BALOO's BUGLE Volume 10, Number 10 June Cub Scout Roundtable July Cub Scout Theme FIN FUN Tiger Cub Activities Webelos Geologist & Aquanaut
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BALOO'S BUGLE Volume 10, Number 10 June Cub Scout Roundtable July Cub Scout Theme FIN FUN Tiger Cub Activities Webelos Geologist & Aquanaut FOCUS Cub Scouting Roundtable Planning Guide Dive right in as our Cub Scouts spend a month learning about water, one of our most precious resources, and the many creatures that live in our oceans, lakes, and rivers. Dens can visit a local aquarium or fish farm. Or you may want to try your hand at fishing. Cub Scouts may even want to prepare their own aquarium or fish bowl and "adopt a gold fish." This is also an excellent opportunity to teach our Cub Scouts about water conservation and "catch & release" programs. Don't forget the importance of learning about water safety. So hit the beaches, there's a lot to "sea!" Summertime Fun Planning CORE VALUES We had an interesting Leaders’ meeting this month setting Cub Scouting Roundtable Planning Guide up our summer program. We are jumping into Spring Some of the purposes of Cub Scouting developed through Recruiting for the first time in several years and knew we this month’s theme are: needed a decent summer program for the new recruits or we 9 Character Development, Boys will experience making would lose them before the fall. good decisions during summertime activities. We adopted a philosophy of two events per month – one 9 Spiritual Growth, Boys will learn to appreciate our paid and one free. That way everyone has a chance and no world with all the resources given to us. one can say they could not afford the events. 9 Good Citizenship, Boys will learn about conservation In June it is our annual Pack Picnic and either the district’s through exposure to various programs. Cub Scout overnighter or a day trip to a local park. (We will be surveying parents this weekend at our pack’s Spring The core value highlighted this month is: Family Camping Weekend to see if people want to camp in 9 Compassion, Boys will learn to care about the well June or do something else. In July, it is Day Camp and a being of others by participating and implementing Car Wash. Those who work the Car Wash will get $5 off sound environmental programs. the Baseball game in August. In August, the Wilmington Can you think of others??? Hint – look in your Cub Scout Blue Rocks (Class A, Carolina league, the Kansas City Program Helps. It lists different ones!! All the items on Royals better Class A team) is having a Scout sleepover in both lists are applicable!! You could probably list all twelve the outfield. Game - $6, Game and Sleepover with breakfast if you thought about it!! - $10. The pack is subsidizing 50 percent of the cost for everyone, and then as noted above, if you work the car was COMMISSIONER’S CORNER (with a parent) you earn the other $5. The other event will be a pack soccer tournament to help the Scouts get ready for Summertime Fun Fall soccer. Belt Loops for those who come on out!!! I was impressed when I started putting this issue together with all the great ideas for Summertime Fun activities – So get them outside and have fun Fishing Derby, Raingutter Regatta, Beachless Beach party, places to go and things to do. The Cub Scout Program Helps for 2004-2005 is out!!! Let’s keep our Cubs interested over the summer by keeping Get your copy now and start planning your Pack’s Annual them busy. And keeping them outdoors. Don’t give them Program Planning Conference!!! Get yourself ready for a the chance to have to think about signing up again in the fall. great year and if you haven’t used or read the new books yet Keep them active (once or twice a month) and then Scouts – do it before the boys are upon you. There are some just becomes the natural thing to do. They just do more of it interesting changes – for example in the Wolf Book, they in the winter. must participate in an outdoor flag ceremony – be sure to do this on your pack’s fall overnighter or arrange with a school. Page 2 BALOO'S BUGLE There are summaries and comparisons of all the changes on It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as www.usscouts.org - don’t get caught short!! a warning to others. Never buy a car you can't push. PRAYERS AND POEMS FOR Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because SCOUTERS then you don't have a leg to stand on. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. CS Roundtable Prayer The early worm gets eaten by the bird, so sleep late. Cub Scouting Roundtable Planning Guide Oh God of Land and Sea, help us to realize that the purest When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong gold in the world is a heart dedicated totally to you and that lane. the richest person in the world is the one who shows You may be only one person in the world, but you may also compassion for his fellow human beings. As we take this be the world to one person. voyage over the new seas, help us to grow more aware of the Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once. needs of those around us. Amen. Don't cry because it's over; smile because it happened. Our Best Selves We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are Circle Ten Council pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are Author Unknown different colors but they all have to learn to live in the same The good you find in others is in you too. box. The faults you find in others are your faults as well. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a After all, to recognize something you must know it. detour. The possibilities you see in others are possible for you as Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you well. left open. The beauty you see around you is your beauty. The world around you is a reflection, a mirror showing you Have an awesome day, and know that someone has thought the person you are. about you today.... To change your world, you must change yourself. To blame and complain will only make matters worse. TRAINING TIP Whatever you care about is your responsibility. Delivering Cubmaster Minutes What you see in others shows you yourself. Circle Ten Council See the best in others, and you will be your best. The Making of Interesting Cubmaster Minutes Give to others, and you give to yourself. It can have music and/ or props. Appreciate beauty, and you will be beautiful. It should have strong appeal for youth. Admire creativity, and you will be creative. It should offer variety. Love, and you will be loved. It should instill the deeper values of Scouting. Seek to understand, and you will be understood. It can be Fun or Serious, but it should be something the boys Listen, and your voice will be heard. will remember. Teach, and you will learn. It should contribute toward the development and Show your best face to the mirror, and you'll be happy with maintenance of strong family relationships. the face looking back at you. It should be simple, within the capability and interests of both Scouting Members and Parents. Minds are like a parachute; they only function when they It should be SHORT thus the title Cubmaster Minute! are open. Santa Clara County Council Below you will find a few Minute ideas: WORDS TO LIVE BY PARABLE OF THE PAUPER Nancy, a Cub Scouting friend in NJ Use Popcorn as your prop Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days (You can also have small bags of popcorn to give to the boys you're the statue. at the end of the meeting) Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you Behold at the time of the harvest the ears of corn did bring have to eat them. forth kernels, which were dried and prepared for the popper's Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in hand. the middle of it. And the popper did take the kernels, all of which appeared Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by alike unto him, and did apply the oil and the heat. their maker. And it came to pass when the heat was on, some did explode Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen with promise and did magnify themselves, yea, even a to you for the rest of the day. hundred fold. And some did burst forth with whiteness, which did both If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague. gladden the eye of the beholder and the taste of the popper. If you lend someone $20, and never see that person again, it And likewise, some others did pop, but not too much. was probably worth it. But lo, there were some that just laid there and even though the popper's heat was alike unto all, they did bask in the Page 3 BALOO'S BUGLE warmth of the oil, and kept everything they had for us determine right from wrong. The candle is a symbol of themselves.