University of Scouting

Registration is now up for the University of Scouting, click here for more information: http://www.utahscouts.org/university-of-scouting/50774

New Roundtable location and date

Beginning in January 2014 we will be moving to a new location and a new date. We will be at the Canterbury Chapel, 6700 W 10400 N, Highland (just north of Freedom Elementary). The date is the first Thursday of the month from 7:00 to 8:00 pm. Please help us get the word out. Thank You.

November Roundtable

November's roundtable will be on the 14th at 7:00 at the Hollowcrest building (SR 92 & 6400 in Highland).
We will focus on:
-December's Theme: Respect & Passport to Other Lands

-January's Theme: Positive Attitude & Lights, Camera, Action

-Blue & Gold Banquet Ideas

This will be a great leader specific training for Cub Masters, Webelos Leaders and Den Chiefs.  The cost is now $10 to attend ($3 for the Den Chiefs).

OWL/BALOO Training Course

Outdoor Leader Skills for Webelos Leaders (C33)

Basic Adult Leader Outdoor Orientation (C32)

Sponsored by Porter Rockwell District

Saturday, November 9, 2013

Saratoga Springs, Utah

OWL and BALOO courses are required before conducting any overnight campouts. They are helpful and fun for all leaders wanting to do outdoor activities and pass off outdoor related achievements.             

When: Check-in is 8:30am on Saturday, November 9. Training starts promptly at 9am Saturday and will end at 4:15pm.  Den Chief Training will end at 12:15pm if you choose to stay for only this portion.

Cost: $8)  Please register and pay on-line (http://www.utahscouts.org/porterrockwell ). There is a separate link for Den Chief Training. Please call if you have any questions:  Melissa Graham 801.234.9650.  Registration will end when we have the first 40 participants registered

Equipment/Supplies: This course is partially outdoors so please wear your uniform and bring a jacket or coat.  Also  please bring a copy of the Handbook for your den, pen, notepaper, compass and watch.  You will also need to provide a Hobo (foil) dinner that we will cook onsite for lunch.  Dessert supplies will be provided and made by the participants during the course.  It is suggested that you precook any meat for the foil dinner, but not necessary.  They will be kept in the refrigerator until time to cook.

Course Description:  This one day course is designed as an introduction to the Cub Scout outdoor program for leaders who are interested how to include outdoor activities in their Pack Program. The course is instructor led and designed to help leaders enhance their outdoor program by teaching basic outdoor skills, how to plan outdoor activities, and skills for many cub achievements and Webelos activity badges.  These courses (OWL and BALOO) are required for pack overnighters and camping experiences.

There will be Den Chief Training in conjunction with the OWL/BALOO course.  Den Chiefs can choose to come only to their training from 8:30-12:30 for $3 a person, or they can choose to come to the full day and attend the classes (Large Group Games, Hiking, Knots and Ropes, etc.) in the afternoon. To register for the Den Chief Training ONLY please go here: http://www.utahscouts.org/event/1405383

Where: The training is located at the LDS Church Building at 587 S Saratoga Road in Saratoga Springs.  (This is the chapel off 400 S and Redwood Road near the marina.

Theme: Your Vote Counts- Ideas for Wolf, Bear, Webelos Dens, including Skit, Game, Song and Activities

Theme: Your Vote Counts

Skit, Joke or Run-on:

“How Did You Get Here?” Skit

Den Chief: Transportation played a very important part in the settling of America. How did you get here?

Cub Scout #1: If the Pilgrims came over on the Mayflower, how did the Scouts get here?

Cub Scout #2: I don’t know. How?

Cub Scout #1: (Cub Scout comes on stage with a sample of a handicraft project and sign identifying it) On handy crafts.

Cub Scout #3: If the Pilgrims came on the Mayflower and the Scouts came on Handy Crafts, how did the doctors get here?

Cub Scout #4: I don’t know. How?

Cub Scout #3: (dressed as a doctor) On blood vessels.

Cub Scout #1: How did the students get here?

Cub Scout #2: (enters carrying a load of books) On scholar ships.

Cub Scout #3: How did all the ordinary people get here?

Cub Scout #4: (enters carrying a model or picture of a ship) On citizen ships

Utah National Parks Council Pow Wow Book 2013 Page 69-70 (Submission Credit: National Capital Area Council 1993 Pow Wow Book)

Game: Are You a Revolutionary Detective?

from Baltimore Area Council

See if you can find the words that are hidden in these American Revolutionary clues. Example: A penny found in BICENTENNIAL is CENT.) Can you find:

1.        Sixty seconds in MINUTEMEN? ________________________

2.        Your laundry in GEORGE WASHINGTON? _______________

3.        Two thousand pounds in BOSTON TEA PARTY? __________

4.        What you write with in INDEPENDENCE HALL? __________

5.        Where beavers live in JOHN ADAMS? ___________________

6.        A type of cereal in RED COATS? ________________________

7.        A yellow vegetable in GENERAL CORNWALLIS? __________

8.        What you put on toast in BENJAMIN FRANKLIN? _________

9.        A metal in CONTINENTAL CONGRESS? ________________

10.     A place where you bowl in VALLEY FORGE? _____________

11.     A musical instrument in MONTICELLO? __________________

12.     The opposite of young in BENEDICT ARNOLD? ___________

13.     A boy’s name in LIBERTY BELL? _______________________

14.     What an unruly mob does in PATRIOTS? __________________

15.     The sum of five plus five in BICENTENNIAL? _____________

Answers:

1. Minute, 2. Wash, 3. Ton, 4. Pen, 5. Dams, 6. Oats, 7. Corn, 8. Jam, 9. Tin, 10. Alley, 11. Cello, 12. Old, 13. Bert, 14. Riots, 15. Ten,

Song:  I Am A Citizen Song

TUNE: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean

I’m learning to be a good citizen,

I’m learning we all have some rights.

I’m learning each right has a duty,

I must keep them both in my sights.

Chorus

Rights and Duties

They both go together, you know, you know

Rights and Duties

Good Citizenship I must show

We all have a right to religion,

To worship the way that we please,

But that means I have to allow you

Your choice, though I may not agree.

Chorus

We all have the right to assemble

To gather with people we know,

And all have the freedom of speaking

If citizenship is to grow.

Chorus

We each have the right to make choices

And no one can threaten that choice.

I may not agree with your statements,

But each one can raise his own voice.

Chorus

Craft or Activity:

Volunteer to do a flag raising at your school or chartered organization.  You could also have the boys make posters, each one with a different way that students could demonstrate being a good citizen.

Volunteer to sing a patriotic song as part of a ceremony at your school, church or chartered organization

 Encourage citizens to vote with “Remember to Vote” door hangers.  You can have the boys design their own, then make copies from a computer scan and have each boy, with an adult, put them on neighborhood front doors.

Visit a polling place or precinct office and learn how elections are held and votes are counted. See how voting is made accessible to people with language or mobility issues.  Be sure everyone knows that no political clothing can be worn and no campaigning comments are allowed at a polling place.

Attend a community event in your area – many communities have special Veteran’s Day events – or there might be a special activity for Thanksgiving.

Put up flags to honor veteran’s at a local cemetery.  Contact a local VFW or local cemeteries to get flags for putting out flags on graves of Veterans – this may only be done in older cemeteries.

Newer national cemeteries instead have a Memorial Avenue of full-size flags donated by families – flags that were used to cover veteran or military caskets.  They are flown on every holiday and whenever there is a funeral for active military.  Your group might be able to arrange to help with this ceremony.

Core Value: Courage - Ideas for Wolf, Bear, Webelos Den, including skit, game, song, Gospel Principle, and Scripture

Core Value: Courage

Skit, Joke, Run-on:

PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE (Baloo’s Bugle April 2000) Setting: An old man is digging in his garden. Beside him on the ground is a young sapling tree, which he is preparing to plant. Two men come up to him, stop, and watch what he is doing. Man #1: What kind of tree are you planting? Old Man: (Stops digging and wipes his brow) It is an apple tree. Man #2: (astonished) AN APPLE TREE? Well, how old are you? Old Man: I'm 90 years old. Man #1: You're 90 years old! And you're planting a tree that will not give fruit for many years? Old Man: Why not? Man #2: Well, you'll probably not be around when that tree finally bears fruit. Old Man: Tell me, did either of you eat any apples when you were little boys? Both: Of course we did. Why? Old Man: Then tell me this - who planted the trees that you got those apples from? Man #2: Well it must have been, HMMM? Man #1: I don't know. Old Man: You see, someone planted the trees before you were born for you to enjoy and now I'm doing the same for those who come after me. How else can I repay those who planted trees before I was born? Man #1: You are a very wise man. Man #2: And we have been very foolish. Old Man: Thank you, and remember that what we do for our land today will be around for many years from now. So make sure you leave something that you will be proud of in the future.  Game:  LEAN-TOO This is a good game for pack meeting to get parents involved. The boys and parents stand in a circle by dens holding hands. Everyone numbers off alternately one or two. On the signal, keeping legs and backs as straight as possible, the players who are "ones" lean forward toward the center of the circle, while the "twos" lean outward. Players counterbalance each other for support. Once the group has gotten its balance, slowly reverse the leaners. Then have the players see how smoothly they can alternate. Song: Songs of the Armed Forces Courage: Wolf Achievement 12a- Making Choices Bear Achievement 11g- Be Ready Webelos Readyman Activity Badge Gospel Principle: 2000 Stripling Warriors Elder Rex D. Pinegar, a member of the Seventy, said: “Those of you who have read the Book of Mormon are familiar with the story of the sons of Helaman. (See Alma 53:56–58.) When their fathers were converted to the gospel, the fathers covenanted with the Lord that they would never again take up arms. But eventually their homes were threatened by hostile armies to the extent that the fathers would have to choose to fight or die. It was then that the two thousand young men, not bound by the same covenant, volunteered to defend their parents and their homes” (in Conference Report, Oct. 1982, 34; or Ensign, Nov. 1982, 25). What can we learn from their faith and actions? President James E. Faust told the Aaronic Priesthood holders of the Church: “To me, you young men look like Helaman’s stripling warriors, ‘exceedingly valiant for courage, and also for strength and activity.’ Like them, we hope you are men who are ‘true at all times in whatsoever thing [you are] entrusted’” (in Conference Report, Apr. 1998, 57; or Ensign, May 1998, 43). Scripture: Alma 53:20

Theme: Down on the Farm: Ideas for Wolf, Bear, Webelos Dens - including jokes, games, song, activities and belt loops

October Theme: Down on the Farm

Skit, joke or run-on:

How did the farmer count his cows?
With a "cowculator."

How do you fix a jack-o'-lantern?
With a pumpkin patch!

Baloo’s Bugle September 2013

Game:

Animal Name Game

Great Salt Lake Council

Put the correct letter in front of the appropriate space.

_____ 1. adult female horse A. piglet

_____ 2. adult male goat B. rooster

_____ 3. a horse not yet a year old C. calf

_____ 4. baby cow          D. drake

_____ 5. young male horse    E. colt

_____ 6. adult male duck     F. mare

_____ 7. baby pig            G. buck or billy

_____ 8. adult male chicken H. foal

_____ 9. young duck       I. ewe

_____ 10. young goat      J. poults

_____ 11. adult male horse     K. kid

_____ 12. adult female pig L. duckling

_____ 13. adult male cattle M. stallion

_____ 14. adult female sheep N. sow

_____ 15. young chickens     O. bull

Answers: 1-F, 2-G, 3-H, 4-C, 5-E, 6-D, 7-A, 8-B,
 9-L, 10-K, 11-M, 12-N, 13-O, 14-I, 15-J

Baloo’s Bugle September 2013

Song:

Oh, I Had A Silly Chicken

Tune: Turkey in the Straw

Oh, I had a silly chicken

And she wouldn’t lay an egg,

So I poured hot water

Up and down her leg,

And she giggled and she giggled,

And she giggled all the day.

And my poor little chicken

Laid a hard-boiled egg.

Baloo’s Bugle September 2013

Activities:

Visit a botanical garden or other agricultural exhibition in your area. Wolf Elective 15e

Field trip to Thanksgiving Point – Farm Country –Bear Elective 16

Belt Loops: Pet Care, Fishing