Jan 26th - Den Meeting

Another grrrreat den meeting last night.  Daniel, J.P., and Ben opened with a pledge of allegiance, followed by a quick game of trying to throw a Frisbee in to a circle marked on the floor.   J.P. won and received a Tiger cap to wear.  The cubs all built small wooden race cars.  They glued them together then broke for a few minutes of crab races, etc..  The boys then created whatever colors they wanted starting with the three primary colors (red, blue, yellow).   For the cubs who did not make it, please go through with them; their primary colors, what materials can be used to make works of art (any material really - paper, canvas, wood, paint, etc.) and that when drawing or painting lines, circles, curves, colors and/or textures can be used.  We have discussed this on several occasions, so I am confident that all the cubs have already participated in / been exposed to these topics one or more times; and therefore have all had their names turned in to get their "art" belt loops.  The cubs were very creative in painting their cars, and seemed to have a lot of fun.  We discussed the fact that we are working on our citizenship belt loops, now.  I handed out charts for them to do at home (list jobs down the left side, days of week across the top.  So that they can write down a list of jobs they will do for a week, and then mark each day that they did what they agreed to do and are "good citizens" in their family.  For the cubs who were not there, I can get you a chart or you can make one at home - does not matter how you do it, just that each of the cubs learn about doing their part for their family, by agreeing to do some jobs and recording how they do for a week.

Pinewood Derby is Sunday at Elmira Fire station.  We need to get their at 9:30 am as we are the greeters for this event.

Next Den meeting will be Tuesday, Feb 2nd at 7:00 pm at Mike Duggan's fire station: Station 67 Cantelow -  4135 Cantelow Road, Vacaville (Mike, correct me if I am wrong).   Try to have a family fire drill before this meeting, so when asked the boys can say "yes, I know what to do in case of a fire" at their house.   Also, we will be making a poster of what citizenship means (being a good citizen).  Bring clippings from newspaper, magazines, etc - so that we can do a collage on a poster board.

Let me know if you have any questions or concerns. 

Also there have been a couple requests from Joel, who is organizing the Pinewood Derby, for volunteers to help setup and take down - He is starting at 7:00 am to setup, lots of chairs, tables, etc. and will also need people at the end to clean-up. If you can arrive early or stay late, let me know and I will pass your name to Joel.

See you Sunday

Fred Zilz

Tiger Den 12