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[christiejay]

Thursday, October 30

Time to work on the second requirement for the art belt loop, using 6 of the elements of design in a drawing.

I found an article on WikiPedia about the elements of art just to use as a visual aid, something to help explain each term to Joshua instead of having to rely on myself to do all the talking. He seemed to understand most of what I was saying, so I gave him a piece of paper and told him to think about what he could draw. I suggested that he draw something about our family, so he could add it to his family scrapbook that he started at a den meeting last month. (And we haven't added anything to it since , so being able to put in another page will help.)

He decided he was going to draw something about Disney World, since that is where we took our family vacation this past summer. He ended up drawing the icon from each park, as well as the hub in front of the castle and our hotel, Wilderness Lodge. Now of course he is only 6 so these were very basic, but I was impressed. He connected all these things with "roads".

By my count, his drawing included the use of lines, circles, shapes (other than circles), colors, space and balance.

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Friday, October 31

When I picked up Joshua at school today, a couple of the teachers who have duty in the car-riders line were telling me that Joshua's poster won the school contest! - Remember the collage I had him make a couple of weeks back, to tell about what he wanted to be when he grew up? Well this has been Red Ribbon Week and they had a pep rally this afternoon to wrap it all up. And during the pep rally he got called to the front and awarded his "prize". It was a drawstring backpack/bag that had something about drug-free on it. It was filled with several freebies, some were cheap trinkets, and there was a coupon for a free ice-cream cone from McDonald's. He was really excited about it. I asked him if anybody else won anything and he said no. I guess next week I will find out more about it. One of the teachers had said something about the counselor giving me all the details, so perhaps she will call or send a note home. Who knows, he might have been the only entrant! (His school is just kindergarten and first grade.) The contest was not promoted at all, the only place I saw it was in the monthly PTA newsletter.

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Joshua didn't earn his Wii time today (too much talking in class ), so we spent some time after school doing another elective toward a Tiger Track bead. I chose number 15, which is to mix the primary colors to come up with the secondary colors. I decided it would be easiest to just use crayons for this part. Joshua knew about mixing colors, as they had already covered that to some extent in Preschool and Kindergarten. He now has 4 out of 10 toward his first bead.

[Colexis Mom]

Great updates Christie!!

[Chrissi]

Christie, is your Pack doing the Scouting for Food Drive this week? You haven't mentioned it, but I thought all Packs across the U.S. were Scouting for Food today and next Saturday. (Elective 11: 'Helping the Needy' for Tiger Cubs. We also use it as an opportunity to fulfill other requirements - 'looking at a map of the community' as we divvy up the wards we're assigned to in town and 'going outside and watching the weather with an adult partner'.)

We're also doing a coat and clothing drive as our den service project. It's Seeds of Kindness Month here in the Slate Belt. Next week, we're wrapping up the Scouting for Food Drive and we're going to learn about shelter and rescue animals and have a special guest - my friend is bringing her rescued pitbull-beagle mix, Hank, to meet the kids. He's come to DJ's t-ball games and went trick-or-treating with us. No dog has ever been so good with kids in my experience. He's awesome.

He was rescued from a dog-fighting ring where they used him as practice and bait for the actual fighting dogs because he was too sweet-natured to train to fight. Horrible situation - amazing dog. So he's coming to meet the kids as our local ambassador for rescue animals.

[christiejay]

Wasn't aware of the food drive. I had been hoping the pack would do something I could count for that elective. I was thinking of suggesting a toy collection, like for Toys for Tots or even something local. I keep learning more about the pack - like how they have only been rechartered for a few years, so I guess you could say they are still getting on their feet. It's been pretty basic stuff that they've been doing. That one family that I thought was so sharp back at our first meeting, apparently they just moved here a year or two ago, and have introduced the belt loop/pins to the pack, as well as day camp and the BSA Family program. Anyway, I'll see what we can come up with for a food or toy drive, there is a local charitable organization that I'm sure would be thankful for whatever we could come up with.

Such a sad story about the dog! Glad to hear he has such a good life now.

[Chrissi]

I'm surpised to hear you guys don't do Scouting for Food. Maybe it's just our council that does it. It's a major annual event for our council anyway. I counted no less than a dozen billboards for Scouting for Food while I was out shopping the other day. There's a big commerical campaign this year.

[christiejay]

Originally Posted by Chrissi

I'm surpised to hear you guys don't do Scouting for Food. Maybe it's just our council that does it. It's a major annual event for our council anyway. I counted no less than a dozen billboards for Scouting for Food while I was out shopping the other day. There's a big commerical campaign this year.

Haven't heard of it, although I think it's a really cool campaign name! I've just had an idea for what our den and/or pack can do, will post the outcome in the next thread, once I get it all figured out.

Note to all: with a new month comes a new thread! Jump on over and see what's next in our crazy adventures: November 2008.

[Colexis Mom]

Our pack does the food drive in December (at least that's what the schedule says so far)!!