Wolf Trail 2005 – 2006
Den 4 – Pack 220
Welcome back to Cub Scouts!!! We are going to have a lot of fun this year on our way to our Wolf badge! We will follow this agenda for the year and there should be no reason that any meetings should have to be cancelled. If we all work together, we should be able to complete all our achievements by February and get our Wolf badge at the March pack meeting.
Each family will take a month and coordinate with me gathering supplies for den meetings and making arrangements for field trips. We will meet at my house for all of our meetings but the family that has that month will be the back up meeting place should we not be able to meet at my house. If you do not feel comfortable meeting at your home, please make arrangements to meet elsewhere. We will also implement a denner system in our den. The denner is a scout that is the “helper” for that month. They will help mom & dad with getting supplies and the den leader with the meetings. This is a good opportunity for the boys to take an active role in the leadership of the den.
The boys will need to start bringing dues. We will start with $.25 per meeting. That is not a whole lot of money but this will make them more responsible and they can say that they help support the activities that we do as a den. At the beginning of each meeting, the boys will need to sign in and put their dues in a jar. I will deposit the money in our den account at the pack meetings. Your son will be responsible for bringing his den dues and his Wolf book and turning it in to Brian Gothard, who will be our assistant den leader and will be keeping up with achievements. When the boys do something at home, please mark their book with a sticky note or something so that we can sign off on it. If you miss a meeting, please check this agenda and with Brian or I to find out how to make up the achievement.
At the den meetings, we will have a “secret Akela”. That adult will watch over the meeting and let me know who has been on their best behavior and that scout will receive a ribbon to put on the den flag. This will be an incentive to pay attention and follow directions.
We will do all of our achievements as a den and reach rank as a den. This promotes a sense of unity and teamwork. However, there are certain achievements that must be done at home. These achievements will be included in the monthly activities. I will have forms for the boys to fill out when they do the achievements at home. We will discuss those achievements at the meetings and those forms will be turned in at the appropriate time during the meetings. If your son does complete and achievement or an elective (for arrow points) at home, they must present what they did to the den or to me. If you took a field trip, the child must tell the den about where they went and what they did for me to sign off on it. If it is something that can be written down, you must present something in writing. If you do something really cool, we want to know about it so that the other boys can do it, too. It is very important that the boys learn to present their achievements to the den and to me. When they reach Webelos, mom & dad can no longer sign off on anything. Everything has to be presented to the den leader. It gives them a sense of pride and accomplishment. If they are not comfortable with presenting things to the entire den, they can just tell me. Also, if your son had already done a particular activity, we will still cover it as a den. The second time will count as an arrow point. The following is the Wolf trail, month by month.
September – Cub Scout Roundup
9/2 – Baron’s game Planning Meeting. Have the boys work on their Bobcat requirements.
9/18 – During gathering, do Feats of Skill (Ach.1). Work on Achievement 2, Your Flag. Have the boys pair up and fold the flag. Say the Pledge of Allegiance and discuss what it means. Discuss how to care for the flag, do a flag ceremony, and discuss our state flag and how to display it. Make paper vests to wear to the Petting Zoo. Go to CVES to do the outdoor flag stuff. At the end of each meeting, we will circle up, join hands, left over right, and say, “And now may the Master of all Scouts be with us until we meet again.”
9/25 – Wear vests and go to the Oak Mountain Petting Zoo. Go over Bobcat requirements. Get our Bobcat Badge at the Pack Meeting.
9/26 – Pack Meeting
October – To the Rescue
10/9 – Discuss and begin work on Ach. 3, Keep Your Body Healthy. Take form home to start on 3a. Discuss Ach.4 and fill in form for emergency numbers (4a). Discuss Elective 16, Family Alert and make first aid kit (16c). We will purify water (16b). Discuss Ach.9 and take home form to fill out and bring back on 10/30 (4e).
Tannehill Campout – Discuss Leave No Trace requirements. Do Elective 17 a, b,e,f & g, Tie it Right. Work on skit for Campfire, with costumes (elective 2a,b,& c). Do Ach. 8e, Outdoor cooking.
10/24 – Pack Meeting. Note date change!!!
10/30 – Go to
November – My Family Tree
11/13 – Bring household chores list back and discuss what you did. Discuss Ach. 7 a,b,c,e & f. Achievement 7 is the first step to the World Conservation Badge. Make Christmas ornament out of recycled materials. Work on Heritages belt loop by filling out the pedigree chart. Work on the rest of the BL at home.
11/27 – Meet at Veteran’s Park and pick up trash. (WC badge) Practice Leave No Trace.
11/28 – Pack Meeting. Popcorn money due.
December – Faith, Hope and Charity
12/3 – Alabaster Christmas Parade
12/4 – Talk about Collecting. Bring Collections to the January 8th meeting. Talk about Family and Charity and how we can help. Make stuffed animals to take to Children’s Hospital on 12/18 (elective 9b). Parents and siblings are welcome to make one also. Work on Achievements 10, 11 and 12. Bring the work back at the January 8th meeting.
12/18 – Take items we made to Children’s Hospital. Do a gift swap and have the boys wrap the presents themselves (Elective 17c).
12/19 – Pack Meeting
January – Music Magic
1/8 – Discuss our findings of the achievements we did at home. Talk about how music effects our lives. Learn the words to
1/21 – Pinewood
1/29 – Learn a song to do at the pack meeting using instruments we make (Elective 11f).
1/30 – Pack Meeting/Arrow of Light Ceremony
February – Cubs in the Future
2/12 – Work on Achievement 5, Tools for Fixing and Building. Brian will explain how to use tools and tool safety. Play transfer game with pliers, use screwdrivers, and play the nail driving game.
2/19 – Make bird house and put it out at your house (elective 13f). Keep track of what kinds of birds frequent the house.
2/26 – Blue and Gold with Crossover Ceremony.
March – Cubstruction
3/5 - Do Leather crafts and other wood crafts.
3/26 – Go ice skating & earn ice skating belt loop.
3/27 – Pack Meeting – YOU MADE IT!!! It is time to get our Wolf Badge!!!!!
April – Our Feathered Friends
4/2 – Make a birdfeeder and keep track of birds you see on the feeder (13e). Put together nesting materials to put out for the birds and discuss which birds might use them (13b). Keep track of the birds you see for a week (13a). Bring the lists back to the April 23 meeting. Read a book to the den about birds (13c). Point out 10 types of birds (13d).
4/7 & 8 – USS Alabama Trip
4/23 – Go Fishing at
4/24 – Pack Meeting
May – Digging in the Dirt
5/7 - Make a box for a box garden and plant vegetables (electives 15a & d). Plant a flower to grow in a pot (15c). Take seeds and make a flower bed at a location to be determined later (service project – maybe at CVES) (15b). (WC badge)