Girl Scouts: Earth Day, Meeting, Summer/Silver Proposal?

Hi everyone!

Just a couple quick notes:

1)  Earth Day event Saturday!  I checked with the Urban Ecology Center and it's still on!  We'll meet up there at 9:00, OR, if Kathleen and I are driving your scout, please bring her to our house at 8:30.  Riverside Park address:  1500 E. Park Pl.  Milwaukee, WI 53211  If we are driving your scout, expect us to be back around 12:30-1:00.

WEAR/BRING MUD GEAR!  Depending on the weather there are a bunch of different possible projects for us, and many of them involved getting muddy.

2)  April Meeting is next Thursday April 26th:  Sign up here:  http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4fa5ad22a13-april

• The girls will be starting the Journey they picked last month (ME-dia!)
  
• We'll hear a proposal from the Greendale health Department on an idea for a BIG project for our scouts.
  
• As usual, we'll cook our own snack--once again, bring a microwave-safe coffee mug!
  
• If weather is good, we'll also do our traditional Earth-Day school-clean up around GMS and downtown Greendale.
  

See you soon!

Aleks

Girl Scouts for the GSWISE Annual Meeting Flag Ceremony

Hi,

I have to turn in the names of the girls doing the flag ceremony at the Girl Scout annual meeting (April 24th) so they can get the names printed in the program.  I have 5, am I missing anyone?  I'll be sending the names in Wednesday at noon.

Adrhia

Evie

Kahlen

Kendra

Ellen

Thanks!  

Aleks

Girl Scouts: Girl Scouts needs our girls!

Hi,

Every year Girl Scout of Southeast Wisconsin has a board meeting and volunteer award ceremony.  They always ask a local Girl Scout Troop to do the flag ceremony, and I just learned that this year we were chosen!

We would need 4-10 scouts to attend (food will be provided) April 24th, from 6:30-8:00.  In addition to getting the chance to participate in the governance process for Girl Scouts, and learn more about the bigger picture of Girl Scouting in Wisconsin, the girls will have a chance to meet (and more importantly, get met BY) the board members and executives from GSWISE.  In a couple years, our girls will have the opportunity to apply to be on the governance board, and the opportunity to apply to represent the council at national conferences, and the opportunity to apply to go on the Girl Scout "Destinations" trips.  The people they can meet at the board meeting are the people that will be reviewing these applications down the road...

If your scout is available that evening, it could be a great opportunity!

Aleks

Girl Scouts: Earth Day!

Hi everyone!

By a WIDE margin, the Earth Day of Service at Riverside Park won our internet survey.

I'd like to get out there around 9:00, so we can participate in the 9:30 service project/hike.

Who can join us for some Earth Day of Service?  Sign up here!

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a4fa5ad22a13-earth

Event details here:  

https://urbanecologycenter.org/serviceu.html?id=15169&lang=en&view=event

Address:  

Riverside Park

1500 E. Park Pl.

Milwaukee, WI 53211

See you there!

Aleks

Girl Scouts: Can everyone bring a coffee mug to the meeting?

Hi!

Between everything else, to keep our theme of making our own treats going strong, we're thinking of making single-serving rice crispy treats in coffee mugs.  

Can everyone try to send their scout to the meeting with a coffee mug?

It should be a good one--we have some work to do, but some fun too!

Aleks

Girl Scouts: Earth Day Survey

Hi!

Here's the survey for the scouts to do to pick an Earth Day activity.

https://goo.gl/forms/TzdONyeQmIsFYHHB2

Let's see what they choose!

Aleks

Girl Scouts: Two important notes!

Hi everyone!

Two quick important things I need from your scouts:

1)  Saturday, some of the girls spent a lot of time creating our activity for the Drug Resistance event this Wednesday.  They came up with categories of things we do in Girl Scouts, and got them added to a wheel for people to spin at the event.  They also started to put together answers for each category to explain how the things we did in each category could help them avoid using drugs.

For example, one category was "Sharing" and the girls explained that we shared our time with older people at the nursing home we visited, and this helped them avoid drugs by making them feel good about themselves naturally instead of needing drugs.

We created a Google Doc here:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TYqN2dUpkR7NpzqfQPnJLYZDMM_OxiX6RsMByobPlTc/edit?usp=sharing

What we need is for the girls to add information for each category so that when they are meeting people at the Health Fair on Wednesday they have a "cheat sheet" to help them.  The chart is pretty simple, and the girls did the first item in each category as an example.

Please have your scout go to the doc and add more ideas for each category!  (Don't add any more categories, since the wheel is already filled!)

2)  For cookie sellers!  I need to get your prize/recognition choices submitted to Girl Scouts this week, so I need to know your choices by THURSDAY.  In case you don't have the sheet any more, here are the choices you have to make.  (Also, if you're not sure how many cookie boxes your scout sold, ask me!  I can look it up and tell you where you're at!)

Prize Choices:

@75 Boxes:  Elephant T-Shirt OR Donate $5 to Help the Herd OR $5 PAC

@125 Boxes:  Small Stuffed Elephant OR  Donate $5 to Help the Herd OR $5 PAC

@175 Boxes:  Beach Package (Sunglasses, towel, bag) OR Donate $10 to Help the Herd OR $10 PAC

@225 Boxes:  Sports Bottle + Journal OR Large Stuffed Elephant OR $15 PAC OR Two 1-Day Zoo Passes

@300 Boxes:  Kindle Fire Tablet OR 2 Tickets to Noah's Ark OR Duffle Bag + Hoodie OR $50 PAC

@500 Boxes:  Discovery World Family Pass OR Fire TV Stick OR One Six Flags Season Pass OR $75 PAC