Girl Scouts: Meeting Recap and More!

Hi everyone!

Just a couple quick notes from last week and for next week:

1)  We had a great meeting!  We made something for our families, something for ourselves, something for outside the house, and something to share (maybe?)  

To wrap up the year we did a bunch of activities and tied them in to our Girl Scout Laws.  To make the world a better place, and to be considerate and caring, we made strings of popcorn, cereal and cranberries for the birds and animals outside in wintertime.  To be friendly and helpful we made colonial-era air-fresheners from cloves and oranges.  To wrap up our Health and Fitness badge, we made some very healthy "Rainbow Soup" where each girl got to pick her own ingredients--I expect to hear how they tasted when we get back together again in January! Finally, we decorated three cookies, and got to decide if we were sharing them (friendly and helpful!) or not....

2)  For the girls (and parents, you can help!) going to the mandatory Washington DC trip meetings the next two Tuesdays, here's a little homework!  The girls' job, while the parents are going over safety guidelines, and filling in health cards, etc., will be to put together the itinerary for what to do when we're on the trip and pick out which area each girl will become an "expert" in. Between now and then, f you could have your scout get some ideas of things to do or places to go in Washington DC, that would be great.  The group meeting on the 13th will set the itinerary for the first half of the trip, and the group meeting on the 20th will set the second half.  

For each area or location we visit, we should have at least one girl dedicated to being an "expert" on that location.  They don't need to be an expert before the meetings these next two weeks, but the experts at each area should set to work becoming an expert ASAP, because some of the areas need us to reserve tickets/space very early and:

Experts will be in charge of:

1)  Knowing what we need to do to go to that site:

Do we need tickets?

If so, when and how do we get them?

Know directions for the trip.

How much does it cost?

How long will we need there?

What physical restrictions will we have to take into account? (For example, there are a lot of stairs in the Washington Munument.)

                How will we get there from our hotel?

2)  Teaching the rest of us noteworthy things about that site:

Important exhibits?

History of the site (if it's a monument, or memorial for example.)

Why this site is important to our nation.

Connections to girls and Girl Scouts.

Thanks so much everyone, see you soon!

Aleks