Happy Halloween all!

Hope all the little ghosts, ghouls and goblins have a great time tonight.  As a suggestion, take around the food donation bags and let people know that your son is in Boy Scouts and you’re collecting canned goods for those in need this holiday season.  Should be a great way to help fill the bags!

This Sunday, November 4, we are planning to get together as a den to take a short hike up at Moss Rock.  Unfortunately, the Moss Rock festival is going on this weekend.  That means a lot of people, a lot of traffic, and not a lot of parking available.  I’m not sure that taking 22 first graders up there during that time is a good idea.

Instead, we’ll meet on Sunday, November 4 at 2:30 PM at Aldridge Gardens for a little hike.  We’ll meet up at the front entrance just past the parking lot and go from there.

While there, we’ll do leaf rubbings on paper, so have your son(s) bring some crayons (paper will be provided).  If you have binoculars, that would be good to bring as well.  It should be a fun time for all!

If you are unable to make it, don’t worry, there will be other hikes in the future.  Try to find time to take the whole family out on a hike this weekend or next if you can though, so your son will meet his Tiger Badge requirements.  We’ll schedule another hike for later in November at Moss Rock, as I think that hike will be more energetic and fun for the kids.  Maybe we can coordinate a picnic or something for that day.

Tigers – Your Den Meeting (for both groups) will be at the Fire Station for a tour.
Directions:
On Patton Chapel Road pass the church and you will come to a red light.
Just beyond the red light you will see the Fire Station on your left.
It is located across the street from Gwin Elementary School.
Please be there by 6:15.  Scouts should wear class “A” uniform and don’t forget to bring a light jacket and camera.

Hello Tiger Cub families!!

IMPORTANT BULLETS TO REMEMBER:

1. Next Den Meeting: Monday, October 22, 2012 at 6:30 pm at the Fire Station on 1591 Patton Chapel Road, across from Gwin Elementary School.  See below for details on what we will cover at this meeting.
2. Popcorn sales forms and money are to be turned in at this Den Meeting.  Please try to combine all the money/checks into one check to give to the Pack.
3. Food drive bags: We forgot to pass out the food drive bags in order to collect food for the needy.  We will have these available at the next Den Meeting.
4. Red Ribbon Week, “Living Drug Free”: October 23-31 at your local school. Your sons may earn a badge if they attend a session at school (or Kristin will give a session on Monday night) along with making a poster using the theme “Team Up Against Drugs.”  Kristin sent out an email earlier this week about this.
5. When your boy(s) has finished an achievement in the Tiger Cub handbook, please sign it (Akela’s signature) and date it.  Please bring the book to the Meetings and we can sign it as well.

Our last Den Meeting this past week (Monday, October 15, 2012) went extremely well considering we are all learning the ropes along with everyone else in the Tiger Den!  I hope everyone had fun making their scrapbooks.  Remember to continue adding memories to your scrapbook and at the end of their Tiger Cub reign, we will ask you all to bring them back and award prizes out to the best scrapbook!

Also at the end of our Den Meeting we handed out the Tiger Cub Immediate Recognition Emblem along with an orange bead for completing the above Den activity, making a scrapbook.  If you, the parents will help your boys in completing the other two requirements in the Tiger Cub book chapter “Making My Family Special” (Achievement 1F and 1G) we can award them the white and black beads, respectively at the next Den Meeting.  This will mean they have completed the first of their five achievements to receive their Tiger Cub badge.

What is the Tiger Cub Immediate Recognition Emblem and what do these different color beads represent?  This emblem is also known as the Tiger Cub Totem and provides recognition during the path to earn the Tiger rank badge.  As a Tiger, whenever he completes a Family, Den, or Go See It activity, he earns a bead to place on his totem.

• A white bead for each required ‘family activity’ part he completes.
• An orange bead for each required ‘den activity’ part he completes.
• A black bead for each required ‘Go See It’ part he completes.
• A yellow ‘Tiger Track’ disk for every 10 Tiger Electives he completes after earning his Tiger rank badge.

This totem is hung from the button of the right pocket with the tiger paw facing out. The beads are presented at den meetings. Once the scout has earned all 15 totem beads, he has earned his Tiger rank badge. The badge is awarded at a pack meeting and sewn onto the blue Cub Scout uniform.

Hopefully the picture on the right will help explain how to tie the black strings on and where the certain color beads go on the Totem.  If you have any difficulty in putting this all together, feel free to bring it to the next den meeting and we can help you assemble it correctly.

NEXT DEN MEETING

As mentioned above, the next Den Meeting will be held on Monday, October 22, 2012 at 6:30 pm at the Fire Station on 1591 Patton Chapel Road, across from Gwin Elementary School.  Parents, please work with your son(s) on requirement 2F and talking about requirement 2D with them as well.

As always, if you have any questions, please email us and we will be more than happy to answer them.  If we don’t know the answers, then we will find the people who do!