Thursday August 26, 2010
While parents are not required to attend monthly meetings, on occasion they will be asked to participate in various events or outing and are strongly encouraged to volunteer time to at least one meeting. Based on meeting capacity we will need to have to have a certain number of adults present at each meeting in order to be able to meet.
Meetings:Every other Wednesday 3:10 p.m. – 4:20 p.m.
Membership Dues:Our troop dues will be $7 per month. The dues collected will go toward troop crafts, supplies, badges and pins and snacks. Field trips and outings will be in addition to the regular dues. Membership into GSUSA is $12 per girl annually this will include an automatic insurance coverage from the GSUSA for all outing, trips and overnighters. Parents may join the Troop as an adult member. If you wish to be present at meetings, be an adult volunteer or be a troop driver, this is required. The Adult fee of $12 dues will cover the membership into the GSUSA and will include an automatic insurance coverage from the GSUSA for all outing, trips and overnighters that the parent goes on.Business Sponsorship of our troop:To give our Daisies the best experience in this Daisy year we are looking for one or two business sponsorship that will ease the start up costs of our troop, IE: crafts supplies, photocopies, pins and badges.
Supplies:1 special item that will be donated to the troop
Daisy handbook
Between the Earth and Sky Journey Handbook
Basic Meeting Agenda:
Start-Up/Snack: girls eat and have the opportunity to work on a simple activity while the leaders to get set up.·
Opening: Girl Scout Promise·
Daisy Circle: Girls get to share what they have been up to and also get in the 'know' on troop news.
Activities: One or more program activities or craft·
Clean Up: A Girl Scout leaves a place cleaner than she found it.·
Closing: Friendship Circle, Good Bye squeeze
Uniform: (not required)· Blue Daisy Tunic or vest (with troop numbers, council patch GSSA patch and American Flag patch) -Provided by parents available at the council shop or @ http://shop.girlscoutssa.org/page13.html
Daisy Investiture Ceremony:The formal induction into our Daisy troop. Girls will invite their families to be a witness and celebrate with them officially becoming Daisies. This is a ceremony where the girls will recite the Girl Scout Promise and receive their Daisy Pins from their troop leaders. A small reception will follow the ceremony.
Girl Scout Glossary:
· Girl Scout sign: Hold the middle three fingers up by putting your pinkyand your thumb together.
· Girl Scout handshake: Shake hands with your left hand while making the Girl Scout sign with your right hand.
·Friendship circle: This stands for an unbroken chain of friendship with Girl Scouts and Girl Guides all around the world. Everyone stands in acircle and places their right arm over her left and holds hands. Everyone makes a silent wish as a friendship squeeze is passed from hand to hand.
· Friendship squeeze: After someone shares something in the circle, shesqueezes the hand of the person standing next to her, who shares something and then squeeze passes on around the circle.
· Quiet sign: Hold up your right hand. As people in the group see the quietsign, they stop talking and also raise their hands. Once everyone is silent,the meeting continues.
· Girl Scout motto: “Be prepared!”
· Girl Scout slogan: “Do a good turn daily!”
· Daisy Girl Scout Circle: A circle that the girls can sit in to share ideas.
· Earned recognition: Daisy Petals, the Promise Center symbolizes thelearning of the GS Promise and each petal earned is for a part of the GSLaw each
The Girl Scout Promise:
On my honor, I will try:
To serve God and my country,
To help people at all times,
And to live by the Girl Scout Law
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