Cub scouting with son

Eoin (OH-IN, OH-Wen) is eight years old and will be entering the third grade in the fall. My wife put in the legwork to find a workable spot where we are also in a decent school district. This will be his first year at a public school. We had him attending a private catholic school for his years of kindergarten, first, and second grades. We found the school to be exceptional. The cub scout 'pack' there was also exceptional.


I've gone as far as to figure out where the council boundaries are in this much more major metropolitan area. It doesn't seem like the grade school the kids will be attending has a group of scouts operation out of it, however, we do seem to be free to join on to any one we find. It's just a manner of making the meetings.


I'm excited for the upcoming year. Eoin is going to be a Bear scout, and with that it will bring several neat things:

- He'll work with and be instructed in using a pocket knife. We're going to carve some soap!


- Tying and learning a Hitch Knot, demonstrating it, and explaining it.


- Learn to read a barometer and thermometer and log the readings for a week.


- a variety of outdoor life observation things


- Composting!


- Planting something!


- Making carnival games


- We're going to build a toolbox.


- Go fishing, and get our game oh-so right


- Make a drum, learn about some Native American things, and do-a-little-dance


- Animal Care


- Elementary Physics! Pulleys, Levers, Rube Goldbergs, and a hard to explain popsicle weaving thing where one observes the force carry through the sticks after quickly lifting one end. The whole thing explodes. Popsicle sticks.


- The Fine Art of competitive Marble's playing


- Robotics. We'll also make a cardboard powerglove.
- The Scientific Method


- Make ancient-ey type instruments


-Boating basics