Write Away Try-It

Cortney, Mackenzie, Katie, Kelsie, Kayla, Dominique, Morgan, Jazmine, Morrisa, & Breanna earned the Write Away Try-It. They listened to a biography about Nellie Bly,a newspaper reporter who traveled around the world based on Jules Verne's book & had herself committed to an insane asylum for a story, she also married a millionare & patented several inventions. Then they did a take-turns story, told about their favorite books, signed postcards for the World Thinking Day exchange, read the postcards we've received so far, interviewed each other, & wrote their autobiography. Whew!
Jessica, Danielle, Nicole, Rayne, Lindsay, Cortney, Mackenzie, Katie, Kelsie, Kayla, Dominque, Morgan, Jazmine, Morrisa, & Breanna get a 2008 Postcard Exchange patch.
We also learned some cool cookie facts. The pictures on the cookie boxes? Kansas City Missouri Girl Scouts! Thin mints are made in an oven as long as a football field! Approximately 200 million boxes of Girl Scout cookies are sold each year! The first cookie sale was in 1917--the girls baked cookies at home with their mothers to sell! During WWII basic ingredients were in short supply, so Girl Scouts sold calendars. Erin Sanders (Quinn on Zoey 101) was discovered while selling Girl Scout Cookies!
Some of the girls are ordering red t-shirts.
Have all cookie permission slips signed except for Nicole, Rayne, Danielle, & Jessica.

Our taking turns story:
Cortney: Once upon a time there was a girl named Sheridan.
Breanna: Then she saw a green witch and it shot out green snot.
Katie: She ducked but then it still got her and she said "ewww."
Kelsie: and then she met a cow that had a cow army.
Dominique: and then she thought she would visit cheetahs.
Kayla: Well then she changed her name to Miley and the Jonas Brothers came and kissed Katie on the cheek.
Mackenzie: Then she came out with an axe with ketchup on it.
Morrisa: Then she found a chicken that was really wild and had ketchup on its tongue.
Morgan: and when she was in the garden she dug and found gold.
Mackenzie: Then when she found the gold guarding it was a stringy haired squid.
Katie: Kayla looked in the mirror and screamed because she was a wimp.

Cortney's mom Deb reminded us that last year at the cookie kick off meeting, it was sleeting & the roads were getting bad. This year it was snowing. And the roads got bad...

Next meeting: Saturday Feb.9th 2-4 at Deb & Katie's house, we'll make Brownie Soup & earn the Make It, Eat It try-it.