Welcome to the 2014-2015 Girl Scout Year!

Hello EVERYONE!

Junior Girl Scout Troop 1256

First Meeting/Parent Information

Tuesday September 23^rd, 2014

Leader: Jill Schmidt   #307-871-0704

Co-Leader: Tanya Sorrells  #307-871-6023

Co-Leader: Megan Nielsen   #801-837-8690

We will be having our Troop meetings from 4pm-6pm at Mansface Church on Tuesdays. We will basically hold troop meetings every other Tuesday of each month. Those dates will be updated regularly on our Troop blog so please be aware all information we can give will be easily accessible to girls/parents, please check this blog regularly. You can sign up for email notifications for when the Troop blog is updated. We will do our best to keep all Green River Service Unit events updated here also.

We will continue to provide updated/short notice information via text messaging. Please make sure we have current contact information with a primary contact number.  On the flip side, please don’t hesitate to contact any of us with questions or concerns.

Some Troop Expectations: As we welcome these girls into Juniors there are some expectations that they need to be aware of. The girls need to start being more responsible/involved with each passing year in Girls Scouts. Keeping that in mind, we need to be having the girls in uniform for our meetings. We are not going to be strict, but a reward system will be established to reinforce this. Basic Uniform: Junior Sash or Vest with a white shirt under paired with a tan/khaki pant or skirt. If we are doing a community event, uniform is required. We want to represent Girl Scouts respectfully.

We ask girls to come and be ready to be involved. We try to make every event fun… but there are things we do need to accomplish at each meeting.  Girls need to be respectful and prepared to start our meetings.  We start each meeting with our promise/law and anything else the girls establish. We will end each meeting with a friendship circle.  The girls are expected to learn, know and hopefully life the Girl Scout Promise and Law.

Dues:  We are asking for 5 dollars a month in dues for our 9 months of troop meetings.  If you want to pay in one lump sum for the year your grand total is $45.00.  Cookies make our activities possible, but they do not cover everything for our supplies.  

Book/Uniform: The start up kits for Juniors is running $50.00 per girl. That is for a sash, council patch, flag, troop number, book, Journey book, bag, insignia tab/pins.  We are going to be doing the Get Moving Journey this year.  We are happy to order these kits all at once or you can go to GSMW.ORG and shop yourself.  You will need to get this as soon as possible if we do not order it for you.

Investiture Date: Tuesday October 7^th from 6-7pm at the Green River High School. This is our rededication ceremony that we all do as a Service Unit.

Next Troop Meeting Dates: October 14^th and October 28^th.

HelloTroop!

I hope that everyone has had a wonderful Summer! I have missed seeing all your smiling faces!  I had a very busy summer and I am sorry to say that effected our Summer Activities.  I want you to have some information of our troop changes and be aware that we need to start planning our Aquarium trip for one of these upcoming weekends. This will be our Last activity for the 2013-2014 Junior Troop.  It will need to be on a Saturday in September. I would love some feedback on what would be best for your girl. We will make it a day trip down to the aquarium and back.

Our girls who are continuing on this Girl Scout Journey to Cadette. We are sad to see you fly but so excited for your new adventures.  The Cadette Troop holds it's meetings at the Immaculate Conception Church on the 1st, 3rd and 5th Tuesdays of each month from 7-8:30 pm.   Kris and Cynthia are the the fabulous leaders of the Cadette Troop. Their contact information is:

Kris Sherwin                       307-297-1699               krissherwin@live.com

Cynthia Welch                   307-870-6050                cynthiawelch04@msn.com

The Cadette Troops first meeting will be held on September 16th. I am sure Kris and Cynthia will be contacting each girl with more information. 

All our Girls are Registered for this 2014-2015 Girl Scout Year. We took care of that with troop funds. 

Tanya and I will be joined by Jill Schmidt as our fearless Leader! With three of us this year we are looking forward to a fun and more organized year right from the start.

Our first meeting for our Junior Troop is going to be on Tuesday September 23rd. Our Meeting time is going to be changing a bit. We will be meeting from 4pm to 6pm basically every other Tuesday, which works out usually being two Tuesdays a month.  We are asking a parent to join us for this meeting. We would love to sit and talk to you about what we are planning for the year, your feedback on how we can make this a better year for your girl and just so we are all on the same page.   

Looking forward to seeing you all very soon!

Sad News

Hello all,  with a sad heart I need to cancel our Aquarium trip this upcoming week. I had unforseen car issues and do not have a dependable vehicle to take the girls in this week. We will reschedule for a weekend after school starts.  Thank you for your understanding in this matter.

We will be contacting every as our new Girl Scout year gets underway after school srarts.  We will be holding a parent meeting before our actual year starts so that we are all on the same page this year.

FYI a little heads up information. Tanya and I will be joining with Jill to make up our Junior Troop Leaders while our Cadettes will Be moving up with Cynthia and Kris. Our Junior troop will still be meeting on Tuesdays.  

For the girls who did not make it to our end of year BBQ. I have your cookie incentives and will be bringing them by to you this week when I can. Along with your badges. I was hoping to give them at our summer get togethers.  Good intentions but unforeseen events changed our summer.   Looking forward to seeing you all soon. Hope you have all had an amazing Summer!