Norway

For Girl Scouting Around The World, our country this year is Norway.

We have one more meeting to talk and learn about Norway. In the meantime, I told the girls I would give them a treat if they research and fill out the paper in their file folders on Norway.

Maybe some of this will help?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Norway is a constitutional monarchy.

Capital: Oslo

Norway is located in Northern Europe, bordering the North Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean.

Map of Norway Languages: Bokmal Norwegian (official), Nynorsk Norwegian (official) small Sami- and Finnish-speaking minorities. Norwegian basic phrases.
Norway is home to some 30,000 Sami, or Lapps, the largest population of the Arctic reindeer herders. Industries: Metals, pulp and paper products, chemicals, shipbuilding, and fishing are t traditional industries of Norway. Norway's emergence as a major oil and gas producer in the mid-1970s transformed the Norwegian economy.
Norway - Industry
Major milestones in Norway history.

Animals

In the north and mountains are reindeer, polar fox, polar hare, wolf, wolverine, seals, walruses, and polar bears. In the south, are moose, deer, fox, and otter.

Climate

Norway is cold with snow covering most parts of the
country during the winter months.

Artist

Munch Museum
Learn about the life and paintings of Edvard Munch.

Land

The people of Norway are spread out in small towns and communities. Three-fifths of Norway is covered my mountains. Norway is dominated by high mountains, farmlands in the valleys, fishing villages, and fjords. Fjords are narrow inlets of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes. Click here for pictures of fjords in Norway.
In the north, is a vast region of fjords, mountains, islands, and the Svalbard archipelago (video). In the south is rolling farmlands, beaches, and the Western Fjords.
Further north and above the Arctic Circle you will find the land of the Midnight Sun. Where the sun shines day and night for part of the summer.

Snowman Game

Our Troop consists of Daisies through Cadettes and next year we are adding a Senior Troop for our Cadettes that are Bridging.

We all show up to the same meeting, same time....then after 15 minutes go into our own Troops then meet back up together.

When they get there, I usually have an activity to do with them while they wait for others to show up.

This day I thought Snowmen might make a fun game.

What they did was....

We split them into two teams.

Each team picked one girl to be the Snowwoman.

Before hand, we had scattered 1 scarf, 1 ear muff, 1 pair of mittens, 1 beanie and 3 rolls of toliet paper per team around the cafeteria.

Each team together had to find one of each of those. Then they had to run back together and make a Snowwoman.

The first team done and unrolled all the toliet paper around their Snowwoman....won...!

*Of course you can always tweek it however you want. I literally was working out the details that day and as we were playing. 

WORKSHOP

This past weekend we had a Workshop going on at my house.

The Council offers Journey Workshops for the three littler Troops but not for Cadettes.

Our GS Troop decided against doing Journeys at our Meetings. We do badges only and encourage them to go to the Journey Workshops offered by Council. However, since there are no workshops for Cadettes and they need a Journey in order to do their Silver Award....I decided to put a Workshop on for them.

Our Brownie Leader Carolen, wanted to do some "Extra" Badges with her Troop because there is no way to get through all those badges. So, Brownies joined us.

It worked out perfectly.

The Journey we did was Breathe: It's Your Planet- Love It!

I did half of the Lessons with the girls on Sound and Scents.....we did some noisy activities and relaxing activities and had scentsy stations set up to smell. We made our own lotion for smell and a bath bag with natural herbs to put into our bath water to relax.

 My husband who is the air expert...took over the second half of the Lessons doing science experiments and teaching them about the air and why it does what it does.

 While we were working, the Brownies worked on their Snack Badges and made the Cadettes snacks and the most delicious punch. Then later they also decorate cupcakes for us and milk. Which was perfect since our workshop was three hours long.

Brownies achieving their Snack Badge. 

 Aren't these cute?

 Brownies also worked on their Senses Badge.

Here they are blindfolded smelling things...!

 For the Cadettes LIA {Leadership In Action} they had to teach the Brownies a skill or work with them on a project.

Since it was Groundhog's Day, they got to show them how to make a Groundhog's Day Treat to take home.

 

 

 

My Junior...she lives with me so she got to make a Groundhog {smile}

Carolen's daughter is Junior also...so they got to hang out. They put a sign on the bedroom door that said "Juniors Only!"

Honestly, this was one of the most fun days I've had with my girls. It was on a smaller scale then I'm used to with 42 girls in our Troop...it was more intimate. We got to use a kitchen and just have fun.

I liked it alot. I am hoping to do the other 2 Journeys with them as well...! Didn't want to promise anything ahead of time in case the Workshop didn't work out.
Thank you to all who attended. Thanks to Leader Carolen who planned and organized and bought alot of this way cool stuff...!

Friendship Bracelets.

Little Gifts for our Girl Scouts from the Leaders......

"Our Troop Would KNOT Be The Same Without You!"
*And if your husband is an outdoor person like mine, he will go into the various situations you can use these type of KNOTS.

Cookie Rally 2013

Cookie Rally 2013...!

Pure excitement....!

 

 And yes....it was our girls that requested Thriller and Gangnam Style.

I think with all our Father-Daughter Dances....they are waaaayyy to comfortable dancin in public...!

 

 

 

The Cookie Rally pumped us up for selling cookies....!

My three girls have so much fun during cookie season.

They ran on adrenaline all night.

TROOP BANNER

We desperately needed a Troop Banner....and fortunately we have Leader Carolen in our Troop.

She is super creative and can sew like a professional...!

This was her finished Banner....!

I think it's the cutest Banner I've ever seen...of course I'm biased.

The girls LOVE it..! It's Diva and Cute.

When she brought it to the meeting to show us... the girls that came early, got so excited they wanted to take a picture...hence this cell phone photo.

It has rings on the back top to put a pipe through for parades.

We have been using it for boothing.

 It is just perfect....!

MOVIE TIME

Every Christmas Vacation, our Troop gets together at the Movie Theater.

It's a time to visit and just hang out.

The Troop pays for their tickets and a Kids Pack for each Girl Scout.

It basically is a reward for their hard work during Fall Product Season.

This year we saw the movie Rise of the Guardians.

Man, I was not disappointed. This is probably my favorite movie all year...!

I know I loved it..!

Some of our Girl Scouts that went...!

I have been so bad about taking pictures lately.

It gets difficult trying to count people, sign people in, buy tickets, etc...safety first...!

If anybody has any photos from events this year, please email me at bobbicamacho@hotmail.com

I look forward to Movie Day on our Vacation each year...!

Christmas Party & Awards

The Theme for our Christmas Party this year by vote of the girls...was Winter Wonderland.

They also voted that we ate hamburgers and tacos for our dinner.

The Girl Scouts always show up a little bit earlier to do a gift exchange and chat and sing or do a craft....whatever we want to do with them one on one...just so we have some Christmas Fun before family shows up. We have an Awards Ceremony in place of our meeting.

The girls made decorations the meeting before.

Leader Amanda invited the Shafter Critters Officer to our Awards to give the Bronze Awards to the girls that earned it in the Summer.

I love our Award Ceremonies...!

It's not about how many patches they get....we don't even give them patches for every thing they do. It's about recognizing the girls for their hard work...!

 

Birthday In A Bag

There are several good reasons, I chose to do this Service Unit Project with my Cadettes.

First off, I was trying to think of a different way to celebrate Juliette Low's Birthday.

Secondly, we are working on our Silver Awards. I thought this might get the wheels turning on a project they might be interested in. This Service Project combined my passion of children and birthday parties into one.

The girls gathered Birthday Party stuff for a few weeks.

They put the stuff into a gift bag. It was everything you need to have a birthday. Streamers, foil pans, cake mix, frosting, candles, decorations, paper plates, party hats,etc. We called them Birthday-In-A-Bag's. 

We then delivered them to the Ronald McDonald House.

They were given a tour and were told how the stuff they give really helps the children.

 

 

To come up with a Silver Award Project, they need to do just that.

They needed to figure out what they are passionate about...figure out a cause....and put a plan into motion.

This little trip planted a seed of ideas.

Halloween Parade.

A quick Halloween Parade Post...!

It was fun. It was quick. It was good. It rocked. Terrific.

 

 

 

 

It was spooky. It was awesome.

Any other adjectives you could think of to describe the Halloween Parade, let me know to write them on here.

If you have more photos you want to add....I am welcoming them. I have no photos since I was in the parade with the girls.

Bye. Bye.



DRUG FREE PLEDGE

Red Ribbon Week is always at the end of October.

This year, us Leaders decided our theme for our Red Ribbon Meeting would be...."SAY BOO TO DRUGS!"

Our Troop has always participated in the DEA patch program for Red Ribbon Week. If we complete the activities they let us choose from, they send us free patches.

Our Leader Amanda made these Red Ribbons for the Girls to wear.

We let the girls choose between Halloween Shirts or Red this year.

 An Officer was kind enough to teach the girls about Drugs and being Drug Free.

 The Girls took a Drug Free Pledge.

I have it right here if you want to download.

It says "Make No Bones About It, I Will Be Drug Free!"

 

 I thought it would be neat to print a picture out for each girl and on the back, put their pledge they wrote.

 This way they can always remember to stick together and be Drug Free Leaders.



Summer Thrill Chart

*First off, I should apologize for Summer, Halloween and Christmas Posts. I know I am so behind on blogging. I moved. Started working. On top of millions of other things. Ok.....apologies are over....onward to fun stuff...!

 

For Summer Vacation the year before, we had kept the girls busy planning out all types of activities. This past Summer, we decided as Leaders that we needed our Vacation...! We got together to go to Knott's Berry Farm and had a Pool Party....and that was it.

However, I still wanted the girls to do some type of GS work and to know that we miss them and want them to have a fun Summer.

So, I came up with this Summer Thrill Chart  after watching Judy Moody one day with my kids. Maybe the Girls could have a Not So Bummer Summer? They filled out Thrilling things they did all Summer and they brought it back to us in September when we started our meetings back up.

The Girls that completed this task were rewarded with ......

Here are the tags for the bags in case you would like to use this idea with your Troop.

 Just click on the link and download...!

I was Thrilled with the results...!