Spring Camp-O-Ree

Jeff will sign us up as a pack this Saturday, so you do not need to sign up on the website.

• We just need to know how many parents and scouts per family to register if interested
  
• Medical Forms will be filled out closer to the event
• Payment will be required if your child is registered. Refunds are not available and we will let you know when the payment is due
• Scouts will be able to earn their slingshot and BB loops at the event since they are required to be monitored by a certified leader.
• Goshen Scout Reservation is located about three and one-half hours from Washington, D.C., near Lexington, Virginia, in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Hope you can attend!

Homework Assignments

At tonight's meeting, I assigned two homework assignments.  They are two of the five family activities.

The first one was achievement 2f, look at a map of your community.

The second task is 5f, look at the weather.

Descriptions of the activities can be found here.

Thanks!

Belt Loops

I urge you to have a look at the belt loop descriptions on the right panel of this website.  I suspect your child can earn one or more belt loops for summer activities he may have already completed.

Parents: Belt Loop Input Needed

Cub Scouts of all ages from Tiger Cubs to Webelos can participate in the Cub Scout Academics and Sports program and earn a belt loop or pin for each activity. Activities can be done individually, in the Den, or as a Pack. ( Archery and BB-Gun Shooting can only be earned through a certified instructor, not at a den or pack level. ) A scout participating on school teams or other organized teams may use those activities to fulfill requirements of this scouting program.

Activities are divided into two categories: Academics and Sports. Each category has many skills and activities from which Scouts may choose. The Cub Scout belt loop and pin program encourages a boy to do his best while learning skills and promoting good sportsmanship.

There are currently 23 sports activity areas: Archery, BB Gun Shooting, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Bicycling, Bowling, Fishing, Flag Football, Fitness, Golf, Gymnastics, Ice Skating, Marbles, Roller Skating, Snow Ski and Board Sports, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Table Tennis, Tennis, Ultimate, Volleyball

And, 17 academics activity areas: Art, Astronomy, Chess, Citizenship, Collecting, Communicating, Computers, Geography, Geology, Heritages, Language & Culture, Map & Compass, Mathematics, Music, Science, Weather, Wildlife Conservation

Please review the requirements of each loop by clicking on each one which may apply to your child and let me know if your child has met the outlined requirements. It would be great if everyone could email Gavin and I the loops to be awarded in the Pack Meetings.

Scouting for Food update

Hello Parents,

Kristyn and I offered den 7 for scouting for food in the Odyssey neighborhood located near the intersection of route 260 and Jewell road.  All the other places you suggested were already claimed by the other dens.

What I don't know yet is the day we're going to put the bags out.  I will pass that information on as soon as I get it.

Calendar

We have created a Google calendar (which you will see to the right in the sidebar) this will allow everyone to see the upcoming events through April (ski trip, camping trips, Pinewood Derby etc)and will hopefully decrease the amount of email. We have reserved the Fairview Library for each Tuesday of the month from 6:30 - 7:30 with the exception of the weeks when Pack Meetings are held. Meetings will last about 45 minutes to accommodate school night schedules and prepare the room for the next group. We will be in either the small or large room which are next door to each other.

There will be one Tuesday each month when we will not be meeting due to scheduled Go See It events. It's hard to predict which weeks they will fall on each month since we are somewhat reliant upon availability of the site we are visiting. We will change the weeks as we schedule Go See It events, but at least for now we have the library booked each week for the next 6 months.

Tiger Cub Totem

This is what the completed Tiger Cub Totem will look like and this is what we are completing with our Den activities, Go See It events etc. Here is a link outlining the achievements: http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Tiger_Cub_Scout. We are following a monthly outline so we will be sure that each boy has the opportunity to complete the Tiger Totem.

Once a Tiger Cub has learned the Cub Scout Promise, the Cub Scout Sign, and the Cub Scout Salute, he is awarded the Tiger Cub immediate recognition emblem. This is a tiger paw print with four strands to which beads are added as each achievement toward the Tiger Cub rank is completed:

• White beads are for Family Activities
• Orange beads are for Den Activities
• Black beads are for "Go See It"s
• Yellow discs (Tiger Track beads) are for every 10 electives completed (not awarded until after the Tiger Cub Badge is earned)