Welcome to our blended troop. Our girls are divided into Brownies and Daisies. The Daisies include girls from Kindergarten and 1st Grade, while Brownies will be from 2nd and 3rd grades. This year, our Brownies will be meeting weekly while our Daisies will be joining us every other week. Check back here for updates on the fun events our Daisies and Brownies will be doing during the year. See the resources section of the site for information on uniform and badge application.

We had a great meeting where we learned about Girl Scouts around the world. Did you know Girl Scouts are in 153 countries! The girls also earned their jewelry making badge and played some games that involved listening to one another and working together. They did a great job!

During our first meeting back after spring break, our Daisy Scouts learned about respect for our Respecting Myself and Others petal. How do we show respect for ourselves? How do we show respect for others? We had an excellent discussion and the girls provided wonderful examples and demonstrations for how to be respectful to our friends. We also learned about how different cultures show respect and how these standards can change over time.

This week we started 2 units - one on Strong and Courageous Women and the other on Safety during Emergencies. Half of the group practiced ways to practice courage in every day life and wrote thank you notes to everyday heroes. The other half of the group discussed what to do in case of fire and practiced writing down important phone numbers and their home addresses. Next week we will switch groups so that the girls can finish these two fun units!

Apologies for the late blog post! We hope everyone had a great break and are getting back into the swing of things without much trouble. In November, we finished our Good Neighbor badge and started on our Caring and Considerate Petal while also making our sit-upons. Each Daisy and Brownie sewed and decorated her own sit-upon, a waterproof cushion that the girls can use both indoors and outdoors. We will use these all year and the girls can take them home at the end of the school year.

Last week we finished up our Friendly and Kind petal. Hopefully those chore coupons will come in handy this Thanksgiving week! The girls walked their donations to the Upland Food Cupboard. They observed the different kinds of food brought by other students. We discussed why some families might need to go to the food cupboard for their groceries. The last activity for the petal was a game called quick questions. This was tricky because the goal was to get to know someone new and introduce them to the group.

This meeting, the girls worked on the idea of being responsible for themselves and others as well as on ways to be helpers in their community. To that end, we played “Whisper Down the Lane” and discussed how words and messages can change dramatically after we share them with others. While some of the girls were familiar with this game, others had only ever seen this game on Bluey (thank goodness for Bluey!

We had a great meeting last week enjoying the beautiful weather while working on our Shapes in Nature and Outdoor Art badges. The girls made patterns out of materials they found in nature, created original song and dance routines and completed a scavenger hunt of nature sounds. As you can see, we keep them busy! Leaf Pattern Rock and Leaf Pattern This week we were also joined by our Brownies. We look forward to more meetings with them in the future.

At our third Daisy meeting the girls earned their first badges! We introduced the “Kaper Chart,” which is responsibility assignments for the meeting. Each girl received a job to help our meeting run smoothly. The girls were excellent helpers! To finish earning our nature badge, each girl made a bird feeder to take home. At the end of the meeting today the girls received their first two badges! The “Girl Scout Spirit” badge for learning about what it means to be a Girl Scout, and the “Love Nature” badge for learning about caring for our environment.

Over the weekend, four of our troop members participated in a Daisy Day activity, led by an older Girl Scout troop. Participants had the chance to earn up to four badges, ranging from clowning around to oceanography. The older Scouts did a wonderful job and it was a fun day!