Keep America Beautiful Month
Keep America Beautiful Challenges Volunteers to “Fight Dirty” as Part of 2008 Great American Cleanup™ Campaign for a Cleaner, Greener America
Cleanup, Green-up, Fix-up and Recycling Efforts to Take Place Nationwide as Part of America’s Largest Community Improvement Event, Led Nationally by Keep America Beautiful
Website information: www.kab.org
Journal topic:
Why is it important to Keep America Beautiful and what does that mean to you?
Create a mnemonic or slogan to help kids (and adults!) remember the order of the planets in our new solar system-which includes dwarf planets Ceres, Pluto, and Eris.The first letter of each word stands for one of the planets. The order of the planets is: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Ceres, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Eris.
For example: My Very Excellent Mother Can Jump Slowly Under Nelly's Plastic Elephant.
Prizes: The winner's name and slogan will be featured in an upcoming National Geographic book about the planets, 11 Planets: A New View of the Solar System by David Aguilar, and the winner will receive a tote bag filled with books, a National Geographic tee shirt and hat, toys and other merchandise! Schools across the country will use the winning slogan to teach kids about the solar system!
September:National Biscuit Month
Basic Biscuit recipe:
Ingredients
2 cup(s) flour, all-purpose - 2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoon sugar
- 2/3 cup(s) buttermilk
- 3 1/3 tablespoon oil, vegetable
Preparation
1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees F.
2. In medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sugar.
3. In small bowl, stir together buttermilk and all of the oil. Pour over flour mixture and stir until well mixed.
4. On lightly floured surface, knead dough gently for 10 to 12 strokes. Roll or pat dough to 3/4-inch thickness. Cut with 2-inch biscuit or cookie cutter, dipping cutter in flour between cuts. Transfer biscuits to an ungreased baking sheet.
5. Bake for 12 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm.
Badge related Activities:
Daisy petal Yellow for friendly and helpful
Girls make biscuits for others
Eat Right, Stay Healthy Try It
Activity #4- Food People –What would you look like if you only ate Biscuits?
Let’s Get Cooking Junior Badge
Activity #1: How important is it that your hands besqueaky-clean when baking biscuits?
Activity #10: Can you make substitutions in your biscuit recipe?
Creative Cooking Interest patch project
Skill builders #7 How can you adapt the basic biscuit recipe to have few calories?
Technology #2 What happens when you change ingredients?
Service Project #3 Organize a food drive!
Career Exploration #4 Job shadow a biscuit maker
Career Exploration #5 Get a part time job making biscuits
Sisterhood of the Traveling Apron
Join the Sisterhood of the Traveling Apron!
Calling all Girl Scout leaders out there to help us pilot a really
fun project.
If you are planning a bread project for the Million Bread Bake, you
might be interested in helping us launch our new Sisterhood of the
Traveling Apron contest-Yes, it's a knock-off on the Sisterhood of
the Traveling Pants :)
Here's how it works:
E-mail info@spreadthebread.org Put the word "Sisterhood" in the
subject line. We'll send you an apron in the mail or let you know
that you've become part of our "Sisterhood of the Traveling Apron"
contest and will be receiving an apron in the mail before or after
the completion of your bread project.
Once you receive the apron, and after you've finished your bread
project, ask all the girls in your troop to sign the apron with a
short upbeat message. Remember to tell the girls to write small
because we're trying to get as many signatures on the apron as
possible.
E-mail us when your apron is ready to travel and we'll send you the
address of another Girl Scout troop that will be participating in
our bread project. We respectfully ask that you send the apron to
them so they can sign it and send it along and so on and so on.
As soon as we receive notification that the apron is completely
covered in bread signatures, front and back, then we'll pull a name,
at random, from all of the girls that signed the apron and that girl
will WIN the Sisterhood of the Traveling Apron to keep, treasure,
hold and bake with!! Hopefully, the apron, like the pants, will
deliver good luck!! The girls will have to let us know!!!
If this catches on, we'll roll it out to schools, churches, etc..
This should be really FUN and another way to team build/bond while
baking a difference...
Karen Kiefer
Spread the Bread
To learn more about Spread the Bread and the Million Bread Bake, go to www.spreadthebread.org
Girl Scout kit: http://www.spreadthebread.org/images/Starter_Kit_-_GS.pdf
Journal topic:
What is your favorite kind of biscuit and why? How do you like it- Plain? With butter and jam? With chocolate syrup?