Joy Journals

Reminder:  Your Joy Journals will be due at the January 23rd meeting.

Tall Flags Routine

Great news! Our Flag Corp will be preforming the Opening Ceremony of the January 31st home basketball game. Here are the assignments: Malia, Emma and Megan will sing the National Anthem; Nathalie is Caller; Jaclyn is Flag Bearer; Vanessa, Remington, Claire & Krysta will be the Guard. 

We will also be preforming the God Bless the USA routine during half-time of the girls game. We will have practice the 3rd and 17th after school until 4pm to prepare; please remember to bring your flags! Please come to the January 3rd meeting knowing in what order the moves are done, as we will spend our time perfecting and timing the routine with the music. The routine is preformed three times on the DVD. Please let me know ASAP if you are having problems viewing your DVD.

You are probably getting tired of hearing this, but I will say (write) it one last time! The girls will need to be dressed in a blue skirt at least knee length with no decor, white socks and shoes, and their red Frontier Girls t-shirts the night of January 31st. We will meet on stage by 5:45 dressed and ready to go.

Our Christmas Party

We had our Christmas party yesterday. We earned the Christmas badge, and the Joy
badge. 

I read them the Nativity Story from the Bible and we made several pauses
along the way to discuss feelings and sights, and reasons why things happened
that way. 

Then we talked a little about Christmas in other countries, and
learned to say Merry Christmas in Spanish, French, Italian, Choctaw & Chinese. Then we
discussed Joy and what it means. Then we broke into patrols and worked through 4
"stations". At one we decorated candles and wrapped them, they are to give them to
someone who looks like they need a little extra joy this season. The second
station was making Joy Journals, with a page for I am thankful for..; When I am
sad I did.. and it made me feel better; page 3 was numbered to 14 and they are
to make someone smile once a day for 14 days, pages 4&5 were for things that
make us joyful over the next two weeks. I told them either to write, draw a
picture, or cut pictures out of magazines. Station three was making Yule Logs out of
biscuits and chocolate icing, a special treat made in France for Christmas.
Station 4 was making snow globes out of glass jars. Then we cleaned up. 

I had a string hanging on the wall, and clothespins holding plastic treat bags. I (actually Jaclyn did) put a sheet of stickers, and a holiday pencil in each to hold them open, then they had

to race with Hersey Kisses, mini Snickers, small bouncy balls, and stampers balanced on spoons to
fill their stockings. 

We were going to play Christmas songs charades, but we ran
out of time! (Maybe next year!) The bummer is, that I was put in charge of
pictures, and I forgot to take a single one!!! I was so busy watching the girls
have fun!



Congratulations to Megan for earning her 1st Servants Heart!!

Frontier Girls Challenge for the month: To write a thank you note, and properly address it.


We will be putting together a care package for Anthony Henggeler at our January 23rd meeting.

Box Tops and Soup Labels

As per the request of the PTO, we have taken over the task of collecting, snipping, sorting, and mailing in the Box Tops for Education and Campbell's Soup Labels for the school as our yearly service project for our sponsor. We already have a large box overflowing with them! I think the teachers were cleaning out their rooms now that we have a central location in the school to collect the items. The soup labels can be mailed in any time during the year, the Box Tops need to be turned in by the end of February. I will have a movie night at my house on Friday, February 10th. We will watch movies, eat popcorn and cut & count labels! 

Hopefully everyone remembers that we will have three required service projects each year, besides our Heart Award and Make A Difference Award projects. They will be:

1. For our sponsor, the school: Box Tops and Soup Labels
2. For our community: Flowers at Park
3. For our country: sending care packages to servicemen

Each girl is required to help with each of these projects in some way. If you are unable to attend the event, you need to be behind the scenes with planning and mailing.

For our December 19th meeting we still need small glass jars with screw top lids, such as relish, olives, gravy, or preserves, or large baby food jars. We also need broken bits of crayons.

Malia's Make A Difference Award

Malia has started her Make A Difference Award. She has put cards with the new Mass Responses in the pews at St. Columba Parish, she is also working each week to keep the church pews organized . Each week after 10 AM Mass, all those willing to go around and straighten the books and papers will be able to add time to their Service Heart logs for helping her. There should be two Mass Response sheets per section in the pews. There are extra sheets in the decorations supply closet in the back of the church.