Parent Meeting January 13

PARENT MEETING JANUARY 13, 7:00 PM

Welcome back Pack 1776! It’s a brand new year filled with brand new excitement for our scouts!  Ordinarily, we do general announcements after each meeting, but this Monday, January 13, we will be holding a parent meeting while our scouts are enjoying their activities.  We have a lot of important information for you, so we are really counting on you to be there.  Topics will include changes, improvements, plans for the pack, upcoming events and our winter awards service.  We hope you had a wonderful holiday break and we are looking forward to seeing you Monday at 7:00 PM!

Prehistoric fun with the Wolves

The Wolf pack is on fire!  Another belt loop earned!  For the past 2 weeks, we have imagined and brought to life on paper brand new dinosaurs of our own creation, learned about fossils and the different classifications of dinosaurs, we made our own fossil images, played dino games, and even built an edible soil/fossil layer with 2 flavors of pudding, cookies and marshmallow  as a learning device and treat to enjoy.  And, yes, they enjoyed it very much!  Learning is FUN through scouting!

FALL FEST 2019 – November 1-3 with the pack OR any other time on your own

Hello, fellow scouters and parents!  Just a few quick important things about Fall Fest.  This is an activity with a lot of flexFall Fest 2012ibility.   Scouters may attend any weekend it is offered.  Scouters may camp for the weekend OR come up for a day.  Please speak with any of our leaders if you have any questions.  AS A PACK, our leaders have a cabin for the weekend of November 1-3.  If you are planning to camp WITH US all weekend, please MEET Dan, Mike, Nora and Regina at MUSSER campsite at 6 PM in the parking lot at HART.    ***if you only wish to come up for the day on November 2, our group will be staying at RED FOX  – you can meet up with them there, or the mess hall.  Whether you make this a full weekend or just a day trip, it is always a blast!  It’s always smart to bring your hiking gear/boots and warm weather clothes, rain gear (as a precaution), a good flashlight, some extra toilet paper, a pre-charged phone charger, some snacks and water (though we will have food) and some S’More makings, ’cause what’s a campout without S’Mores! Hope to see you there for all of the fun and comraderie!

ARE YOU READY FOR A SPOOKY GOOD TIME??

THIS MONDAY – October 28 – put on your costumes and let’s PARTY!  Halloween is around the corner and we are going to celebrate it with fun and games, music, food and friends.  Party starts at 6:30 PM.  We had a great turnout for food and drink sign up, so please don’t forget to bring your items!  Once again, I am making my signature witch’s potion – it’s simply to DIE for!  hahahahahahhaBoo

FORT MIFFLIN TRIP

Please join us for a fun filled and educational day out at Fort Mifflin at 9:30 AM on Saturday November 10th. There will be lots to do and great company!There will be guided tours, musket demonstration, and scouts can meet Ben Franklin.

The cost is $10 for adults and $6 for kids under 12 & veterans.

Remember to pack a snack and water and wear comfortable shoes! Thank you Mike Magras for leading this awesome outing!

Goings On in the Wolf Den

The year is already off to a terrific and productive start with our young Wolves.  With 2 earned beltloops out of 6 required for moving to the next level and some fun electives peppered in, we are really having a great time telling campfire stories, creating new ones of our own, preparing a skit, playing games with a focus on fitness, good sportsmanship and teamwork, and learning about nutrition. Stay tuned for next week’s Wolf Den recap! Until then…

Happy Thanksgiving

We would like to wish the entire Cub Scout Pack 1776 family a Happy Thanksgiving Holiday.  Throughout the course of our lives it is often far easier to ask for favors than it is to give thanks.  When times are dark we often neglect the good we have to be thankful for.  This day was set aside so that we may reflect on all of the good bestowed upon our lives, because even in the darkest hour there is that ray of light to be thankful for despite it always being overlooked.

On this day of prayer and reflection, we can look to the words of George Washington as he makes the first official proclamation of Thanksgiving to a fledgeling nation. [Read more…]

Welcome To A New Scouting Season!

The title says it all!  Welcome back to a new scouting season.  In addition to welcoming back our returning scouts we would also like to wish the best to our scouts who crossed over into the Boy Scouts.  Your pack wishes you the best of luck and hopes you enjoy your learning experience in the Boy Scouts.

We hope everyone had a great summer and enjoyed the summer activities that we had planned for you.  We would love to get your feedback on our summer activity line up.  Below is a recap of our summer activities for those who may have missed some of them.

New Season

As we get back into the swing of things with our weekly meetings starting back up on Monday September 10th. For our returning scouts there will be no delay in extracurricular scouting activities as we start the season with our Fort Mifflin camping trip on Sept 21st. What a great way to start another fun filled season.

The beginning of the season is also the best time for your boys to bring in any friends or family interested in scouting. If anyone they bring joins and pays their dues for the year your son will earn his recruiter badge.

During this time we will have a lot of new scouts showing up with an interest in scouting. We expect that our seasoned scouts will exhibit the core values of scouting and help make the new scouts feel welcome. They should take the time to introduce themselves, introduce new boys to other pack members & leaders, as well as assist them with earning the Bobcat rank. This common courtesy also covers requirements for the various ranks; for example

  • Tigers: Elective 9, Help a new boy get to know other people.
  • Wolves: Elective 22e. Invite a boy to join Cub Scouting or help a new Cub scout through the Bobcat trail.
  • Bears: Achievement 24a, Help a by join Cub Scouting or help a new Cub scout through the Bobcat trail.

This year we will be working on having monthly Pack meetings, to be held the first Monday of every month except where noted otherwise due to a short month or a holiday.  The goal is award boys their accomplishments on a more regular and timely basis. It also serves as a great opportunity for the parents to see what their boys have accomplished throughout the course of the year as well as provide more opportunity for the boys to show off their talents and skills.

We look forward to seeing you all in a week or so.

Summer Recap

Summer Activities

June

We started off the summer with a district hosted ‘Cub Scout Bullseye Shootout’ in early June at Camp Hart where the boys got to engage in a variety of age appropriate shooting activities such as archery, archery games, bb shooting, slingshots, zyclones, water pistols and the obstacle course that had them nice and tired for the ride home. Towards the end of the month we took part in one of the Scout Nights at the Camden Riversharks which included the game, dinner, a fireworks display, a movie with snacks, camping in the outfield, breakfast and a baseball clinic run by the players.

July

July is the month of summer camps so we only had a night of bouncing and climbing at BounceU towards the end of the month.   We had 2 boys attend Summer Day camp and 1 attend Summer Resident Camp where they got incredible head starts towards their rank before the scouting season even started having earned several belt loops, pins, activity badges and completing a variety of requirements & electives.

August

In August we had a camping trip at the Renaissance Faire which for a mere $10 including a night of camping and a day at the Renaissance Faire, which itself is normally around $40 per person.  Then we closed out the Summer with a great hike in Wissahickon Park.

 

Photo Section Coming Soon

As you may have noticed there is a new section on the site (on the menu at the top) for pack photos.  We haven’t imported any of the photos into the site yet, but they are coming soon.  If you have any photos that you would like to share please send us an email using the contact page.  We do not have an official pack photographer so we rely on family & friends to share their photos with us.

Blue & Gold Rescheduled to Monday June 11th

It has come to our attention that some parents were still following an old calendar for the date of the Blue & Gold.  We replaced that calendar when Pack leadership was restructured making the web site Calendar the final authority for pack events mentioning that if it is not on the web site calendar it is not expected to happen. However, there has still been some confusion.

While the date people thought the Blue & Gold was to take place was never on the web site Calendar, a few people assumed that to be the date despite the real date being up there.  What added to the confusion was the fact that the final date was the old date transposed (May 12th vs May 21st).  Naturally at a quick glance it is easy to confuse the two dates.

Once we determined the source of this date conflict, we felt it prudent to reschedule the Blue & Gold to a date which allows us ample time to make sure that *EVERYONE* is aware of the date. The new date of the Blue & Gold is going to be Monday June 11th at 6:00 pm.

Thank you for your patience in allowing us to ensure that everyone is on the same page regarding this important event.  We will be contacting families individually with the new date to ensure that everyone is properly informed.