March 2008

3-Special Meeting-Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center, 6:30-8:00PM
Join us for a special meeting where we will work on our Zoology badge. This trip will count for requirement #3 for Tenderfoot Scouts and requirement #8 for Explorer Scouts. Please send $8 for this class along with your scout. Please dress warmly, ready to get muddy and bring a flashlight if you have one. Class description: Put your tracking skills to the test and see who is walking about in the winter. Learn the difference between squirrel tracks and crow tracks, learn how to differenciate between feline and canine tracks. We will walk our trails looking for tracks and traces, then we will talk about the animals, who made them while we have a snack. We'll also be making an animal track cast!

10-Regular Meeting-Deans Mill School Cafeteria-6:30-8:00PM
Miss Maria will treat us to our first Horse Night! Be sure to read a fiction or non-fiction book about horses and share your review of it with us at the meeting.

17-Regular Meeting-Deans Mill School Cafeteria-6:30-8:00PM
Scrapbooking Night! Tonight, we'll contine learning about scrapbooking. Bring your albums, supplies, and photos if you have any. Please share with the troop a completed page from your album.

17-Deadline for requesting badges to be presented at the March Family Meeting.

24-March Family Meeting-Deans Mill School Cafeteria-6:30-8:00PM

31-NO MEETING

Pancake Breakfast

Please save the date to assist us for our very first Pancake Breakfast. Set-up will be Friday, April 4, 2008. The breakfast will be Saturday, April 5, 2008. Shifts will be approximately 6AM-10AM or 8Am-12PM. Families will receive tickets to sell prior to the day. Ticket sales will provide us with invaluable funds to purchase food with, as well as a more accurate idea of numbers. Flyers to hang around town are available. Thank you for your help in making this event a success!

February 2008

4-Meeting - Deans Mill School - 6:30-8:00PM - Tonight we will be making an invitation, gift and card for our moms for a special event on Saturday!!! Explorers will also be learning about haiku poetry to continue work on their Creative Writing badge.

9- Mother-Daughter Valentine Tea - Flood Tide Restaurant - 4:00-5:00PM - Wear you favorite tea attire and join us for some special time with Mom! Miss Heather will bring her camera to take group and mother-daughter photos.

11- Meeting - Deans Mill School - 6:30-8:00PM - Valentine Craft Night - Miss Lesa will be showing us how to make a special Valentine pin using a domino! We'll also be making a card to go along with it. Give this special gift to someone you would like to bless for Valentine's Day!

18- No Meeting - Winter Vacation

25- Family Meeting - Our two newest members will be receiving their Joining Awards!!! More details to come...

January 2008

7-Meeting, Deans Mill School, 6:30-8:00PM Bring your scrapbooks and photos for a crop night!

14-Meeting Cancelled due to snow...

21-No Meeting - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

26-Pinewood Derby, 12PM, St. Patrick Church, Parish Hall, optional event

28-Meeting, Miss Heather's House, 6:30-8:00PM Prayer Cards and Baptism Cookies