Girls Scouts Hike Madeira

Save the date for May 15, 2011. From 11:00 -1:00PM Daisy and Brownie Troops from SU 51-5 will have a hike at The Madeira School Campus. The campus is situated on 376 acres along the Potomac River. For many of our girls this will be their first hike and we are priviledged to have it in so beautiful a spot.

Permission forms will be sent home with the girls in April and will be due by April 25th.

Please contact Carolyn Pennington with any questions.

Words Matter

The orange daisy petal stands for "responsible for what I say and do". We all were given a piece of shiny, new tin foil then crumbled it into a ball, then smoothed it out. The effect was that there were permanent marks on the foil that would not come out. Likewise, our words are very powerful and we have to be aware of what and how we say things. We talked about some tools like counting to 5 before blurting out something potentially negative, or just walking away. For arts and crafts we made paper dolls from "crumbled" material then had to put positive words on our dolls. Each girl got to pick her own meaningful and positive words and then we shared our dolls and words with the troop. It was great fun.

The girls were given a Reston patch for the back of their vests. ACTION: please sew or iron on the Reston Patch on the back and the orange daisy petal on the front.

A big "thank you" to Monica for helping out and Qing for bringing snack.

Let's Get Fired Up!

Who knew that being courageous and strong could be so fun? Not me! Troop 2182 had a great time yesterday. The girls come rushing out of class to our meeting area literally jumping with joy to be together again. We had snack, had our flag ceremony, shared in our circle time, played our left-right game and best of all... learned some cheers as part of our theme for the day. Mrs. Yi's daughter, Taylor, was gracious to come and teach our girls how to do some cheers. The Most popular was, "Let's get fired up, 2,1,8,2!" We stomped and jumped and cheered so loud. What a blast. (The girls were marching around Mrs. Weathers' class room doing the cheer when I dropped Hannah off this morning :-)

Action: Please iron the red petal on (mine keep falling off so I have to sew)...

Thank you Moms for coming! We can always use the help to keep the girls focused :-)

Again, if you cannot see the pictures on the general blog site, open the page individually from the right hand side of the page. Enjoy!