BALOO'S BUGLE Volume 16, Number 10 "Make no small plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized." D. Burnham May 2010 Cub Scout Roundtable June 2010 Cub Scout Theme HOOP-DE-DOO Tiger Cub Activities Webelos Traveler and Handyman FOCUS COMMISSIONER’S CORNER Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide Jump ball! Free throw! This month, Cub Scouts will have opportunities to play basketball and learn about sportsmanship. Invite a Boy Scout who is a member of his school's basketball team to teach the boys the rules of the game. Hold a pack basketball tournament, making sure to balance out the teams with older and younger boys. It's a The Boys' Life reading Contest is back!!! See information good time to start working on the Basketball belt loop and in Special Opportunities pin. Play other games with hoops. Months with similar themes to CORE VALUES Hoop-Dee-Do Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide Dave D. in Illinois Some of the purposes of Cub Scouting developed through September 1939 was the very first month Cub Scouting this month’s theme are: used themes to provide program focus. CD Sportsmanship & Fitness, Cub Scouts will develop Month Year Theme better sportsmanship while playing games with others Name in the den and pack. September 1939 Cub Olympics Personal Achievement, Cub Scouts will feel a sense August 1945 Sports of accomplishment as they demonstrate their new August 1950 Cub Scout Olympics skills on the court. Respectful Relationships, Through interactive August 1953 Sports Carnival games, Cub Scouts' ability to get along and play with August 1956 Cub Scout Field Day others will be strengthened. June 1960 Cub Scout Olympics The core value highlighted this month is: June 1964 Cub Scout Olympics Health & Fitness, Boys will learn the benefits of June 1966 Sports Carnival being fit and healthy when playing on a sports team.. Can you think of others??? Hint – look in your Cub Scout July 1968 Cub Scout Olympics Program Helps. It lists different ones!! All the items on June 1970 Olympics both lists are applicable!! You could probably list all twelve August 1970 Cub Scout Field Day if you thought about it!! July 1972 Cub Scout Olympics June 1975 Sports Carnival June 1979 Learn a Sport June 1990 Sports Arena August 2002 Sports Extravaganza July 2005 Play Ball! June 2008 Go For The Gold July 2009 Cub Scout Sports BALOO'S BUGLE Page 2 “Spaulding Program.” All the boys wanted to do was play Here are some Fitness related themes - basketball in the Charter Organization’s gym. It was Month Year Theme difficult to get them to do anything else. I enjoy a good Name basketball game and there is a place and time for it, but it August 1944 Strength should not become the primary activity for Scouting among May 1946 Keeping Fit older young men. November 1949 Keeping Strong When I think of the term “Hoop-de-doo,” a different image May 1952 Strength and Skills comes to mind. One also in line with some of the interest and values of Scouting. The image is of Native American July 1962 Strength and Skill Hoop dancers. It is an amazing dance that tells a story with June 1967 Feats of Skill between 1 and 30 hoops. Like basketball, this has become a January 1969 Fit For America competitive sport, with a World Championship held each year at the New Mexico State Fair. Many of these January 1972 Feats of Skill competitions take place at Pow Wows all across the nation. September 1974 Muscle Builders The word Pow Wow comes from an Algonquian word “Pau- January 1976 Tournament wau” which is a gathering of medicine men and spiritual June 1977 Muscle Builders leaders. These events can last just one day or up to three, June 1978 Physical Fitness sometimes for special occasions these gatherings can last up August 1981 Physical Fitness to a week. The term Pow Wow has incorrectly been used to refer to any meeting of Native Americans, but it is a special January 1983 Shape-Up (Winter Olympics) event for gathering, dancing and renewal. Often there are March 1985 Step into Shape dancing competitions at these events. In many Native July 1986 Strength and Skill American cultures, dancing is a method or worship, August 1988 Physical Fitness celebration, and is used for other purposes. The hoop in the April 1994 Shape Up Hoop dance is an never ending circle that can represent the August 2000 Toughen Up circle of life. It is a spiritual symbol. November 2000 Turn On the Power I am not Native American, but I have seen the Hoop Dance and been amazed by the skill of the dancers to move with so many hoops in such a wonderful and beautiful way. Native THOUGHTFUL ITEMS FOR American Nations covered every part of this nation, and this SCOUTERS might be a good month to teach Cub Scouts about these First Thanks to Scouter Jim from Bountiful, Utah, who prepares Americans and the gifts that they give back to each of us, this section of Baloo for us each month. You can reach even today. It is also a good month for Cub Scout Leaders him at [email protected] or through the link to write to be reminded to attend Cub Scout Pow Wows and get the Baloo on www.usscouts.org. CD training and spiritual uplift available there to help them continue to be Great Leaders. Roundtable Prayer CS Roundtable Planning Guide Quotations “We thank You for the spirit of competition, for the physical Quotations contain the wisdom of the ages, and are a great abilities you have given each of us, and for the opportunity source of inspiration for Cubmaster’s minutes, material for to improve our skills. We ask that you help us so we can an advancement ceremony or an insightful addition to a become role models for the boys, demonstrating good Pack Meeting program cover sportsmanship, fairness and friendly play.” AMEN Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath. Wilt Chamberlain The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play cannot make a team. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar "Drop the Handkerchief. James Naismith Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals. To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak. James Naismith Hopi Indian Saying When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I Hoop-De-Doo got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro. Larry Bird Scouter Jim In 1894, just four years after the invention of Basketball, Dr. Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better James Naismith the inventor of the game asked “A. G. and your better is best. Tim Duncan Spaulding and Brothers” to create a new ball for the game. Basketball doesn't build character it reveals it. Spaulding is still the official basketball of the NBA, WNBA, Author Unknown and the NBA Developmental League. Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips When I was asked to be a Venturing Scout Leader years ago, with his role on the team. Scottie Pippen I used to refer to the program that was being run as the BALOO'S BUGLE Page 3 Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. William Stafford TRAINING TIP How can we know the dancer from the dance? Annual Planning William Butler Yeats Bill Smith, the Roundtable Guy I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. Please keep Bill in your prayers. He is still Friedrich Nietzsche recovering from a stroke but can, obviously, still Never trust spiritual leader who cannot dance. inspire with his stories and examples. CD Mr. Miyagi, The Next Karate Kid, 1994 Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and Annual Planning dance. Dave Barry The annual pack planning process is probably the most Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! Constanze important task ahead. The quality of your next-year’s program will depend almost entirely on how well you The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its plan it. music. Bodies never lie. Agnes de Mille Dancing faces you towards Heaven, whichever direction you Make it work turn. Terri Guillemets Be prepared! This year we will be working with the CUB SCOUTS 2010 material. Things will be a bit different, but Dancers are the messengers of the gods. Martha Graham that should not be too much of a problem for most packs and You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart. most district teams. The good news is, that from all I have Author Unknown heard, the volunteers who have made up the National Cub There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of Scout Committee are still there so we should expect high them. Vicki Baum quality work similar to what they were producing during the To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, last several years. This was some of the best stuff I have more powerful. Agnes De Mille seen coming out of Irving is all my years of Scouting. Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the MyScouting.org informs us that: heart is another. Author Unknown CS 2010 leader materials and training should be It is of course possible to dance a prayer.