Christmas Caroling

We would just like to get a head count for Christmas caroling on Sunday to see if we should proceed. The plan is to meet at Miss Mary’s house at 2:30-3:45 on Sunday and then walk around the neighborhood and sing some Christmas songs and then return to the house for some hot cocoa. Please let us know your availability either way.

December Update

We will be meeting at 6:30 on Thursday, Dec. 3 in the AES Cafeteria. Please remember to bring:


**** A family photo for the Family Ways badge

*** If the girls missed the last meeting, please have them bring their homework (interviewing at least one woman about her history)

***** And VERY IMPORTANT BRING YOUR COOKIE MONEY!

*** We also still have boxes to donate for the troops. So if you didn’t do that and earn your service patch, IT’S NOT TOO LATE!!! Bring $3.50 to donate a box and you can earn your patch!!!

There will also bring special Christmas activities & special Brownie gifts. This is our only regular meeting for December, apart from our Christmas caroling scheduled for Dec. 13 at 2:30-4 at Miss Mary’s house. So please try to make it!!!!

Please let us know if you can’t make it!

Upcoming for November

Thanks to everyone who picked up their cookies! We did a great job for our first ever cookie sale!!!! We are so proud of our girls.
Everyone who attended the Bell Manor Event and Harriet's Happiest Halloween had a great time. The girls really enjoyed the spooky dancing at "Harriet" and so did the adults.
Coming up next week at 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Nov. 5 (Thursday) is the Daisy/Brownie Dance at St. Francis de Sales' Kilduff Hall. The girls will receive a patch, complete a craft and dance of course! Girls attending please bring one canned good for the church's food pantry.
Don't foget, if you signed up for the cookie booth at Lowe's, our first is 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 8. Our second is 1 to 3 p.m. Nov. 15. We will send out a reminder e-mail next week to remind you when you signed up. Thanks again to Miss Lisa for the awesome signs!
Because of school's being closed on Nov. 5, we are moving our first/third Thursday schedule for November to the second and third Thursdays. The Nov. 12 meeting (which the girls will want to come to...there's cake involved!) will be at Miss Mary's house. Directions will be e-mailed to you. It will still be at 6:30-7:45. We will be talking about Juliette Gordon Lowe, founder of the Girl Scouts and celebrating her birthday (which is Halloween). To get ready for the meeting, the girls can read more about her here: http://www.girlscouts.org/who_we_are/history/low_biography/.
The second meeting in November will be at 6:30 p.m. Nov. 19 at Abingdon Elementary's cafeteria.

Sunday's Conowingo Event--Cancelled

We just received word that unfortunately this event has been cancelled by our cluster. We are very disappointed and were looking forward to fun on Sunday. We had already sent in our money for this, so will get it back to you once it's returned.
Saturday's event is still on!

Cookie Booth Sales

We have received our time/place for our cookie booth sales. The times are 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Nov. 8 and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 15 at Lowe's. We really need everyone to sign up for at least an hour. Cookie money will allow us to do more things without asking for money from you for our outings. So any time you can spare we appreciate. A special thanks to Kayla's mom Miss Lisa for our FANTASTIC cookie sale signs that we'll be using at the booth. These will help a lot. Thanks so much!
Thanks to all our cookie sellers!!! You did a great job for our first cookie sale!

Thursday's Meeting

We will be meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the AES cafeteria. Please have the girls wear older clothing, as we will be painting!
We also need definite yes/no on the following: Bell Manor, Fall Harvest Party, Harriet's Happiest Halloween and Daisy/Brownie Dance Party. We will have permission slips to sign. Please also bring money if you will be attending any of these events.
Also, the COOKIE ORDERS MUST BE TURNED IN BY OCT. 2. So if you want to turn in your sheet Thursday, please do.
Looking forward to a fun meeting!

Daisy/Brownie Dance Party

We know our Brownies love to dance so we want to tell you about the Daisy/Brownie Dance Party from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Thursday Nov. 5, at Kilduff Hall, St. Francis de Sales Church, in Abingdon. Harford County has off school that day and the following day so you don't need to worry about a late night.
The cost is $5 per scout,  $3 per chaperone plus a non-perishable donation for the Food Pantry
Registrations will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis until hall capacity is reached. No tagalongs, no exceptions.
Adults other than leaders are only allowed if needed to meet Safety Wise adult/girl ratio for your troop! This is done to maximize the number of troops who can attend the event.
The snack consists of ice cream cups and jimmies. Please indicate if an alternate snack is needed. Alternate snack is goldfish. Drinks will include fruit punch and water.
The Scout cost includes DJ, patch, snack, drink, goodie bag, and door prizes! Chaperone costs contribute to DJ, goodie bag, and door prizes.
We need to know on Thursday!!!! if you will be attending. There will be a limited number of girls allowed to attend because of space and we don't want to miss out.

Our First Meeting

Just wanted to give the parents an update on our first meeting. Second-grade girls are not always forthcoming with details(!), so here's a brief overview of some of our activities.

• First we went over the Girl Scout promise and law. The girls talked about what it means to them and how we can all try to live by these rules. We will be going over different sections of the law at our next meetings.
• The Brownies said their promise and we all introduced ourselves. We sang "I've Got Something in My Pocket." The girls sounded great!
• We talked about selling cookies and how the money we raise will help us do more fun events throughout the year. We also got to sample the new berry cookie!
• The Brownies took turns writing rules for the year. Each girl signed her name. We'll go over these rules each time. Some of them are no shoving, listen to the adults and be nice. Good rules!
• We will be collecting coins throughout the year to save up for a party/donate to an as yet undecided charity. The girls talked about wanting to help people who don't have a lot of money so part of the money will go to that. The girls can bring quarters, dimes, whatever. It doesn't have to be a lot, we just want to have them work toward something.
• We sang "Taps" to close the first meeting.

One important note, if you could please make sure your Brownie has used the restroom before the meeting. Once one Brownie has to go, every Brownie has to go. We want to get a lot of activities accomplished in our next meeting and a special craft, and since an adult has to accompany a girl to the restroom, this cuts down on the time for instruction and time for the Brownie to finish her special craft. Of course we'll still take Brownies to the restroom if they need to go!!! It's just that a lot of our time in the first meeting was spent taking girls to the restroom.

If you'd like to practice the Brownie Smile Song here are they lyrics:

I've got something in my pocket,

That belongs across my face,

I keep it very close at hand,

In a most convenient place.

I'm sure you couldn't guess it,

If you guessed a long long while.

So I'll take it out and put it on,

It's a great big Brownie smile!

Upcoming Events for October

There will be more information coming about the next meeting, but in the meantime, we'd like to talk about our fun events for October!!!!!

On Oct. 17 there will be Harvest Festival at Bell Manor from Noon – 4 p.m. Bell Manor @ Camp Conowingo, 378 Bell Manor Road, Conowingo, MD. Scouts and families can tour GSCM’s own Victorian Mansion. There will be food vendors, pumpkin patch picking, a scavenger hunt, and rockwall. There is a $10 registration fee. Miss Andrea is attending. Please let her know if you're going. ASAP

There will be a Service Unit Day Camp Encampment from 2 to 7 p.m. on Oct. 18 at Camp Conowingo. Cost is $4 per girl and includes hiking, smores, campfire, craft and patch. Troop leaders Miss Mary and Miss Andrea are going and can take a few girls. (It's suggested we carpool.) This should be a fun event. This is for Scouts only. We need to have registration in by Oct. 12.

Harriet's Happiest Halloween is a special Halloween play at HCC suitable for younger children. We are planning on attending the 1 p.m. Sunday Oct. 25 performance. We need to buy tickets ASAP so please let Miss Andrea or Miss Mary know if you're going as soon as possible. Tickets are $9 for adults and $7 for kids. Siblings are welcome.

Welcome Brownies!

To keep everyone informed about Troop 852 events without lots of e-mails and paper, we are going to list events on this blog.
Check back frequently for updates.
Look forward to seeing everyone tonight at 6:30! It's going to be a great year!