Daisy Scout Meeting Eleven

Third week in March  2013

Goal and Badges:        

            Work on the Magenta Petal, "Respect Authority" and continue to work on the Daisy Garden Journey.

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Daisy Scout Meeting March 15

Arrival:                Gathering- 1.  Geranium leaves

                                  2.  Draw team garden in book
                                            3.  Safety Test

4:05                      Daisy Circle- Daisy Promise
                     Hello in Spanish

                                                   Daisy song
                                    Garden Song
                                    Explain Day
                                               Tea Party Invite

4:10                      Garden craft 

4:25                      Garden Scamper

4:35                       Snack and read Gerri’s story

                              Discuss authority

                             What happens if no rules

                             What are meeting rules

4:50                        Make Gerri or

                             Thank you cards (Bank and Police)

5:00                       (Switch)  Make Gerri or

                      Thank you cards (Tae Kwon Do and Fire department)

5:10                       Mother May I

5:25                      Closing Circle

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Gathering Activities

Geranium Leaves

Geraniums have those beautiful bi-color leaves, so the first thing the girls did was paint those (details in Geri section)

Draw Team Garden

Now that everyone had a chance t take home the team garden and it was growing well, we had the girls turn to pages 44 and 45 of the Daisy Flower Garden Book and draw how the garden looked now and how they think it will look in a few months.

Drawing in Journey book.  If you can read it you may notice my daughter reversed the now and future garden pictures.

Safety Test
We built in time for any of the girls who hadn't done the safety test to do it.  We only had one girl who had froze  during the phone number part.  I pulled her aside during the gathering activities and she was able to earn her pin fairly easily.

Daisy Circle:

The Promise Leader led the Promise and then we went around the circle saying what they enjoyed most about the Field Trip we went on last time we met.  We sang the "Planting Song" we had learned the meeting before and the "Amazing Daisy" song.

We also started something from Garden Journey Handbook, saying hello in a different language each week.  This week everyone said hello in Spanish like Cora, one of the Garden Girls from the Journey Book.  First we asked if anyone knew how to say hello in Spanish, quite a few did (they all grew up with Dora and Diego).  After those girls demonstrated, we went around the circle and everyone said "Hola!".

From Journey Handbook

Tea Party Invitation

For our upcoming work on the Violet "Sister to Every Girl Scout" Petal we decided to host a Mother-Daughter Tea Party and invite another troop to join us in the interest of "Sisterhood."  We decided to invite one of our girls' older sister's Brownie troop.  The party was a month away, but we wanted to give the other troop plenty of time to plan so we worked on the invitation this week.

At this point in the meeting, we explained to the girls about the party and what we were going to do.  Then I had a card with a flier type invitation glued on the inside (the email version of the invite), then I had tea party stickers and cutouts for them to glue on the front of the card.  They all took turns signing the inside.  At the end of the meeting the girl whose sister's troop it was brought home the invitation so that  her sister could present it to her troop.

Flier Invite

Garden Craft:

We were running late so we skipped the Garden Craft.  I had been intermittently putting this project on the schedule since the very first meeting, but it was always the first thing cut. I had 9 pouches left over from a garden magnet craft that I had gotten from Oriental Trading on clearance two years ago.   I think we finally got to it on the second to last meeting, but even then they only did half and brought the rest home to finish.  The girls never really enjoyed the prepackaged crafts much.  They preferred things that they are able to be more creative with.    

Garden Scamper

On page 53 of the Garden Journey Handbook is a game called the Garden Scamper.  After thinking long and hard about how we would make this work for our 8 girls we came up with a sort of Duck Duck Goose version of the game.

Page 53 of Adult Journey Handbook

We had the girls sit in our Daisy Circle (without the parachute underneath, too slippery) with the two leaders in the circle as well.  We told the girls to think of animals they find in the garden (frog, squirrel, deer, butterfly, bird, etc...).  Then the person who was "it" (I started) walked around the back of the circle and picked one of the girls and an animal.  The girl who was picked then had to move around the circle pretending to be that animal.  After one lap she would get to be "it" and picked a new girl with a new animal.  We repeated this until every girl got to be "it."

At first, the girls were very put out that they would have to pretend to be the animal someone else chose and not the animal they chose.  They protested (some rather loudly).  When I saw this I realized it was a better game then I thought.  It teaches flexibility, rule following, and team work.   We were very firm in that they had to be the animal chosen for them.  That was the game.  With a little firm nudging the game went smoothly after the initial few minutes.  The girls who didn't like their animal were a little less enthusiastic in their acting, but they did it.  Occasionally, I or my co-leader showed them an idea for how to act like that animal which resulted in much hilarity and ice being broken.

I think all the girls really enjoyed the game and as a sort of "reward" for following the rules at the end we let all the girls pretend to be an animal of their choice in a big mishmash of loud and happy garden creatures.

Pretending to be a butterfly

Snack and Story Time

As usual, we had the girls sit back down on the floor and the two Snack Helpers handed out snack.  My co-leader began reading Gerri's Story: Playing by the Rules, our "Respect Authority" story, while I was setting up the next two activities.

The irony of it all was that the girls were paying absolutely no attention.  I don't think I had ever seen them act more disrespectful.  They were talking to each other, whining about their snacks, and rolling around on the floor.   One of them may have been trying to stand on her head.  (To be fair it was the Friday before Spring Break).

When my co-leader got to the end of the story not a single one knew what it was about. They were being so rude that I came over and interrupted, giving them a very firm talking to (borderline yelling) about their behavior especially during a story about Respecting Authority!  I was harsher than usual and they stared at me through wide eyes.  

After asking them to tell us who was in authority here (me and my co-leader) I told them we were going to try this again and this time I would tap them on the head if they were being disrespectful.  This time the girls sat and payed attention beautifully, very proud when I passed them by without a tap.  Several girls received light taps and shaped up quickly.

At the end, they received a lot of praise for doing it right this time and we were able to have a really nice discussion about the story, meeting rules, why we have rules, and respect.

Recommended Questions from Handbook

Thinking back, I couldn't have come up with a better lesson on Respecting Authority, though I have no idea how you would recreate it.

Make Gerri the Geranium (Half the girls)

Gerri the Geranium wasn't too hard to make.  We used a bit of paint to make it two toned and a little more fun.  (Everything more fun with paint.)

My Gerri

Supplies:

1.  Pictures of real geraniums.

2.  Green construction paper.
3.  Geranium leaves template in three different sized leaves.

I used a picture of a leaf as my template

4.  Green and blank tempera washable paint.
5.  Circular sponge paint brush.

Circle sponge brush

6.  Magenta card stock .
7.  Petal templates.

8. Violet tempera washable paint.
9.  Green sharpie.
10.  Glue.
11.  Stapler.
12.  Googly eyes.
13.  Red card stock (a small scrap is enough).
14.  Small paper plates.
15. Green pipe-cleaners.

Pre-meeting Prep:
1.  Use geranium leaf template to cut out several sizes of geranium leaves from green construction paper.  I made the template from printing out a picture of a leaf, gluing it onto an old manila folder, and cutting it out.
2.  Cut out five magenta petals per girl (and maybe a few extras just in case) from card stock.
3.  Cut out tiny lips (because you can't draw on paint) of red paper.
4.  Cut pipe-cleaners into 3/4 length.
5.  Lay out at each girls spot a paper plate with their name on it and several leaves.  In the center lay out 2-3 paper plates with green and black paint mixed to make a dark green and sponge brushes (luckily I had a full set of sponge shape brushes including four 1/2 inch circle brushes)

Gathering
1.  As the girls come in and take their seats, show them how to dab the paint onto the center of the leaves.
2.  When they are finished set them aside for later.  Make sure to wash out the brushes thoroughly so you can use them later for the center of the flower.

Later in meeting:

1.  After splitting girls into two groups, have them get their garden poster and begin gluing down a pip-cleaner stem. (At this point my girls were all complaining that their wasn't enough room for the new flower.  I would assure them that flower gardens were crowded).
2.  Go around and staple down the stems as the girls pass around pictures of real geraniums.

3.  Show the girls how to overlap and glue on their petals at the top of their stems.
4.  Have the girls glue on their leaves and use the green sharpie to attach the leaves to the stem.
5.  Use light purple paint (on a paper plate) and the newly cleaned circle sponge brushes to paint Gerri's face.
6.  Place eyes and lips on flower, glue most likely not necessary.  The paint seals them on.

One of the girl's Gerri's

Thank You Cards  (Half the Girls)

The other half of the girls went with my co-leader to make Thank You Cards (a sign of respect to those who helped us).  We had four cards to do:  Fire Department, Police Department, Tae Kwon Do Studio and the Bank.  We randomly divided the cards into two for each group of four girls.  Then my co-lead would ask the girls to dictate what they wanted to say on each card and write it down.  After that was done they divided the group of four into groups of two, who then used markers and stickers to decorate the front of their own card. Once all four cards were finished (and the Gerris were done) we had the girls go around and sign all four cards.

Mother, May I?

The best game to teach respectful speech and manners (in my opinion) was likely played by your parents and possibly their parents.  I certainly played "Mother, May I?" when I was little. 

Rules are simple.  Kids line up a good distance away from the person playing "Mother" (in this case me). "Mother" calls out the name of one of the kids and gives them a certain number of a certain type of steps forward.  For example:  1 giant step, 5 baby steps, 2 backwards steps, 2 hops, 3 crawls, 1 leap, 3 spinning steps, 6 itty bitty ballerina steps...etc.  Let your imagination go wild.  Before they can move forward, the kid needs to remember to say, "Mother, may I?"  To which "Mother" responds, "Yes, you may,"  and the child proceeds forward.  If the child starts to move without saying "Mother May I?" it's back to the starting line for them.

We had our girls pack up and put on their coats and shoes.  Then we played this game in the front yard until (and while) the parents arrived.  It must have still been chilly out, because I have a vivid memory of the girls leaping across the yard bundled up in their winter coats.  It was a fun way to end the meeting.  Just today my daughter was trying to persuade her brother to play Mother, May I? with her.

Closing Circle: 

Yeah ... the girls were picked up from the front yard.  We skipped this part.

Homework/Handouts:

The girls had the usual handout for "Respecting Authority." 

Safety Center Field Trip

Second week in March

A Safety Center (in case you don't have one in your area) is simply a building that houses both the local sheriff's deputies and the fire station.  Ours actually shared a conference room and since they are in the middle of an enormous residential area with a ton of kids were very used to giving kids talks there.  We did a 45 minute tour/talk with the police and about 30 minutes with the fire department.  It was pretty awesome!

Safety Center

The plan was to go to a local park after and have the girls play while we did our "safety test" individually.  But all good plans... it snowed earlier that week and we moved that part to my house.  Less fun, but it worked.

Goal and Badges:

This field trip was designed to tie into the Magenta "Respect Authority" Petal.  We also used it as an opportunity to get the Safety Pin.  The Police taught the girls about "911" and what to do if an adult is chocking or in trouble and the Fireman went over "Stop, Drop, and Roll."

Daisy Safety Pin

Sheriff's Department

We met with the Sheriff's deputies first.  They brought us into the conference room and talked to the girls about the role of deputies in our community, when and how to get their help of the girls needed it, and all about "911."  The deputies also talked for a while about when it was appropriate to call 911 and when it wasn't.  Apparently, they get quite a few calls when a sibling is being "mean" to them.

Then they showed them around the station, including dispatch, a holding cell (their favorite part), their break room and the garage with the police cars.  They let the girls look inside the car and set off the different sirens.  They even let the girls see some of their gadgets like the radar gun.  At the end, they got magnets and sheriff's badge stickers to take home.


Fire department

Next, one of the firemen came to show the girls around (wow, those firemen were young.  Made me feel old.)  First they brought the girls into their big garage and showed them their equipment and the fire truck.  (They didn't get to go on.  I'm not sure why.  My daughter was acting up at this point and I was dealing with her.)  The fireman (kid) taught the girls a little bit about fire safety and "stop, drop, and roll."  

Then he showed us around their kitchen (um... a million times nicer then the sheriff's department's which had a refrigerator, a microwave, and a soda machine), their enormous rec room with reclining chairs and beautiful murals, and their impressive work-out room.

By this time the girls' patience was wearing thin and they were taking turns being a pain in the rear.  It was time to give them a snack pack and head back to my house.


Safety Pin/ Safety Test

Some of you my have read the word "test" as I've been mentioning this and thought "Whoa now, this is Daisy Scouts not school!  Isn't a test a little much?"  I do agree that Girl Scouts should not be a pressure thing.  These kids have enough of that put on them already, but we thought the Safety Pin was important enough to do a little differently.

In general, even though we have homework sheets, for the previous badges and patches if the girl showed up they got the petal or patch.  For the Safety Pin the girls actually had to prove that they knew the material.  We tried to make it as low stress as possible and to set the girls up for success.  We sent the mothers the test weeks before to go over with their daughters.   And we made the test optional.  In other words, if you wanted the pin you could take the test.  If you didn't want to take the test, you didn't get the pin, but that was perfectly fine and no one would put pressure on them to go for the pin.  If they didn't pass the test they could retake it until they did.

This is the test we gave the girls:

Question and answer key

Safety Test 

First, we asked the girls for volunteers, then I took them upstairs in pairs (yes, there was another adult in the room per gs regulations) and asked the following the questions.  I would prompt them for the first two questions if they weren't able to answer immediately, but they needed to know their phone number (the mom's told me ahead of time which number they were memorizing) and their street address all by themselves. 

1. Q: Girls will be asked “What do you do if your clothes catch on fire?”

     A: They need to say, “Stop, Drop, and Roll” and demonstrate this.

This was something the girls had just done with the fire department, so not that hard.  We did have them actually do the "stop, drop and roll."  Some girls were faster to jump to it then others but overall I didn't have any problems with this question.

2. Q:  Girls will be asked “What do you do if you think someone is choking?”

     A:   They need to say “Ask are you ok?”  If the person choking can’t answer then the girl has to say, “Get a grown up.”

         Q:   What do you do if it is the only grown up there

         A:    Girls say "Dial 911”

So to be honest, we had trouble deciding what to do here.  'Cause really I'm not teaching a five year-old the Heimlich Maneuver.  That's just ridiculous.  This is what we came up with and I think it's pretty reasonable.  It also applies to other situations when an adult is just not OK.

This was probably the most fun for the girls because they got to take turns pretending to be the person choking and allowing their partner to try to figure out if she could talk.  Then we would go through the sequence of things they should do.  This loosened them up a bit for the hard part.

3. Q:  Know their address. 

       A:  They need to know street address, and “Home Town, Virginia.”  They don’t need to know the zip code.  

We didn't require their zip code, because, really, if they were lost no one was going to ask their zip code.  Also our street numbers are long.  With five numbers for their street address and nine for the phone numbers that's a lot to memorize.   

Many of the girls had trouble with their town, funny enough, though since they did the test in pairs, usually at least one girl would know it. Some times they needed prompts like "what do we call our pool, or what does mommy say when she says we live in ____."  I did have the explain which was the state and which was the town quite often, but, hey, they're little.  We let that slide.

4. Q:  Know their Phone number

                 A: They need to know one phone number (let me know which one it will be).  They should be able to enter it into a phone and know the number without prompting.

This was the one I was strictest about.  I wanted all the girls to be able to call their mom or dad at any time, for safety sake.  I was going to let them actually call home on my cell, but we ran out of time. 

I regretted teaching them a little when my daughter started calling me at work just to say she missed me or to ask if she could have this or that.  Oh well, at least I know she knows it and I got a few cute voicemails out of it.

In the end, all the girls got their pin.  Only one didn't get it that first day.  She froze and couldn't answer the last two questions.  She didn't seem too upset though and got her pin during the next meeting after practicing at home a little more.

Daisy Scout Meeting Ten

First week in  March 2013

This particular meeting was a little crazy.  I had a very clear plan to finish up the Purple Petal and start the the Magenta Petal, "Respect Authority."  We also had a guest coming from a local program Plant A Row that works with people from our county to grow fresh produce for charity.  This would set up the next meeting to return to the Garden Journey.

Plant A Row Brochure

I can't remember if I blogged about it, but we gave the girls a choice of two "Amazing Daisy Projects": Plant a flower garden at the local Safety Center or grow a vegetable garden in the backyard and give the produce to a local food bank.  They chose the vegetable garden (which was probably obvious from the previous paragraph.)

Anyway, when I was inquiring as to which food banks took fresh produce I ran upon this lovely woman who not only told us where to bring our stuff but offered to give us seeds and talk to the girls.  My Co-lead and I thought this would be awesome so I asked her to come to the meeting directly before the meeting where we planned to start indoor planting so we would have the seeds ahead of time.  What I didn't realize until the day of was that our guest intended to plant with my girls.  Luckily, I had planned that next meeting too and a few hours ahead I rearranged our schedule so we flip-flopped about two-thirds of the meeting with the next.  

I felt frazzled the entire meeting from the last minute switch, but looking back it was a really great meeting and the girls didn't notice a thing was amiss.  They handled the mix of topics really well.

Goal and Badges:        

Finish working on Purple Petal, "Respect Myself and Others," and reintroduce the Garden Journey.  Do some work on Cookie Activity Pin and set up plan for earning Safety Pin.  Have a guest and earn the Watering Can Award.

A Note on Pins:  While leafing through the Daisy Handbook I ran into the Safety Pin and Cookie Activity Pin.  I won't lie, the thing that attracted to me at first was that they got pinned on the front of the vest and moved up with the girls from rank to rank (so it looked cool and satisfied my obsessive need to get every award.). 

After a little research we discovered that we only had 2 steps left to get the Cookie Activity pin. Cookie Activity Pin Requirements.  We had to practice our "Elevator Speech", i.e... if a potential customer says they already bought Girl Scout cookies or that they're on a diet the girls were to say "then would you like to donate a box to the troops."  We worked on this step  individually at booth sales.  (And it really sold more cookies when we did.)  The last requirement we hadn't fulfilled was to "Discuss how living by the Girl Scout Promise and Law applies to what you should do in the Girl Scout Cookie Program as a  Business Women." This step we did in this meeting.  

And the Safety Pin, well, that was stuff we really wanted the girls to learn.  I'll explain exactly what we did with this at the end and in the next blog.

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Daisy Scout Meeting March 1

Arrival:                Gathering- 1.  Sign Thank You

                                            2.  Pour water on pellets

                                                         3.  Cut out pictures of ways you respect yourself and put in bag

4:10                      Daisy Circle- Daisy Promise  NEW SONGS

                           Go through law and booth/guest

Present bag 

Water team garden

4:20                      Learn Gardening Song

4:30                     Talk about Seeds

                            Read story and eat snack

                            Plant

5:00                     If time Garden Craft and/or garden scamper

                                   

5:10                     Ceremony and Songs

5:25                     Closing Circle, learn address and phone number

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Gathering Activities

Sign Thank You Note

Our original lesson plan on "Respect" had a section or the girls making Thank You Cards for all of our past Field Trips.  That was postponed, but I really wanted the girls to have one for the lady who was visiting that day.  In the interest of time, I let my daughter decorate the front of the card while she was waiting for the other girls to arrive.  Then the girls had to sign the card before they could do their other activities.  Some of them drew a little flower or heart as well.

Prepare Soil/Amazing Daisy Project

The overall plan for our Amazing Daisy Project was for the girls to plant the vegetable seeds indoors, in March for the slow growing seeds and April for the quick growing seeds.  Then we transplanted them  into the garden at the beginning of May and the girls took turns harvesting and delivering the vegetables to the Food Bank over the summer (now).

I've started many seeds indoors, flower and vegetable, and the best way is a seed starter pack like this:

The soil disks are low mess and the container is great for quick germination.  I also have a germination warming mat and  a growl light which do produce more and larger plants but you can be completely successful by placing the kit over the refrigerator until the seeds germinate and moving them to a bright, draft free window once seedlings appear.  

Heat Mat I use

Grow light I use.  From Amazon.

For the gathering, after signing the card, each girl got 8 soil disks and a tubberwear container.  We had them place the disks in the container then pour a cup of water on top and put it aside.  In 5-10 minutes (after their last gathering activity) they could come back and see how they expanded to 5x their size into a fluffy seed starter mix.

This isn't my photo but a good image of the dry and wet disks.

Make Respect Yourself Bags

After their two quick assignments the girls went to the craft room where they each took a paper lunch bag (I think I had blue in the house).  Then there were a pile of family friendly magazines, scissors, glue sticks, construction paper, and colored pencils. 

The girls were asked to cut out or draw things they do to show they respect themselves and put them in the bag.  We shared what they came up with at circle.

Supplies for Respect Myself Bag

Daisy Circle:

Music for "Amazing Daisy" 

We also decided to start teaching the girls more songs. (Wow, we did a lot of new things this meeting. No wonder I was frazzled.)  We started by just playing this song while the girls came to circle.  I don't think we ever "taught" the words, but every single one of them knows it by heart now.  Some of them even taught it to their friends at Girl Scout Camp.

This song is from "Girl Scouts Greatest Hits Vol. 11". The album is $9.99 on iTunes and but the song is free from this site.  I thoroughly Recommend the album.  

Welcome to the Daisy Flower Garden

Welcome to the Daisy Flower garden!

Here you'll find all you need to grow the flower of possibilities,

The sun and the rain and the honey bees,

make the world a better place, Amazing Daisies!

Welcome to the Daisy Flower garden!

Here you'll find all you need to grow the flower of possibilities,

The sun and the rain and the honey bees,

make the world a better place, Amazing Daisies!

The Promise Leader led the Promise and then we went around the circle saying presenting their respect bag.  Each girl showed 1-2 things they had inside and how that showed self-respect.

We talked a little bit about the guest who was coming and how we should show respect to our guest (sitting quietly, raising hand to ask questions, listening etc..). Then I pulled out our Girl Scout Law poster and we went through the laws one by one and I asked the girls to think of something that applied each when with either meeting a guest or hosting a cookie booth (cookie booths started the next day).  

This activity went surprisingly well and we checked off another "to do" for our Cookie Activity Pin.

Learn "Planting Time"

After talking a little bit about how we were going back to our Garden Journey today and starting our garden we got the girls to their feet to learn this little hand motion song.  This is another song they love and know by heart.

Planting Time

(Sung to tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat")

Dig, dig, dig the earth

(Make Digging motion)

Then you plant your seeds

(Pretend to drop in seeds)

A gentle rain

(Flutter Fingers Down)

And bright sunshine

(Circle Arms over head)

Will help your flowers Grow

(Hold One Arm parallel to the ground and 

move the other arm up behind it with fingers 

extended to represent a flower growing)

Snack and Story Time

After handing out snack, we used this story time as a review, since they hadn't heard the Garden Girls story since the beginning of the year.   My co-leader started reading at the beginning of the book and read until our guest arrived (she got a bit lost and was a tiny bit late).  My co-lead got through about two chapters.  We asked the parents to retread chapter 3 at home before the next time we worked on the journey (April) so we could pick up with chapter 4.

Guest and Planting

Once our guest arrived things went surprisingly smoothly, which I'm sure is more to our guests credit than mine.  We ushered the girls into the craft room where I had set out each girls tubberwear with their sets of soil pods, now fluffy and moist.

Our guest talked about feeding the hungry and how important it was for them to get healthy vegetables to eat.  She told them for every 13lbs we grew it would feed someone for a week!   Then she asked them questions and they talked about basic plant and garden care.  She even brought us pots made out of newspaper, though we didn't use them.  I kept them to use for transplanting later.

The girls attention did wander a bit while she was talking but came back with lazer focus when she pulled out her seeds. She brought a whole pile of organic seeds for us.  She would explain each type as we'd hand them around.  Each girl was to plant 2-3 seeds per pod, only one pod per type per girl and then we would collect them as they finished, keeping them labeled.  We planted tomatoes (5 different types) green peppers, eggplant, lettuce and spinach.  I gladly accept seed packets for cucumbers, zucchini, yellow squash, peas, carrots and several types of beans to plant in April (except the carrots which needed to be sowed directly in the soil.) 

The seeds only need to be pressed ino the pod with one finger and lightly squeezed to cover with soil. They do not need to be watered at all until after germination takes place. (About two weeks for most of these.)

New seedlings (though I'm pretty sure these are the April ones).

Tomato and basil plants a month old just before I transplant them to the newspaper pots

Just post transplant in newspaper pots

Our set up

 (If you were wondering if we had time for the Garden Craft or scamper ... we didn't).

Watering Can Ceremony

By this time, all the girls had had a chance to bring home the team mini-garden and take care of it for at least a week.  We had learned the Girl Scout Promise and Law (at least an overview of it), read three chapters of the girls' book and learned the basics of how to grow and care for plants.  We figured it was about time the girls earned their Watercan Award.

Full grown mini-garden

For the ceremony, we had the girls stand in a semicircle facing their parents. We put of the song from the Lorax movie, "Let it Grow."  Ahead of time I had cut out and put badge magic on the back of the Water Can Badges.  I would announce the girls one by one, they would step to the center of the semicircle and I would stick the badge onto their base garden badge on their vest.  Then I would announce that they could bow or dance a little dance while everyone clapped.  We went around until all the girls were done. 

Closing Circle: 

We did the friendship squeeze and reminded the girls about the Safety Center Tour.  We also reminded them (the email had gone out to parents a week or two before) that there would be a test for their Safety Pin after the field trip so they needed to study if they wanted their pin.

Homework:

The homework for this week was to study for the "Safety Test." Since this blog is already enormous and confusing I'm going to go in details on this in the next blog on our trip to the Safety Center.  In brief, the girls needed to study their address and phone number and know it cold!

The requirements for Safety Award straight from the Daisy Handbook