These are the meeting minutes I wrote up following our 1st Den meeting of the current school year on Sept 29. 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.
The beginning of the meeting was spent taking care of things like patches, books, neckerchiefs and slides. The Pack does supply these items (not shirts or baseball caps). Please check the following list and let me know which of these your Scout needs:
- Wolf Cub book
- Neckerchief
- Wolf slide
- “Den 2” patch (on sleeve of shirt- if your Scout has a new shirt, he likely doesn’t have this patch)
- “26” patch (on sleeve of shirt)
- CT Rivers Council Patch (on sleeve of shirt- large patch with red border)
We then spent time reviewing the Bobcat requirements, such as the Scout Promise, handshake and so forth. We’ll continue to work on these for each of the next several den meetings to help the newer Scouts come up to speed.
The guys got a quick break to play some games and then we moved on to discussing the American Flag. In particular, we discussed flag etiquette and how to fold the Flag properly. All the kids took turns folding the flag for practice, satisfying requirements 2c and 2g in the Wolf book.
By that time, it was time to adjourn the meeting.