PGMA Girl Scouts

As salaamu alaikum,

The next regularly scheduled troop meeting will be tomorrow, Friday, Nov 10, 2017, 6 – 8PM, inshaAllah. Please be timely. Arrivals after 6:15PM are disruptive to troop meetings and strongly discouraged.

DAISIES

• Daisies will be working on a friendship project with the Seniors and Ambassadors.
• Parents: please remember to pick up your Daisy at 7:30PM

BROWNIES

• Brownies will be earning the My Promise, My Faith pin at this Friday’s troop meeting.
• They voted to earn the Snack Badge and will be needing their parent’s assistance with Step 1, an assignment that they will bring home. As part of the Snack badge, Brownies will begin volunteering to bring a snack that they prepared at home to share with each other.

JUNIORS

• Juniors will continue to get prepared for Girl Scout Cookie Season by working on their Customer Insights badge.
• Permission forms and payments for Junior Horseback Riding (Nov 18 at Camp Olympia) are due at this Friday’s troop meeting.

CADETTES

• Cadettes will be working on their Science of Happiness badge. We can get this badge done in one meeting!
  Steps:
  1. Make yourself happier
  2. Think differently for happiness
  3. Get happy through others
  4. Do a helpful happiness experiment
  5. Create a happiness action plan

  Come ready to help your fellow Cadettes enjoy life more!

SENIORS & AMBASSADORS

• We as a troop have the opportunity to lead an effort to help 8 families who are recent immigrants from Uganda to have a better winter. These families need basic winter clothing like coats, boots, socks, gloves, hats, sweaters and hoodies. Our troop would like to lead the effort to provide them with socks, gloves and hats. Would you all like to lead the effort to get our troop to contribute toward this campaign by asking your fellow scouts to bring at least one of these items to our next troop meeting?
• Turn in permission forms and payments for Exploring the Sky, (Nov 18, near Rock Creek Nature Center in DC).

MULTIPLE LEVELS

• There will be a Girl Scout Troop Travel Meeting on November 17 at 6PM for our upcoming trip to Savannah. Deposits will be collected.

PARENTS

• PGMA Girl Scouts is recruiting troop leaders who would like to be actively involved with building girls of faith, courage, confidence and character. Please connect with Sis. Alia if you are interested.

As salaamu alaikum,

The next regularly scheduled troop meeting will be tomorrow, Friday, Oct 27, 2016, 6 – 8PM, inshaAllah. Please be timely. Arrivals after 6:15PM are disruptive to troop meetings and strongly discouraged.

DAISIES

• Daisy Parents: Please note that the new meeting time for Daisies will be from 6-7:30PM. Daisies are much younger and are extremely tired and hungry by 7:30PM. Please be prompt in picking up your Daisy daughters at 7:30PM. All other troop levels will continue to meet from 6 – 8PM.
• This week, Daisies will be working on their friendly and helpful petal.

BROWNIES

• Brownies will have their Investiture and Rededication program this Friday inshaAllah. Investiture welcomes girls who are new to Girl Scouts while Rededication allows girls to reaffirm their commitment to scouting. Parents are invited to attend immediately following Maghrib prayer, 6:45 – 7:15PM.
• Turn in permission forms, $12 payment, health forms and dues to attend the World of Girls Journey-in-a-Day at Chesapeake Children’s Museum, THIS SATURDAY, Oct. 28
• Please let troop leaders know if your daughter will not be able to attend the troop meeting.

JUNIORS

• Juniors will have an Investiture & Rededication ceremony and then get prepared for Girl Scout Cookie Season by beginning work on their Customer Insights badge.
• The following Juniors should come with updates on the location, hours and costs of their respective troop activities:
  • Six Flags – Nedaa
  • Zipline – Hannan
  • Indoor Sky Diving – Halima
  • Sky Zone – Aqeelah

CADETTES

• Cadettes will have their cupcake competition! Girl should remember to coordinate what they will bring with their small groups. This competition will only be successful if everyone does their part. Do we have the next great pastry chef in our midst?!

PARENTS

• Cadette, Senior and Ambassador Girl Scouts and Parents: Please join troop leadership and our Service Unit Money Manager for an update on troop finances, promptly, 6 – 6:30PM. Additionally, come learn about the upcoming summer 2018 troop trek to the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low, founder of Girl Scouts, in Savannah, Georgia, inshaAllah.
• PGMA Girl Scouts is recruiting troop leaders who would like to be actively involved with building girls of faith, courage, confidence and character. Please connect with Sister Alia if you are interested.