Attendance:
AmriAtalli
Mikayla
Ariana
Emonee
Brigid
Notes:
Great job coming together to support area Girl Scouts! Thanks, parents, for bringing items for the reception. I'll be putting up our pictures soon, but there is something wrong with our Snapfish account. They might not be visible until their service department corrects the issue.
Next year, when our girls bridge to Juniors, we'll try to find someplace with an air-conditioned venue.
Upcoming Events:
We are postponing the field trip we had tentatively set for Sat 5/29. I hadn't realized that's Memorial Day Weekend and lots of people are going out of town. We will continue with our Monday night meetings- next field trip will be our Community Service Outing to Night of the Bat, Sun June 6. I need to know how many parents and kids plan on attending- Bat Conservation International will try to get us all t-shirts.
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Original Post:
The local Girl Scout Bridging Ceremony is Friday May 21, 5:45-7:30pm
Ceremony begins at 6.
Richard Moya Park
10001 Burleson Rd.
The Scout year ends in May, marked by Bridging Ceremonies. When we leave this ceremony, our troop will be 3rd grade Brownies.
It is strongly suggested that our entire troop attend. There will be other troops moving to the next level of Scouts and our troop will help out with this significant moment in their Girl Scout experience.
After the Daisies cross the bridge to our waiting group of Brownies, our Troop will say
"Welcome, Sisters!"
Then Ariana will step forward and say
"We would like to sing you a song."
Then Troop 1563 will sing the Brownie Smile Song.
When the 3rd grade Brownies (not us) cross the bridge to become Juniors, we sill say
"Farewell Sisters!"
It is likely that all the Scouts in attendance will sing "Make New Friends" and recite the Girl Scout Promise. We'll see what the other troop leaders want to do.
What to bring:
If you would like, you could copy the words to the Brownie Smile song onto an index card and bring it with you.
After all the attending troops have bridged, there will be a reception. Our troop needs to supply a total of 60 individual-size bags of chips and 2 cases of bottled water. PLEASE tell me what you plan to bring by clicking the link that says "# comments" under this post, it's next to the thing that says "posted by Supermandy."
Emonee: 22 bags of chips
Brigid: one case of bottled water
Ariana: one case bottled water
Mikayla: chips
Amri: 12 bags of chips
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We will also use this ceremony to hold our next Court of Awards (complete with cookie prizes and membership stars*.) Many of our girls have near-complete Try Its. All Activities need to be complete with sheets turned in no later than Wednesday 5/19 for her to receive patches this month. Please call me if we need to make any arrangements.
What to wear:
The Brownies in our troop need to wear their vests and brown bottoms (shorts, skirt, etc.) If you need to buy brown bottoms, I suggest shorts, as you will need them again for our Overnighter at the Dell Diamond. Target has a good selection of brown summer bottoms right now- including cotton shorts and skorts for $6. If the girls have other Official Brownie Uniform pieces (hats, ties, shirts, etc.) this would be a fine time to wear them.
Alexis is "flying up" to Juniors. She will be vested into her Junior uniform and receive her Brownie wings. She should arrive at the ceremony wearing her Brownie vest, and khaki bottoms. During our part of the ceremony, Alexis will read what she has prepared for her Fly Up.
*Each star stands for one previous year of Scout membership, which is why stars are given at the end of the year. There are colored disks worn with the stars to indicate which levels the girls have been in. The membership stars are one of the few pieces that move from uniform to uniform as the girls progress.Amri and Madison should each have one star with a blue disk, symbolizing their 1st grade Daisy year. This will be the first star (green Brownie disk) for everyone else.
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