its

Penny Power
activity 1 -3/30; presented and planned trip ideas for spending our cookie money, talked about the costs that need to be considered in planning a troop event




Girl Scout Ways
activity 1 - 10/6; the GS law scavenger hunt activity and the completion of the second key activity
activity 2 - 9/29 & 10/6

Her Story

activity 1 - 10/6 & 10/13; learn about Juliette Low and celebrate her birthday

Art to Wear

activity 1 - 9/29; we made troop t-shirts







Caring and Sharing

activity 1 - 10/6; completion of the "discovering me" star/ first secret sister activity

activity 2 - 10/6 & 10/13; completion of the second "my favorites" secret sister activity

Creative Composing

activity 3 - Miriam earned this by completing the haiku activity in the trail of the ELF section of the Brownie Quest book

Dancercize (Sarah & Skylar earned this; girls in the troop last year already earned it)
activity 2 - 10/28; Halloween Party
activity 3 - 10/28; Halloween Party
activity 1 - 11/22; Brownie Magic
activity 5 - 11/22; Brownie Magic

Science Wonders
activity 2 - 11/22; Brownie Magic
activity 6 -11/22; Brownie Magic




Puppets, Dolls and Plays
activity 6 - 11/22; Brownie Magic





Making Music
activity 2 - 11/22; Brownie Magic
activity 3 - 11/22; Brownie Magic




Cookies Count
activity 1 - Cookie meeting at Java Jacks
activity 2 - Cookie meeting at Java Jacks
activity 6 - Cookie meeting at Java Jacks





Patches
Earned at PowWow in the Pines at Camp Robinwood 11/8
(Miriam, Sarah, Nicole, Vauna, Rainy, Caroline, Madison, Jenae, Xavjah)







We are earning this patch over several meetings. Three Mexican craft meetings, book discussion meeting, and the parade.







We earned our African American Heritage patch 9/6/2009 at a meeting at the Gallery Downtown -we visit with Mr. Richard Orton (photographer) and Mr. Marion Upshaw about the photo exhibit the Upshaws of County Line.