Learn about the importance of eating properly to fuel your body!!
Websites
*http://www.mypyramid.gov/kids/
*http://kidshealth.org/kid/stay_healthy/food/pyramid.html
Requirements
1. Track It. Record everything you eat for one week.
2. Keeping It Balanced. Create a healthy pyramid.
3. Create a Food Advertisement. Design an ad for a healthy food.
4. Understand Food Labels. Create chart to track 3items on food labels.
5. Messages. In what ways do commercials teach good or poor eating habits.
6. It's All About Choice. Make game about healthy food.
7. Balanced Lunch? Compare school lunch menu to food pyramid for 1 week.
8. End Hunger. Do service project to help fight hunger.
9. Speak Your Mind. Write a letter to the US President about hunger.
10. Scavenger Hunt. Look for food providing most nutrients.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Monday, June 14, 2010
Parent/Child Camping has been Posted!!
Mountain Jubilee Dates have been posted!! Grab a friend and check out these dates to go camping with the Dads:
http://www.gsgatl.org/camping_and_outdoor_activities/default.asp?page=cmm&page2=mtn_jubilee
Hannah and Rebecca currently plan to go September 24th-26th.
For Moms that Camp - Serendipity Weekend is for you!! Here are their weekends:
http://www.gsgatl.org/camping_and_outdoor_activities/default.asp?page=cmw&page2=serendipity
I plan to take Hannah and Rebecca October 22nd-24th.
I would love for us to get together and go as a group!!
http://www.gsgatl.org/camping_and_outdoor_activities/default.asp?page=cmm&page2=mtn_jubilee
Hannah and Rebecca currently plan to go September 24th-26th.
For Moms that Camp - Serendipity Weekend is for you!! Here are their weekends:
http://www.gsgatl.org/camping_and_outdoor_activities/default.asp?page=cmw&page2=serendipity
I plan to take Hannah and Rebecca October 22nd-24th.
I would love for us to get together and go as a group!!
Badge of the Week - June 14th
Caring for Children
Requirements
1. Safety First. Make booklet of babsitter safety measures.
2. The Danger Zone. Make list of dangerous household items.
3. Telling Tales. Read 5 books, choose few and read to young child.
4. Box of Tricks. Make rainy day activity box for younger children
5. Basic Skills with Infants. Learn infant care from health-care professional.
6. *What Can You Observe? Keep diary of your observations of child.
7. Planning Ahead. Pick 8 supplies for all-day outing with preschooler.
8. Hungry? Eat Right. Prepare and serve healthy snack to younger GS
9. The Toy Test. Look thru catalogs for dangerous toys. Share.
10. What, When? Create chart of childhood development.
Requirements
1. Safety First. Make booklet of babsitter safety measures.
2. The Danger Zone. Make list of dangerous household items.
3. Telling Tales. Read 5 books, choose few and read to young child.
4. Box of Tricks. Make rainy day activity box for younger children
5. Basic Skills with Infants. Learn infant care from health-care professional.
6. *What Can You Observe? Keep diary of your observations of child.
7. Planning Ahead. Pick 8 supplies for all-day outing with preschooler.
8. Hungry? Eat Right. Prepare and serve healthy snack to younger GS
9. The Toy Test. Look thru catalogs for dangerous toys. Share.
10. What, When? Create chart of childhood development.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Happy Summer Troop 3755!!
As Juniors, you have the opportunity to earn lots of badges on your own as well as Journey Awards with your troop. I know how much you all enjoyed earning your try-its, so I thought I would post a badge idea each week this summer to this blog.
Here are the Basics –
To earn a badge, you must do six activities listed with the badge. They are listed here:
BADGE ACTIVITY LIST: http://server.ellenbecker.net:4271/Badges.htm
Print a report form from the link below to document the activities you complete. Make sure your parents sign it and date it. You can complete a badge in a week, a day, or take the whole summer. It is up to you.
BADGE REPORT FORM: http://www.sunsetoaks-vista8.org/Files/juniorbadgereport.pdf
Print one for each badge you complete!!
REMEMBER: Have FUN!! This is certainly not required but just a fun thing to do!! Finish as few or as many badges as you like. Bring your paperwork to our first meeting
STAY COOL THIS SUMMER!!
Here are the Basics –
To earn a badge, you must do six activities listed with the badge. They are listed here:
BADGE ACTIVITY LIST: http://server.ellenbecker.net:4271/Badges.htm
Print a report form from the link below to document the activities you complete. Make sure your parents sign it and date it. You can complete a badge in a week, a day, or take the whole summer. It is up to you.
BADGE REPORT FORM: http://www.sunsetoaks-vista8.org/Files/juniorbadgereport.pdf
Print one for each badge you complete!!
REMEMBER: Have FUN!! This is certainly not required but just a fun thing to do!! Finish as few or as many badges as you like. Bring your paperwork to our first meeting
STAY COOL THIS SUMMER!!
Badge of the Week - June 7th
As you complete your summer reading, do six of these activities to earn this badge. Don’t forget to document your work using your Junior Badge Report Form.
1. It's a Wide World
Read two fold tales, stories, or poems from a culture other than your own. Share what you have learned in any of the following ways:
- Act out one or more of the stories or folk tales.
- Learn more about one or more of the writers.
- Read one of the stories, poems, or folk tales to your Girl Scout group or another audience.
- Create puppets and put on a puppet show, based on one of the stories, for a group of younger children or Girl Scouts.
2. Picture This!
Select one or two picture books and do one of the following:
- Read the books to younger friends or Girl Scouts. Ask what they like about the illustrations and the stories.
- Create two book covers to go with your selected books.
- Create your own picture book in the same style.
3. Be a Tape Worm!
Make an audiotape of a book, short story, magazine article, joke or riddle collection, play or poetry collection that you can give to someone who cannot read. You could, with your troop or group, make tapes at a local agency that service people who are blind or visually impaired. Practice reading aloud so that your tape will sound polished and smooth.
4. Be a Reading Helper
Some children and adults have trouble reading. Find out from a reading specialist, teacher, librarian, or another adult about different types of reading difficulties or disabilities. Then, with the help of adults as needed, do one of the following:
- put together and distribute a list of places to go in your community for reading help. This information is available at most libraries.
- be a reading buddy. find out where you can help a younger child who is learning to read or having trouble reading. check with your teacher or leader, or ask your librarian if there are literacy or reading organizations in your community. volunteer to spend at least one-half hour a week for alt least a month with a reading partner.
5. The Living Past!
When you read about something that happened a long time ago, you make the event come alive again in your mind. Read a story poem, or folk tale that reflects past life in the United States.
6. Read and Review
In a newspaper or other source, read review of new books for your age level. Check one of the books out of the library, read it, and decide if the review was right.
7. How To? Read On!
Become an expert in a subject by reading about it. You might read about the subject matter of another badge in this book. For example, read a book about dance, music, the life of a famous woman artist or sports hero, horses, cooking, the environment, or an historic event. Review the book in writing or discuss it with your troop or family.
8. Build a Library
Share your love of reading with others in your community: With the help of an adult, collect books and magazines for specific age levels and donate them to a library, camp, nursing home, youth shelter, pediatric office, clinic, day-care center, or other facility.
9. Books for Life
Find out about careers for people who like books. If you can, visit with an author, poet, illustrator, editor, librarian, bookstore owner or book publisher or invite any of those professional to visit your troop or group.
10. Your Library's Treasures
Explore your local library's resources. Prepare poster to encourage greater use of the library, or an advertising flyer to let the community know about all the library's treasures. Some libraries sponsor readings by local poets and authors, or concert series. What kinds of classes or lectures are available at yours?
1. It's a Wide World
Read two fold tales, stories, or poems from a culture other than your own. Share what you have learned in any of the following ways:
- Act out one or more of the stories or folk tales.
- Learn more about one or more of the writers.
- Read one of the stories, poems, or folk tales to your Girl Scout group or another audience.
- Create puppets and put on a puppet show, based on one of the stories, for a group of younger children or Girl Scouts.
2. Picture This!
Select one or two picture books and do one of the following:
- Read the books to younger friends or Girl Scouts. Ask what they like about the illustrations and the stories.
- Create two book covers to go with your selected books.
- Create your own picture book in the same style.
3. Be a Tape Worm!
Make an audiotape of a book, short story, magazine article, joke or riddle collection, play or poetry collection that you can give to someone who cannot read. You could, with your troop or group, make tapes at a local agency that service people who are blind or visually impaired. Practice reading aloud so that your tape will sound polished and smooth.
4. Be a Reading Helper
Some children and adults have trouble reading. Find out from a reading specialist, teacher, librarian, or another adult about different types of reading difficulties or disabilities. Then, with the help of adults as needed, do one of the following:
- put together and distribute a list of places to go in your community for reading help. This information is available at most libraries.
- be a reading buddy. find out where you can help a younger child who is learning to read or having trouble reading. check with your teacher or leader, or ask your librarian if there are literacy or reading organizations in your community. volunteer to spend at least one-half hour a week for alt least a month with a reading partner.
5. The Living Past!
When you read about something that happened a long time ago, you make the event come alive again in your mind. Read a story poem, or folk tale that reflects past life in the United States.
6. Read and Review
In a newspaper or other source, read review of new books for your age level. Check one of the books out of the library, read it, and decide if the review was right.
7. How To? Read On!
Become an expert in a subject by reading about it. You might read about the subject matter of another badge in this book. For example, read a book about dance, music, the life of a famous woman artist or sports hero, horses, cooking, the environment, or an historic event. Review the book in writing or discuss it with your troop or family.
8. Build a Library
Share your love of reading with others in your community: With the help of an adult, collect books and magazines for specific age levels and donate them to a library, camp, nursing home, youth shelter, pediatric office, clinic, day-care center, or other facility.
9. Books for Life
Find out about careers for people who like books. If you can, visit with an author, poet, illustrator, editor, librarian, bookstore owner or book publisher or invite any of those professional to visit your troop or group.
10. Your Library's Treasures
Explore your local library's resources. Prepare poster to encourage greater use of the library, or an advertising flyer to let the community know about all the library's treasures. Some libraries sponsor readings by local poets and authors, or concert series. What kinds of classes or lectures are available at yours?
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