Meeting Monday 24 March

Hello everyone,
Mary Catherine Malley has been leading our Citizenship badge activities:

We had a great start to the Citizenship badge and belt loop at the previous meeting. We continue on this topic for the next two meetings. The Citizenship badge is important for advancement in Cub Scouts. In the Cub Scout Promise, the boys say that they will do their duty to their country, meaning that they will be a good citizen. (See page 146 of the Webelos book.)

For Monday 3/24:

1. Please print out the attached chart for the boys to begin doing one or more jobs at home to help to make a positive impact as a good citizen within the home community. The boys will need to do their job(s) for one week. It does not matter what day they start, just that they complete the tasks during one week - and beyond hopefully.

2. This meeting will focus on aspects of citizenship as it relates directly to the boy in his home, school community, church, and local community. We will focus on pages 155 to 159 in the Webelos book. Please read and think about What Makes a Good Citizen? on pages 158 and 159. If your son finds photos of people acting as good citizens, please bring them along to use on the posters, discussed below.

3. Each boy will make a small poster about how he is a good citizen and/or what he thinks makes a good citizen. I will bring photos for the boys who were in the Veterans Day Parade, helped at the Food Bank, participated in the Ready Man badge at the Fire Station with Mr. Dickson, or went for the hike at Asilomar. Please bring any other photos of your son that you believe relate to his role as a good citizen, whether the photos are from Cub Scouts or any other activity. If you have good photos of your son or other boys on other scouting events, please bring them. It would be great if you could bring some for the boys to use on their posters.

4. Mrs. Hayes agreed to hang the 4th and 5th graders posters up at school. Part of the Citizenship belt loop is a requirement that the boys participate in a community service event. If your son participated in one of our scouting events or one of the school service events, this requirement will be met.

5. I will have titles and words printed out regarding citizenship that the boys can glue onto their posters. I also have flag stickers, etc. If you have any ideas such as words, stickers, stamps that you would like to contribute, please bring them along. We could use additional glue sticks. If you could bring one for your son to use, that would be helpful.

6. If you did not make it to the last meeting, the boys had fun learning the information on pages 148 to 154 of the Webelos book. The information is very straight forward. Would you please go over these pages with your son sometime in the next several weeks. If possible, we will have a flag folding station on Monday for any of the boys who missed this fun activity last time.

Thank you for your help. If you have any questions, ideas or advice, please send an email mcmalley@gmail.com or give me a call. 676-3214

Mary Catherine Malley

 

 

 

 

 

Reminder that our hike is on Saturday.  See earlier posts for more info.

 

And we have a committee meeting Sunday at 6pm at my house.  Anyone is welcome to attend.

 

thank you

Steve