These are the meeting minutes I wrote up following a meeting we had on Oct 13 of last year. I recovered it from my email archive. I’ve only modified it to remove names, per my custom here on the blog. I’m adding them to the blog for 2 reasons: first, because my being an SAHD is the major reason I’m a Den leader making the content entirely blog appropriate; and second, they might prove useful for other Den leaders looking for ideas.
We started out last night’s meeting with our own Flag Ceremony, complete with a color guard, raising of the flag, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and finishing with the Scout Promise. This is something we’ll continue to do at our meetings so the Scouts get plenty of practice at it. As it happens, this allowed us to complete almost all of the Flag achievements (these are the thing the Scouts have to complete to earn their Wolf Badge at the end of the year).
From there, the rain barely held off long enough for us to run an obstacle course outside. That gave the kids a chance to have a little fun while completing another one of their achievements, “Feats of Skill.”
After getting everyone settled inside, we welcomed a new Scout into the Den and practiced all of our Bobcat requirements again. Also, I went through a list of the upcoming events that the Pack will be doing, which I will detail at the end of this mail. Finally, we wrapped up with more practice with flag etiquette and folding.
All the Scouts helped clean up the Rec room to make sure it was as good as when we arrived.