FOCUS

Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide

This time of year is packed with “Faith, Hope and Charity”  - celebrating and sharing family traditions and faiths, hopes for the future and charity to all.  Service projects are a way to give thanks while helping those in need in our neighborhoods and schools.  Celebrate the holiday season with foods and crafts that are appropriate to various faiths.  Collect toys during a pack meeting or organize a food collection where everyone brings something to share with those who are less fortunate.

CORE VALUES

Cub Scout Roundtable Leaders’ Guide

Some of the purposes of Cub Scouting developed through this month’s theme are:

• Family Understanding, Family traditions are shared and families work together as they participate in Den or pack activities.
• Friendly Service, Cub Scouts learn to serve others through Den and/or pack community activity and services.
• Spiritual Growth, Cub Scouts learn more about their family’s faith and respect for other faiths as they share during the holiday season.

The core value highlighted this month is:

• Responsibility, By helping others, Cub Scouts learn about duty to care for self and others.

Can you think of others??? Hint – look in your Cub Scout Program Helps.  It lists different ones!! All the items on both lists are applicable!!  You could probably list all twelve if you thought about it!!

COMMISSIONER’S CORNER

There are a lot of good standard Holiday Cub Scout items in this edition but I would weigh them carefully against the Focus above and the vignette for the theme in the Cub Scout Program Helps.  As well as considering the Core Values and purposes highlighted for the month in both places to make sure your Den and pack are presenting programs in accordance with what the theme is supposed to accomplish.  I get my input from Pow Wow Books and other Scouters who have lots of great ideas but we sometimes go off on tangents from the direction intended by National for the theme.

What a great weekend I just had.!!  My nephews asked me to go camping with them and their units.  So I attended the Pennsbury District, Bucks County Council, Fall Camporee with Pack, Troop and Crew 102 from Levittown, PA.  There were gateways, catapults, Living History Reenactments, some initiative games by the C.O.P.E. Staff, First Aid, and a Photography lesson (Each Scout received a disposable camera on Saturday and was then taken on a short walk to take unusual pictures.  On Sunday they received the developed pictures before they left).  It was fun seeing Scouting in action at another council and especially seeing my nephews as Scouts.  I got to talk with the Scoutmaster, who had his troop prepare three delicious turkeys for dinner with his “patented” method, the Cubmaster (who is, also, an Assistant Scoutmaster) and the Webelos Leader, who told me this is her third time as she was Webelos leader for both her older sons, too.  Besides the four stations mentioned above we did some Outdoorsman requirements, especially working on Fire Building and Fire Safety as it was chilly.  The Webelos worked hard looking for wood to keep the fire going.  Just as we were leaving I met their District RT Commissioner, who is on a Scouting Task Force with me but whom I had never met in person.  We spent almost an hour talking about Roundtables (much to the chagrin of his son who just wanted to go home!)

The weekend before I was Troop Scribe for our council’s Wood Badge course.  My copier ran up about 4700 copies in the six weeks I have it with two Wood Badge weekends each with their daily Gilwell Gazettes!!  But there are now new critters out there working their tickets!!

Maybe this week I can begin enjoying retirement and cleaning my house of all the stuff I brought home!

Pow Wow season is upon us for a few weeks.  Pow Wows allow you to see your best Scouters doing what they like most.  Pow Wow sessions are usually not scripted like the basic training series (New Leader Essentials, Position Specific courses) but allow someone who is good in (ceremonies, skits songs crafts, games) to present the items relating to (ceremonies, skits songs crafts, games) so others can enjoy them too.  You get to see Scouters enjoying showing off what they do best.  Don’t miss your Pow Wow (or university) or if you must, attend one at a neighboring Pow Wow.  I plan to attend two this month and have a great time at each.

Have a great Scouting month!!.

Months with similar themes to Faith, Hope and Charity

Thanks to Dave D. in Illinois

Year	All are December of the year
1939	Pack Christmas Party
1940	Good Will - Cub Style
1941	Giving Good Will
1942	Good Will
1943	Good Will Month
1944	The Other Fellow
1945	Follows - Helps - Gives
1946	Cub Scout Santa Claus
1947	Helps and Gives
1948	Goodwill
1949	The Other Fellow
1950	Helps (for institutions)
1951	F-H-G (good followers, helpers, & givers)
1952	An Old-Fashioned Christmas
1953	Happy, Game, and Fair
1954	We'll Do Our Best
1955	Customs of Other Lands
1956	Christmas In The Americas
1957	Happy Holiday
1958	The Golden Rule
1959	Do Your Best
1960	Guiding Stars
1961	Follows, Helps, and Gives
1962	The Magic of Christmas
1963	Old-Fashioned Christmas
1964	Winter Festival
1965	Happy, Game, and Fair
1966	Yuletide Everywhere
1967	Do Your Best
1968	Winter Wonderland
1969	The Cub Scout Gives Good Will
1970	Happy, Game and Fair
1971	Cub Scout Gives Good Will
1972	Follows, Helps, Gives
1973	Customs of Countries
1974	Old Fashion Christmas
1975	Cub Scout Gives Good Will
1976	Winter Festival
1977	Do Your Best
1978	Duty to God & Country
1979	Customs of Other Lands
1980	Happy Holidays
1981	Do Your Best
1982	Cub Scout Spirit
1983	Giving Gifts
1984	Do a Good Turn
1985	Follows, Helps, Gives
1986	The Golden Rule
1987	Happy Holidays
1988	Holiday Magic
1989	Customs of Countries
1990	Giving Gifts
1991	Follows, Helps, Gives
1992	To Help Other People
1993	Holiday Magic
1994	Customs of Other Lands
1995	Do a Good Turn
1996	Helping Others
1997	The Golden Rule
1998	Let's Celebrate
1999	Holiday Magic
2000	What do You do at Holiday Time?
2001	Works of Art
2002	Winter Wonderland
2003	A Cub Scout Gives Good Will
2004	Holiday Food Fare
2005	Faith, Hope & Charity