Brownie Troop 2502
Dear Parents,
Our first year as Brownies is in full swing and we have lots of fun activities planned for this year. You will receive a monthly newsletter outlining activities and other information for each month. By October 3, calendars for the entire year will be viewable on our troop website: http://www.oocities.org/troop2502 And as soon as the last few registrations have been turned in, you will receive a troop phone list.
For those of you who did not attend the parents’ meeting on September 16, please read over everything in your folder and return the required forms. Michelle and I worked very hard to ensure that any information you might need is contained in this folder. Pay special attention to the Volunteer Leader Opportunities handout and consider donating your time and talent to our troop. Your Girl Scout will be so excited to have you lead a meeting, and it isn’t as hard as you might think. This opportunity is open to parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, friends and neighbors; anyone who seeks to touch the lives of children.
Jessica
Michelle
Uniform Sale
Time is running out! Visit a Circle T Girl Scout Shop today to take advantage of the last days of the annual Back to Girl Scouting Sale. Sale ends October 18.
10% off :
· All official GS uniform components
· All official GS handbooks
· All T-shirts
Follow the Dream - I Am a Star!!!
Fun for the entire family! Work with an artist to create your own work of art! Our regular meeting on October 14 will take place at (the local elementary school) and will run from 5:00 – 6:30 pm. All supplies and instruction will be provided to create your own work of art. This activity is open to the community and our troop has been welcomed to attend whether or not you are a student of (this school).
Please be sure to return your permission slip! Although there is no cost, registration is required. We will handle registration based on who returns permission slips.
Splash Bash Recap
August 23rd was the annual Girl Scout Splash Bash at Hurricane Harbor. A few from our troop attended and had a really great time. The special price allowed us into the park for the entire day, but at 6:00 everyone without a Girl Scout wristband had to leave and until 9:00 we had the park to ourselves.
A booth was set up for the girls to view the Cookie Sales incentives for 2003. If you recall, the girls were allowed to vote online for their favorites. The results of that online vote were displayed in this booth.
The evening culminated in a huge sing-along and a floating campfire (ok, it was a *simulated* campfire, but it was still cool!). It was a great time - make plans to attend next year!
Family Partnership Campaign
Please consider contributing to this year’s Family Partnership Campaign. This fundraising effort benefits the Circle T Council, which serves 17,820 girl members and 6,504 adult members (numbers for 2002) in Tarrant, Johnson, Hood and Somervell counties. Our troop will collect your sealed donation envelopes and deliver them to the Council at our next Community meeting on October 6. The amount of your contribution is not important, the council is just requesting 100% participation at any level.
Check Your Mail!
Please look for a portable case of hanging files at each regular meeting. This case holds a file for each girl in our troop and is our method for distributing troop information. Please check your file at each meeting.
Juliette Low’s Birthday Approaches!
The scouting movement owes its success to many historical figures, one of the foremost of which is Juliette Gordon Low, who founded the Girl Scouts of America in 1912. Her vision, benevolence and fortitude has enabled thousands of girls to grow up into fine upstanding citizens in the last fourscore and seven years.
Born Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon, she was called "Daisy" from the beginning. This is where the youngest Girl Scouts get their name.
While attending a luncheon in England in 1911, she met Lord Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the British Boy Scouts, through whom she became keenly interested in the scouting movement. During that year she organized a troop of Girl Guides (the female equivalent of the Boy Scouts) among poor girls at her estate at Glenlyon, Scotland, and then founded two more troops in London. Then on March 12, 1912, Daisy established the first troop of Girl Guides in the United States in her native Savannah. Through her steadfast promotion the movement grew rapidly, becoming the Girl Scouts of America in 1913. The organization was incorporated in 1915 with the national headquarters at Washington, D.C., with Daisy serving as president until 1920 when she was bestowed the rightful title of founder.
For fifteen years Daisy devoted her time, energy, and finances to the movement. Daisy oversaw the composition of the Girl Scout handbook How Girls Can Help Their Country and in 1919 she was naturally the representative at the first international meeting of Girl Scouts and Guides.
At an early scout board meeting she stood on her head to display the new Girl Scout shoes that she happened to be wearing. Especially because her work was so hands-on, she was revered by young girls far and wide.
In 1923 Daisy contracted cancer. She kept her illness a secret and dauntlessly continued her efforts. She was instrumental in organizing the world Girl Scout camp in the United States in 1926. Less than a year later, on Jan. 17, 1927, Juliette Gordon Low died of cancer in Savannah, at the age of sixty-six. The membership in the Girl Scouts by this time numbered 168,000. She was buried in the uniform representing the organization she founded which to this day continues to change the world.
We will celebrate Juliette Low’s birthday on October 28 with a birthday party! Please bring a wrapped “birthday gift” for a dog or cat. We will unwrap the gifts during our party and they will be donated to the Humane Society of North Texas. The wish list on their website (http://www.hsnt.net) lists the following items:
· Puppy & Dog Food (Canned and Dry)
· Kitten & Cat Food (Canned and Dry)
· Dog & Cat Treats
· Pet Carriers
· Bath Towels, Blankets, Toilet Lid Covers
· Liquid Dish Soap
· Laundry Soap
· Bleach
· Windex
· Paper Towels
Feel free to dress in your Halloween costume for this party if you like!
Earning Awards
On each month’s calendar, you will find details of what is planned for our regular meetings. For example, on October’s calendar, the first meeting, October 7, lists “Decorating a puppet stage” and “Putting on a puppet show”. In parenthesis after each activity, you will find the name of the Try-It that activity supports and an activity number. In the Girl Scout Try-Its Handbook, each of the 58 Try-its list 6 suggested activities. Once four of these activities have been completed, the girls have earned that Try-It. Since we don’t earn any one Try-It start-to-finish, this is how we keep track of what activities have been completed. So, on October 7 we will be completing activities 1 and 5 for Puppets, Dolls and Plays.
In our troop notebook, we keep a record of activities completed for each girl in the troop. You are welcome to look at your Girl Scout’s record at any regular meeting.