Week 3 Wrap

Wow, three weeks down already! Things are moving nicely and we seem to be settling in to the new timeslot. Have ended on-time 2 weeks in a row!

Rama had his first taste of planning and running a night. This week we were doing Natural Environment and most of it was centred on the World Scouting Environment Badge. The cubs were given a task to come up with item s that are considered good for the Environment and things that are not. Somehow a cooked chicken ended up on the bad list? What the ….? Hey at least they were thinking outside the square!

The second activity was on the Greenhouse effect. The Cubs learnt how it is affecting day to day temperatures. At the end of the session all the cubs were taken outside to play a game that reinforced the activity. The game had cubs blindfolded and nominated as carbons or trees. The more Carbons there were, the harder it became for the trees to move about. Great game and most want to play that again sometime.

It was also the night where a Tabitha came out of the time machine with a piece on the Mafeking siege that is considered the founding moment that saw Baden-Powell later create Scouting. Well Done Tabitha. Next week I will have the projector – DOH!

It was great to see that we had some of our new members step up and complete a task that I set the week before. Ebony and Brandon were able to bring in a water filtration system they made out of a cordial bottle, coffee filter, sand, cotton wool and rocks. Great effort! Just want to see more next week! These 2 are now a step ahead of the rest on completing the badge.

The night also provided opportunities to see how print cartridges can be recycled. Thank you to our ever hard working Yvette, for putting this together for us.

So 3 weeks down and with Founders Day next week it will be another action packed week. Please remember to bring along a funny hat as we a celebrating a birthday.