September Outing - Selfridge AFB

This week, we went to Selfridge AFB. All of the scouts really enjoyed it... Thanks to Colonel Nigro for assisting us and showing the boys really interesting stuff... First we toured the museum.. there was a jeep that all the boys, and a couple sibling piled into...

There was a jet cockpit that each boy got a turn to sit in and put on the helmet, even the dads and siblings liked this one...

The boys said their favorite part was getting to play Army around all of the planes... Especially the C-130 that they got to climb inside of...

We found a jeep inside, that our den leader thought would make a great picture...

From top left, Zach, Dan, Tom, Colin, (bottom left) Chad, Christian, Leo, Stephen & Logan (our den cheif)

Here is a helicopter we all played army around... it was really neat... in all we got to see about 25 different planes (video to follow) and some artillery. It was a great outing...

Off to sell some popcorn

Today, we did a den Show & Deliver... that is where we take a bunch of popcorn inventory and walk door to door trying to sell it... as a Den we sold $405. that is not too bad in our den leaders opinion...

Dont worry, this was just a pre-selling photo op, nobody rode in the back of the truck ... ha ha ha

September Den Meeting

This week we did a lot of talking about keeping ourselves healthy, how to keep ourselves safe, and when we should or shouldnt call 911. There were a lot of handouts... some of which need to be returned ( I wont hold my breath) but, over all, as usual, I was very proud of my boys cause they really seem to pay attention to the world around them... Here are a couple of photos that were taken...

I have started a progress board for the boys, so they can see what they are accomplishing... a couple of the boys have actually completed their first three acheivements earning them their 'W'...

for each Acheivement completed, I am awarding a letter to the progress board to spell out the word "wolf" once the board says "WOLF" the boys will know they have earned rank, and can just have fun... At our current rate of progress, we should all have earned rank by December...

August - Nature Center outing

Tonite, we went on a nature hike, but not before our den leader had us a take a quiz about birds. We all did really well, and got to mark off another elective in our books.

Before starting our Hike, our den leader pointed out some poison ivy and told us a lot about it... here is a picture of Poison Ivy.

then we were off on our hike. To make things more interesting, we would stop at different trees and see if we could find out what kind of tree it was... Our den leader had printed out lots of pictures to compare them too, and we had a lot of fun trying to compare leaves to the booklet to identify the trees, here are some of the ones we seen

We were only on our hike for about 45 minutes, but it was a lot of fun. We did a living circle to end our meeting, reciting the Law of the pack....

The Cub Scout follows Akela.

The Cub Scout helps the pack go.

The pack helps the Cub Scout grow.

The Cub Scout gives goodwill.