Beaver Programme for April – July 2010(both colonies)

April 12/14	Monday – Games and checking uniform Throwing shoes into middle and see how long it takes for each to find shoes, same with necker. Wednesday – Introductions and getting to know about opening/closing ceremonies, rivers. Play throw/catch with and without names. Beaver story
19/21	Monday – St George. Know about St George, flag, formation of union jack. Games – construct paper swords. Wednesday – Give out beaver books, learn promise, scout sign, motto. Colour in beaver pictures. A little about St George
26/28	Join in Japan Japanese flag, where it is in the world, how to get there and any other info about Japan. Scouting in Japan. Ask explorers to visit and talk about their trip to the jamboree Wednesday to also discuss about badges
May 3/5	Monday – Bank holiday Wednesday - Kevin to come and do martial arts demo, Samurai warriors if time and their fitness Also talk about Baden Powell and the starting of scouting.
10/12	Experiments – Volcanoes and Mt Fuji Japanese fan, Earthquake – Dominoes and showing how earthquakes happen ( demo from science book) Wednesday – to go over promise etc. ready for investiture next week
17/19	Haiti, Chilli and Mexico earthquakes Experiment, the salt and elastic band to demonstrate how a rift occurs. Read a poem and talk about what is a poem and then they write one for the Oxfam competition. Wednesday – Investiture
22	Join in Japan
24/26	Tsunami Flooding – science book pg 16
June 31/2	Half term
7/9	Shelterbox and aims What’s in the box Build a shelter. Each river given a choice of things that they could construct a shelter from e.g chairs, table, tarps, string, etc. need scissors and string Give out notices for cub camp
14/16	Preparations for cub camp What’s in a rucksack for a day visit Game – when I go out for the day I take Decide which flags are needed for the AGM
20	?Father’s day challenges and sponsored bounce in aid of shelterbox
21/23	Practise for the AGM Monday- to write a little speech to go with each flag, decide who’s doing what. The children could write about what they remembered for that country!! Wednesday – summary of what we’ve learnt so far e.g promise, Baden Powell, beavers
28/23	Both nights practice Monday and AGM on Wednesday
July 2/3/4	Cub Camp
5/7	Outdoors – park, if raining indoors Games to improve fitness, shuttle run, hopping, throwing ball
12/14	Fitness More games for fitness challenge