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Baloo's Bugle BALOO'S BUGLE Volume 24, Number 6 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.” Abigail Van Buren --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- January 2018 Cub Scout Roundtable February 2018 Program Ideas CHEERFUL / ABRACADABRA 2017-2018 CS Roundtable Planning Guide –No themes or month specified material PART I – MONTHLY FUN STUFF 12 ways to celebrate Scout Sunday, Scout Sabbath and/or Scout Jumuah: • Wear your Scout uniform to worship services. • Present religious emblems to Scouts, & leaders who have earned them in the past year. • Recruit several Scouts or Scouters to read passages from religious text. • Involve uniformed Scouts as greeters, ushers, gift bearers or the color guard. • Invite a Scout or Scouter to serve as a guest speaker or deliver the sermon. • Hold an Eagle Scout court of honor during the worship service. • Host a pancake breakfast before, between or after SCOUT SUNDAY / services. SABBATH / JUMUAH • Collect food for a local food pantry. • Light a series of 12 candles while briefly explaining the points of the Scout Law. • Show a video or photo slideshow of highlights from the pack, troop, crew or ship’s past year. • Bake (or buy) doughnuts to share before services. • Make a soft recruiting play by setting up a table Is your Pack planning a Scout Sunday, Scout Shabbat, near the entrance to answer questions about your or Scout Jumuah this year?? Scout unit. You should consider doing so - For more information, checkout – ✓ Scout Sunday – February 4 ✓ Scout Shabbat -Sundown to Sundown, February 9 to 10 ✓ Scout Jumuah – February 9 https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org BALOO'S BUGLE – (Part I – Monthly Fun Stuff – Jan 2018 RT, Feb 2018 Program) Page 2 PHILMONT CS RT TABLE OF CONTENTS SUPPLEMENT SCOUT SUNDAY / SABBATH / JUMUAH ............. 1 PHILMONT CS RT SUPPLEMENT .......................... 2 All the Philmont CS RT Planning Guide CS RT PLANNING GUIDE ....................................... 2 Supplements for the 2017-2018 Scouting Year TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................ 2 are issued and posted on-line. CORE VALUES .......................................................... 3 B-P CHEERFUL QUOTES ......................................... 4 CHEERFUL QUOTES ................................................ 4 BIOGRAPHY .............................................................. 5 Norman Percevel Rockwell ......................................... 5 Norman Rockwell Quotes ........................................ 7 THOUGHTFUL ITEMS ............................................. 7 Roundtable Prayers .................................................. 7 Positive Attitude ............................................ 7 Hyperlink on picture. If using paper copy – go to BSA Quotations ......................................................... 8 Roundtable Commissioners on Facebook. (See On- CUB SCOUT TIPS ...................................................... 9 Line Support below) Are You A Ziploc Pack??? ...................................... 9 THEME RELATED STUFF ..................................... 10 CS RT PLANNING GUIDE THEME RELATED ADVENTURES ................... 10 DEN MEETING TOPICS ......................................... 11 The CS RT PG is issued CHARACTER COMPASS ....................................... 11 The 2017-2018 CS RT PG may be found at - PACK MEETING THEMES AND PLANS ............. 12 http://www.scouting.org/filestore/cubscout PACK MEETING THEMES ................................. 13 s/pdf/510-714(17)_CS.pdf UPCOMING MONTHS ........................................ 13 On page 37 0f the 2017-2018 CS RT PG it states: CUBMASTER THOUGHTS .................................. 15 Introduction to the New Cub Scout Interest After the Blue and Gold ......................................... 15 Topic Format for 2017–2018 WEBELOS ................................................................ 16 Based on survey input, the National Cub Scouting CHOOSING A PATROL NAME .......................... 17 Committee has modified the presentation style for the February Crazy Holidays ........................................... 18 Cub Scout (CS) interest topics for this year. To improve February – A Month to …...................................... 22 communications throughout the pack leadership, it is recommended that all CS leaders attend the interest SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES ................................... 29 topic discussion together as a single group. This will Cub Scout World Conservation Award ................. 29 provide everyone with the same information and will KNOT OF THE MONTH .......................................... 30 facilitate important discussion about these topics Den Leader Training Award .................................. 30 between all CS leaders. As always, the CS Roundtable CUB GRUB ............................................................... 31 Planning Guide provides suggested options for each council or district. The use of any specific topic is LAST THINGS .......................................................... 36 flexible based on the needs of the council or district. It Is Your Choice .................................................... 36 Each council or district may also select other topics that would be beneficial to the needs of the CS leaders in their respective council or district. … The Philmont CS There is no personal charm so Roundtable Supplements are a great resource to consider for the breakout session model. great as the charm of a cheerful temperament. Henry Van Dyke BALOO'S BUGLE – (Part I – Monthly Fun Stuff – Jan 2018 RT, Feb 2018 Program) Page 3 CORE VALUES The Core Value for this month, February, is the 8TH point of the Scout Law - CHEERFUL A Scout is CHEERFUL. The theme ABRACADABRA is used to help Cubs understand being CHEERFUL. A SCOUT IS CHEERFUL A Scout looks for the bright side of life. He cheerfully does tasks that come his way. He tries to make others happy. HOW DOES “ABRACADABRA” RELATE TO THIS SCOUT LAW POINT? Cub Scouts love to amaze and to be amazed. Discover the magic this month as your pack In this video, the "Believe It Live It" team interviews dazzles the audience and spreads cheer by sharing Jessica Espinoza, a thespian who embodies magic tricks. cheerfulness. Go to URL http://scouttube.org/2017/01/cheerful/ Per our Founder, Lord Baden-Powell the definition (or meaning) of the Scout Law point highlighted this month is: Note – The original Scout Law published in 1908 had nine points. In 1910, the BSA added Brave, Clean, and Reverent. In 1911 B-P added Clean to his original list. Baden Powell said - A SCOUT SMILES AND WHISTLES under all circumstances. When he gets an order, he should obey it cheerily and readily, not in a slow, hang-dog sort of way. Scouts never grouse at hardships, nor whine at each other, nor swear when put out. When you just miss a train, or someone treads on your favourite corn- --not that a scout ought to have such things as corns--- or under any annoying circumstances, you should force yourself to smile at once, and then whistle a tune, and you will be all right. A scout goes about with a smile on and whistling. It cheers him and cheers other people, especially in time of danger, for he keeps it up then all the same. The punishment for swearing or bad language is for each offence a mug of cold water to be poured down the offender's sleeve by the other scouts... (Scouting for Boys, 1908) BALOO'S BUGLE – (Part I – Monthly Fun Stuff – Jan 2018 RT, Feb 2018 Program) Page 4 B-P CHEERFUL CHEERFUL QUOTES QUOTES The most certain sign of wisdom is CHEERFULNESS. Quotations contain the wisdom of Michel de Montaigne the ages and are a great source I am CHEERFUL. I don't know if I'm happy. There is of inspiration for Cubmaster’s a difference, you know. Tom Robbins minutes, material for an A merry heart maketh a CHEERFUL countenance. advancement ceremony or an King Solomon, Proverbs 15:13 insightful addition to a Pack CHEERFULNESS is the best promoter of health and is Meeting program cover. as friendly to the mind as to the body. Joseph Addison Think about this quote and the BSA’s adoption Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be of “Family Scouting.” Baden Powell said both CHEERFUL. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well. James Freeman Clarke boys and girls need to know this - CHEERFULNESS, sir, is the principle ingredient in “I have over and over again explained that the composition of health. Arthur Murphy the purpose of the Boy Scout and Girl To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, Guide Movement is to build men and KINDLY, CHEERFUL, REVERENT - that is to women as citizens endowed with the three triumph over old age. Thomas Bailey Aldrich An ounce of CHEERFULNESS is worth a pound of H's namely, Health, Happiness and sadness to serve God with. Thomas Fuller Helpfulness. The man or woman who Wondrous is the strength of CHEERFULNESS, and succeeds in developing these three its power of endurance - the CHEERFUL man will do attributes has secured the main steps to more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve success this Life. it longer, than the sad or sullen. Thomas Carlyle Sir Robert Baden-Powell (1857 - 1941). You find yourself refreshed in the presence of Chief Scout of the World, CHEERFUL people. Why not make an honest effort Founder of the Scouting
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