Upcoming events:
Meeting Wednesday Nov 4, 6 to 7pm at the lodge (cont to work on outdoor progression)
Please sign Gentle Barn release forms if you are planning on attending November 21
Saturday November 7 Los Cerritos Wetlands Restoration
10:30 to noon
meet at 1st street and PCH, please don't be late
Closed toe shoes required, Camp Fire t-shirt (not polo) for example camp shiwaka or camp wasewagan would be nice so people know we are Camp Fire kids
This event fulfills the requirement for a service project for our end of year Discovery patch.
Friday Nov 13 Discovery Club at the council 6 to 8pm
Wed Nov 18 meeting at the lodge 6 to 7pm
Saturday Nov 21 Gentle Barn visit 11am (meet at McDonalds near the council at 8:30 for quick breakfast) I need drivers, let me know if you can help drive, it's approx a one hour drive to the farm.
This event will fulfill the service project requirement for the end of year Discovery patch.
Monday Nov 30 Discovery level gift wrap party at the lodge/council 6pm
December 5 Belmont Shore parade 6pm
Regarding Service Projects: You must participate in either the Los Cerritos Wetlands Restoration event OR the Gentle Barn visit to fulfill the requirements for our end of year Discovery patch/award. If you cannot make either event, there is one more Los Cerritos Wetlands restoration scheduled on Dec 5th (same day as the Belmont Shore parade) you can go to, let me know what event you attended.
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Saturday, August 15, 2015
Sept 2015
We get new blue uniform polos this year and some of you ordered jackets that should be in soon.
First event of the year is Friday, September 11 Patriots day at the airplane park: Del Valle in Lakewood on woodruff. Lisa will be coordinating a meet up at McDonalds prior to the 5pm check in at the park. Kids need to be in uniform: we will have new blue polo shirts to wear this year. More details to come for this event. Please RSVP to Lisa G if you can attend ASAP.
The kids are now in Discovery Level, you should have received info from the council with sign up sheets. the first Discovery club meeting is Friday September 18 from 6 to 8pm at the council. please bring the signed paperwork, club dues are $60 (this is separate from our wakin yolo gidi club dues) and be in uniform. there is a calendar in the packet that was sent out that has all the Discovery Club events for the year. we will continue to meet monthly but will add these DC meetings to our calendar.
Kiniya is early this year, Thursday Sept 24 7pm. Please wear your ceremonial collars to this event. we will be making a wakin yolo gidi symbol patch for the back of the collar this year, so leave the middle of the collar free from patches/beads.
First meeting for our group is Wednesday October 7 at the council from 6 to 7pm. Please bring your wakin yolo gidi book bag, pen/pencil and be in uniform. We will hand out hard copies of the yearly calendar for you to take home. We will be working on an Outdoor Progression Patch this year, it is very important to be at all meetings, council events, service project event (wetlands restoration in the spring) and the Discovery Club meetings. My older group really enjoyed this new chapter in their camp fire experience, the kids will become friends with other kids their age in other groups and take on more responsibility in the council. As they move through Discovery level and on to Horizon Club, they will be prepared to run events and serve as officers in the club. These are skills that will help them in high school, college and future careers. Please bring a check of $75 for our group dues (this money pays for our deposit to all council events, supplies, patches and beads) Remember, you can purchase beads at the council (for example the bead list kids bring back from Camp Wintaka) anytime. Your child can also earn beads from the bead book, available at the council store.
October 17 is the Fall Halloween Carnival
October 19 Bingo Night Neighborhood Association get together
First event of the year is Friday, September 11 Patriots day at the airplane park: Del Valle in Lakewood on woodruff. Lisa will be coordinating a meet up at McDonalds prior to the 5pm check in at the park. Kids need to be in uniform: we will have new blue polo shirts to wear this year. More details to come for this event. Please RSVP to Lisa G if you can attend ASAP.
The kids are now in Discovery Level, you should have received info from the council with sign up sheets. the first Discovery club meeting is Friday September 18 from 6 to 8pm at the council. please bring the signed paperwork, club dues are $60 (this is separate from our wakin yolo gidi club dues) and be in uniform. there is a calendar in the packet that was sent out that has all the Discovery Club events for the year. we will continue to meet monthly but will add these DC meetings to our calendar.
Kiniya is early this year, Thursday Sept 24 7pm. Please wear your ceremonial collars to this event. we will be making a wakin yolo gidi symbol patch for the back of the collar this year, so leave the middle of the collar free from patches/beads.
First meeting for our group is Wednesday October 7 at the council from 6 to 7pm. Please bring your wakin yolo gidi book bag, pen/pencil and be in uniform. We will hand out hard copies of the yearly calendar for you to take home. We will be working on an Outdoor Progression Patch this year, it is very important to be at all meetings, council events, service project event (wetlands restoration in the spring) and the Discovery Club meetings. My older group really enjoyed this new chapter in their camp fire experience, the kids will become friends with other kids their age in other groups and take on more responsibility in the council. As they move through Discovery level and on to Horizon Club, they will be prepared to run events and serve as officers in the club. These are skills that will help them in high school, college and future careers. Please bring a check of $75 for our group dues (this money pays for our deposit to all council events, supplies, patches and beads) Remember, you can purchase beads at the council (for example the bead list kids bring back from Camp Wintaka) anytime. Your child can also earn beads from the bead book, available at the council store.
October 17 is the Fall Halloween Carnival
October 19 Bingo Night Neighborhood Association get together
Sunday, May 17, 2015
May/June update
Meeting this week Wednesday May 20 hosted by Emily and Aliyah, 6 to 7pm at the council
Please turn in pancake breakfast ticket money on Wednesday so we can turn everything in ASAP, hope you all enjoyed your pancakes today.
We have fall registration packets, please come in at the next meeting and fill out your paperwork, it get's easier each year as you just update any new info on the forms. Registration fee is due and this year we get a new blue polo shirt for our uniform. Make sure you have your check book with you so we can get it all done quickly.
I have an order form for new Hoodie sweatshirts and crew neck sweatshirts if anyone is interested, I highly recommend getting one as they come in handy as a "uniform" top in a pinch, we literally wore out our three red jackets. I will have the form at the next meeting, we only have until June 5 to get the order in and i don't know when they will be ordering another round.
Camp Shiwaka is session 1 this year, June 22 - 26, please sign up soon so we have a final head count. We are assigned fire ring 7.
Our end of year swim/ice cream party will be Friday June 26 after Camp Shiwaka the time will be either 3 to 7 or 4 to 8, still finalizing this event. After a fun week at camp together it will be great to end the year with a party, thanks to the Kirchhoffs for hosting!!
A few plans for next year: we will be Discovery level starting in the fall which means the council will host some events to get all the Discovery level kids together for some training and fun. We will have new dark blue polo shirts for our uniform and they will have their collars to wear at all ceremonial events (kiniya, grand council fire, thursday night shiwaka sleep over etc). You can decorate the collars but please leave a spot in the very middle of the back for our group symbol. We will be making our group symbol patch next year with our new name Wakin Yolo Gidi's, yay!
As we move into a new level we will continue to earn beads and patches along the 5 trails (family, self, community, outdoors, creativity and future). I am excited for us to start on an "Outdoor Progression" patch called "Fire Tender" which is one of the original Indian patches that look so great on the leather collars. There are 7 activities to complete including taking a hike, learning about knots, learning about proper camping techniques, fire building and fire safety, using a pocket knife, compass training and a few more things. The kids learn much of this at Camp Shiwaka but we will go over in a little more detail at some of our meetings. We will plan and go on a hike to complete the progression. The next outdoor progression is called "High Adventure" which is another beautiful patch and will be more advanced techniques in hiking, compass, camping etc. We may start this progression next year, maybe at camp shiwaka or the following year. My plan is to work on outdoor progressions along with our "business meeting" format (the kids will continue to rotate through president, vp, etc) at our meetings and finally, we will continue to have "kid run" meetings as well. I am so excited to include more outdoor hiking events and a visit to Los Cerritos Wetlands will be on our calendar as well, we need to see what happened to all the seed bombs we through a few years back!
I hope everyone will continue with us to the next level and please let me know if you have any programming suggestions (outings, field trip ideas, special guest speakers you may know etc) I welcome any and all suggestions from you guys, thanks so much for hanging in there with us!
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Spring events 2015, new name!!
We have our new Indian name!! Wakin yo lo gidi (which means Flying fire wild cats) perfect!!
Monday March 23 Cake auction and potluck at Millikan High School cafeteria 5:30 start
Please bring a side dish or main course to share.
Cake theme is TOYS
Thursday March 26, Cerritos Flag Salute 18125 Bloomfield Ave, Cerritos, 90703 6:45 to 7:15
Wednesday April 22 Rocket Cat meeting hosted by Alyssa 6 to 7pm at the council
We will rehearse the fire maker desire for grand council fire
As fuel is brought to the fire
so I promise to bring
My strength, my sensitivity
My heart's desire
My joy, my sorrow
To the fire of human kindness
For I will tend
As my fore bearer's have tended since time began
That fire that is called
The love of one for another
The love of all towards God
Grand Council Fire is Sunday May 3, 7pm Please wear your new ceremonial collars, bring a sit upon, flashlight, closed toe shoes
Saturday May 9 Los Cerritos Wetlands restoration and nature walk 10am to noonLos Cerritos Wetlands
Friday May 15 Spring Camp out, Saturday May 16 Pancake breakfast
Wednesday May 20 rocket cat meeting, hosted by Aliyah
Wednesday May 27 rocket cat meeting hosted by Emily
Wednesday June 10 last rocket cat meeting of the year
Monday March 23 Cake auction and potluck at Millikan High School cafeteria 5:30 start
Please bring a side dish or main course to share.
Cake theme is TOYS
Thursday March 26, Cerritos Flag Salute 18125 Bloomfield Ave, Cerritos, 90703 6:45 to 7:15
Wednesday April 22 Rocket Cat meeting hosted by Alyssa 6 to 7pm at the council
We will rehearse the fire maker desire for grand council fire
As fuel is brought to the fire
so I promise to bring
My strength, my sensitivity
My heart's desire
My joy, my sorrow
To the fire of human kindness
For I will tend
As my fore bearer's have tended since time began
That fire that is called
The love of one for another
The love of all towards God
Grand Council Fire is Sunday May 3, 7pm Please wear your new ceremonial collars, bring a sit upon, flashlight, closed toe shoes
Saturday May 9 Los Cerritos Wetlands restoration and nature walk 10am to noonLos Cerritos Wetlands
Friday May 15 Spring Camp out, Saturday May 16 Pancake breakfast
Wednesday May 20 rocket cat meeting, hosted by Aliyah
Wednesday May 27 rocket cat meeting hosted by Emily
Wednesday June 10 last rocket cat meeting of the year
Monday, January 26, 2015
Collar Workshop
Our ceremonial collar making workshop will be Wednesday March 4 at 6pm at the council.
The cost is $70 per member for the cost of the leather, $35 is due when we order the leather and the balance is due at the workshop. Be prepared to make the deposit at our next meeting (or get together) so we can order the leather ASAP.
A parent or adult must accompany each child at the workshop, the parent will help their child draw and cut out the collar shape.
Typically the workshop is 2 hours in length.
We will have a leather sample to choose from prior to the workshop so you can choose the color you want. There are only a few choices to pick from, earth colors basically.
The cost is $70 per member for the cost of the leather, $35 is due when we order the leather and the balance is due at the workshop. Be prepared to make the deposit at our next meeting (or get together) so we can order the leather ASAP.
A parent or adult must accompany each child at the workshop, the parent will help their child draw and cut out the collar shape.
Typically the workshop is 2 hours in length.
We will have a leather sample to choose from prior to the workshop so you can choose the color you want. There are only a few choices to pick from, earth colors basically.
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