Tasty Treats Girl Guide Badge by Sophia

This term I have working on my tasty treats Badge for Girl Guides.

I had to 1) bake two loaves of bread.

I got a book on bread making from my school library and made some delicious white bread it was so yummy it got devoured in a period of two days. Then i baked a second batch and brought some to my Girl Guide meeting so all my friends could have a taste too

2) find a no-cook dessert recipe and try it

A little while ago, I found a good recipe for a fruit smoothie in a cookbook my sister had gotten from the library. I tried this recipe out with my family and it turned out to be very delicious.

3) choose a traditional holiday treat that is meaningful to me and make it for my family.

My sister, my Granny and I made English trifle at Christmastime for my family. There is a recipe for it in the brochure below.

4) discover treats from around the world and develop a recipe book (or in this case, a pamphlet) to share these treats.

Below is the brochure I made of recipes from around the world, including my Granny's English trifle. try some for yourself.

5) Find a recipe for a frozen dessert and try it out with your friends or family.

My brother and my sister and I, made frozen yogurt. It looked a lot like ice cream and tasted like ice cream, but it melted way faster than ice cream. However it was still fun to make.

6) Explore the presentations of desserts in magazines or at restaurants, and try your hand at presenting one yourself.

 I've seen several good food presentations in magazines, cookbooks and cooking shows. One of my favourites was one I saw for vegetable sushi. They used some of the ingredients from inside the sushi on the plate to make the sushi appear more appealing. On another cooking show, I saw an ice cream dessert being presented with crushed cookie crumbs around the edges to "frame" the dish. My friend Miranda, my sister and I made a chocolate peanut-butter banana. For our dessert, we took a banana, cut it up, presented sitting in the peel, prepared two sauces, one chocolate and one peanut butter, then drizzled both slices over the sliced banana and added some to the plate to garnish. Viola! One perfectly presented banana!

Street Smarts (Girl Guide Badge) by $ophia

This term Eleanor and I started taking the sky train to school.

We decided this would be a great opportunity for me to earn my street wise girl guide badge!

This is us embarking on our first quest on transit.

For my girl guide badge requirements I have to:

1. draw a map of my route to school
2. be able to read a street map and give directions
3. brainstorm the top 10 safety tips every kid should know
4. design a colouring book for kids about safety
5. brainstorm ways to increase my own personal safety
6. create a puppet show for kids about safety.

It's still a work in progress but I'm working on it.

So far I've done numbers 1, 2, & 5. I'm half way through 3 too.

Until next time I'm $ophia Pallister, signing off.

GOOD NIGHT!!!!

Pioneers, trains, wars, masks, e-books and more!

We love our H.L.G.C. Home Learners Girls Congregation!

One day we made up a "pioneer girls" game. We grew our own food, carried our own water and made our own "campfire".

We made our own face and hair masks out of natural ingredients!

We visited the World War I battle exhibit at the Port Moody Museum and learned about our our great-grandfather fought in the war and was saved by a bible (or a prayer book) in his pocket!

We visited the railway museum and learned about the first trains that came to Vancouver.

We kept cooking and planing healthy meals for our family.

We made chicks and narwhals out of marzipan for Shakespeare's birthday.

Eleanor has been learning about air, water and soil, learning to plant her own plants and start her own garden.

Eleanor has been learning about toxins in detergents, and how they affect the water systems in our province. We compared laundry soaps and chose one that wasn't poison!

We did some math to learn about comparison shopping, and how to compare prices based on weights and measures (cost per 100g).

And of course, Eleanor wrote an e-book called "Tips On How To Bend A Bully." She learned how to use the e-book software, cut and paste and publish her own entries.

And.... here's some photos for the end of the year slide show!

Girl Guide Badge: Reading by Sophia

Reading

Here are the types of books I was asked to read:

1. a book by a Canadian author or about a Canadian woman.
2. a book of poetry.
3. a work of fiction, fantasy, or fairy tale.
4. a book that is a part of a series.
5. a book in the categories of: travel, adventure, science fiction, biography, natural science or history.
6. a book of my choice by a different author than I used in 1-5
7. obtain & use a library card

So here they are:

1. Dear Canada-A Ribbon of Shining Steel  by Julie Lawson                                                                                          

2. Where The Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

3. Fairest of All by Sarah Mylnowski

4. A Whole Nother Story by Doctor Cuthbert Soup

5. Another Whole Nother Story by Doctor Cuthbert Soup

6. Minion by John David Anderson

7. Basically all of these books came from the library. P.S. I go to the library about three times a month.

READING IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!