elves workshop and belmont shore parade

Progressive Xmas Party

Camp Fire Rocket Cats Annual Christmas Party

A “Progressive” Christmas Party

We will travel to two different locations


Appetizers at Alyssa’s house
Dessert and Gift Exchange at Geneva’s house


Wednesday December 15, 2010
6:00 to 7:30pm

Parents are welcome to attend. The kids will need transportation to the two destinations- carpools are encouraged.

Gift Exchange: Each child should bring one wrapped homemade gift to exchange. Approx cost 10 dollars. Ideas for homemade gifts: a craft you learned at camp fire, ornament, a treat you made yourself, decorate a picture frame, something with a “camp fire” twist.

Wear your favorite holiday clothing

Approx schedule:
• Appetizer at Alyssa’s 3126 Studebaker 90808 6:00-6:40
• Dessert/Gift Exchange at Geneva’s 1932 Pattiz 90815 6:50-7:30

Let us know if you would like to donate an appetizer and/or help Marie with dessert.



Thanks for coming out to the parade!! It was a great success!!

Belmont Shore Parade 2010

This Saturday is the Belmont Shore Parade

Meet between 6 and 6:30 pm on Quincy street, every child and adult who walks in the parade needs a signed permission slip. let me know if you have not signed one.

Wear dark pants and a white sweatshirt under your vest. we will hand out santa hats to wear during the parade, please return them after the parade.

After we complete our loop, parents please pick up your child where the parade ends (start walking to meet us as soon as you see us pass by, dont wait until the end of the parade) there is an island of grass near livingston and 2nd street where you will find us.

make sure your child eats something before walking, but limit fluids so they dont have to use the restroom while we are lined up. please take them to the restroom prior to lining up.

thanks!!

red white and blue vets day and elves workshop

two activities sponsored by the council are coming up!

red white and blue veterans day
thursday november 11 930 am to 1030am
thank you project for vets, sing songs, craft and snacks
please wear your uniform to all council events

elves workshop: candyland adventure
thursday december 9 5pm to 6pm
candyland game, lollipop craft, test tube candy, sing songs, frosty snack
again, please come in uniform

feel free to invite friends in grades k-2nd to this event, our group can pay the 5per kid fee for guests.

hope to see you there!!!

tpl concert

dues

Dues are due by Oct 6th please

$60/kid

upcoming events.

Saturday September 18th we will be hosting a craft table at the Gaslamp (PCH/Loynes) from noon to 6pm. This is a fundraiser for all the local wetlands and other environmental groups. Let me know if you can attend for even 30 minutes at our table, any help would be appreciated.

We will begin our year the first week of October

Friday October 1st East side Neighborhood Potluck and Bunco night, LOCATION: United Methodist Church (Willow/Woodruff) set up is 6pm, eat at 6:30 pm
please rsvp to Lisa G if you are coming and what you are bringing. we need to bring enough food for our group
$10/adult $5/ child to play bunco, prizes will be awarded

Wednesday October 6th, 5pm-6:15 twilight party at Camp Shiwaka, cooking over the campfire, songs, craft, siblings and friends welcome, parents will stay and participate. 5 $ per kid for food and craft.


Saturday October 23 Halloween Fall Carnival we will be hosting a table for this event, it is super fun!! 4 p to 7 p
let me know if you want to work the table at 4pm, 5pm or 6pm (wear your costume)

Friday October 29th The Potential Lunatics Concert (halloween theme) 6 pm set up, 630 concert starts
pizza dinner, soda, water (wear your costume)

Wed November 3 meeting at the church 6:15

Starflight Veterans day (Nov 11th) event at the council 9:30am to 10:30, school holiday

Thursday Nov 18th Kiniya at the council, meet at the flagpole in camp at 5:30p, starts at 6pm, in uniform, with flashlight and sit upon

Wed December 1st meeting at the church 6:15 handmade christmas gift making.

Saturday Dec 4 Belmont Shore Parade (details to come)

Wed December 15 christmas party

Camp Shiwaka

Day Camp is 9am to 3:30 Monday thru Wednesday

Thursday is 2pm to 8:30 pm

Sack lunch Monday
White t-shirt for tie dying


thank you to everyone who came out for the Camp Fire Centennial Celebration!!

day camp meeting

Sunday August 8 1pm day camp meeting at my house, 7140 Killdee 90808

Please make sure you have a ditty bag and sit upon for day camp

Sack lunch monday

No Sleep over this year

Please bring 20 dollars cash on sunday for our food for the week

thanks!

Colorado Lagoon Tidal Art Walk

thank you for a fun event!!

june 2010

hey there!! thanks for a wonderful first year of camp fire, we learned a lot and will continue to bond as a group, it's so exciting!

Three summer activities are on the calendar: The Acoustic Tidal Artwalk at the Colorado Lagoon Friday July 9 and Saturday July 10 from 6pm to 10pm. Music, Art, Food, Crafts (We are hosting a craft table) and lots of info about the restoration of the lagoon. The setting is gorgeous, sunset at the beach, not too hot or too cold and a great way to kick off summer! Join us for an hour or two, help out at the craft table if you can.

Saturday July 31st Camp Fire 100 year birthday party... invites should be coming to you in the mail soon... info will be posted here asap... we are hosting the water table. There will be a large ceremonial campfire set at 7pm.

Camp Shiwaka August 9th through the 13th Day camp meeting set for the weekend before (most likely August 8th) Make sure you pick up a ditty bag kit and sit upon kit at the council store if you don't already have them. We can work on the ditty bag at the day camp meeting, let me know if you are having trouble putting it together. You will need one set of plastic dishes with plastic knife, fork, spoon (don't forget a plastic cup) to put in your ditty bag. During camp you will bring one plastic water bottle full of water on monday, please put your name on the outside with a sharpie, we will use the same bottle the entire week and refill daily.

Have a great summer!!

kool aid meeting

thanks for a fun meeting guys!!

Summer events

Coming up, a few events to attend:

Friday and Saturday, July 9th and 10th "Acoustic Tidal Artwalk" at the Colorado Lagoon. I am in charge of hosting an arts/crafts/games table/booth area and need my Camp Fire kids to help out. Soon I will have all the details, but if you can volunteer for this event let me know. Friday night will be the hardest night for me since I will be coming straight from work.

It is held at the Colorado Lagoon in Long Beach, last year it was in the late afternoon/evening, official times for this year are not out yet. It is a fun celebration at the beach with displays of art/photos that are influenced by our beaches and wetlands. There will be food, music, activities for the kids, a lovely location. We enjoyed ourselves so much last year, looking forward to being a part of the festivities this year. This is a great way for our camp fire kids to get out in the public showing support for our local wetlands. You can just show up and have fun at this event, either night.

July 31st Saturday
the 100 years of Camp Fire Celebration!!! This event will be starting in the afternoon (around 4pm) and we are signed up to help at a table selling (or giving out??) water. Please mark your calendars for this event and tell all your friends and families to come. this is a National event and 100 year celebrations don't come around every day!!

Camp Shiwaka August 9 through 13 (day camp meeting to be announced, probably Sat or Sun August 7/8)

A few dates to put on your calendar for next year: the Benefit Auction Saturday September 25th, our group will be donating a basket. All groups are invited to attend the dinner and help support Camp Fire. If you are looking for ways to help support Camp Fire in Long Beach, this dinner would be a great way. Camp Fire is always struggling financially, so this might be something your family is interested in attending. It is held at the Long Beach Hilton.

A few fall dates:
October Halloween The Potential Lunatics Concert (I am hoping for Saturday October 30th, will confirm soon)
October 1st Neighborhood potluck, bunco night 6pm
October 23 fall halloween carnival 4-7pm

June 2010

Sorry for the mix up on the june meeting dates:

Next meeting is June 9th, last meeting of the year will be June 16th.

Please bring a t-shirt or two to the June 16th meeting. We will be silkscreening T-shirts.

We are painting at the next meeting (June 9th) and it will be messy, don't wear fancy clothes please.

Registration papers are due by our last meeting, check made out to Camp Fire USA for 26.04

Camp Shiwaka registration due BEFORE this Friday (June 4th) I will be going to the council in the morning Friday to sign everyone up.

Thanks!!

Winging Ceremony

thanks to everyone who came to our first Spring Camp Out! It was really fun!

Next up is our first Winging Ceremony, Friday May 21st, drop off at 6:30pm at the flagpole at Camp Shiwaka, parents proceed to the back of camp (the amphitheater) to watch the ceremony. It will start at 7pm and lasts about an hour at most. Kids must be in uniform, bring sit upon (or towel or blanket) to sit on, a jacket (they can wear a sweatshirt or turtleneck under their vest). Please bring a package of cookies to share (drop them off at the kitchen in the council on the way in, near the lodge). you can bring siblings, friends, grandparents, anyone who might like to see the ceremony.

Next meeting is Wed May 26th at the church.



Please bring Camp Shiwaka paperwork and checks to the March 26th meeting (make sure the paperwork is filled out correctly or i won't be able to turn any of our stuff in until it is fixed, double check initials and make sure you have the health section filled out) Remember we are going to the third session in August. The training for parents is in June, I will send out an email with that date, I think it is Saturday June 12th in the morning (from 9 to noon) I will confirm this by email and update the blog.

Registration packet is due by our last meeting June 16th. Check is for $26.04 made out to Camp Fire USA and includes the workbook for next year.

Please bring the workbooks for this year to the rest of the meetings. i will try to plan a meeting or two around using them.

June 16th is our last meeting of the year but we can still do fun things together over the summer, let me know if you want to plan something or just send out emails to everyone if you have a good idea, event or want to get together. Your camp fire families are a great support system and we can help each other in many ways so feel free to send out emails to everyone if you need us. My fourth grade group has become so close, many of the parents swap kids for date nights, carpool to school and sport events, share ideas about music lessons, swim classes etc etc. You have a great resource here so use it!

We will have a Camp Shiwaka meeting (that includes the kids) before we attend in August, I will send out emails and post to the blog when and where it will be held.

Thanks Rocket Cats for a great first year!!

TPL party

next meeting is April 28th, 6:15 at the church. we are in that new bigger room, yay. please remind the kids not to touch the piano or open closets in the room. we are having some problems with the church and our kids (from all three groups that meet there) being too loud and rowdy. we need to keep the kids in the room and then out front on the grass or playing quietly in the playground (no playing until after 6pm because of the preschool). i don't want to lose our meeting place, so lets have good manners please.


the TPL party was a smashing success! i hope everyone enjoyed themselves, unfortunately most of the 4th grade group were either sick of had a sporting event conflict. our kinder group had great attendance though, thanks for coming guys!! this was the first time i have ever planned a party this big and i thought it was fun!

spring camp out

the spring camp out is friday may 14 with the pancake breakfast the following morning. money is due for the pancake breakfast by that morning, you can turn it in to me anytime though. 50 dollars per kid. (double check this date on your calendar, i had it wrong on the handout i gave out) we have a fire ring reserved, let me know if you are setting up a tent that night. we can decide on dinner at the may 12th parent meeting.

potential lunatics party april 17th 5pm, friends and family welcome, lisa g's house

may 12th meeting will be a parent meeting, no kids please. we will discuss daycamp and next year. 615pm at the church.

june 16 meeting, please bring a t-shirt to silkscreen, you can bring more than one if you would like. we will be making rocket cat shirts!!

art workshop

THANK YOU ana for these lovely photos!

Hello Spring!!

Meetings March 17 and 31

Cake auction canceled for March 20th

100 year Birthday patch, you must do 4 items out of 15 to earn the 100 year patch (meet and greet, birthday meeting march 17, wear your vest to school, display poster at your house) and/or pick from the list handed out.

Meetings April 14 and 28

Potential Lunatics party April 17

Los Cerritos Wetlands restoration event April 17 10am to noon and/or May 1st 10am to noon. please attend if you can to support camp fire and the wetlands. meet at Trader Joe's parking lot at westminister(2nd street) and Shopkeeper road (Market Place) at 10am. wear casual camp fire clothes, camp t-shirts if you have them (camp shiwaka or camp fire t shirts and red hoodies available at the council), closed toe shoes (no flip flops), hat, sunscreen. please consider helping us save Los Cerritos Wetlands, i have been working hard for five years to get camp fire involved in the restoration process. this is an excellent opportunity to get camp fire in the media/press and link camp fire with the wetlands restoration. one thing you will find out by being a camp fire member is that the boy scouts and girl scouts are HUGE, most people don't know anything about camp fire. attending these kind of events will get people to see that camp fire kids care about the community and are out there helping too. please find 2 hours in your weekend to attend and i PROMISE you won't regret it! RSVP to me so i can get a good head count of who is attending. thanks!!

Winging Ceremony Friday May 21st (more info to come) please mark your calendar

May meetings 12, 26


stay tuned for more updates!!

feb march 2010

next meeting thursday feb 18 5pm to 6pm at the camp fire council

march 3 meeting at the church 6:15pm

pinewood derby has been postponed, if you are interested in helping out for this event, there is a committee that needs parent volunteers, let me know. it might be canceled if we don't get enough interested people.

march 14 Sunday Meet and Greet at the church, we need to show our support and thanks to Grace First Church by greeting the members on their way in to service. 8:15 am in uniform, more info to come

march 17 meeting at the church, camp fire 100th birthday meeting, be sure and wear your uniform one wednesday in the month of march to earn your special patch.

march 20 cake auction event for our neighborhood association at the Camp Fire Council (new location) 6:30 to 8pm. each child will bring a homemade or store bought cake with whatever crazy decoration you can come up with. the cakes will earn awards and will be auctioned off to the highest bidder. you can bring grandparents to this event or anyone who may want to buy a cake to help support camp fire. some of the cakes will be carved up and eaten during the event so it will be a sugarfest for sure!

march 31 meeting at the church

april 14 meeting at the church

april 17 potential lunatic party at lisa g's house!!!
1520 Hackett, Long Beach, 90815 (near csulb) 5pm hot pizza and sub sandwiches served, roy rogers and shirley temples to drink at the "bar" (water will also be available), concert starts at 5:30pm. friends and family welcome to attend. this will be all about having fun!!

april 24 all council work party at camp shiwaka, come and help clean up camp to get it ready for summer, free hamburger lunch after will be provided.


april 28 meeting at the church

be sure and put camp shiwaka on your calendar for august 9 through 13, more info to come, we will have a parent meeting dedicated just to camp and we will organize the entire week without the kids to distract us. if you are available to help during the week, let me know, there is a day camp training on a saturday in may that is mandatory (tba). i will need at least one parent to take this training. i will be helping with my 4th grade group that week as well, even with most of my attention going to the kinder group parent help would be greatly appreciated. its super fun, you will enjoy it!!

keep checking back, i will update often!


just added: May 1st Saturday Los Cerritos Wetlands habitat restoration service project 10am to noon at Los Cerritos Wetlands. more info here: http://lcwstewards.org/lcws/calendar.html

Feb 2010

Hey there candy sellers! It's been a busy month, thank you all for your awesome selling so far, several of you are done already, good job!

Next meeting is Wednesday Feb 3rd, 6:15 at the church. We will work on finally picking a name and finish up our "Knowing Me" patch. Lisa G is picking up our Belmont Shore parade patches so you will get those if you participated in the parade.

Meeting Wed Feb 17th will be canceled because:

Art Workshop at the Camp Fire Council: Thursday Feb 18th from 5 to 6pm. Lisa G. will be there to help, I am working that day. This is a National Camp Fire event where the kids learn an artistic skill (photography, collage etc) and then their work is judged by the National Council. Lisa G. says one of the kids from her group won one year, very exciting! My older group has participated and enjoyed it as well. We will do the workshop this week instead of the meeting on Wednesday. Please wear your uniform to this event, they often take pictures that are used in advertising for Camp Fire.

In March we will be having a Neighborhood event to celebrate Camp Fire's 100th Birthday, there may be some changes in our usual schedule (meaning more council events and less meetings) I am trying to keep us to 3 activities a month so we don't get too busy but I also want to keep building our friendships!!

Pinewood Derby: Saturday March 6th (time to be announced but it will be in the morning) i will get info on the cars next week at my leader meeting.

Don't forget to wear your Camp Fire uniform to school on Wednesdays!

Bring all Candy sale money to me by Feb 15th, i will make the final deposit on Feb 16th. Candy sale paperwork is due to council by Saturday Feb 20th. we will be penalized if we are late, so please drop all money to me by Monday the 15th.

Candy Sale Stores/Bank schedule

Jan 30 F&M Bank

900-930 Alyssa
930-1000 Alyssa,
1000-1030 ___________________________
1030-1100 ___________________________
1100-1130 ____________________________
1130-1200 ___________________________


Jan 30 Vons 4200 Woodruff, Lakewood

900-930 Bella, Nathan
930-1000 Bella, Nathan
1000-1030 Marcos, Bella, Nathan
1030-1100 Marcos, ________________
1100-1130 Marcos
1130-1200 _______________________


Feb 6 F&M Bank Seal Beach blvd, Seal Beach

900-930 Aliyah, Bella
930-1000 Alyssa
1000-1030 Marcos, Lizzie
1030-1100 Marcos, Lizzie
1100-1130 Lizzie, _______________________
1130-1200 Lizzie, ______________________

Feb 7 Albertson 5015 Del Amo, Lakewood 90713

1200-1230 Lizzie, Emily
1230-100 LIzzie. Emily
100-130 Audrey, Lizzie
130- 200 Audrey, Lizzie
200-230 Audrey, Lizzie
230 -300 Audrey, Lizzie

thank you ana!!

some great pictures from our christmas party!!