This is it!! Our final year as Arrows (Arrow of Light Cub Scouts) starts next week!!
Hello Arrows!
We are nearing the end of our Scouting Journey – we have just a few Advancements, an Elective or two, and some fun nights camping with Scout groups for your Arrow of Light scout to consider bridging over into.
There is a Parent meeting Monday, Sept 18 at WUMC at 6:30pm – for new parents or parents with Questions.
Den Meetings start the week of September 25th – we will be meeting on Tuesdays at 6:30pm pending everyone’s schedule allowing this – I am open to an occasional Sunday afternoon meeting as well if everyone’s schedule is especially hectic. Troop meetings will depend on the Troop – Troop 359 meets on Tuesdays.
This fall we will visit other Troops and/or invite Scoutmasters from area Troops to come in to talk to our Scouts & Parents. I hope that some of the Pack 359 Arrows can do an exploratory camp out with a Troop in October before the weather gets cold. This visit/campout is part of one of our final required Adventure Pins!
Arrow of Light Required Adventure Pins
1.)Building a Better World – most completed this last year
2.)Duty to God in Action – Building on the Duty to God and You the Scouts did last year
3.)Outdoor Adventure/ Outdoorsman – Basic Camping Skills, Emergency plans, Outdoor Code, Bowline knot
4.)Scouting Adventure – Learn changes for Scout Oath, etc. Visit Troop meeting(s), learn the Patrol Method, Participate in a Troop Campout, Demonstrate square knot, two half hitches, and a taut-line hitch. Earn or demonstrate Whittling Chip rules.
Plus One additional Elective – Aquanaut, Art Explosion, Aware and Care, Build It, Castaway, Earth Rocks!, Engineer, Game Design, Into the Wild, Into the Woods, Sports, etc. Some of you will have completed Aquanaut at Webelos Camp, and we ended the year working on the “Fix It” Elective to be finished this fall….
We had a BIG crew at Webelo’s Camp this summer and they are ready to take that next step in Scouting!
Thanks to all who volunteered to do a Flag Route – Tracy and I put out and are picking up the Prestige Flags to give everyone a break to enjoy your Scout’s first weeks back in school and getting used to the new routine.