SERVICE PROJECT TONIGHT!!!

This is just a reminder for everyone that we will be meeting EARLY tonight for scouts! Scouts will begin tonight at 6PM at the chapel. It is important that everyone wear work clothes and anyone who can bring gardening tools. We will be doing some end of the season yard work for some of the members of the ward that are in need. It should be really fun and there will be brownies and ice cream at the end of the activity.

See you there!

Personal Management Merit Badge

Greetings all!

Tonight we began the Personal Merit Badge! We had a great time learning about interest and saving and investing as well as what a budget is and how one can use it.

A list of the requirements can be found here. (Feel free to work on ANY of the requirements separately with your boy for this or any of the other merit badges on the site. If you need help with a counselor for another merit badge give us a call or shoot us an email and we will find someone for you.)

We do need the help of the parents. One of the activities that we had tonight was to talk about something that your family or the boy himself could save for. One of the requirements is to talk about this item with your family. We would like for you to talk about what your boys came up with as well as their plan for accomplishing it. '

(See the first requirement from the link above.)

Secondly, they are required to keep a budget for the next 13 weeks. We will be updating the budget each week at scouts. We would also ask that each of the families help the boys keep track of the money that the boy spends during the next week. If this isn't any money than that is fine too and makes accounting work very simple. ;)

(See the second requirement from the link above.)

We feel like it is a privilege to work, learn and have fun with your sons. Any help that you could offer with this merit badge would be appreciated by us and your boys!

Thanks!

TROOP RULES

As most of you are aware, with the changes in troop leadership and in light of recent events, we have increased our efforts to create a troop in which the boys can have fun and learn in an environment of structure, order and acceptance. We want all of the boys to feel comfortable and have an environment, in which they can grow into the fine men that they can become.

After our discussion this is the rules which the boys themselves established that we all feel will cover any type of misbehavior that will arise.

Troop Rules as Established by the Troop:

1. Don't Speak Unless Called Upon

2. Show Respect

3. Don't Touch Things That Aren't Yours

4. Don't be Lame; Be Positive!

Please discuss these rules with your sons and if there is unclarity to you ask them what they mean. There is a system of rewards and consequences in place that we have established and is worth discussing with your son. The most severe consequence is a phone call home if the boy is unable to comply with the rules established by their peers and themselves.

These are rules that they established in order to create the setting that we all want for our scout troop.

Meeting This Wednesday and other Announcements

The Wednesday Activity for scouts will involve the Personal Management Merit Badge. We will begin this merit badge on Wednesday. The merit badge requires the scout to keep track of their finances for three straight months, we wanted to let you know so that you all could assist your scouts in this. It is a required merit badge for the eagle scout award and we will be working hard over the next few months to get as many of the boys this merit badge as possible.

On Wednesday we will also be choosing the merit badges that the scouts will be doing for the upcoming LDS Merit Badge clinic on the 30th of October. I have included a list of the merit badges and would encourage you to look over the list with your scout(s) and choose ones that would be of interest to them and would help them in their quest to eagle scouts. I might suggest that you take special consideration to the Pathfinding and Tracking merit badges. They are a special part of the 100 year celebration of the Boy Scouts and will only be available until the end of 2010 and then will go back into retirement. This is really a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Art

Carpentry†

Chemistry

Citizenship in the World*

Coin Collecting

Computers

Communications*

Engineering

First Aid*

Geneaology

Law

Nuclear Science

Pathfinding†

Tracking†

Finally, we will be having a special "service project" activity on Wednesday the 13th of October. We will be making and serving dinner to the young women of the ward. We wanted to make sure that ALL young women of the ward came, including of course the mothers of the boys in the troop. The boys were very specific about this and wanted their mothers to come so that they could serve them and clean up after them. (I am not making this up.)

Please clear your schedules so that you will be able to attend. We will be serving dinner around 7:30 on the 13th of October.

MENU is TBA!

Wednesday's Activity

Hello everyone!

We have an exciting activity planned for tomorrow night! We will be learning all of the things that we need to know in order to do a flag ceremony properly as well as how one correctly retires (permanently) the colors of the United States of America. It should be a very educational and informative activity for everyone. In addition to that we will be planning the meals that we will be eating for the upcoming campout on Friday to Saturday evening.

With the addition of a new scoutmaster, things will inevitably change slightly in the troop. We look forward to this change in leadership with great anticipation because we know that it can lead to a great deal of positive change and an overall betterment of the troop. We are asking that as many parents as possible to come to the latter part of the activity to help us discuss with your boys ways we can help improve the discipline and structure of the troop. We feel that this could really help us have more fun during our wednesday meetings and be much more productive. So, if you could be there around 8 PM tomorrow at the church building it would be very helpful.

See you all tomorrow!

Plan One; Plan All

Tomorrow, Wednesday September 7th, is a very important day for the scouts of Troop 222. It is surely a day one will not want to miss.

Why would that be?

We will be planning the activities and helping the boys make plans for themes and campouts and activities based on those themes. Hopefully it will be exciting for them to get an idea of what is going on in the next year or so and look forward to events that they have planned.

Please come with a list (either physically written down or mentally prepared) of activities, merit badges, that you would like to participate in. These can be anything that you are interested and we will work together to explore ways that all of us can have a great time scouting together this year.

Refreshments will be provided to ALL boys who PARTICIPATE.

That's right, were talkin' brownies!