DisneyLand Paris, January 2013

Position of badges on uniform, 28/01/12

Colours, 27/01/12

Traffic Light game, green, amber, red

Coloured feather blowing: teams keeping feather in the air for longest time, then individual races!

Team football in preparation for District Competition

Created front covers for Roald Dahl books.

District 6-a-side Football, 11/02/12

Beavers District 6-a-side Football, Saturday 11th February

Date: Saturday 11th February	Location: Sports Hall Dame Elizabeth Cadbury School Woodbrooke Road Bournville, B30 1UL
Times: 2.00pm to 4.30pm Cost: Free Kit required: Indoor trainers

The format is 6-a-side, with two substitutes. We are aiming to enter two teams so please can you encourage your children to take part in this competition, regardless of their playing ability. Parents are welcome to stay and watch during the competition.

Please let me know as soon as you can if your son / daughter would like to participate.

Yours in scouting,

Beaver Scout Leader

email   hawkeye@113asg.org

A Game of Cards

Christopher Reeve was a movie actor who played the part of Superman. Everything was going right for him. He had a successful acting career and a nice family; he was seemingly all set for a wonderful life. Then he had a horse-riding accident that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. All he could move was his neck a little bit—he couldn’t even breathe on his own. It looked like everything had changed for Chris, and that the rest of his life would be very dismal.

It was true that nearly everything had changed for Chris. Two things that hadn’t changed were his positive attitude and the people around him who really cared. Chris fought the desperate feeling of being paralyzed, the fear of his breathing machine shutting off and no one being there to help him, the fear of anything happening and not being able to do anything about it, not even yelling for help. He worked hard to get some “feeling” (if that is what it could be called) and learned to breathe somewhat on his own—he learned to talk by drawing in a mouthful of air and slowly letting it out past his voice box. This took hours and hours of painful, scary work, but with his positive attitude and other people helping, he improved his situation.

He said in an interview that life is like a game of cards. If you enjoy the game and you want a chance at winning, you will keep playing cards. Sometimes you get a good hand with a lot of face cards and sometimes not. You have to play with the cards you are dealt. There is always a chance that you will win. If the game is worth playing, you will keep playing. The game of life is worth playing. Do your best to fight off the fear of losing and encourage others to keep playing “the game.”

Relay Racing, 20/01/12

19 beavers, played running relays around cones with coloured balls on top. Team forfeits is a ball is knocked off. Progression to Space Hoppers and team football - practice for the tournament on 11th February.

Beaver/Cub New Year Party, 15/01/12

Christmas Card Challenge

Balloon relay (over and under in teams)

Chocolate game (roll a six)

Christmas Card game (locate three pieces together)

FOOD

Pass the baton

Pass the parcel

Hokey Cokey

Dance competition (Cha Cha Slide, Macarena)

Oops Upside Your Head (Two lines, section competition)

Musical Chairs (Saturday Night)

Eat the Sweet Tree





Create a Banner, 13/01/12

Games: Two team dodgeball, pirate game (with keys, and a culprit who hides them); pirate has to guess!

We decorated a 10 metre long banner depicting the Theatre Trip "George's Marvellous Medicine" using paints and handprints in preparation for our sleepover

Quote from a Scout, January 2012

One of the most powerful ways to understand adventure is through sharing stories from our Members and supporters.

‘I went in some caves at Blackmore Park, crawling underground. It was cold and damp, but we had head torches and stuff so we could see where we were going. There were high and low bits as well, so you didn’t know what to expect. Would I do it again? Of course I would.’

Dan, 11, Scout 

Astronauts & Outer Space, 06/01/12

Game: Space Walk
Name the four walls Earth, Pluto, Mars and Jupiter.
Ask the Beaver Scouts to move around the room, responding to the names of these planets.
Other commands:
Blast Off - Crouch down and as they count down "5,4,3,2,1" slowly rise and then run around the room
Touchdown - Gently coast to the floor
Space Walk - Walk slowly with arms and legs spread out as if in low gravity
Mission Control - Stand still and listen




Discussed christmas presents received, then talked about theatre trip and Beavers named as many Roald Dahl books as they could.
Then Keo ran a Roald Dahl themed wordsearch.

Beavers finished the evening with six a side football in preparation for the District Football Competition on 11/02/12.

Theatre Trip & Indoor Sleepover letters distributed.

Reminders handed out about the Beaver/Cub New Year Party on 15/01/12/

Theatre Trip & Indoor Sleepover, 04/02/12