Skill Builder- Scribe

This week we started our skill builder set for Agents of Change. I have been reading review on Facebook Pages and the general consensus was that this badge is hard for the girls because it was too much like school. That made me worried. I did not want to start the year off with a boring patch.

But they loved it. I must have some really creative girls. I know that my daughter loves to write, but two others did ok with it too. They were giggling and supportive of each other. So nice!

We started off the meeting talking about our Jared Boxes. They are going to the Janet Weiss Children's Hospital. They were all to eager to have them. Then I told them the bad news with their bronze project, that the local animal shelters could not help. I asked them if they wanted to rethink the event or think of something new, and they all said think of something new. So I am excited to see what they come up with.

Next we moved on to our badge work. I asked them about poetry and then we read poems from three different female poets; Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson and Anne Killigrew. It was so interesting to hear the girls take on these poems. They were not thinking literally but they understood the underlining meaning.

Then I asked the girls to write poems themselves. They set right to work on it with no complaints.

These are their poems that they came up with in under 10 minutes!

I believe that unnicorns are real
You might think I am crazy
But I don't care.
If you don't like me or what I believe in,
you have your own opinion and I have mine.
Don't Bully.

I am powerful, so are you.
You don't need fame to shine like the moon.
Don't be afraid to get on the stage,
You'll be great at every age.
Do your best
You don't need to be better than the rest.

For they flow
The Earth's glow
When these women stride
With glorious pride
With their glow brighter
Than the city lights
With each other
With one another
With great strength to help one another
It is ok to believe in all things
Doesn't pull any strings
If one is afraid
Do not go to the parade
The parade will scare
More than the worst fears
And if the fears are silly things
then one will be so scared
Remember to be prepared
Bring a doll
Hug a wall

Girl Scouts is cool,
It's better than school.
My Girl Scout troop has my friends
It never ends
We never say never
That will stay forever
It has E, P, L and me
It has no I in Team
I like my Girl Scout leaders
I like Girl Scouts


I think they were great for the time they had. Sure they all started with, "I don't know what to write" but in the end they all had something good.

Agents of Change- Power of Community- Bronze Meeting

In the beginning of the year, I asked the girls what they liked to do and they told me science and baking. We had done science the week before with bouncy balls and polymers and this week I decided to bake something.

But how do you turn a baking project into a conversation about community?

At first I thought that we could just talk while they baked. Then I thought that I could compare the ingredients to people and how they can come together, combine ideas and be a part of something great. I think my girls know I am a bit artsy fartsy so they give me a bit of lea way. The concept worked for them. They made banana nut and chocolate chip muffins. I was brave enough to try one. Brave because I have done the hand washing/black light experiment with these girls and it will change your opinion of them! Ewww!!!

We had decided to do Jared Boxes for our TAP. I was excited to see that there was a hospital locally that would accept them. Miss B's mom works for the one hospital and we are in the process of seeing if the girls can stop by themselves and drop them off or if they would just go with her. I am hoping the girls can take them in. The hospital is not that far from us and would be a short trip. The girls decided on a budget, what they were willing to work for from their parents, and they decided what each would bring for the box.

While we munched on muffins, we started to talk about our Bronze award. The girls want to hold a pet adoption fair in the town park. A day where they can have a bunch of different rescues come to the area and people who are looking to adopt can come and see them. Great idea..... I have no idea where to guide them to start it.

They left the meeting with shopping lists and homework. They need to come up with 5-8 questions to ask a rescue agency.