Our Accomplishments


 

All scouts will earn many badges this year, and will have the opportunity to collect many interest patches.
Because of the large size and multiple levels of our troop this year, we will not be completing whole badges at each meeting.  Scouts will be required to keep track of their badge progress.  Below are the activities that we've worked on in meetings and troop campouts. 


Brownie Try-Its...
Are achievement patches earned by Brownie Girl Scouts aged 6-8.  In order to earn a try-it, the scout must complete four activities from the Brownie Try-it Book.  Many activities are things that we work on in meetings, while a few must be completed at home.

	Write Away Using our own story starters to tell "traveling stories" was fun - and silly!  Group writing is a real scream.  Being a reporter and writing "newspaper" articles was a real challenge.  The interview was the most important part - you had to think hard about what you needed to ask.
	Creative Composing We like to write our own songs, poems and plays.  Singing our made-up songs and acting out our own plays for our friends is a blast.
	Dancercize On the night we were evacuated from school, we moved our meeting to Stevie B.s - Thank goodness they have a large "party room" - 'cause we really partied.  We watched several clips of different types of dance - from the 20's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's.  We tried a few new dances - waltz, tap, salsa and line dance.  They were all fun - but we still like the Macarena best!
	Caring and Sharing Doing skits of how to be a good friend was lots of fun.  It was neat to discuss what we all value in our friends and talk about what items we would take with us to a desert island.
	Science in Action On the way to our Top Secret Cookie Kickoff location, we worked on the Science and Technology Scavenger Hunt.  Over the weekend, we made gak - not quite a liquid, not quite a solid, we colored carnations, we sent film canisters flying.  It was lots of fun.
	Science Wonders We had a blast at our Cookie Kickoff playing with science.  Trying to guess whose apple was whose after we bit them was interesting - talk about everyone's different.  We painted with salt solution that grew crystals and played with static electricity - and made rice krispies POP!  At our catch up meeting, we even made invisible ink!
	Math Fun At Cookie Kickoff, we worked with secret codes and played the money words game with the cookie names.  We also took some time to work on some troop budgeting - although more of that will come in March.  At our catch up meeting on January 24th, we finished up with My Numbers - there really are lots of ways to use math for expression.
	Numbers and Shapes Making our own Jigsaw Puzzle was fun - although hard to put back together.  Working with Mobius Strips was neat - they're like magic!  Figuring our the Tangram challenge was very hard, but the Origami Kitty was cute and easy!!
	Senses We tested all of our senses at our Cookie Kickoff.  We played a guessing game with different scents and sounds.  Trying to identify the things inside the sock was hard - We're all glad we have our other senses!  But the most fun of all was when we made our own Optical Illusion to trick the eye - than we took some "trick" pictures!
	Eat Right, Stay Healthy We had a good time learning more about foods and their contents at our November 30th meeting.  We talked about how to decide upon healthier foods and make a good meal plan.  We also talked about dairy products and made a "healthy living" pyramid
	Make It, Eat It We began this meeting in November by making a Fruit Fizz, but will do more work on this badge at our December 13th meeting where we will make Recipe Books with our cookie swap recipes and we'll make a healthy trail mix.  In January, we will make our own baked apples at our Cookie Kickoff
	Healthy Habits We learned all about hand-washing techniques and how to help stop the spread of germs.  The game we played to identify positive and negative habits and how they affect our lives was fun,  We also learned all about calcium and its role in our diet - and had a healthy yogurt snack.
	Puppets, Dolls and Plays We made paper bag puppets at our meeting on October 18th.  Then, we made finger puppets out of gloves.  Later, we will make "worry dolls" and a puppet stage to finish the try-it
	Stitch It Together At our meeting on November 1st, we discovered that we love to sew!  Embroidery and sewing by hand is hard work - but we were determined not to become discouraged as we made our beanbags.  We had fun sewing patchwork quilts to donate to Project Linus
	Ready, Set, Go Camping On October 4th, we learned some knots that will be needed on our upcoming camping trip.  We will work on other parts of this try-it later in the year.
	Making Music Brownie Try-It Singing in rounds is something we always enjoy.  Some of our newer scouts are just getting the hang of it - but overall we sound pretty good.  We had fun at our meeting on September 13th learning "Percy the Pale-Faced Polar Bear" - complete with motions.
	Sounds of Music Brownie Try-It September 13th was our all about music meeting.  We made a couple of different percussion instruments.  We did a variation on the Shoebox Guitar - we used wood blocks.  We made pan flutes to explore how wind instruments work.  At home, we used things we found around the house to make Melody Mobiles
	Plants Brownie Try-It At our August 30th meeting, we did rubbings.  We also used fruits and veggies to make our own art.  There are some really neat patterns in nature!  We'll do more to finish this badge in the spring.
	Friends Are Fun At our meeting on August 30th, we made our own stationary.  We had a lot of fun making cards with little Girl Scouts on them.  Using die cuts and stamps to decorate the paper was neat.  Then, in March we finished this Try-It at our Kidnap Breakfast.  It was nice to talk about what it takes to be a good friend and we all enjoyed making Friendship Boxes.
	Colors and Shapes We made our own stamps out of sponges at our August 30th meeting.  At our catch-up meeting in January we finished this with yarn painting and color weaving - playing with color is fun!

Junior Badges...
Are earned by Junior Girl Scouts aged 8-11.  These badges are earned by completing six activities from the Junior Girl Scout Badge Book.  As Junior Girl Scouts are becoming more autonomous, more of their work is done at home.  For this reason, each scouts will work on the subsections of her choice, while we all work to complete the same badge.
 

	Write All About It Using our own story starters to tell "traveling stories" was fun - and silly!  Group writing is a real scream.  We all enjoy making up and performing plays and short skits.  They're fun to watch, too.  Writing about things that go on in our troop is always fun - because we do so many neat things.
	Communication We learned all about different types of communication and how each can be used.  We talked about how most jobs require good communication skills - some oral and some written.  Some careers even require very strong communication skills - like being and interpreter for those who are hearing impaired or speak another language.  We wrote our own newspaper article and did an ad using pictures.
	Dance On the night we were evacuated from school, we moved our meeting to Stevie B.s - Thank goodness they have a large "party room" - 'cause we really partied.  We watched several clips of different types of dance - from the 20's, 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's.  We tried a few new dances - waltz, tap, salsa and line dance.  They were all fun - but we still like the Macarena best!
	Looking Your Best Sitting in our Circle of Friends and discussing friendship was nice.  We had a good time making skin care products and healthy snacks.  We discussed healthy habits and activities and made charts to remind us how often to do things.
	Science Sleuth We looked at how everyone is different, and how you can use science to tell us apart by looking at finger print and dental identification.  At our Cookie Kickoff, we made a carnation drink colored water, painted with a salt solution that grew crystals, and even made a coin disappear!
	Science Discovery Doing water tricks - making a needle float and catching water on top of a penny was neat.  We had fun looking at and making our own optical illusions.  At our catch up meeting we made invisible ink - and now we're almost finished with this badge!
	Puzzlers We discovered at our Cookie Kickoff, that puzzles come in lots of different types.  We made our own word scrambles and crossword puzzles.  Jigsaw puzzles are easier to create than to solve.  We made "trick" pictures using digital cameras, and we played Money Words using our cookie names.
	Creative Solutions We used role-playing to overcome cookie objections - and some of them were tricky.  We worked with brainteasers and with secret codes.  In the car we discussed ordinary items and their extraordinary uses.  At camp, we tried to crack to code to tangram shapes - really challenging.  But the most fun of the whole weekend was the Lazer Obstacle!  Navigating through the maze of "lazers" without setting off the "alarms" was a daunting task!
	Food Power We began this badge in September with our canned food drive.  On November 30th, we made some great advertisements for healthy food.  We talked about balanced school lunch menus and how to plan a healthy meal.  we identified which foods were good sources of protein, carbohydrates - and learned to identify fat sources.  We discussed a healthy lifestyle involving more than just menu-planning - and drew "healthy lifestyle pyramids"
	Highway to Health We learned all about hand-washing techniques and how to help stop the spread of germs.  The game we played to identify positive and negative habits and how they affect our lives was fun,  We also learned all about calcium and its role in our diet - and had a healthy yogurt snack.  We also worked to identify sources of stress in our lives - and ways to relieve stress.  We did a talk where a balloon represented our stress - handling it in a healthy way kept us from "exploding."  On December 13th, we will make a healthy trail mix to finish up this badge.
	Yarn and Fabric Arts We learned about lots of fun things that your can do with yarn.  Mrs. Lori and a visitor, Mrs. Jenni helped us learn how to knit and Mrs. Lila and Mrs. Lori worked with us on crocheting.  Sammy taught us about different types of knots - and later we will use our knot tying skills to make a bracelet.
	Sew Simple We learned all about patterns and how to properly measure a body and determine a pattern size.  Non of us are the same pattern size as "rack size" - very interesting.  We tried some machine sewing - patching together quilts for Project Linus.  Later, we will finish this badge by tie-dyeing t-shirts!
	Making Music Junior Badge In our September 13th meeting, we learned all about the different families of musical instruments and we tried our hands at conducting.  At our Investiture and Rededication Ceremony, we will use our musical skills to perform for our families and friends.
	Music Fan On September 13th, we used household objects to make instruments from the percussion, strings and woodwinds families.  Sammy writes...  I liked making maracas out of a bottle, some rice and some beans. It was so fun doing that. I liked the noise it made. We could make it just out of rice or just out of beans. It was also fun doing the sand blocks. It was easy to make all we had to do was glue some sandpaper on a chunk of wood or block of wood.  Ashley writes...I enjoyed making music from objects we often use daily.  We ran out of time at our September 13th meeting, but we'll work on finishing this badge later.
	Camp Together We began on our Callaway Gardens campout over Labor Day Weekend.  We worked hard at making plans for trips both imaginary and real, discussing weather and clothing needs and evaluating the trip we shared.  In Asheville we learned about good camping practices.  But before we left, we learned about meal planning, sharing responsibilities and planning for our own clothing needs.  When we returned, we took time to evaluate our trip - and we're eager to use our new skills to plan our next trip.
	Hiker On our Labor day campout, we learned all about trail safety, we ventured into some "unknown territory" and later discussed the things that we would change about our first real hike.  during our trip to Asheville we took several hikes around our camp and to various waterfalls.  Learning about trail safety and first aid was a must.  Back at camp, we discussed how to plan for a hike - for both comfort and safety - and performed skits to share what we had learned.
	Outdoor Fun We always have lots of fun on our campouts singing around the campfire.  We are also working hard on our fire-building skills, always making sure to closely follow all safety guidelines.  We had fun planning our campout at Callaway Gardens, then evaluating our choices.  Later, we worked on planning our trip to Asheville.
	Your Outdoor Surroundings While camping over Labor Day weekend, we tried hiking on a local trail - we looked hard for the colors to be found in nature.  We had a great time planning an imaginary trip to Florida - and learned how important our budget is to our planning.  In Asheville, we learned about minimal impact camping - and we took another color-palette hike - some of our scouts didn't get to go on the first one.  At camp, we played a fun game collecting items from nature and describing them to a partner who tried to draw based on the description.
	Prints and Graphics Junior Badge At our meeting on August 30th, we did rubbings and made our own stamps.  We used fruits and veggies to stamp and we even made our own Greeting Cards.  We had a chance to frame some of our artwork to take home and we donated one of our Greeting Cards to be used as Thank You Cards.