Thank-you!

We wanted to just thank all those parents and cubs who came to the meet and greet/ registration night last night.
The snacks we very yummy and hope that the cub who brought those yummy peanut butter cookies will share the recipe with us.
We are very grateful to the parents who shared their concerns and suggestions with us. We are sure this will make for a great year of cubs with lots of exciting activities and involvement.
We want assure you that we love working with your kids and coming there every week. They touch our hearts every time we see them.
If you have any other questions or suggestions please do not hesitate to contact either one of us.

Have a wonderful week and we look forward to seeing all the cubs next week :)

Akela and Bagheera
(Matthew and Dyanne)

Welcome to a new year of Cubs

Hello Cubs new and old!

We are excited to start this next year more prepared and with some experience behind us.

Cubs will be held on Thursdays this year and we are thrilled over the freedom this will give our cubs for our activities.

Here is our planned activities so far.. If there are any changes we will let you know.

We will having a Potluck Meet and Greet with registration on Thursday September 13th at 6:30. Please bring your cubs favorite snack to share as they get spend time with old friends and meet the new ones coming in. We will lay out the schedule for the including days and times and give out other information for this year. We can answer any questions at that time as well as find out what the cubs and parents would like to see with this year. We will do registration at that time as well so please come prepared with all of your cubs information including care card and such.We will also be going over our popcorn fundraiser and why it is important for our program.

On Thursdays 20th at 6:30 This will be our first official start day for cubs and we will be going over with the cubs the Pack Motto and Howl and everything they will need to know for being invested as a cub. Investment date to be announced. We will play games for the rest of the night.

Thursday September 27 at 6:30 We will be re-visiting the script we wrote last year and make the changes needed as we will be losing some of the cubs to scouts and young men as well as have some new faces to be added in. We will also be playing games on this night. This is a continuation of the Pack Specialty Badge we set out last year.

Thursday October 4th at 6:30 We will be doing set design this night. Please bring the kids in clothes you wont mind them getting paint on. This will be towards our Pack Specialty Badge and we will be covering our Carpentry Badge as well as our Artist Badge.

Thursday October 11th at 6:30 We will start filming our movie this night using the sets. This will be towards our Pack Specialty Badge,

Friday October 19th Time to Be Announced As this is a Pro-D day for most of the Cubs we are planning a second trip to CKPG for this day so they will have a chance to do the activities we missed out on the first time around and give the new cubs a chance to enjoy the tour. We will be enjoying a treat at DQ afterwards. This will be towards our Pack Specialty Badge

Thursday October 25th at 6:30 We will be finishing the filming of any scenes needed for the movie. This will be towards our Pack Specialty Badge

Thursday November 1st at 6:30 This will be the premiere of our Movie and invite Parents and family to join us. Please bring a snack and/or drink to share. Popcorn will be provided. This will be towards our Pack Specialty Badge 

Thursday November 8th at 6:30 Kub Kar Night. We will be finishing our Kub Kars for those that have started and starting for the new cubs. We will announce when Kub Kar races will be as soon as we find out but we want to be prepared this year to attend. This works towards our Handicraft Badge

Thursday November 15th at 6:30 we will be learning First aid for our First Aider Badge

Thursday November 22nd at 6:30 we will be meeting at the Prince George Observatory for a tour and to earn the Astronomer Badge

Friday November 30th from 10am to 6pm we will be having a Winter Cub Day Camp Location to be announced. We will be providing Hot dogs for roasting for lunch but ask that each cub bring their own tinfoil meal for cooking for dinner. This goes towards their Winter Cubbing Badge

Thursday December 6th at 6:30 we will be having a Christmas and Faith themed night including making cards for family members, etc. This will help us Complete anything left on our Artist Badge as well as earn our Spirituality Award

Thursday December 13th at 6:00 there will be having a Christmas Party with White Elephant gift exchange game and Movie. Please have your cub come prepared with a small wrapped gift from the dollar store, something always goes well. This will be our last pack meeting before the Christmas Holidays.

Thursday January 17th at 6:30 will be our first pack meeting after the holidays and we will doing Disability Awareness for our Disability Awareness Badge.

These are up for changes as time goes on so please check back here every Thursday to see if there are any changes or cancellations.

Looking forward to this next year!
Akela and Bagheera
(Matthew and Dyanne)

May 15th 2012

Hi Cubs,

Cubs is cancelled Wednesday May 16th 2012 as both Matt and Dianne will be out of town.  We will be back at the church on Wednesday May 23rd, 2012.  On May 23rd we will begin to shoot our movie.

See you all next week,

Matt & Dianne

May 1st, 2012

Hi Cubs,

This week we will be working on our scripts to finish our movie.  Also you will be learning about "Blocking" which is how to turn your story into an actual movie with scenes.  Also, remember it is banana split night - make your own ice cream treat night.

May 9th, 2012 we will be meeting at the movie theater at 5pm (that is the latest they can do the tour as they have to get ready for the 6:30pm showing).  Parents please be prepared to attend with your children, or be prepared to pick them up from the theater no later then 6:15pm.

See you soon,

Matt & Dianne

April 25th 2012

Hi Cubs,

We will meet at the church again this week at 6:30 in the gym.  We will continue to work on our movie.  I hope you have spoken to your group this week!  If you haven't then it's not a problem we will be spending time working on the plot after finishing many of the story boards last week.

See you tonight,

Akela (Matt)

April 18th, 2012

Hi Cubs,

Just wanted to let you know that tonight we will be working on our movie.  Most likely we'll get to some test shots to show you what you look like on camera as well as finishing the script for all of our different parts.

We look forward to seeing you there and invite any parents who would like to attend to come.
We'll be meeting at the Church from 6:30-8:00pm.

Akela (Matt)

Hi Cubs!

It's car painting night.
I will have your cars, some sandpaper, a large drop cloth, some rags, brushes, and the paint.  You will need to show up with some old cloths and an artistic mind.  (For the parents, Diane is sick tonight along with her kids so it will be a smaller group)  Please be prepared to stay and help out if you can.

Matt, Akela

Our Next Star and Badge Quest.

Hello Pack and Parents!

For the next little while we are going to be working on our Tawny Star and corresponding Badges. We are excited to start that this week with out Kub Kar Designs and such. We are so grateful to Brother Towers for donating his time to the cubs to help cut out and create their racing master pieces. It is always exciting to the see the cars race and win or lose everyone has fun.

We will be including in this set of badges our Pack Specialty Badge which we have decided will be a Cinematic badge. We are in the process of arranging trips to the movie theatre to see how things runs back stage and possibly even a trip to PG TV station to watch a show being filmed. It will end with the Cubs making a movie of their own starting from writing a script all the way to presenting a movie night with their families invited.

As with most of the cub badges there is work at home to be done for the badges and we will post the homework as needed. Please take a look through this list and see what your cub has already done and what he can do. These are always a fun set of badges to work on as it brings out every ones creative side. We look forward to having a lot of fun for the next couple of months :) Please note there are a couple of badges, like the collectors badge, that is completely up to the cub to do.

Have a Great Time
Akela and Bagheera :)

Here is the links to the badges:

http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/tawny-star-requirements.pdf
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/tawny-artist.pdf
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/tawny-carpenter.pdf
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/tawny-musician.pdf
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/tawny-entertainer.pdf
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/tawny-handicraft.pdf
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/tawny-computer.pdf
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/tawny-reader.pdf
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/tawny-collector.pdf
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/tawny-photographer.pdf
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/tawny-can-arts-award.pdf
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/cub-pack-specialty.pdf

Good Morning Cubs!

We're excited to announce that your cub cars have arrived.  Also, all of the badges that we have been working on are here.  That means that this Wed March 14.12 we will be designing our cars and receiving badges (parents are welcome to attend), Wed March 21.12 is spring break (no cubs), Wed March 28.12 we will be meeting at the church then going to Brother Tony Towers house to cut out and shape our cars.  We may need to meet on Saturday the 31st of March to finish our cars, that is unless parents would like to spend time that week with their cubs to finish the cars on their own.  The city wide cub car rally is held in April/May (information to follow).

Best regards,

Matt & Dyanne

Hi Pack,

I have had a conversation with some parents who are concerned with respect to the number of activities that the cubs are involved in this week.  I think that one meeting a week at a maximum is sufficient for kids our age.  Therefor due to the fact that we had a day hike on Friday and most of us will be involved with the ice fishing trip this Saturday (think fishing badge).

Cubs is cancelled this Wednesday February 22nd, and will be back on Wednesday February 29th, 2012 in the Gym at the Church.  I look forward to seeing you all on Saturday for ice fishing.

Matt (Akela)

Good Morning Cubs,

Today we'll be going on our hike to Moores Meadow.  Be sure to dress for the weather as we will be out for approximately 1.5 hours.  We will be meeting at the Church at 10am and returning for 11:40am where sister Olsen and crew will be preparing lunch for us, thank-you Lunch Crew!

If you have any questions don't hesitate to call me on my cell 778-349-6777.

Matt (Akela)                                                                                                

February 15th Cub Meeting

Hello Pack!

First we would love to acknowledge our amazing cubs who did their presentations this past Wednesday.
They included reports on Bobby Orr, Sir John A. Macdonald, Marc Garneau, and Billy Bishop.
They also presented us with 2 amazing Canadian folk tales, The Long Winter and A Yukon Ghost Story. We look forward to hearing from the rest of our cubs this week.

Along with more amazing reports and stories we are working on our Space Exploration Badge. This is always a fun Badge to work on as the kids get to be creative and Design their own Space Stations and Rockets! We will be working with Clay and other crafts. It is always exciting to see how their minds invent the future. We may, one day, be living in one of these stations :)

The exact page we are working on can be found here and it will be numbers 1, 3,4,5 that we will be working hard on. If your cub would like to come prepared have them look up some of the information we will be covering. We always love to hear their point of view on the topics we are covering.

On the cub meeting for the 22nd we will be working on our World Religions Badge and our World Cubbing Badge. These are badges where all things on the page will need to be completed. Please take the time with your cub and go over them and see what they can get started on now. Thank-you

Akela and Bagheera

*sorry, I had this read to post on Saturday but instead of posting it I clicked save. That is what I get for working on 3 projects at once. I noticed it when I went to look for the link to some of the stories when I was talking to a friend.*

February 8th or 9th Cub Meeting

Hello Cubs J

First of all as you can see by the header we are considering changing the day we hold cubs on and the time. There will a further blog post and facebook post about this to come.

We had a very crazy meeting this Wednesday and we learned a lot about respecting the old wolf and respecting ourselves while respecting others.

We are all very excited for having completed part A of our Purple star and completed all requirements for our Aboriginal Awareness Badge.  We would like to extend and big wolf cub howl of thanks to Nick Mould who was our special speaker and told us about how his life today has changed from his ancestors.

Next week we will hopefully be finishing off our Canadian Heritage Badge as well as doing all our requirements for our International Trade Badge. We have some fun international money we will be bringing to share as well as some other fun things to complete this badge. We need all cubs to come prepared with their scrapbooks on a famous Canadian.  This is not limited to someone who is dead but anyone they would like to look up from astronauts, to musicians, sports figures and more. We would also like them to look up and share a Canadian Folktale to share with the pack as well.  Sister Krell is going to come in and teach the cubs a Canadian folksong and we are very grateful to her for helping us cut back on the work the cubs will have to do at home. I am sure each cub will come away with a little more love of music and history after she shares her amazing talent with them.

Next on the list of things for the Cubs to work on is to complete 5 of the requirements for Part B of the Purple Star. We know that a lot of the cubs have done most of these things like a food drive with the church or school since the beginning of September. Since that is the time that cubs were supposed to start we are giving all your parents the right to go back through to that time to see what your cub has completed. Please have your cub write up a couple of sentences about what they did and how it made them feel.  We will then be able to sign them off and focus on completing our other badges that go along with the purple star.

In the grouping with the purple star is a Language Badge. This is not something we work with in cubs, it is a badge they do on their own time. If your cub has been learning another language like French or sign language please have them let us know. We can bring in someone to have a 2 to 3 sentence conversation with them and then they will receive a special strip to share with everyone.  I will be reposting the links to the badges I have talked about in this post.

Hopefully I have covered everything so far and as you know feel free to contact Matt or myself with any questions or concerns.

Hope you have a Great Week

Akela and Bagheera

(Matthew and Dyanne)

http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/purple-star-requirements.pdf (Purple Star)

http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/purple-can-heritage.pdf (Canadian Heritage)

http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/purple-int-trade.pdf (International Trade)

http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/purple-ril.pdf (Language Strip)

Here is also a link to a Blog Post I found very helpful when looking up a few Canadian Folk Tales

http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/394285-canadian-folk-and-fairy-tales

Cub Activity for February 1st, 2012

Hello Pack,
We look forward to seeing you all tomorrow.  We will be working on our Aboriginal Awareness Badge, page 239 of the Cub book if you have one.  If not follow the link from the previous post where you will find a PDF of the pages.

If you have completed the scrapbook that you may have started about a famous Canadian please bring it, however, if you haven't completed it yet still come and have fun.  Please Have the scrapbook completed by February 8th.

Parents please follow the link for the purple star "B" requirements page 238 of the Cub Book, sign off if your cubs have completed any off these (a minimum of 5 are required for the badge) write us a short sentence about where and how your Cub completed each of the five.

We are excited about the day hike on February the 17th. and thought it was about time to get to the specifics.
We will be meeting at the Church at 10am and returning to the church between 12-12:30 where sister Olsen has so kindly offered to make chili and hot chocolate for lunch.  Parents should be back to pick up their children no later then 1:30pm.  Cubs are to come dressed for the weather (this hike will be delayed if the temperature goes below -15).  Any parents that would like to join us please let us know ASAP so that we know who is available for transportation.   Any person wanting to attend needs to fill out a liability waiver form prior to the event.

See you all soon Matthew and Dyanne

Badge Requirements

Hello Pack :)

We have found online the pages for the Star and badges we are working on for the next few weeks.

Please print these off and keep track of what your cub does at home and send them with them every week so we can mark it off on our list.

At the end of the list is also the webpage address with a link to all the badge requirement pages so if you cub has something else he would like to work towards on his own you will be able to help achieve this goal.

http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/purple-star-requirements.pdf
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/purple-aboriginal.pdf
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/purple-can-heritage.pdf
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/purple-int-trade.pdf
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/purple-ril.pdf
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/purple-space.pdf
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/purple-world-cubbing.pdf
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/purple-world-religion.pdf
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/purple-world-citizen-award.pdf

http://www.scouts.ca/ca/cub-scouts-badge-requirements

Thank-you for all your help as we move forward.

Other dates to note on your calendar are:

February 17th we will be going on a Day Hike and other fun activities (time to be announced)

March 9th we will be doing a Winter Day Camp for the Winter Camp Award (time to be announced)

March 21st the will be NO Pack Meeting s this is Spring Break.

We will be asking parents to help plan and package with their cubs a tinfoil dinner they will be able to cook at the winter camp.

Look for a future blog post with ideas and link to recipes you may want to choose from as well as clothing and supplies they may need.

Have a Great Day!

Akela and Bagheera

(Matthew and Dyanne)



Cub Activity for January 25th

We are working on our Purple Star and Corresponding badges.

We know many don't have cub books yet as we are in the process of ordering them so we will be providing some photocopies for the in term to help you see what you need to help your cub work towards to achieve their badges.

It is a team effort as many things the cubs need to accomplish are done on their own time and us parents are a key factor in teaching and showing them way to achieve their goals.

If you have any questions or need ideas please feel free to contact any one of us leaders.

For our activity this next week we are starting work on our Canadian Heritage Badge as well as some of our Purple Star requirements.

Could you please send your cub prepared with some research on the history of Canada.

We will be going over this information while we draw Canada flags in class.

We also need them to find flags from 2 other countries that they find interesting and come prepared to draw them or have them pre-drawn and ready to tell everyone what country they are and maybe a couple of sentences about that country.

Future homework studies will include a scrapbook on a famous Canadian telling when they lived and what their accomplishments were/are.

Finding and telling the pack about a Canadian legend.

We will be showing them an example of this during this next pack meeting.

Thanks for all your help.

If there are any questions please feel free to contact either one of us.

Here are our email addresses

Matthew Calvert - mattc@wcfinancial.ca

Dyanne Lybbert - dyannel@ymail.com

Best Regards

Akela and Bagheera

(Matthew and Dyanne)

Pack Meeting for January 18th.

Hi Everyone.

Cubs this week is cancelled because of the low temperatures.

In fact if the temperatures ever go below -30 we not hold a meeting that week.

Part of always being prepared is not getting into a bad situation to begin with (travelling in -30 temps to begin with)

We promise to have something extra special this coming week.

Best regards

Akela and Bagheera
(Matthew and Dyanne)

WELCOME!

This is our BLOG that has been set up to keep our Wolf Pack informed and up to date with any activities and news.

If you have any suggestions as to things you would like to see us add to this to help you keep organized please let us know.
Also please join us on facebook

Thank-you

Akela and Bagheera
(Matthew and Dyanne)