January 2008 Cub Scout Roundtable Issue |
Volume 14, Issue
6
February 2008 Theme |
Theme:
Chinese New Year
Webelos:
Scholar & Engineer
Tiger Cub
Requirement 4 |
OPENING CEREMONIES
Welcome And Happy New Year
Sam Houston Area Council
Cub # 1:
Welcome to America! - Where there are
more than 3 million people that are from China or claim Chinese descent. We’d
like to wish a Happy New Year to them.
Cub # 2:
Chinese New Year’s Day this year is
on February 7th and the celebration lasts for 15 days.
Cub # 3:
Wow! That’s a long celebration!
Cub # 4:
Let’s all say, “Gung Hay Fat Choy”
[Everyone says, “Gung Hay Fat Choy”]. “Gung Hay Fat Choy” means “Best wishes and
congratulations. Have a prosperous and good year.”
Cub # 5:
Before our celebration of Chinese New
Year this evening begins, please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Brotherhood Opening
Utah National Parks Council
Preparation:
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Have U.S. and pack flags posted.
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Have a boy hold the Chinese flag or
picture of the flag or map of China.
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Write each boy's part of the poem in
LARGE print on a card for him to read his part in turn.
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When done with the poem, ask the audience
to rise and say the Pledge of Allegiance.
Cub # 1:
Last night I watched the sunset
When my day was almost done,
And thought about another boy
Whose day had just begun.
Cub # 2:
I’ll probably never know him,
Since we’re half a world apart.
How different we must be
If my day ends as his day starts.
Cub # 3:
On the far side of the sunshine,
On the other end of day,
Lives a boy who seems a stranger
In a hundred different ways.
Cub # 4:
Still I think we might discover
If we look beneath the skin,
That instead of being strangers,
He and I are more like twins.
Cub # 5:
His skin’s another color,
And he walks another shore.
The flag that he salutes
Is not the flag that I adore.
Cub # 6:
But listen to his heartbeat,
Oh, just listen to his dreams.
You’ll know that deep inside
We aren’t as different as we seem.
Cub # 7:
I think I’ll write a message.
I might send it on the wind.
So when he hears it blowing
He will know he has a friend.
Cub # 8:
I think that I can touch him
If I reach out with my heart.
How different can we be
When we’re just half a day apart?
Cub # 9:
On the far side of the sunshine,
On the other end of day,
Lives a boy who exactly like me
In the most important ways.
Cub # 10:
Yes, I know we will discover
When we look beneath the skin,
That instead of being strangers,
He and I are really twins!
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