Cadette Girl Scout Troop 4715 Newsletter
April 10, 2000
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Cadette Girl Scout Troop 4715 Newsletter April 10, 2000 |
LEADERSHIP LOG – TIME TO GET IT TOGETHER
At the beginning of the year all the girls were asked to start keeping the Leadership Log in their Silver Award Notebooks. If you haven’t been keeping track, now is the time to begin to reconstruct. Each girl needs to come up with a total of 25 hours in at least two different settings, minimum of three hours each. These hours can come from anytime since we became Cadettes and can be earned through this summer, but need to be completed before we actually start on the Silver Award Project.
Things like leading a class activity, teaching a pet-a-pony workshop, teaching an activity for a Vacation Bible School, Day Camp, Sunday School, or other activity for younger children, helping run a Girl Scout Madness Day, or tutoring someone, all count as leadership hours. You would not count planning time or time spent helping someone else who was leading a group, only when you’re in charge or in front of the group. Remember that the five hours that we worked for National Science Partnership count here. Why is this important? Keep reading!
STEPS TO SILVER AWARD
Complete steps 1-4 in any order before completing step 5
The Dreams to Reality Patch has been completed by Afua, Anne, Christina Gargiullo, Stephanie, Chandler, Rossie, Diana, Liz, Jenny, Evelyn, Aisha, Katie, and Nicole. The Cadette Challenge has been completed by Afua, Aisha, Anne, Chandler, both Christinas, Diana, Evelyn, Liz, Jenny, Katie, Nicole, Rossie, and Stephanie. For a summary, see the online Silver Award progress chart.
Interest Project Patches that girls in the troop have worked on together are Digging Through the Past, From Fitness to Fashion, On the Court, Orienteering, Cookies and Dough, Paperworks, and Performing Arts. Each of them might relate to a silver award project in some way. For example Orienteering might not seem to relate to planning a zoo patch or badge, but we did work with a Brownie troop and learned to plan activities for younger girls. If you need to finish a few activities to finish an IPP, see if you can’t get together with someone else who needs the same thing and get finished up. If you don’t remember, check our website event tracker for who did what and when you did it.
Finishing up the Leadership Award is the last step before we can actually begin to plan our silver award project. There are three things we have to do:
If you have your log all filled out on May 19, you will be able to get finished with the Leadership Award. Remember that if you wish, you may look up the Leadership Interest Project Patch and do that instead of the Leadership Award. If you have to be late to the meeting, try to do the reading before you come. Your fearless Advisors will be ready and willing to help you, but this one is an individual girl’s project!
IMPORTANT MEETING MAY 19 – PLEASE BRING YOUR SILVER AWARD NOTEBOOK
All our meetings are important, but this one is critical. Not only will we complete activities for our Leadership Award, but we will also talk with the Council’s Junior Specialist Debbie Pompey about our silver award project. She thinks that we may find actually creating an Our Council’s Own Panda Badge too hard, and she has offered us the chance to redesign the Zoo Patch to include the Pandas. She’ll tell us all about what we would have to do, and we will make up our minds. If you’re not part of the decision making process, you don’t get to complain afterwards!
SWAP ALERT
According to our Service Unit Director, no girls from Three Leaves have ever been accepted for a Wider Opportunity before. Our troop had four selected, and three are actually going to be able to go. Katie, Christina G., and Liz are going to national Wider Ops, and they need the help of their sister Girl Scouts. They each have to bring a whole bunch of swaps to their Wider Ops. They need help making the incredible number of swaps they have to take. Who wants to make swaps one day in May?
Not only that! Our website attracted an Email from a troop in Philadelphia that loves to swap by mail. They have asked us to make them some swaps to trade for the Philadelphia Pretzels they’re presently swapping. So, all together we need about 350-400 swaps. We’ll get back to you on a date ASAP.
SUMMER PLANNING
Please email (or mail) your summer schedule, indicating when you will NOT be able to get together with the troop, to the Gargiullos. To help us in planning a summer troop fund raiser or get-together, Audrey & Christina are compiling a chart showing when everybody is out of town, tied up with camps or volunteer work, or otherwise unavailable.
Don’t forget about applying to join the Cadette planning board – time is now! Call the council office 404-527-7500. Fun!
Website Reminder
Don't forget that all the troop newsletters are on our troop website (http://www.gen.emory.edu/4715.html) so you can easily refer back to them. The latest news is always under the "Breaking News" icon at the very top of our home page. Also, all schedule updates are posted on the website's monthly planning calendars and on the Calendar Details page.