1256 Troop Meeting 10/28/14

Hello Junior troop! We are having our meeting at normal time at the Church instead of meeting at the recycling center. So pleasenplan for our normal adventures! We will be working on finishing our paper making and celebrating Juliette G. Lows Birthday.  Will keep you posted on when we will be at the recycling center.

If you have not turned in your nut fall fundraiser to Jill please get those to us at the meeting!   They are due! Thank you for all your hard work. Looking forward to seeing you all soon!

Aquarium trip for our 2013-2014 Troop

Hello! We are meeting at Megans house at 8am tomorrow 10/11/14 for our Aquarium trip to Utah. Parents will need to sign the yellow permission cards before leaving. We will text when we are heading home to plan accordingly for pick up. If your daughter can't attend please let me or Tanya know! Any questions please ask! We are looking forward to our day together!

Junior Troop 1256 October News

Junior Troop 1256 News

Leader: Jill Schmidt   #307-871-0704

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

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

Troop Meeting Dates: October 14^th & 28^th, November 11^th & 18^th

Fall Fundraiser Starts October 11^th!

We know that this is a hard time of year for fundraisers. A lot is going on with school and other events. But, this is a good way to help us jump start our year. Also, if anyone is in need of financial support for Girl Scouts, they will be looking to see if you have participated in this event. There is an option for some cute photo books in this Fall Fundraiser. This is a new option; you purchase it upfront but have a year to make it. As a troop we will be making a book and then you will have an option later to buy our troops photo book when completed. This option gives our troop even more support. We are encouraging everyone to use the online option for ordering. It can be more efficient for processing and there are even more options for candy/nuts online.  So some key points: Orders Start October 11^th and NO SOONER.  Sales End October 26^th and are due to Jill on October 27^th.  Money is due upfront for magazines and photo books. Money is collected for nuts/candy upon delivery. The nuts/candy should be here before Thanksgiving for delivery. All money is due to Troop by December 5^th, 2014. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask!

We wanted to invite you to Trunk Or Treating with Green River this Saturday at 11am-1pm. Jill is going to this event and is happy to have the troop accompany her. Please RSVP to Jill by Friday if you would like to attend. She will then let you know information for meeting arrangements.

Update on Uniforms and Books. We ordered them the day after our last meeting. We have not had them arrive yet.  I did get an email that the white shirts may be taking more time than normal or arrive.  Hopefully they show up soon!  

We had a fun time making our aprons last meeting and are looking forward to using them when we make paper this next meeting. Please have your girl bring some scrap/garbage papers we will be reusing to make our paper. The more colorful the paper the better, please not newspapers for this activity. We will start talking about recycling/reusing materials and how it saves us energy. Which will then lead into our next outing of visiting the Green River Recycle Center. We have not been able to plan that exact date yet. We will keep you posted when they get back to us.  Thanks for all your Support!   

We hope you have a good evening at our Investiture and Rededication. Thank you for Attending!

Investiture and Rededication

Hello Girl Scout Families!  Just a reminder our Investiture and Rededication is tonight at the GR High School. It is from 6pm to 7pm in the commons area. Light food and refreshments will be served. We look forward to seeing you all this evening at our family friendly ceremony! Don't  hesitate to contact us if you have any questions!

First Meeting for the 2014-2015 Girl Scout Year!

Hello Girl Scouts!  We are excited for our first Troop Meeting tomorrow at Mansface Church.  Don't forget we need a parent to fill out some paperwork and go over some important items. While Parents are meeting with Jill the Girls will be working on getting to know one another.  We have 12 girls in our troop so far this year and we can't wait to meet all our new friends!  We will end with a simple project and if all goes well you might sneak out a bit early with your parents.  See you tomorrow at four!

update * AQUARIUM TRIP * update

Attention Junior Girls for 2013-2014 
We have rescheduled our Aquarium Trip to Utah for 
Saturday October 11th, 2014.  
We will be meeting at Megan house at 8am.  Due to overlap with the Cadettes sleepover we have moved this date yet again. So sorry,  but not enough girls could go to make it worth it.  So, last try!  Again, We have moved the Aquarium trip from September 27th to October 11th. 
The Aquarium opens at 10am and we want to be there as soon as we can.   We are planning to leave Utah at 5pm, putting us back in Green River by 8pm. We will drop the girls off at their homes on our way in. 
Lunch and Dinner meals will be taken care of. 
Please send girls with any items they may need for entertainment while driving, any snacks they might be picky about and a bottle of water. 
Sash/Vest will be expected as we are representing our Troop. 
When you drop your girl off, please be aware that they need to have permission slips signed.
 If your girl is not able to make it please Text/Call Megan so we can plan accordingly.
 We look forward to being together again!  Thank you!

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.