I am finalizing the calendar and will be posting updates here. Tomorrow, April 6th meeting, i will hand out copies to take home, please make sure you pick one up.
I want to tell everyone that Kim Albin will be helping me as another co-leader along with Christine. There has been so much this year with all the new things, beads, trails and having lost Kathleen over the summer. I have been really overwhelmed and needing help (and not admitting it!!) so i am telling everyone now, i am so happy to have her on board to go over the schedule, give me ideas, help me organize our group. We have discussed many things and i think everyone will benefit from our new approach.
For one: we will try making the first Monday of every month a mandatory meeting. It will be important for us to have all the kids at one meeting monthly so we can hand out calendars, give out information, do a project that will be supporting our "trail patch" and make sure everyone is on track. This year i have had difficulty keeping track of everyone and it has a lot to do with the poor attendance of meetings and unorganized meetings (thank you if you havent noticed, but i have been!) i can't expect everyone to come to meetings if i am not organized myself. from now until the end of the year, we will have meetings every monday except for holidays (including spring break).
Parent meeting will be Monday April 20th, no kids please, bring your camp shiwaka paperwork if you have it ready. i will go over the beads (and how you earn them, record them and buy them) the trails we are working on each year, grand council fire info, spring camp out and pancake breakfast and daycamp.
Saturday April 25th is a mandatory camp clean up, we need as many people as possible to attend this from our group. I plan on going, i know many of you have sports on saturday, so just do your best. its from 8:30 am to 12:30 am and they will serve a free lunch after. we will be cleaning up camp for grand council fire and camp shiwaka, it will be a true "work party" so wear your junky clothes.
Monday April 27th meeting with the Potter group at the church, a biologist will be coming to talk with the kids! should be fun! this will fulfill a requirement for our trail patch.
Sunday May 3rd is Grand Council Fire 6pm (we have graduated out of Winging Ceremony) the girls will be receiving their trail seeker patch and pin, beads and awards. it is a big year end celebration and very important. grandparents and siblings are welcome, it is a longer event than usual though. the girls are expected to be in uniform and speaking of uniforms:
it has come to my attention that the girls need to wear their white polo camp fire shirt under their vests at all times. i guess we have been pretty slack on this, i personally have been extremely slack and it has been noticed by the council. especially when we attend public events such as the flag salute, meet and greet and at candy sales. please make sure you purchase at least one camp fire shirt and i recommend everyone buy a red hoodie if you can. the hoodies are really easy to wear to camp fire events and will serve as a uniform for the more casual things we go to. they are also good for day camp and camp wintaka. if you dont have a camp fire polo, PLEASE use a white uniform polo the girls wear to school. make an effort to put the white shirt under the vest instead of their regular clothes. if we all try, i am sure we will do better at it. thanks!!
May 4th Mother Daughter Tea meeting!! Bring a plain cardboard photo box (the kind you store photos in, like a shoe box) and any camp fire photos you have. we will be decorating the box as a craft, mothers and daughters together. there will be fancy treats to eat, we are celebrating mothers day together. this is a mandatory meeting.
May 11th tentatively: science meeting with christine and the finalizing of our groups camp name (come if you want to help us pick our name!! this will be the name we keep forever!)
May 15th Spring Camp out and saturday morning is pancake breakfast. Kim and I will be sleeping over, Janet may if she can. Anyone else interested?? You can bring a tent! We will discuss this more at the parent meeting. There is a charge for this event, one price for those who just eat dinner and one price for those who sleep over.
May 18th meeting: duck patrol at el dorado duck pond. we will gather to spread friendly info booklets out to people at the pond and do a quick litter clean up. i need a parent to bring plastic bags to share with everyone that day. we will have a special snack and play on the playground together. this will help fulfill a requirement for our trail seeker patch.
May 25th no meeting
May 30 Saturday Father daughter dinner dance 7-10pm more details at the parent meeting
June 1st mandatory meeting at the church
June 8th tentatively the ice-cream making meeting with christine (location may be a park)
June 15th day camp meeting (making t shirts, menu planning etc)
June 22-26 camp shiwaka!!
something else we are going to do: we will be having bear cub bucks which you will earn when you come to a meeting. you will then "cash" in your bucks for a very special and unique bear cub bead that you can display proudly on your vest (and gown). we may have a bear cub store as well, need to iron out the details so make sure you come to meetings to earn your bear cub buck!!
see you tomorrow night!
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