Friendship Letter

Hello Club Greenthread!

We hope that everyone had a joyous Thanksgiving and are excited to return to school! This past month of November we focused Friendship and what it means to be a good friend.

Mrs. Jenn gave the talk to the girls and she pointed out some very good tips on friendship, such as:

God is in everyone and He is the best kind of friend

Treat everyone the way God loves everyone

Let a friend have first preference, show kindness, share, listen, be respectful,

Be a friend to the person with no or few friends, the person who is hard to get along with, the new person

Be friendly to everyone, but don't be friends with the person who makes bad choices

Be first to apologize and forgive

Tell a friend quietly what they are doing working, not embarrass them publicly

Love your family as well as you love your friends

Afterwards, our monthly activity was to decorate a Friendship Letter, that is, a wooden letter to give to a friend.

It was great to see the girls patiently waiting and sharing all of the material as they decorated their letters. And to see the artistic variety that came forth from every girl was incredible! Some letters simple and elegant, others were crazy and colorful, all were beautiful!! Way to go girls!! 

Our quote for the monthly note card is: "A true friend thinks of you when everyone else thinks only of themselves"

Remember that the next meeting will be December 21st. We will be making no-bake cookies and the talk will be on patience!

Wishing you all a happy month,

Club Greenthread Team Leaders

Thank you Letters

Hello Club Greenthread!

We hope that everyone has enjoyed the first week of November, with the nice, crisp weather we're having. Our October meeting, already two weeks ago, was great fun and we hope that this post will help remind you about what we talked about and did.

We began with a wonderful talk by Mrs. Vilalta on the Meaning of Good Manners. That is, when we think of others we are trying to do things that will make them happy or help them. This is what it means to have good manners. The girls came up with so many great examples of how you can practice good manners at home, at school and anywhere!

It is easy to remember to always think of others and have good manners if we remember that we are all children of God. Some of the ways we can think about others include: Using kind words, not talking with your mouth full, always knowing when to say "please," "thank you" and "I'm sorry", and writing thank you notes when someone gives you a present or does something nice for you.

This lead to the next activity, which was to write and decorate a thank you card for someone. The girls were thoughtful in choosing someone and carefully drafting what to say, then they had a ball decorating the cards with a grand assortment of cute stickers!

The finished products looked beautiful and we are sure that they made the recipients very happy!

Finally, we want to thank all of the moms who were able to stay to help out, and of course our two lovely high school helpers: Mary and Gabby. This meeting in particular was very special, as it was Gabby's birthday!! 

Our next meeting will take place on November 23rd and you all will certainly not want to miss it, as we will be painting and decorating custom wooden letters to give to a friend. We hope to see you all there!

-The Club Greenthread Team

September: Fish in a Bag

Hello Club Greenthread!

Welcome to our new blog! Here we will be sharing all of the fun activities and special talks that we will be having throughout the semester. We hope that you will regularly check here for pictures and information.

We want to thank our two helpers, Mary and Gaby, in a very special way for doing such a fantastic job decorating our Club Bulletin Board, which will have the monthly motto and activity posted.

As you all can see from the title of the post, this month we made "Fish in a Bag" -which were little bags of soap with plastic fish, a huge hit with the girls! We started off by melting 3 blocks of clear glycerin soap in the microwave, and then carefully pouring the hot soap into the plastic bag. Finally, the girls would drop the fish in and with the help of Ms. Jenn, they would pin the back closed with a clothes hanger and with another clothes hanger place it in the freezer to set.

You can see them below setting in the freezer:

While the soap cooled in the bag, Ms. Annamarie gave a talk on "The Me I want to Be." Every girl was handed a flower and asked to compare herself to her flower.

Just like the flowers, the girls are beautiful, delicate, cheerful and need to be nurtured. They discussed the ways in which a girl is nurtured to grow into a more beautiful flower: reading good books, watching positive movies, taking care of oneself and finally focusing on others and not just inwards.

In order to be a better "Me," the girls were encouraged to respect themselves and others, and to be the best person they can be in order to inspire others!

Finally, Ms. Annamarie ended her talk asking the girls to give their flower to someone who makes them feel loved.

From there it was back to the kitchen to retrieve the bags and finish the project by tying them with ribbon.

And here are the girls with their finished project:

Thank you to all the girls, moms and helpers that made this first meeting a great success! Remember that next month we will be meeting on October 26th, last Saturday of the month, at 10am. The project will be to learn to write a Thank You Note (as well as decorating it); the talk will be on Gratitude, given by Ms. Cristabel. We look forward to seeing everyone next month!

Fondly,

Club Greenthread Coordinators