TURNERS FALLS — Members of a blossoming Daisy Girl Scout troop are learning what it means to be a sister to every fellow Girl Scout.

Having been involved with the Girls Scouts for more than 30 years, Nancy Gottlieb started Troop 65541, made up of kindergarten and first grade girls, last fall. A Girl Scout herself, she started troops in Westwood in 1992 and 1995 for two of her daughters, who both went on to earn their Gold Award — the top award a Girl Scout can earn through a sustained community service project.

With Girl Scouts being a family tradition — her granddaughter is in the new troop, too — Gottlieb drives out from eastern Massachusetts twice a month on Thursdays to lead the Turners Falls troop of Daisies, who are just learning what it means to be a Girl Scout from a young age.

“The girls have learned the promise, the Girl Scout Promise, and they’ve learned some of the Girl Scout Law,” Gottlieb said.

The Girl Scout Promise is a statement the girls recite at each meeting to remember their commitment to serve God, which can be substituted for another word to follow their personal spiritual belief, as well as their country, and to always help others.

The last line of the promise says the Scout promises to live by the Girl Scout Law, and core tenants of this include “being honest and fair, friendly and helpful, considerate and caring, courageous and strong,” as well as being responsible for one’s own actions, respectful of authority and being a “sister to every Girl Scout.”

“It is a lovely sentiment,” Gottlieb said after reciting the Girl Scout Promise and Girl Scout Law. She said when there are situations of inconsiderate behavior from the Daisies, the Girl Scout Law is there for her to point to, so the Scout can reflect on her actions to see if it does, or doesn’t, follow the elements of the law.

In this new troop, the girls have time to explore each part of the law through activities and lessons, with the elements of the law imagined as 10 petals on a flower. The girls will participate in activities to learn about the petals that correspond to a part of the Girl Scout Law, do activities to work toward new badges, and get an education on topics pertaining to the outdoors, community service, and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

As spring draws near, Gottlieb said she hopes to see the Daisies do tree plantings and environmental service projects to earn badges and new skills. The initiatives can be something they brainstorm themselves.

With this Daisy troop just getting started, Gottlieb said she is working on building membership slowly, and she hopes that as more Scouts join, their parents can play a role in the troop, too. She said the parents can share their own skills with the Scouts, help them achieve badges, and learn about other subjects they may not normally get to learn.

In reflecting on Girl Scouts as a whole, Gottlieb feels the program empowers the girls. She noted that every Gold Award recipient she speaks to feels they are capable of “trying and succeeding in almost anything.”

This outlook is something she hopes the Daisies, who are just starting out in their Scouting journey, can feel, too.

“I want them to feel capable of trying all sorts of new things, and have the confidence to go through and do the best they can,” Gottlieb said.

To learn more about Troop 65541, which meets at the Great Falls Discovery Center, and to register, parents can visit the Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts website at gscwm.org.

Erin-Leigh Hoffman can be reached at ehoffman@recorder.com or 413-930-4231.