A Girl Scout Meeting

A Girl Scout Meeting Feb. 21 2009
Morrisa, Mackenzie, Morgan, Jazmine, & Dominique earned Eat Right, Stay Healthy, & Healthy Habits. Lindsay, Kelsie,Katie, & Breanna earned Looking Your Best & Healthy Relationships. We did the Girl Scout Law in a circle, the Girl Scout Promise, passed around the postcards & pictures we had received, the visiting mascot Hawkeye from Iowa & all the stuff she came with.We did drawings, lucky Morrisa got the 'Friendship Book" (Breanna really wanted it, there was a pug on the cover...) & got to take home Carly Cardinal, who Kelsie had brought back after her visit. deb took pics of Carly with Kelsie, Breanna, & Jazmine, & had them fill out pages in the journal about their visits.Dominique is taking Hawkeye home to visit her. This is the first time a visiting mascot has stayed with someone other than us, but the girls are excited about it, & doing such a good job taking care of Carly that I thought it was cool the girls wanted to host. I had just never thought of it.deb made bags for each girl with their sales package, patches, cards, letters, pictures, & swaps from their pen pals & their new vests that the troop purchased with cookie sales $ to take home.We talked about World Thinking Day, this years themes were malaria & AIDS. our troop will send a donation to the Juliette Lowe Friendship Fund like we always do. For Eat Right, Stay Healthy we compared 3 nutrition labels, talked about the food pyramid, asked the girls what their fave foods are, & had frozen vanilla yogurt with their choice of fresh raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, bananas, whipped cream. The girls also sampled the Girl Scout Peanut Butter Dreams & Girl Scouts Deluxe Pecan Clusters that we will be selling. We passed around a healthy girl calcium ad cartoon ad we'd found.Favorite FoodsJazmine: macaroni & tomato juiceKelsie: tacos Katie: hot dogsMorgan: nachosMackenzie: chicken & noodlesMorrisa: macaroni & cheeseDominique: carrots, broccoli, celery, meatLindsay: chicken, chicken, chickenBreanna: bacon cheese burgerFor Healthy Habits we did beautiful smile, washing works, talked in a circle about times we'd been happy, sad, angry, scared, excited, suprised, embarrassed, loving, upset; & did we like these calcium rich foods: (recorded group consensus!) milk, broccoli, yogurt, collard greens, cheese, fish, & shrimp were YES. Spinach, tofu, turnips all got a great big NO.Looking Your Best we had a color party, using card stock 'swatches'; played circle of friends; & talked about hair styles. We decided that Hawkeyes best colors were blues, hot pink, purples, & gray.Healthy Relationships we played the friendship game where we took turns sitting in the middle of the circle & getting compliments; mums the word where we acted out emotions; & be your own role model where we role played situations.Hawkeyes compliments:Lindsay loved her earrings.Morgan said she had pretty eyes.Kelsie liked her shirt.Katie liked how bearish she was.Mackenzie liked how she was a stuffed bear.Morrisa said she was beautiful.Dominique said she was pretty.Breanns liked her shirt.Jazmine liked how she was a furry fuzzy fuzzball.Usually we get done & the girls get bored, but today we were hopping all the way thru. Some of the girls took their head boppers home to make.We forgot to discuss Girl Scout Week. will have to send out postcards...Mackenzie, Morgan, Morrisa, Katie,Kelsie, Breanna, Jazmine, Dominique, & Lindsay will also receive a fun Valentine's patch & the 2009 World Thinking Day patch.the quick question was 'who knows how to use a computer?' we talked about ways to stay safe on-line, then read the On-line Safety Pledge.We made Valentine's Head Boppers & valentines for our pen pals.