Girl Scouts: Booth-Making Day, Meeting, Admirals, Cookie Cash

Hi everyone!

Four notes today:

#1)  Booth Making Day:  We'll make our Wellness Day Booth stuff on April 7th in the morning.  Plan on 10:00-1:30, with a light lunch served in the middle.  If a scout has to arrive late or leave early, that's OK!  There's a lot of work to be done!  We know about scheduling issues, for sure!

#2)  Admirals:  In the absence of a lot of feedback, I'm just going to order all the free tickets our troop has coming, (10) and the first people to ask to use them, get them.  The game is at 6:00 on April 6th downtown at the UWM Panther Arena.  Our family won't be going, since Evie has Forensics state in the morning, and then is welcoming back an Honor Flight with her Air Patrol Unit in the evening. 

#3)  April Meetings:  We have our two meetings this month.  Our planning meeting (3:00-4:30)  is April 10th, and our action meeting  (3:00-5:00) is April 17th.  If we can plan quickly on the 10th, the girls were excited to head out and pick some of that invasive pest, and nuisance weed, garlic mustard and turn it into our patented Girl Scout Garlic Mustard Pesto--we'll bring the crackers!  Time willing we'll also do some clean up around the school, since the girls asked about it last meeting.

#4)  Cookie Cash:  If you haven't turned in your cookie money, please do!  The last withdrawal came out of our account, and because we maintain a good balance, we didn't get overdrawn, but if anyone doesn't turn in their money, the cookie sale changes from a fundraiser, to a fund-loser!

Finally:  I hope the girls remember their French International Fair project and what French activity they're supposed to do on April 1st!  Hint:  It sounds a little fishy!

Aleks 

  

Girl Scouts: A Nice Surprise! But coming up fast!

Hi everyone!

I just finished tying up the ends on our cookie sale, and great news!  Since the girls selling cookies averaged 175 boxes, our troop qualifies for tickets for the scouts to the Milwaukee Admirals Girl Scout Game April 6th at 6:00.

Sorry there's not much time, but this was kind of unexpected!  Nice job girls!

Here's the thing. 

#1)  I need to know ASAP which cookie-selling scouts are available and interested in going.

#2)  Friends, other family members, and non-cookie selling scouts can also attend, and tickets for them are $20 each.  I need to know that number ASAP too.

#3)  I need to know who will need a ride so we can coordinate around the various other activities going on that day (Solo and Ensemble, and State Forensics Tournament, for example)

Please rely ASAP if you're interested in going!

Aleks

Girl Scouts: Father Daughter Dance Sign Up

Hi everyone!

I got the sign up to help out at the Father Daughter Dance!  

Two notes:

1)  Remember,if there's going to be a Father Daughter Dance next year, it'll be up to us to do it--if we don't, there won't be a dance at all.   Now's a chance to see what work is involved and see if we want to take on that responsibility.

2)  If you sign up as a worker, you do not need to pay to register.  Just wear your girl scout vest/sash over your dance wear and arrive and do your work, and dance and eat during your free time!

Here's the link:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C054DAAA728A0F85-father

See you there!

Aleks

Girl Scouts: Earth Day Activity Choices! Vote Now!

Hi again everyone,

I think this is the last one for today!  Last meeting I asked the girls to keep their eyes open for Earth Day activities we could do outside of our traditional cleaning up around the school (and now our traditional Garlic Mustard picking and eating day!)

I got three submissions, and since April is approaching, let's pick!

Choice 1:  Riverkeepers River Cleanup April 27  Check out their website here:  https://www.milwaukeeriverkeeper.org/restore/spring-cleanup/

Choice 2:  Urban Ecology Center Day of Service Clean Up April 27 that we did last year.  Check out their website here:  https://urbanecologycenter.org/programs-events-main.html?id=18096&view=event

Choice 3:  Adopt a Beach Clean Up.  April 20  Website here:  http://greatlakesadopt.org/Secure/Event/14871

Get your votes in early!  We have to choose fast in some cases (Riverkeepers in particular.)

Aleks

Girl Scouts: Community Wellness Event New Date--please RSVP!

Hi everyone,

In case you hadn't seen, the new date for the Community Wellness Event is April 9th.  Since our scouts are still signed up to have a booth there, who can join in?

Details:

When:  April 9th 5:30-7:00 our booth, can stay until 8:30 if they want to see the panel presentation.

Where:  Greendale High School MPR

What:  Provide a booth showing how Girl Scouting provides for better health and gives healthy non-drug options to girls in our community.  

We'll also have a 2-ish hour get together before then to prepare our booth (Make our background and decide on exactly what our activity is--do we use the spinning wheel again?  How?)  Is anyone available during the day on Monday April 1st?  How about early in the day on Sunday April 7th?

Thanks everyone!  Please let me know your availability!

Aleks

Girl Scouts: Robot Battles Details for Friday

Hi everyone!

Just a quick update and info about the trip to the Robotics Competition on Friday (tomorrow).

There was no need for pre-registration, so if your scout is available and wants to go, then just let me know to expect you and there's a place for her!  (Email or text 414-595-6668 )

Travel Details:  We should have enough room in our van and car.  Please arrive at our house (4256 Teakwood Ct.) at 9:20 unless you've already made other arrangements with us.  

We plan to be back between 1:45-2:00 that afternoon.  Since most of the girls have phones, we'll make sure they text when we're leaving!  If they don't have a cell phone, they can use ours too.  A permission slip with places for emergency contact numbers is attached, please send it with your scout.  (I'll have copies at our house you can fill out too!)

Wear weather appropriate clothes and comfortable shoes.  For lunch, since Grand Avenue is completely empty, we'll take a short walk to the food hall just past the MATC campus nearby (about a 6-7 minute walk.)  If it's raining or otherwise crummy weather, we'll drive, but otherwise plan to walk a few blocks.

Lunch Details:  Eating at "Restaurants at eleven25" at 1125 N. 9th Street, Milwaukee WI 53233.  Website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mew6G_og-PI

5 choices including Meat on the Street, Gouda Girls, Upper Crust Pizza, Huan Xi Express, and Tokyo Express.

If a girl brings $10 that should cover anything she could want.  If not, we'll cover any overage. 

The robotics competition itself is at the UWM Panther arena 400 W. Kilbourn Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53203.

If you could have your scout watch the rules/competition summary here, that would really help them understand what's going on!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mew6G_og-PI

Tentative Schedule:

Leave our house around 9:30, pick up the girls that need to be picked up.

Arrive at the competition around 10:00 AM

Find seats, watch some competitions until 11:00

Go visit the pit area and talk to the robotics teams and see the robots up close until 12:00

Walk to lunch at "Restaurants at eleven25" (1125 N. 9th Street), arrive around 12:30 

Order, eat lunch, and summarize any highlights, lessons, or ideas the girls got from the event

Head home between 1:15-1:30

Arrive home 1:45-2:00

See you soon!  Happy Scouting!

Aleks 

Girl Scouts: Cookies--last call!

Hi everyone!

I'm making the last trip to get cookies for the troop tomorrow (Tuesday), so if you need any more, this is the last chance!

Also, I'll send out current totals for each girl that has sold cookies so far so you know where you're sitting.  Please also let me know what recognition choices your scout wants for each choice level, if they're at a level that requires a choice to be made (75, 125, 175, 225, 300, 500) and any size information if their choices are clothing.

Also also:  anyone else for the field trip to the robotics competition on 3/29 and lunch at Grand Ave?

Aleks