Last Daisy Meeting for the Year!

We wrapped up our last Daisy meeting of the year on May 20th.  We had lots of fun things planned. The girls learned about Juliette Gordon Lowe who was the founding woman of the Girl Scouts.  We colored and put together paper dolls of Juliette to use as a Flat Stanley project for the summer.  The girls will be taking their Juliette's with them on their fun adventures this summer and then send me the pictures so that we can post them to our troop blog to see what all our Daisy friends are doing this summer!

 

We also decorated picture frames with a picture of our troop so that we can not only remember all the friends we made this year in Daisies, but all the fun memories we made too.  

 

We invited our moms and dads in at the end of the meeting to have a patch ceremony.  The girls worked hard in the few short months we had together and we wanted to make a speical presentation to acknowledge that.  The girls earned the promise center for learning the Girl Scout Promise and 3 petals too!  We can't wait until next year to earn the rest!

 

All of our girls are so special and they all received daisy seeds to plant at their homes so they can watch them bloom and grow just like our wonderful little Daisy girls!

 

Have a great summer!

Being Considerate and Caring!

(I apologize that I forgot my camera for this meeting)

 

On May 6th, we met to earn our green petal on being considerate and caring.  We did so many fun things.  First off, we read about Zinni, a flower from the daisy garden and how she was considerate and caring.  We played a game of charades where we had to guess the feelings that each girl was acting out.  Some were easy like happy, sad, mad, but some were harder too like scared, nervous, and proud.  After that, we practiced the art of listening.  The girls were partnered up and one partner went into the hall while the other one hid a special object in the room. When their partners came into the room, the othe girl had to give directions on how to find the special object.  The girls had to listen carefully to find it.  Then we switched.  We also practiced the art of sharing.  For this, the girls sat in a circle each with a piece of paper and a crayon.  They each started drawing a picture and after 30 seconds, they passed their papers to the girl next to them.  After another 30 seconds, they switched again.  This went on until the girls got their own papers back. It was neat to see how their drawings had grown as we shared them around the circle.  Finally, as a way to show we care, we made thank you cards for our teachers because it was also Teacher Appreciation week and we wanted to make them feel special too! 



Visiting Fire Station 8!

Today we took our first field trip to visit Fire Station 8! We were still talking about how to be helpful and friendly. 

 

And as soon as we got there, the firemen were off helping someone so we had to wait outside for them to come back. But when they did, we got to go inside.  We saw the room where the firemen get to sit and rest and watch TV while they are at work.

 

The girls got to peek into the room where the firemen sleep too.

 

Then we got to go into the garage where we got to see a real ambulance!

 

We even got to walk in one as Firemen Joe told us how they help people in there.

 

The girls were so good and listened so well.

 

We saw a real fire truck too!

 

And everyone got a chance to sit in it and pretend to drive it.

Here's Addison M.



 

Here's Natasha.

 

Here's Gracie.

 

Here's Emmaline.

 

Here's Kylie.

 

Here's Evelyn.

 

Here's Kaelin.

 

And Gracie again.  Whoops!

 

Here's Melanie.

 

Here's Marin.

 

Here's Allison.

 

Here's Jackie.

 

Here'sKatelyn.

 

Here's Addison H.

 

Here's Olivia.

 

Firemen Joe took us around the truck and showed us all the things that help him when he's doing his job.

 

It was a great time and the girls learned a lot.

 

They even learned that firemen can be silly too!

Being Friendly and Helpful!

This meeting was held on April 8, 2013. Today we worked on earning our yellow petal on bein friendly and helpful.  We started the meeting with our Girl Scout promise.  The girls had been practicing hard because everyone knew it!  We read about Sunny, the flower in the daisy garden and how she was friendly and helpful.  We discussed how we could be helpful and friendly to others too.  We decided to make coupons that would show we are helpful. We made a list of the board of what we could do at home to be helpful.

 

Some of the coupons we made included helping with the dishes, helping with the laundry, cleaning a room, helping with a pet, etc.  The girls also received little handprints to leave whenever they helped out that said "A daisy was here to help."

 

Then we had a special visitor from the community come speak to us....

 

Mr. Vershay, Mrs. Vershay's husband, who is a fire fighter, came to talk to us about how he helps the community.

 

He told us ways that he helps not only when there are fires, but other ways too.  He also talked to us about fire safety and how we can help ourselved be safe.

 

We made him a thank you card for coming to talk to us.

Being Honest and Fair!

Our second meeting was held on March 11, 2013. All the girls came with their Daisy tunics adn once again, we posed for a picture. 

 

This meeting we learned and talked about being honest and fair to earn our light blue petal.  We read about Lupe, a flower in the daisy garden and how she was honest and fair.  We then played a game with jellybeans.  Each girl got some jellybeans put in front of them, however not everyone had the same amount.  They had to work in groups to figure out how to make sure everyone got a fair amount.  

 

Once they figured it out, they got a little extra treat!

 

We colored a page about being honest and fair too.

 

Then we played a game that was about being honest and fair.....muscial chairs!  The girls had a blast with this one.

 

We wrapped our meeting by practicing our Girl Scout promise and learning the song "Make new friends."  We also ended it with a friendship squeeze.

The First Meeting of Daisy Troop 686!

 

Presenting Daisy Girl Scout Troop 686!

It was a cold day in February of 2013 when teachers Kris Weiss and Holly Held decided to start up Daisy Troop 686.  Both Kris and Holly have girls that were in Kindergarten, just the right age to start Daisies.  Both of the leaders were Girl Scouts themselves when they were younger and were in it for many years.  When they had their first child, both girls, they vowed to become Girl Scout leaders one day.  Well that day has finally come!  We signed up, although taking longer than we thought.  We started  out with the names of 6 interested girls and by the time word spread about our first meeting, we had 14 excited girls on our hands!

 

Here is Gracie modeling her new Daisy smock.  She is excited to start earning her petals!



The girls all received little Daisy tote bags to bring with them to their meetings to carry home any papers, notes, and crafts that we made that day.

 

We started the meeting of course with The Pledge of Allegiance. We then made a petal for our troop sign in which the girls all decorated and wrote their names on a petal.

Then we did some get-to-know-you activities. One was tracing a buddy and then drawing ourselves as Daisy Girl Scouts and talking about our similarities and differences.

Good thing we are holding our meetings at school and have the space to do this!

We then played another game called Daisy-to-Daisy. The girls had fun and got to change partners so that they got to make new friends.

They are such little darlings. Totally different than the 3rd graders we teach.

But we did it! We started our own Daisy Troop like we said we would.  

On my honor,

I will try,

to serve God,

and my country,

to help people at all times,

and to live by the Girl Scout law.