dance practice

Mackenzie, Morgan, Cortney, Dominique, Morrisa, Breanna, Jazmine, Moriah & Katie met at the park shelter. Katie & Mackenzie made up a new dance last nite to Emily Osment's I Don't Think About It. It looks good.
We voted to order red shirts from M&M Apparel in Princeton with Mercer Girl Scouts on front & the girls names on back.
We tried a thing Deb found on one of her Yahoo Groups...motions to go with the Girl Scout Law. It was a lot of fun! Will try to remember to do this at every meeting!
Have had several emails expressing interest in being our penpals. Will get the girls writing letters next week (we were going to tonite, but ran out of time.)
The mascot exchange will start next month, Deb took pics of the girls with our Cardinal mascot, but they disappeared off the card? So, that is on next weeks list of things to do at dance practice, too.
Our next practice is scheduled for next Thursday 6-7 p.m.

Flat Madeleine Returns Home

she was visiting us from Kenmore, NY.

dance practice

Morgan, Cortney, Jazmine, Breanna, Dominique, Morrisa, Katie, & Mackenzie met at the park for dance practice. They listened to both songs, Bad to the Bone lost to What I Like About You.
Cortney, Jazmine, Breanna, Dominique, & Morrisa picked their swap hats & made name pins while we listened to the cd Morgan had brought. She also made a cool Girl Scout picture to hang in our window for Girl Scout Week!! They also selected their troop nicknames!
Jazmine: Jazzy
Breanna: Bre Bre or Bee Bee
Dominique: Domino
Morrisa: Rissy or Missy
Cortney: Cort or Giggles

we took group shots with the visiting Stacies, played at the park, & sent home notes for the next dance practice: next Friday 6-7p.m. @ the park.

Morrisa & Lindsay's Missing Stacies

got an email today from the leader who has their Stacies, she had sent one back. The girls who took these dolls home were supposed to send them back, she will try to find them. In the meantime, they have 'twins' out on another trip. Kelsie's girl came back, she also has a 'twin' out on the road. The more the merrier, I guess!

Journeys

our new Girl Scout Catalog arrived recently, I was reading the ads for the new Brownie & Junior Journeys...they look cool, so ordered one of each book for the troop to use & we'll try this in addition to the regular badges. The badges you earn are really really cool, plus you can get a bracelet or necklace, too!

Kelsie's Flat Stacie Comes Home

(I thought she was lost, so made a "Twin" of her to send to a Daisy Troop so she'd get a recorded trip, she was visiting West Fairview in Central Pennsylvania Troop Daisy/Brownie Troop #621.)
Kelsie visited the State Capital in Harrisburg where she saw the fountain & had her picture taken in front of it. She also went around our town & saw the Fire House. She was on the fire engine wtih Sarah one of the Brownies. She also attended our town's Memorial Day Parade with us. Thanks for sending Kelsie to PA. I hope she had a good time with our troop!
Kelsie came home with a PA postcard, brochure, & books from the Pennsylvania Capitol & The PA. House of Representatives.

Space Explorer/Sky Search

Kelsie, Kayla, Katie, Lindsay, Mackenzie, & Morgan met at the butterfly garden at Mercer City Park for a Girl Scout meeting...they picked out swap hats, made their first swaps (their names), & picked troop nicknames.
S.W.A.P.S. are Special Whatchamacallits Affectionately Pinned Somewhere or Swap With A Pal, a tradition started by Native Americans.
Troop Nicknames:
Kayla: Angel
Lindsay: Lulu
Morgan: Hannah Montana
Mackenzie: Swifty
Katie: Boo
Kelsie: Farmer Girl

We took group pictures with the visiting Stacies.
We named the planets, talked about constellations, read a Paiute Legend about the North Star, & learned about "Follow The Dipping Gourd", a slave song with directions to use the North Star to find your way North to freedom.

we star gazed, took a flashlight hike, wished upon a star, & sang Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
we told a group take turns Ghost Story.
Lindsay: "Once upon a time there was 2 little kids who went in the forest to go trick or treating and got lost."
Mackenzie: "there was a girl named Brooklyn, she moved into a creepy house, when she moved in there was a bunch of spooky stuff like cobwebs and skeletons in the closet."
Katie: "they came upon a house in the forest they had never seen before. They knocked on the door to get candy, but no one answered and the door creaked open. Brooklyn said, 'Let's go inside.' So they started looking around the house."
Morgan: "And once they searched around they heard a noise. They looked all over but couldn't see anything then all of a sudden came a witch! And Brooklyn got scared and hid because there were 3 witches and then Brooklyn got ate by a dragon."
Kayla: "and then overlooked the house and found a mountain lion mark and then they found a mountain lion and it killed them."
Lindsay: "Their cousins came looking for them because their mom and dad got worried, and then they found the creepy old house and they found a body, and then they didn't know what they got killed from so they go in-they had hid from the mountain lion. It was high up and had babies-later once they're still looking they find a phone and the mountain lion and her cubs and the dad mountain lion killed them."
Mackenzie: "There was another family who moved in-a black wave came out of a door-it grabbed them and took them into a black hole inside. Nobody died, but there was a shiny star inside. The star gave all of them at least 4 wishes. They wished for a baby."
Katie: "Then the parents got worried because it was midnight and the cousins still weren't home yet. So they creeped out into this haunted house, they heard screams. So they followed it and found the bodies. So they stepped inside-they saw the black hole-andthen they turned around and saw Brooklyn's body rising from the dead. Brooklyn stepped up and she started doing the Monster Mash. And she got closer and closer and then she was so close she was actually hitting them while she was doing the Monster Mash and she broke her fathers nose!"
Kayla: "there was this little baby sister, she knocked at the door. The mountain lion grabbed her in and killed her. And then a little boy came in and got another star and he made a wish that all the bodies would come alive. The bodies came alive and they killed him, then the mountain lion killed them. Now they're all dead."
Morgan: "and then Hannah Montana came in and Jake Ryan and then they got married and had a baby. The end."
We took home little bags of "stardust."