Friday: Brownie 1

After opening ceremonies, we walked up to camp.  Our first activity at camp was a scavenger hunt that the overnighters prepared for us.  We then worked on a craft with the Cadettes.  We made beads out of magazines and also used plastic beads in our necklaces or bracelets.

We had lunch, and then the Juniors taught us things to earn their Junior Aide badge.  We had 4 stations, and learned 2 songs, 1 game and did a craft, making "cootie catchers".

We had popsicles for our afternoon snack and then we got out the buckets and sponges for our water play.  After we dried off, we had an all camp friendship circle to end our week.

Here's a picture of our girls from today.

The patches (Letterboxing, DayCamp patch) were put inside the letterboxing baggie, and the pottery was sent home today.

Achievements for this week for Brownie 1:
Letterboxing: earned badge, it's in the baggie.
Pottery: In our daily visits to Ms Sarah, we've earned all but step 4 (make an art piece) of this badge.
Brownie Quest Journey: Earned the Discover and Connect Keys.

We had a great time, and we hope your girls did too.  We had lots of help from our aides Ra'coon, Clover and M&M.  We hope to see your girls next year at Day Camp!

Judy & Jennie

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June 28 Friday Announcements

Wow! Where did the week go!

Going to be a warm day! Wear something ok to get wet in.

Today everything will go home with your camper that they created this week.  Some made pinch pots that are coming out of the kiln as I type. Others made sculpey turtle pedants, letterboxing items. And everyone will have memories to last a lifetime.

Thank you for entrusting us with your girls for the week. It has been a pleasure.

Thursday: Brownie 1

We started the day as usual with a flag ceremony.

There are 2 cooties in this picture.
Can you find them?

Then, we went to see Mary Jo Huff who told us some stories.

Doing a chicken dance of sorts

We made a few of the parts of a big mosaic that everyone from camp is working on.

Collage!

Working hard

Later in the morning, we finished up our letter boxing badge.

Adding one last stamp to their books

In the afternoon, we helped a graduated scout finish her gold award by writing what we like about ourselves on a piece of paper, which she will turn into a video.

What I like about me...

Then, we did some games with the older girls and made some lanterns out of cans (big accomplishment as some girls had never used hammers before!).

Don't forget, tomorrow is water day!

A fun game

If I had a hammer...

I'd hammer in the morning... 

I'd hammer in the evening...

All over this land!

Trying to get the ice out of the can

June 27 Thursday Announcements

Today's theme is Spirit Day, favorite school, team, sport (real or imaginary)

Weather: high in the low 90's, slight chance of rain.

Hi UV day so sunscreen and or coverup

Juniors and older who are overnighting, please bring your overnight gear to check-in separate from what you normally have for the day (water bottle, lunch, sunscreen, bug spray, etc)

Today is a trading post day (trading post items are on earlier blog)

Wednesday: Brownie 1

Today we started the day with some songs after we hiked up to the camp.  

(as you can see from the video below of one of the camp songs, our helpers Racoon, Clover, and Maddison are pretty awesome and know how to have a good time with our girls!)

We did our tie-dye in the morning (sorry, forgot to take pics!).  We sent home a sheet with the finishing information on it.  You should not start the finishing of the tie-dye until after the 24 hours is elapsed. It can be completed later, but it needs at least 24 hours for the dye to set.  

We did more letterboxing work today, finding boxes in groups of 2.  

We were visited by a friend from Wesselman Nature Center,  who brought 3 turtles: one snapping turtle and a male and female box turtle.  We now know how to tell the difference between a male and female box turtle.  We hiked down to campus after that, so that we could be close to our shelter in case storms came up.  

Petting the turtle

The Junior girls taught us about fire, with our afternoon snack of edible fire.  We learned a game from another Junior unit, "Heads Up Seven Up".  It was soon time to head to pickup.  Another busy day.

Please make sure your daughter has a full water bottle with her each day.  It doesn't have to be the one we supplied, but she should have a full water bottle. Tomorrow is spirit day, so wear a shirt for your favorite team!

Getting a feel for college... hahaha!

Making their edible fire

Here's Brandi with her edible fire

Trading Post items

The below items will be available at the Day Camp Trading Post Thursday afternoon check-put, Thursday overnight trading post, and Friday check-out.

Cash, checks and cookie dough are accepted.  All prices include tax.

 

Stadium Mat Cushion	$4.00
Poodle Puffer Ball	$2.75
Bugeyed Frog	$2.75
Caterpillar	$3.00
Flashing Yo Yo	$1.00
Flashing Smiley Face	$1.00
Pillow Pet Turtle	$12.00
Pillow Pet Tye Dye Bear	$12.00
Pillow Pet Frog	$12.00
Pillow Pet Bumble Bee	$12.00
Foldable Water Bottle	$3.50
Kozies	$7.50
Go Green Aluminum Bottle	$6.75
CoCo Earth Neck/Brace	$3.50
Mood Rings	$2.50
Journal Pink/Purple	$3.50
Hydration Pack	$20.00
Recycled Notebook	$6.50
Camp Koch Lanyard	$4.50
Badge Holder/Neck Wall	$6.00
Bandanas	$1.50
Shake N Glow Flashlights	$3.50
Solar Flower Pots	$3.50
Solar Grasshoppers	$3.50
Lightening Clip Carabiner	$3.00
Budget Sling backpack	$6.00
Drawstring Bag	$5.00
Pocket Buddy Spiral NB	$3.50
Pillow Pet Horse	$12.00

 

June 26 WednesdayAnnouncements

Weather: Today's forecast is for changeable weather with a strong winds advisory, with a chance of thunderstorms and elevated heat index by camp check-out time.  BRING a rain poncho (they are only a dollar at the most stores or pharmacies).

Today is TIE DYE DAY - bring something to tie dye

Juniors only are cooking their lunch today, so they do not need to pack a lunch

The Camp "Trading Post" will be open on Thursday and Friday during camp check-out (and during overnight for 1 hour), cash and checks only.  

Tuesday: Brownie 1

We started the day with a flag ceremony in the shade of the library.  

Camp songs!

Morning flag ceremony

This little girl was hanging out
near our camp site!

We headed up to the campsite and did another pottery accomplishment, we did step 5 "Paint and Glaze" by painting glaze on the pinch pots we made yesterday.  They will be fired tomorrow for us.  We found the Connect Key in our Brownie Quest Journey.  We will be working on Taking Action the rest of the week.  

Painting the pinch pots

Painting pinch pots

Ready to be fired!

We met a girl who started a charity to fundraise for cancer patients.  Her charity is called "Paige's Cupcakes for Cancer." (click on the link to go to her facebook page)

Paige from Paige's Cupcakes for Cancer

During our Letterboxing time, we did steps 3 & 4 of the badge.  We practiced solving clues and searched for a letterbox.    

We found a box!

Writing in our journals!

We found these mysterious tracks
after letter boxing

After lunch, we got to hear two stories by Susan Fowler.  She told us of a lady who is having a 133rd birthday on Thursday, Helen Keller.  She also told us about a lady who was 20 years older than her, Juliette Gordon Lowe.  Helen Keller lost her hearing and sight when she was around 2 years old.  Juliette lost hearing in one ear as a teen due to an ear infection, and most of the hearing in the other ear due to an injury - the rice from her wedding got lodged in her ear.  We had a frozen snack (Thanks Torrey!) and then did raingutter boat races using the sails decorated yesterday.  We then got to visit a station with friends from the Vanderburgh Humane Society.  They brought a rabbit, a rat, a dog and a snake for us to see.  The day ended with a closing flag ceremony.

 

Remember to bring your object to tie-dye tomorrow!

Some of us got to act out parts in her story

Susan Fowler storytelling

Everyone listening intently

Doing sign language to the story

Raingutter races with our boats

Raingutter races with our boats

Most of the girls pet a snake

A big bunny

A rat on our shoulder!

The girls liked the rat on their shoulder

Sometimes he tickled

Big group of animal loving girls!

A more traditional shelter pet 

Petting Fiona on the way out

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June 25 pictures

What a stellar day! 

Today we had visits from local Story Teller and Lifetime Girl Scout Susan Fowler, the friends at VHS and Miss Paige from Paige's Cupcakes for Cancer.

Cadettes spent the morning with members of the USI STEM math team exploring a variety of facets where math and art overlap, and making their own tessellation.

Junior Group 2 spent the afternoon with the Robotics team... Quotes from the girls as shared:

"This is cool! It's like we are scientist"

"I want to have one of these at home to mess with"

And as shared by one of our CIT robotics Aides "the look of amazement and the click when they press the RUN button and they see the NXT robot do what they had programmed it to do from the computer [then downloaded to their bot] "

So, without further ado, here are snapshots from today.

Another day of getting wet :-) when Susan tells us stories in the heat, expect a little excitement when the squirt bottle comes out.  All in fun and to help stay cool.

Parents may wonder about any unusual pet adoption requests. ;-)

On the same line as the wonderful visit from VHS today, the Brownie 2 unit scouts, came across an injured turtle today.  Coincidently, the unit co-leaders name is Turtle and has several for pets (4 I think at last count) has dealt with a local turtle Rehabilitation and Release group on previous occasions.  With scout Turtle's help, this box turtle is heading off for some R&R. 

We hope you enjoy the photos.  They are mere morsels of what your campers have been up to.

Yours in Scouting,

Torrey