Thursday, September 29, 2011

Alice Du Bois meeting






so our first meeting of the year was fun! we used the artist Alice Dubois as inspiration and learned about using color and design in our paintings. i hope we can have more lessons like this, everyone did a great job!!

Saturday, July 23, 2011

camp shiwaka 2011

Monday: Arrive at 8:45am, camp starts at 9am
Bring a sack lunch (monday only)
You need a "ditty bag" (kits available at the council store, please sew it BEFORE you arrive, let me know if you need help) and a "sit upon" Please put a plastic plate, bowl, cup, fork, knife, spoon inside the ditty bag. Make sure your name is clearly written on both the ditty bag and sit upon. (fyi a "ditty bag" is a bag made out of two dish clothes sewn together to make a sack with a drawstring closure. the dishes are washed inside the ditty bag after meals) "sit upon" kits can also be purchased at the council. If they are all out, there are spare carpet swatches the kids can use at camp so don't worry. I was thinking we might make some new ones this year at one of our meetings.
Ditty bags and sit upons can stay at camp all week
Bring a plastic bottle for water that can be used all week, please label
Kids must wear socks and closed toe shoes, no sandals or flip flops please and no anklet socks
Long hair must be tied up and out of the face so the kids can work around the fire and cook
Sunscreen is a must each day, it's hot!!

Camp is over at 3:30pm. Please be on time, I won't be able to stay late because i am running to do an evening shift at 5pm each day (i know i am crazy!!)

Tuesday-Wednesday Arrive at 8:45am
Bring cans and plastic bottles for can drive (20/bag)
Camp is over at 3:30pm

Thursday Arrive at 2pm
Bring sleeping bag, pillow, pj's, toothbrush and toothpaste, jacket, vests for ceremonial

Friday Camp is over at 10am

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Sunday, May 29, 2011

meetings and winging

making rootbeer and our 2nd fly up winging ceremony. yay rocket cats!! what a wonderful 2 years!!





Sunday, February 13, 2011

Feb through June

All candy money due to me between 6 and 8pm on Monday Feb 14th Happy Valentines Day!!

Monday Feb 28th meet at the council for an art workshop 4-5pm, cost is 5 dollars, no vests please, we will be painting.

++++++Saturday March 5th is a wetlands restoration (i will be at the May 7th event) but you can attend this one if you cannot attend May 7th meet at the parking lot near zeidler marsh, take a left at 2nd street/westminster where studebaker dead ends, on the right is a parking lot with signs to direct you in to park. start time is 10:30am, wear a camp fire t-shirt so they know you are a camp fire kid, no vests, shoes that can get dirty, sunscreen and hat, bring gloves if you have them. parents must attend, no drop offs+++++

Wed March 9th meeting at the church 6:15pm, we will be silkscreening t-shirts. bring a canvas bag if you want to make a new one for your camp fire supplies. bring a white t-shirt for a rocket cat design and a blue t shirt (we will be using white paint so not too light of blue, royal or dark works best) for our new wetlands design. you are welcome to bring extra t-shirts to screen as well.

Sunday Mar 13th Meet and Greet at grace first church. choose either 8:45am (shake hands and say hello at the entrance to the fellowship hall, about 30 minutes then leave), or 10:00am to help serve refreshments and then walk over at 10:45 to shake hands before the 11am service. leave at 11:15am. dressed in uniform and "church" attire. we need a strong showing for this event to say thank you to the church for letting us use their room for our meetings. please try and attend.

Friday March 11th is the Ice Cream social at the Armory 6:30-8:30pm. All supplies and ice-cream will be provided. if you attend this event, you will fulfill 3 out of 4 items on the "Camp Fire Birthday patch" list (i will hand out the requirements at the next meeting), if you wear your vest to school one day in the month of march you will have completed the requirements for this patch. There is a trivia game scheduled during the event and parents must be sitting with their kids and helping with the question/answer portion when the game is announced. We need to make sure our kids are not running wild during the event, parents must keep an eye on their own kids. Siblings are welcome to attend but cannot run freely unattended. the older kids are not good at keeping the kids under control so the leaders have been asked to tell parents to please help out more.

Thursday March 17th "Sproutin'" spring event at the council 4 to 5pm, $5 charge per kid, drop off ok.

Thursday March 24th Flag Salute at the Cerritos City Hall 6:45 to 7:15, please be on time and in uniform. location details will be posted on the blog and emailed out when available.

Friday April 8th "Bunny" event at the council 4-5pm, $5 charge per kid, drop off ok

Saturday April 16th All council work party at camp shiwaka. 8:30 to 1:30pm, wear your grubby clothes, bring gloves if you have them. free barbecue lunch will be provided.

Wednesday April 20th meeting at the church 6:15pm

Satuday May 7th Los Cerritos Wetlands restoration event 10:30 to 12:30. meet at trader joes parking lot on 2nd street, between pch and studebaker road. wear your new camp fire wetlands t-shirts and closed toe shoes, sunscreen and hats suggested, bring gloves if you have them. this is a mandatory event, if you cannot attend, please let me know so i can give you an alternative event to attend.

Wednesday May 11th meeting at the church 6:15

Friday May 13th Spring Camp out at camp shiwaka. families can set up a tent, siblings welcome, we will coordinate dinner with the loving bears and flying falcon groups, potluck style.
pancake breakfast is Saturday morning after the sleepover (May 14)

Friday May 20th Winging ceremony (details coming soon)

Wednesday May 25th meeting at the church 6:15

Wednesday June 8th last meeting of the year

Camp Shiwaka will be August 8 through 12th. i need 2 parents a day and at least one parent who will volunteer to do the entire week. 3 parents a day, even better. you can come just one day, even just at meal times helps a lot. we need a parent to bring a full ice-chest of ice each day for our drinking water. a parent shopper is needed to buy the food for the week and bring an ice chest with the days supplies each day. if you have a large igloo water container for our water, let us know if we can borrow it.

there will be a parent meeting in august to go over all the details for camp and talk about the upcoming year.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

candy sales 2011




we are winding down the candy sales, it's been a long 4 weeks... hang in there if you still have candy to sell this weekend, you can do it!!

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

candy sales 2011

please let me know if there are any changes
wherever there is a line, this spot is available


Feb 5 Saturday Albertsons (6235 Spring)

noon Carly

1pm Emily, Carly

2 Alyssa, Geneva


Feb 12 Saturday F&M Bank (12535 Seal Beach Blvd)

9am Emily, Aliyah

10 lizzie
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11 lizzie
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remember to look ahead and see who may need the table and box next, contact each other and if something comes up please call whoever you are with so they know you cant make it. these time slots i signed up for are primo real estate so dont flake out please, there are other leaders who will be upset if we dont show up to our signed up time slots.

thanks!!