Pack 380 - December 12, 2013 Pack Meeting

We have our monthly Pack meeting scheduled for December 12, 2013 at 7pm at the Woodside Elementary School Multi-Use Room.  We have a fun filled evening planned for our scouts.

This is our annual Christmas Pack meeting.  We are asking each scout to bring two dozen cookies to exchange with the other scouts.  The basic idea is that you will be able to exchange cookies with every other scout with cookies to exchange.

We are also trying to make arrangements for a few boy scouts to attend the meeting.

Now onto the agenda for the meeting:

Agenda

0.  Gathering Activity [make your own neckerchief slide]

1.  Opening Flag Ceremony [Tiger Cubs/Bear Cubs]

2.  Announcements [Cubmaster Llata]

     Den meetings this month (December 18 for 4th/5th and December 19 for 1st/2nd/3rd)

     Upcoming Events for New Year

3.  Awards

4.   Game - How Do You Wrap?

5.   Special Gift - Fast Cars...Maybe?

6.   Christmas Cookie Exchange

7.   Closing Flag Ceremony  [Wolf Cubs]

Pack Email Address:  concordpack380@gmail.com

2013 Webeloree

A great time was had by our four Webelos who attended this event!  And what an event it was.  In addition to earning their Geologist, Outdoorsman, Forester and Naturalist activity pins for Webelos, our scouts had an overall great time camping out with about 200 other Webelos.

The scouts learned to make a meal in a foil, learned about making a campfire, participated in their own skits at the campfire, watched a flag retirement ceremony, got to see a great view of the new Bay Bridge, and learned a lot about nature, rocks and the outdoors.

Way to go scouts!

We had an awesome day distributing door hangers in the neighborhood around Woodside Elementary. Our scouts (and parents too) were tremendous.  Below is a photo of our scouts with their leader.

Don't forget that we are meeting at the same place and at the same time next Saturday, November 16, to hopefully pick up lots and lots of food donated by our neighbors.  See you next Saturday!

2013 Scouting for Food

Pack 380 Scouts and Families!

We are meeting this Saturday to do our annual good turn as a Pack to collect food for the local food bank.  This first Saturday we will meet to distribute door hangers to the neighborhood around Woodside Elementary School.  The next Saturday we will go out to collect the donated food.

What:  Scouting for Food

When:  Saturday, November 9, 2013 at 9am

Where:  Meet at Woodside Elementary School parking lot

We are assigned a specific area around Woodside Elementary School.  The area that we cover has almost 400 homes.

Scouts should wear their Class A uniforms.  A light jacket or sweat shirt is advisable for the first part of the morning.  Wear comfortable sneakers good for walking.  We will do this rain or shine so please come prepared for the weather.

We will provide some pastries/danishes and juice to get us going in the morning.

Just show up!  No need to bring anything.  This is one of our more important community activites as a pack so we are counting on maximum participation by our scouts.

The food that we collect goes to the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano.  The following are some facts about the food bank and Scouting for Food:

• The warehouse can have up to 1.5 million pounds of food at one time on-hand.
• They turn over the food five or six times in one year with this amount of food equal to the amount of food that can fill up about 70 train cars.
• The food bank serves about 132,000 people each month.  This is more than the population of Concord.
• The food bank also hands out toys, bicycles and other items for kids.
• One of their unusual donations was a very large shipment of M&M peanuts.
• Another memorable donation was a very large shipment of stuffed animals.
• They have been able to cut back on how much they spend on electricity by installing $700,000 of solar panels on their roof.
• They have very large drive-in refrigerators that they keep at about 40 degrees. 
• They also have a very large freezer that they keep at something like 7 degrees below ze
• In 2010, Scouting for Food brought in 165,000 pounds of food.  This effort helps the food bank make it through the holidays to help those in need.

As you can see this is a tremendous community activity that is undertaken by scouts each year.

October 10, 2013 Pack Meeting

We have our monthly Pack meeting scheduled for October 10, 2013 at 7pm at the Woodside Elementary School Multi-Use Room.  We have a fun filled evening planned for our scouts.

Our pack keeps growing!  With the addition of Jackson to the ranks of our first year Webelos we are now up to 23 scouts.  Jackson, welcome to Pack 380!

The theme for this month is Citizenship.  We will have fun with citizenship at the Pack meeting and continue with the theme at our den meetings next week.

Now onto the agenda for the meeting:

Agenda

0.  Gathering Activity [make your own historical U.S. flag]

1.  Opening Flag Ceremony [Wolf Cubs]

2.  Announcements [Cubmaster Llata]

     Den Meetings this month (October 16 for 4th/5th and October 17 for 1st/2nd/3rd)

     Popcorn Sales Update  [Popcorn Kernel Lang]

     Webelo Events for October

     Fall Campout Sharing  [See this link for video]

3.  Awards [Advancement Chair Grundon]

     

     Wolf Cub Totems [Den Leader Llata]

     Webeloree Awards [Den Leader Lang]

4.   Audience Participation Song from Webeloree - Purple Stew

5.   Citizenship Activities

      Citizenship Relay Game (the game will be based on the questions on the attachment)

      "Pick up the Trash" Game

6.   Raffle/Snacks

7.   Closing Flag Ceremony  [Tiger Cubs/Bear Cubs]

Pack Email Address:  concordpack380@gmail.com

2013 Fall Pack Campout

Slightly dampened, but our spirits at our fall pack campout were never higher. We even found the "hidden falls" at Hidden Falls Camp where we camped in the hills above Soquel.

Highlights of our campout in addition to the torrent of rain included salamanders, banana slugs, indoor games, knot tying, hamburgers and hotdogs, scavenger hunt, campfire program, wild mushrooms, pinecone bird feeders, leave no trace, forts, redwood trees, hiking, and the hidden falls.

 The following is a short slide show of the activities from the campout.

 

September 12, 2013 Pack Meeting

We have our monthly pack meeting scheduled for this Thursday, September 12, 2013 at 7pm at the Woodside Elementary School Multi-Use Room.

For returning scouts and new scouts who have been able to purchase your uniforms, please come prepared looking your sharpest in your Cub Scout uniforms.  For parents of returning scouts or new scouts that have already filled out application forms but haven't paid the pack fee, we would like to collect the annual pack fee of $80 at the meeting.  Checks can be made out to "Pack 380."

For new families that still have not made up their mind about joining scouting, please come and check us out.  We will have the full range of activities at this meeting from advancement and badge award  ceremonies for a couple of our returning scouts, other awards for several scouts, a game or two, announcements about upcoming events, and even some treats.  Pack leader will be on-hand to answer questions.

The following are the dens in our pack:

First Graders - Tiger Cubs, Den 1 - Den Leader TBD
Second Graders - Wolf Cubs, Den 3 - Chris Llata is Den Leader
Third Graders - Bear Cubs, Den 4 - Alicia Lang is Den Leader
Fourth Graders - First Year Webleos, Den 5 - James Lang is Den Leader
Fifth Graders, Second Year Webelos, Den 2 - Casey Emoto is Den Leader

The following is the planned agenda for the meeting:

Agenda

0. Gathering Activity

1. Opening Flag Ceremony (First Year Webelos)

2. Announcements (Cubmaster Llata)

• First Den Meetings on September 18 and 19
• September 20-22 Pack Campout
• Popcorn Sales Event
• Several Webelo Events

3. Advancement (Erik Michel) and Webelo Badge Award (Jordan Keener)

4. Awards (Awards Chair)

• Summertime Pack Award
• Other Awards

5. Games (Led by Bear and Wolf Cubs)

6.  Raffle (Bear and Wolf Cubs)

7. Closing Flag Ceremony (Second Year Webelos and Tiger Cubs)