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Key Words in Brownies and Scouts
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Brownie Girl Scouts-An age-level in Girl Scouting. Brownie Girl Scouts are
ages 6-8 or are in grades 1-3.
Brownie Ring - A form of Troop government - (where they make their
decisions).
Court of Awards-A ceremony where girls receive awards for their achievements.
Court of Honor - A troop/group decision-making and planning body that represents all the members and is made up
of Girl Scout patrol leaders and troop/group officers and leaders.
Promise and Law – A creed accepted by each member, statement
of the philosophy and ideals accepted by all Girl Scouts and Girl Guide members. The Girl Scout code that serves as a guide
for the personal behavior of all members.
Investiture - A ceremony when the new Brownie Girl Scouts receive their pins.
Fly-up ceremony- The event at which a Brownie Girl Scout receives her Brownie Wings and becomes a Junior
Girl Scout.
Girl Scout handshake - A formal way of greeting other Girl Scouts and Girl
Guides. You shake hands with the left hand and give the Girl Scout sign with your right hand
Girl Scout sign-Made by raising three fingers of the right hand. This sign stands for the three parts of the Promise.
Rededication - Girls who have already been invested renew their
Girl Scout Promise and Law.
Thinking Day - February 22 - Girls receive their World Association Pin.
Bridging activities- Activities preparing troop/group members for the next Girl Scout age-level
or transition into the use of different age-level resources. The bridging troop/group frequently does an activity from the
Girl Scout resources used by girls used in the upcoming age-level and completes a project or does an activity with them. After
the troop/group has had a taste of what lies ahead for them in Girl Scouts, it holds a ceremony to mark the transition.
Bridging - Girls move from one age level to another
Fly-Up - Brownie Girl Scouts become Junior Girl Scouts. This ceremony is particular
to Brownie Girl Scouts. There are no specific requirements for the girls to earn their wings. There are requirements for the
girls to earn their bridge to Junior Girl Scouts patch.
Try-Its - Non-competitive patches that Brownie Girl Scouts may receive to symbolize
participation, not performance, in selected activities.
Girl Scout Sunday – Sunday of the week in which March 12 falls is Girl Scout
Week - a time to have special activities to honor the Movement.
Pre-meeting Activities - Anything that will keep the early arrivals busy while waiting
for the meeting to start.
Service Unit Activities - Each troop belongs to a service unit. They hold meetings,
and plan activities, pass on information that comes from Council, keep you up-to-date on what is happening in the Council.
Service Projects - A way that Girl Scouts keep their Promise to serve their country
and help people at all times. In your yearly planning, try to include at least one service project.
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Now...Just for a laugh...here are a few terms and definitions I have found on the web...
Four Program Goals For Girls:
1. To Develop to Her Full Individual Potential.
Translation: You are a very small cog in a very big machine.
2. To Relate to Others With Increasing Understanding, Skill, and Respect.
Translation: You scratch my back, and I'll
scratch yours.
3. To Develop Values to Guide Her Actions and to Provide the Foundation for Sound Decision-making.
Translation: Never
Miss a Meeting or a Deadline
4. To Contribute to the Improvement of Society Through the Use of Her Abilities and Leadership Skills, Working in Cooperation
With Others.
Translation: Sell Cookies and collect for Family Appeal.
Troop Committee:
- Family Appeal Chairman - Calls parents to tell them the leader needs money to send in.
- Cookie Chairman - Parent with a garage and a pick up truck.
- Emergency Contact - Parent who is always home except when you need them.
- Telephone Chairman - Calls to tell parents what was in the note sent home.
- Transportation Chairman - Parent with station wagon or van.
Types of Troop Government:
- Brownie Ring - Circle of chairs that girls run around.
- Town Meeting - Chairs all face the same way but girls don't.
- Patrol System - Small groups of chairs - girls all in the bathroom.
Girl Scout Glossary:
- Badge - A small, round patch on a girl's sash that she can't remember what she did to get.
- Bridging - A ceremony in which girl is given her honorable discharge from the troop.
- Brownie - Short girl in brown dress which is either 2 sizes too big or 1 size too small.
- Buddy System - Pairing of girls which guarantees they will never be in the same place at the same time.
- Cadette - Tall girl who would rather be caught dead than seen in uniform.
- Candelighting - Ceremony in which a Girl Scout demonstrates that she cannot light a match.
- Color Guard - Group of Girl Scouts tripping over each other while banging flag poles into door jambs.
- Court of Awards - Ceremony parents attend to make sure their daughter got more badges than the neighbor's daughter.
- Court of Honor - Mythical part of the patrol system.
- Daisy - Very short girl with blue smock covering all food, paint, and grubby hand stains on regular clothes.
- Fly-Up - Brownie ceremony similar to Bridging ceremony, but girls are booted out of the nest as well.
- Friendship Circle - Girls standing in circle trying to out-squeeze each other's hands.
- Girl Scout Sign - Girl holding up 3 fingers so she has something to look at while saying her promise.
- Girl Scout Week - A week on the calendar, sometime in March, that overstressed leaders can't seem to think of anything
special to do to celebrate it.
- Investiture - Ceremony in which girl forgets her promise after practicing it at least 25 times that afternoon.
- Junior - Medium size girl dressed in green with sash falling off shoulder.
- Juliette Low's Birthday - Usually called Halloween because that's more "fun".
- Kaper - Fancy name to trick the girls into cleaning the latrine.
- Kaper Chart - Poster board announcing, for all to see, who gets to clean the latrine.
- Motto - Be Prepared, but any experienced leader actually knows it's Be Flexible.
- Neighborhood/Service Unit - A geographical subdivision of a council with a fancy name to confuse new leaders as
to where they belong.
- Patrol - Group of 6 - 8 girls who used to be best friends.
- Quiet Sign - Handsignal invented by leader with laryngitis.
- Ranger - Man in charge of scout camp -- can see gum wrapper under a tent 50 yards away.
- Scout's Own - A ceremony where no-one contributes anything and everyone wonders what is coming next.
- Service Team - Group of adults that muddles along trying to convice everyone else they are great administrators.
- Sit-Upon - A mat or pad, usually somewhere else when you really need it.
- Thinking Day - Special Guiding and Scouting day when leaders worldwide wonder why they are spending more than an
hour a week on somebody elses' girls.
- Troop - Large group of girls dedicated to making leader insane.
- Try-It - Triangular piece of colored cloth on a girl's sash/vest that shows she's been showing up to meetings.
- WAGGGS - What leaders do with their index fingers to girls that are misbehaving.
http://www.geocities.com/cr-girlscouts/terms.html
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