April RT Notes - May's Activities

May's Activities are lined out in April's Round Table Notes below:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CtJ4UVFX8KSHX-zKEQrkFX2_WUuhEV5TLNFvsDdt3gg/edit

March Round Table Notes - April Activities

Here are the notes from March's Round Table!  Again, let me know if this format is working or not!

Just found out from Mrs Evi Fyffe:

My husband just took my kids down to Home Depot and their project for the kids club is making a bird feeder. If you have any Bears, this passes off Achievemnet 5B. They are super cool and easy to make! It will also be easy and cheap to copy to make with a Den!


Good information that was shared on our facebook page!  Are you on FB yet???


https://docs.google.com/document/d/15K2DMWKf3kJZKBrA57GfpBo4gQF7CAJwlKeUIULRx7Q/edit

Michelle

Bear Trail Tracking Sheet

Evi Fyffe was willing to share her Bear Tracking spreadsheet!  I have emailed it to all my Den Leaders on my contacts, but for those who didn't get it here is a link.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aikf6GuvuKtZdDlqYU54NDNkdGcyM0Y5YlFLVXFfbEE

I am trying out Google Docs for a second way to share my notes from Round Table.  Please let me know if it works well!

You can always email me :  goddessofthegloves@gmail.com
Or put a note on our monthly parking lot at Round Table!

Snack: Golden Stars

Ingredients:

• 1/3 cup melted butter
• 1 package yellow dry gelatin dessert mix
• 8 cups popped popcorn, unflavored

Put popcorn in a clean paper sack. Pour butter over popcorn, close sack, and shake well. Sprinkle dry gelatin dessert over popcorn, close sack, and shake well again.

Cubmaster Breakout - March (April - Faith)

How is your Family Participation?

· Why is family participation important?

o Administration of the program

o Pack activities

· How can we get our families involved?

As Cubmasters we need to plan all meetings with families in mind.

Family Talent Survey….

They are available at www.scouting.org/cubscouts

What are some ways that we can increase family attendance at pack meetings?

• Have assignments
• Games including the whole family
• Siblings help
• Ask a specific person for a specific task
• Have parents/leaders help with run-on's and skits
• Prepare materials/crafts ahead of time
• set up and tear down
• Simple tasks
• Cubby Award
• Recognize them for helping

Interfaith - Faith

Needs

You need enough happiness to keep you serene;

Enough troubles to make you strong;

Enough suffering to make you human;

Enough hopes to keep you optimistic;

Enough failures to keep you humble;

Enough success to keep you confident;

Enough friends to give you comfort;

Enough enthusiasm to make you dare boldly;

Enough faith to banish depression;

Enough love to keep you young in heart;

Enough time to sing your joy;

And enough peace to keep you happy.

-"The Needs of Human Beings", Dr. Klies, Scouting U.K.

Pack Leaders: Spring Recruiting and Summertime Pack Award

Why should we use Spring Recruiting? Because as we know, becoming a Scout helps shape boys futures and Characters and you may find boys now you would not come the busy new school year. If you register them before the Summer they will have all the fun of your Summer Pack Program as well as the opportunity to earn their own Summertime Pin!

How can we do Spring Recruiting? There are innumerable options- here are some ideas.

• Summer Day Camp! Make a poster or a webpage showing off your pictures from last years Summer Day Camp! (Or a friends) ;) 
• Science Fair: Have each Den do one or more Science projects and invite the community to it.
• Field Day: Put together some of the Cub Requirements to form a Field Day and have the boys invite their friends from school and their community
• Put flyers on mailboxes and community bulletin boards (They are free at Council- you simply add your Pack info to them!)
• Make Pass Along cards for your Scouts with the Den Meeting time and location as well as Den Leader contact info

Don't forget- your boys can earn a Recruiter Patch to wear on their uniforms if they bring a friend into Scouting!

And don't forget to plan for your National Summertime Pack Award! Here is the form http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/33748.pdf

And more info. including individual pins and Den Awards: http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/CubScouts/Cub%20Scouts/UniformsAndAwards/DenPack.aspx

Run-ons: "Things that make you go Hmmm" for April

1.  Do cemetery workers prefer the graveyard shift?
2. Can you be a closet claustrophobic?
3. How do a fool and his money GET together? 

4. If a train station is where the train stops, what is a work station?
5. If the police arrest a mime, do they tell him he has the right to remain silent?
6. What hair color do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?
7. What was the best thing before sliced bread?
8. Why do banks charge you a "non-sufficient funds" fee on money they already know you don't have?
9. Why do they put Braille on the drive through bank machines?
10. What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
11. If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest have to drown too?
12. How come there aren't B batteries?

13. How do "Do not walk on the grass" signs get there?
14. Why do black olives come in cans and green olives come in jars?
15. Is a metaphor like a simile?
16. Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?
17. How do I set my laser printer on stun?
18. If the #2 pencil is so popular, why is it still #2?

19. Crime doesn't pay...does that mean that my job is a crime?

Cheers: for April

Bow and Arrow Cheer: Slowly draw arrow from quiver on your back. Place arrow against string of bow, pull back, release and say "pffft."

Coo Coo Cheer: Everyone nod their heads up and down and say: "COO-COO" as many times as you tell them, as if you were striking the hour.

Fish Cheer: Suck in your cheeks, form an "O" with your mouth, move it as if you were a fish, without making a sound, hold hands vertical by cheeks and flap them like fins!!!

PS I love macscouter Cheers! http://macscouter.com/campfire/CPB_pdf/Cheers.pdf :)

Character Connections: Faith

Baden-Powell and Faith

Baden-Powell was totally unembarrassed about the role of faith in character-building. At the heart of the Scouting and Guiding promises was their ‘duty to God’. When dealing with conflicts in the Scouting movement, B.P. recommended that people "...ask themselves the simple question, ‘What would Christ have done under the circumstances?’ and be guided accordingly." Baden-Powell saw a danger in Scouting that the recreational might overwhelm the spiritual side. So he wrote them… "Don’t let the technical outweigh the moral. Field efficiency, backwoodsmanship, camping, hiking, good turns, Jamboree comradeships are all means, not the end. The end is CHARACTER --character with a purpose...the active service of Love and Duty to God and neighbour."

Alice, Golden Empire Council (from Baloo's Bugle)