May Schedule

Hey, almost forgot we had this thing.  Sorry, due to various reasons I had switched to using direct e-mail for communications over the dreaded Winter of 2016, of which Spring apparently could not escape until recently.

Hard to believe, we have only FIVE meetings left.  Let's use them well.

Here's our final agenda:

May 4 - Bird House Crafts.  St. Francis of Assisi 6:45pm.  Hawkeye is facilitating this one and has put a lot of special effort to make sure this runs well.  We offer parents the chance to help out with this one.  Beautiful bird houses make for really nice Mother's Day gifts (hint hint).  It would be great if people could bring some smaller hammers, giving the youth a chance to at least try to nail their own bird houses together.

Sunday, May 8th - Scout Trees.    I know, it's Mothers Day this year, but we welcome as many family volunteers as possible to plant trees just off of 10th Sideroad, south of the 7th Line. (Close to Centennial Park).   1 - 4pm.

There is a crest for Scout Trees, and I need to know beforehand who is available so that correct amounts can be offered.  I will have this listed in my sign-in list on Wednesday the 4th, but if you know you can come letting me know beforehand will help.

May 11 - Sports Night - St. Francis of Assisi 6:45pm.  Weather permitting this will be an outdoor meeting.  We did get a couple sports requests from our youth as per their Canadian path programming, so we will fit them in this night.


May 18 - Flight Night Part 1 - Indoors at St, Francis of Assisi We did this as part of last year and it was a smash success...so since we have so many Brown Tails we will repeat.  Paper Airplane heaven.  Get your hate on for me now...we'll teach your kids how to make cool paper airplanes.

Thursday, May 19 - Swim Up Ceremony @ Holy Cross - 7pm
                 Hosted by the Scouts
This meeting is specifically for the White Tails, but we offer the chance for all our youth to come on out and see what the ceremonies are like and support for fellow Beavers.  The White Tail Beavers will swim up to Cubs, the Senior Cubs will move up to Scouts and we may even have a ceremony for some Senior Scouts moving up to Venturers.
There will be cake. 

May 25 - Flight Night Part 2 - 6:45pm - Innisfil Beach Park (Meet at Playgrounds).  Again, another smash success last year.  We welcome families join in...and let's fly some kites!  We will supply a new kite to each Beaver.

June 1 - End of Year BBQ and Campfire.  7pm.  At this point, I have offered to hold this at my house in Belle Ewart.  But if someone is REALLY keen on being the host instead let me know.  We will supply the Burgs and Buns, etc; Can we do pot luck for everything else?

I promise to keep this updated with any changes or additions that may occur, and feedback is always welcome.

Ringtail.

Flight Week #1 and more!

Saturn, here I come!

This Wednesday we will be at St. Francis of Assisi, where we will run a craft activity.  Flight Week #1 will involve the boys building their own toy rocket.  As part of this, I ask if everyone could please send their child with a 500ml or 750ml water/pop plastic bottle, which we will use as the foundation of the toy.  I will have a large selection of construction paper that we will cut into the shapes needed...and from experience I think we will go with scotch tape vs glue to hold everything together.  We then still have lots of stickers and crayons that the boys can use to personalize them.

Another aspect of the craft that actually fits a Scouts Canada agenda is the concept of recycling.  From today to May 3rd, Scouts Canada are endorsing a Good Turn week...where we encourage all members of Scouting to be helpful to others - whether that be their friends, family or the community at large.  It also fits that Tree Planting is on May 3rd!!!


A reminder to the White Tails that they have one more Cub meeting that they may attend this session....this Tuesday the 28th at Holy Cross Catholic School.  6:45 - 8:15.  We only had one Beaver come to the last one, so it would be great if we can get more so they get to know you!  Last weeks hike was postponed, so they may be doing it this week....please bring options for outdoor OR indoor play depending on weather.  If you have specific questions about the evening, you can contact Sandra Slade at sanslade@rogers.com.


One more thing before I sign off.  Another major aspect of Scouts Canada that we need to endorse more is outdoors play...whether that be sports, hiking, camping or anything that will keep that great big ball in the sky shining good Vitamin D on your child's skin.  Many families don't actually have the supplies that could encourage the kids to play more so I will begin posting local deals that I'm hearing about to help you out.  If you have one for me that you'd like to share, please send it to me!

• Ethan's dad Craig contacted me about a deal at http://www.kingsdistribution.ca/ in Barrie, where they had an Coleman 8 person tent on sale for $100.00.  Supplies may be limited.
• There is a Mountain Warehouse at the Tangers Mall, and they are having a Summer Event sale on April 30th from 3pm-10pm.  They will have demos as well.  I already sent out an e-mail to everyone...but if it's been lost and you'd like to see it again, please let me know and I'll get that to you right away.