parent meeting

thank you thank you to everyone who came last night, great turn out!!!

we went over the calendar (which was handed out at last meeting and mirrors the blog post april-june)

starting in May, we will start our meetings at 5pm and see how it works out. please let me know if you need me to pick up your child if you have a conflict with time, i would be more than happy to pick up and drop off kids (i can easily take 3 each monday)

this saturday is the camp clean up, not many (if any) people can go, please try if you can, even for an hour. i am doing my best to get there myself. (i believe it is 830 to 1230 with a free lunch after)

for the mother daughter tea meeting (first meeting in may) please bring a cardboard photo box and camp fire pictures to decorate the box. mothers and daughters will work together on this project. if you dont have many pictures, please go to either of my blogs and drag/drop directly from the blog and/or go to my flickr account and look at the camp fire bluebirds folder. you can "steal" pictures by dragging and dropping them on to your desktop, then use iphoto (or similar photo program) to print them out. let me know if you need help with this, i can send pictures to a few of you but dont have time to do everyone. there should be quite a lot to choose from.

spring camp out: kim and i will be sleeping over with one large tent (i have two small tents as well that can hold 2 to 3 girls each) so we can have a pretty large crowd staying over. we didnt figure out dinner yet, but kim and i will work on that. you can come for dinner only (2 dollars and stay for the ceremony) or sleep over (5 dollars) you pay on your way in. set up starts at 4pm, chris will be there early to set up tents and dinner should be around 6pm. pancake breakfast is in the morning, please come and eat your 40 dollars worth of pancakes!!!

grand council fire: formal event, uniforms (white only under vests, turtlenecks and polo shirt), sit upons and flashlights. we will be doing the lighting and extinguishing of the fire, very exciting! we need to arrive at 6pm, ceremony starts at 7pm (not sure why we need to be there an hour early, i will look in to this) grandparents are welcome to this event. parents may want to bring a blanket to sit on and/or small chairs. there may be seating on the lower levels??? this is our first time to this event.

garage sale may 2nd. (i forgot to mention this last night) please bring items directly to the garage sale on the morning of may 2nd at the church (palo verde and willow, white gondola and teddy bear sign) if you can't make it that morning but have some items, you can drop them off with me at my house prior to saturday. the money we earn from this will be put into our kitty for day camp food. this is a GREAT way for our girls to earn some money and i would love to have a few girls help out that day. the sale starts at 730 am and the girls can work a one hour shift or stay as long as they would like. linda and i will be there, i have a conflict until 930am so any parent volunteer who can come at 730 to help linda would be greatly appreciated.


there may be some changes to the calendar, so please check back often. tentatively the May 11th meeting will be a baseball meeting held at wardlow park, anne marie will be running this meeting (we will earn red beads!!) should be very fun!

pancake breakfast ticket money will be due at spring camp out, everyone owes 40 dollars (10 dollar credit from candy sales)

Camp Shiwaka money and forms are due to me by Spring Camp out at the LATEST, please try to have it to me by May 11th, you can always put it in my mailbox. We will get an early bird store credit for our group if we have them all in before May 16th. that would be nice to have!! thanks to everyone who has already turned it in to me.

Jean Potter has invited us to a Beach Bonfire Extravaganza.... sometime late may or june. i will get the details asap and post here. It will be a fun end of year party for all of us and it will be nice to let loose at the beach with the potter group. woo hoo summer!

i will keep posting changes here, keep checking back, thank you!!

Garage sale may on may 2

We will be having a garage sale on may 2 at the church sage goes to. 90 percent of our earnings will go in our kitty to help with day camp costs. Please gather things to donate and help clean out your closets :)

Linda and I will run our "booth" but anyone who wants to help, we won't say no to ya! Haha!!

Email me if you think you have items to donate so we can make a plan to get your stuff to the church. More info to come soon (the church is at palo verde and willow, the one with the teddy bear sign and white gazebo)

Thanks!!

April thru June

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!

wetland rally

next meeting april 6th

i am working hard on the april-june calendar, lots of fun stuff coming up! there will be a father daughter dinner in may, spring camp out and day camp (second session this year!) so get your calendars ready!

Los Cerritos Wetland update: yes our long lost service project is up and running... lots of exciting buzz going on. you can check out our new facebook page (please join if you can) and there are rallies every friday from 5 to 7pm. i am hoping we can set up a table at an upcoming rally with buttons and maybe posters to hand out to the supporters. the Los Cerritos Wetlands land trust is excited to see kids and young people at the rallies, last week was fun so come if you can!


every friday, 5-7pm loynes and studebaker, park in the "hole" the housing tract on loynes and walk to the demonstration area (not hard to miss). wear your wetlands t shirt and make a sign to support the wetlands!

thanks!

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camp fire 99 year birthday patch wrap up

to earn this patch you needed to do 4 out of 15 items from the list below (included is the flag salute, meet and greet, march 23rd meeting, ice cream social):

if you attended the flag salute, meet and greet, camp fire birthday party march 23rd meeting, ice cream social on march 29th plus wore your vest one day at school, you earned the patch.

1. make "happy birthday camp fire" posters and display in your window or at school, church, etc.

2. contribute to the friendship fund (ask me for the address)

3. bring refreshments to your class at school and celebrate camp fire's birthday.

4. have non camp fire friends over to your house for a birthday celebration.

5. do a community service project to spread the camp fire message.

6. honor a camp fire member past or present or honor a person who lives the camp fire ideal.

7. read about the camp fire history in the book "wo he lo camp fire history" and/or speak with fellow camp fire members who grew up in camp fire.

8. recruit a new camp fire member for your group

9. create and perform a play, skit, poem or public show or dance about camp fire.

10. talk about what you might be doing on a future camp fire birthday, let's say 2035.. will you still be a member? what will the future be like then? write this down in your workbook.

11. do an activity of your own choice to celebrate camp fires 99th birthday.



do a total of 4 activities, write them down and turn them in to me at the first meeting in april. i will be ordering the patches from the forms i receive, please let me know so you dont miss out on this fabulous patch and a purple bead!

thanks to my mom, anne marie and her mom for sharing their camp fire stories with the girls tonight. this was a very special meeting for me!

meet and greet, check!

thanks to everyone who came to the meet and greet, we had three other groups there to help and we were a nice big crowd! see you guys tomorrow at the meeting, 6pm at the church. we will be continuing our celebration of camp fire's 99th birthday so please try to come! this will be a super special meeting.