As another school year comes to the end, we finish girl scouts with a bridging ceremony. Girls bridge from Daisy to Brownies to Juniors. Emersyn and Eleri are not bridging, but we enjoyed the ceremony.
This is Emersyn’s 4th year in Girls Scouts. She started as a Brownie in grade 1 & 2. She bridge to a Junior Scout for grade 3 & 4.
Eleri has enjoyed her first year as a Daisy. She meets with other Concordia kindergartners for her meetings. They meet once a month. Elle’s leaders have told me she does fine in all the meetings even though she doesn’t really know the girls, as the only outside Concordia student. She is part of the Concordia Girl Scouts because I am a leader.
Mary Humes and I are leaders for the second year for Emersyn’s grade. We had ten girls last year in our troop. Nine of the girls returned to stay in our troop, plus three more for a total of 12 girls. Mary and I work well as a team. We have had some fun projects with the girls this year.
We started the year by “adopting” Eleri’s Daisy troop. Each Junior Girl Scout had a Daisy Scout to help throughout the year. Our Juniors would leave cards and fun items in their cubby during the year. We finished off our Daisy adoption project by helping the Daisies earn the patch “It’s a Girl Thing”. The Junior girls provided a spa day for the Daisies by doing hair, nails and tattoos. All the girls had fun.
The Junior girls meet twice a month. Concordia is very supportive of the Scout program at the school. The meetings are held in the classrooms. Since Elle only meets once a month, she is a “mascot” in our meetings once a month. She was at the meetings last year, also.
Our girls made posters for the Giving Tree Project. The posters were hung around the school to help fill the bags for the migrant school children.
We tie dyed t-shirts. The tie dye kits come from American so it requires some planning. The t-shirts come from my favorite store, Deathlon, and cost all of 39rmb/$5. The girls love this activity.
My favorite project of the year was the Flat Stacie. The girls were given a Flat Stacie to dress, draw and decorate. We used scrap materials to make clothes. It was fun to see what fun ideas the girls created for their Flat Stacie. Elle was at this meeting. She designed her doll exactly how she wanted. I helped her to glue it all together.
Emersyn’s Flat Stacie is the one on the left dressed in blue/black shirt and pants. Eleri’s Flat Stacie is at the top right side dressed in a red shirt and a pink skirt. She wanted to use material to make “platts” braids for her girl.
Each girl was given a book to write down an adventure before sending it off to Holland. We took the Flat Stacies to Yangshuo for an adventure. Emersyn wrote in her book about the weekend. I wrote in Elle’s book!!
We finished the year off with a spa day at Beauty 7. The girls loved the fun. The girls got their nails painted, hot rock massage on their feet/legs and tattoos. They enjoyed pizza, rice krispy treats and strawberries. One comment – only in China!! It cost 110rmb/$16 per girl.
