Up-Coming Dates

Please keep these upcoming dates in mind:

February 20 - World Thinking Day  10AM - 12PM
February 20 - BOOTH SALES START - if you have somewhere in mind for a booth sale, let us know!!
February 23 - Moving Meeting at Akin House 4-5PM (we will pick from school like normal, parents pickup from house at 5PM)
February 25 - No Meeting
March 4 - No Meeting on Calendar
March 6 - Edmond North Musical "Singing in the Rain" 2PM Cookie Booth Sale immediately following (Parent volunteers needed for set up)

Please check the calendar on the blog for your snack date.  NO reminder emails are being sent.

 

To be on the safe side . . . .

Looks like the weather will take a turn for the worse mid-day tomorrow, so rather and just wait and see; We will NOT have Girl Scouts tomorrow, Thursday, Jan 28.  Please plan to have your GS go home normally tomorrow. 

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Troop #840

Thinking Day Event

Save the Date for World Thinking Day 2010: February 20th, 2010

When:  Saturday February 20, 2010, 10:00AM-1:00PM

Where:  Frederick Douglass High School- 900 N. Martin Luther King Blvd. Oklahoma City, OK

2010 Theme: Together we can end extreme poverty and hunger! 

Come and celebrate the 100^th birthday of Girl Guides! You will learn the history of WAGGS and experience different cultures from all around the world. More details to follow.  We will meet and go to the event together.  We are registered for all girls and 2 adult mentors.

 

 

 

Saturday, January 23 and Cookie Sales

We are all excited about cookie sales for 2010! We will discover how we are inspired by others and in turn inspire others. We have begun our troop goal setting for this selling season and will continue this Thursday. Our troop goal is to sell 1,800 boxes! We will set our service project goal and fun/learning goal this week.
Take a minute and look at the Family Support for Selling page.

Pack 90's Annual Pinewood Derby begins at 9AM at CrossTimbers in the cafeteria. This is NOT a booth sale. No booth sales can happen before February 12. We will sell cookies as individuals at this event. If you would like to come, please let me know and I can get you the details.
Thanks and Happy Cookie Time!

Snacks for rest of School year

Happy New Year Juniors! Be sure to check the troop calendar/agenda on the blog for your snack date. For this week - be sure to bring your handbook and journey book. Remember current patrol leaders, if you can not be at a meeting, it is your responsibility to find someone to do your duty. See you Thursday!

Here We Go A'Caroling

Please plan to join other Crosstimbers Girl Scout troops to carol to the Crosstimbers teachers and staff on Tuesday, December 8 after school. Please plan to bring about 1 - 2 dozen cookies to share with the teachers and enjoy after the caroling is over. We will be done around 4:45.
Merry Christmas!

Service Project 2009

Service Project: Sack Lunches
Status: Complete
Rate: Great Success
Number made: 342
Comment: WOW!! Great Job!

We would like to thank our partners, donors and many helpers!

Our Partners

First United Methodist Church of Edmond's Children

Donors & Helpers

Homeland - Bryant & Danforth
Sam's Club - Penn & KTP
Crest - 15th & Santa Fe
Mrs Hale's Pre-K - Centennial
Marie Gately & Hugh Piatt
Rose Mary Black
Andrea Altendorf
Ooten Family
Woods Family
Burton Family
Boyer Family
McAdoo Family
and all of the Families that came to help make and distribute the lunches

Sack Lunch Mission 2009

November is "Service Month" and Junior Girl Scout Troop #840 along with the children of First United Methodist Church of Edmond will be making 300 Sack Lunches to feed some of the homeless of Oklahoma City on November 14. We will meet in the Christian Activity Center of FUMC on November 14 at 9:30 AM and plan to leave with all 300 lunches by about 11AM to deliver them.

Our troop is on a Journey to become Agents of Change and make a Difference in our World. We discovered that there is an on-going need in the community to help feed others. Our troop made 120 sack lunches last year and this year have invited the children of First United Methodist Church to join in this mission and make 300 Sack Lunches this year. The troop voted to make the lunches much like last year and include a sandwich, drink, piece of fruit, bag of pretzals and piece of candy. They younger children joining our mission will help by decorating the brown bags that the lunches will go into. We will be delivering them to either the Jesus House or Grace Rescue Mission in Oklahoma City. We have set a goal of making at least 300 Sack Lunches this year.
We are a Girl Scout Troop of 8 4th grade girls, from 2 different elementary schools in Edmond, OK and will be joined by the children of FUMC of Edmond.

We will be collecting donation for the lunches through this week and make the lunches on Saturday to be delivered for lunch the same day. We need bread, meat, drinks, sandwich bags, brown bags, boxes for delivery, pretzals, fruit and sweet treats (any Halloween Candy that you would like to donate) to include in the bag lunches.

If you have any questions or would like to donate, please contact Amy Akin, Junior Girl Scout Troop Leader at:
theakins@sbcglobal.net.

Power Log & HerStory Trading Cards

I hope you are all finding your "moxie" while you are discovering your Power of One while completing your Power Log (pg 15) Think about all of the skills that you use everyday! You are quite powerful and keeping track of the things you do will help you see just how powerful you can be!

Also, don't forget about your HerStory Trading Cards. Try to complete at least the 6 that we discussed last week:

Yourself
Juliette Low
Someone you know
role model alive
role model no longer alive
free choice

If you are having some trouble thinking of who to make cards of, take a look in your Agent book on pages 18 & 19. Or National Women's Hall of Fame has a really good list of women in US history.

November @ a glance

Thu Nov 5, 2009		4pm – 5pm	Jr GS Meeting - Erica Snack - CrossTimbers
Fri Nov 6, 2009			NO SCHOOL - PT Conf.
Thu Nov 12, 2009		4pm – 5pm	Jr GS Meeting @ Oak Cliff Fire Station - Kesha Snack- Flag Ceremony and Delivery of GS Cookies to Firemen/women. - Jr GS Meeting @ Oak Cliff Fire Station - Flag Ceremony and Delivery of GS Cookies to Firemen/women. Thu, November 12, 4pm – 5pm Where: CrossTimbers, Edmond, OK (map) [Delete] edit event details»
		6pm – 8pm	3rd Grade Musical Program - CT
Fri Nov 13, 2009		4:30pm – 6:30pm	First Lego League - GS
Sat Nov 14, 2009		9am – 12pm	Sack Lunch Service Project - CAC @ FUMC and Downtown OKC
Thu Nov 19, 2009		4pm – 5pm	Jr GS Meeting - Anna Snack - vote for new PL - CrossTimbers

Pet Care Badge

We are going to take steps to complete the Pet Care Badge on Thursday. Before then, take some time to consider the following:

Add It Up

What’s the cost of owning a pet? Figure this out for a pet you have now, or for an animal you’d like to have as a pet. What does the pet eat? How much does it eat? Does it need a special place to live? What will that space cost? What are its medical needs? Does it require special equipment, like a leash (dogs), a litter box (cats), a saddle (horse), or an air pump (tropical fish)? Does your community have any laws regarding that animal? Are there fees? Figure out the daily, monthly, and yearly costs for that animal.

Healthy Diet

What is a good diet for your pet? Collect ads for pet food. What information do they give you about the nutritional needs of your animal? Read labels on pet food containers and compare them for food values.

We will discuss these 2 requirements as well as To Have or to Have Not? and Animal Talk. If you have a picture of your pet or pets that you would like to bring to share with the troop, that would be great!

Free to Live Visit

The Troop enjoyed playing with the cats! They were able to give the cats treats while they played with them.

We found out that Free to Live is at capacity for both cats and dogs (about 180 of each). The adoption fee is $60 and that includes the animal's shots up to date and spayed or neutered.

Check out the slide show of all of the cats that Raven took pictures of while playing with them.