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.