Burnaby 1st Southwest Beaver Colony

HI Beaver Families,

Some important announcements and requests:

November 26 (Tomorrow) Popcorn Fundraiser Pickup

Everyone who submitted popcorn order forms: Popcorn pickup is TOMORROW Tuesday November 26, at 7pm in our meeting place, Upstairs. Please come and get your youth’s popcorn orders. If you still had popcorn money to remit to our group, please bring it then and give it to Mariah Battiston or a Scouter (red shirt).

Please make every effort to pick up the popcorn tomorrow. If you are unable to, remaining popcorn orders will be stored at the hall and you can get it on Thursday. HOWEVER space is extremely limited. Please do come tomorrow.

Parent Volunteers Needed: This Thursday November 28 meeting Help

We are short on Scouters this week! Can one or two of you please volunteer to stay at the meeting and help us out? We need support for supervision and safety.

Sleepover Reminder: Saturday November 30th

Some of you have asked for a sleepover camp list. One is attached.

CALL FOR WRAPPING PAPER TUBES

Our group is looking for Cardboard Tubes to use as materials for an exciting meeting January 9th! Please bring in your Cardboard Wrapping Paper Tubes to donate to our group. We will be collecting through December.

CALL FOR DONATIONS: FEEL THE WARMTH GIVE-BACK

On December 18 is Scouts Family Night at the Burnaby Heritage Village. We are collecting items to help people in need stay WARM and DRY this winter. Please collect: Socks, Mittens and Gloves, Hats, Coats, etc, All sizes welcome! Children’s items will be delivered to women’ shelters where they may be needed most – and starting in December bring these items to our meeting place for collection, or store them at home and bring them to the Burnaby Scouts table at the Heritage Village on Wednesday, December 18.

BADGES

If anyone is confused about how the personal at-home badges work, or needs ideas, here are the links to the helping documents from Scouts Canada.

The steps are:

1. Choose one badge topic that your child is interested in.

2. Decide on three (3) adventure activities that your child can do within that topic area.

3. Do the adventures. Email us when you are done to schedule time for your child to share with the group.

4. Child can bring in drawings, sentences, photos, or the actual things they made, to share with Scouters and The Group as evidence of their hard work.

**NOTE: very shy children do NOT have to speak in front of everyone. Please let us know if your child faces any challenges with that and we can accommodate.**

Parent’s guide: https://scoutsca.s3.amazonaws.com/2019/02/guide-to-pab-for-parents.pdf

Ideas and Inspiration for Badge Adventures: https://scoutsca.s3.amazonaws.com/2019/02/bs-pab-guide.pdf

Template for the Planning Pages: https://scoutsca.s3.amazonaws.com/2019/02/bs-pab-template.pdf

Thanks everyone!

Scouter Rosie

Indoor Sleepover List.pdf

Dear Beaver Parents,

Part of our program includes Personal Achievement Badges that Beavers can choose to plan and work on at home. They will need your help and support to complete these badges. While these badges are OPTIONAL, they are a big achievement for Beavers and usually Beavers proud of their hard work.

They have all brought home a planning page and some of them have come up with some general ideas about what they would like to do.

These are self-set badges which means the beaver chooses three activities that will be challenging, fun, and new learning experiences or skills. Beavers can choose to do three new things in an area (such as cook a breakfast, a lunch, and a dinner, for the Chef Badge), or they can go somewhere new, try something new, and share or teach something. NOTE: talk to us about how these badges and your child’s spiritual, sports, or music classes can be coordinated.

If you would like more information, including ideas for Personal Achievement Badges adventure activities:

Parent’s guide: https://scoutsca.s3.amazonaws.com/2019/02/guide-to-pab-for-parents.pdf

Ideas and Inspiration for Badge Adventures: https://scoutsca.s3.amazonaws.com/2019/02/bs-pab-guide.pdf

Template for the Planning Pages: https://scoutsca.s3.amazonaws.com/2019/02/bs-pab-template.pdf

When your Beaver does their adventures, have them draw, write or have photos of their experiences. Ask them to think about what went well and what they would change. They can choose to do a presentation to the colony or just to scouters. You must let us know by the Monday before the meeting if your beaver has completed the badge so we can make sure we have time for their achievement in our meeting and have a badge ready to award.

As soon as your Beaver has finished three challenging, pre-planned, adventures, please email me – we can do early presentations for badges, but the deadline for completion of these badges is Thursday December 5th. Any remaining badges or presentations will be Thursday December 12th.

Beavers will be able to continue work on Personal Achievement badges, and work on new badge plans, throughout the Scouting Year.

Thank you!!

Scouter Rosie