Our Founder's Birthday and the Halloween Dance Party

Today was our 2nd Girl Scout meeting and we accomplished so much while having a blast.  We worked on our Girl Scout Promise and started our Daisy petal review.  Today the girls talked about being honest and fair.  We also talked about the founder of Girl Scouts - Juliette Gordon Low.  She loved working with the Girl Scouts, had a lot of pets and traveled all over the world.  I introduced the girls to a good friend of mine named Sierra.  Sierra is a Cadette in the Girls Scouts and she will be working with our troop when she can with our projects.  The girls adore her already and she had a great time tonight.  After our discussion we had a Halloween snack and a costume dance party.  We ended the meeting with the Girl Scout handshake. 

Amy Sload from Princess Party, LLC donated gift bags to all of the girls in honor of Juliette Gordon Low's birthday (October 31st).  The girls LOVED them!  Her website can be found online at www.royalprincessparty.com

I learned a number of new dance moves today.  This Girl Scout is showing us all how to break dance. 

 Enjoying all of the party favors in our gift bags.

Our First 2012 Meeting

Our first meeting was fantastic!  We were all very excited to see each other again and we talked about all of the fun things we are going to be doing this year with our two new journeys.  I am going to ask the girls to lead their own journey this year.  I'm going to give them different options each week and they will be able to pick their own activities throughout the year.  To finish the meeting we colored in Halloween masks. 

Shelburne Farms Trip

What an amazing last meeting and final trip to Shelburne Farms.  A HUGE thank you to Rachel for showing us how to be farmers.  We had such a blast feeding and watering all of the animals.  We even had a chance to chase some baby sheep into a new pasture.  What a way to end the year!  Don't worry ladies we start up again next fall.  Can't wait to get everyone together again and start in on our "Journey Smoosh!"

 7:30 am getting an early start on the farm!

 Getting the grain ready for the animals.

 Talking about what bunnies eat and drink.

 Feeding the animals is a huge job so everyone had to help.

 Talking about our animal from Mexico - the 30 year old donkey.

 Turkey girls

 Paprika the sow

 Oreo and Smiley Face

 Helping the farmers put the baby sheep back into their pen.

 It didn't work so we chased them to another field.

 The chicken parade

 Chicken whisperers

 Keeping the egg safe

Our Last Journey Meeting

We had our last journey meeting last Tuesday.  The girls have done such an amazing amount of work in such a short period of time.  We finished up our tulip award and we played "catch up" with some of our projects.  The girls took turns meeting with the leaders answering super secret questions for our end of the year project.  After our work was complete we had a birthday celebration and a dance party.  Tricia and I learned some new moves from some very talented dancers.

We are excited to see everyone this Saturday!  The girls stop me in the hall after school to give me the countdown.  We have a great ceremony planned, the girls will receive some fun patches and one of our ladies will bridge to Brownies!  See you all soon.  K