What Rosanna Cubs got up to during 2008! Date Day Activity Details Leader Centenary Year of Australian Scouting - 1908-2008 Rosanna Cub Scouts - Term 1, 2008 - Program 5/2/08 Tue Welcome to the first Cub night for 2008! - A Games Night. 12/2/08 Tue Test 7 - Promise and Law Bronze-P23, Silver-P38 Gold-P53 Chil 17/2/08 Sun Cuboree Orientation Getting the Leaders ready for Cuboree! - 19/2/08 Tue Initiative Games Not bad working as a team! Akela 26/2/08 Tue World Conservation - Part 1 We learned about World Conservation AND started earning a Special Badge! Akela 27/2/08 Wed Seeonee Meeting of Banyule District Cub Leaders - Greenhills - 4/3/08 Tue Test 4 - Outdoor Scouting 2 - Outdoor Cooking Bronze-P20, Silver-P35 Gold-P50 Chil 11/3/08 Tue Mythology We travelled to Ancient Greece for some fun! Akela 12/3/08 Wed Cuboree - Parents' Info Night Getting your questions answered! - 16/3/08 Sun Banyule Festival March It was hot, but we marched in Heidelberg and showed off 100 years of Australian Scouting! - 18/3/08 Tue BBQ & Yabbying Night We had a BBQ, Invested Bagheera and then caught some yabbies in the dark! Chil 21/3-6/4   School Holidays Term 1 down, 3 to go! First Easter, and then it was... Time for CUBOREE 5! - 31/3-4/4   Cuboree 5 - "A World of Wonders" This is what you'd been waiting for.... and now we've done it!! - Rosanna Cub Scouts - Term 2, 2008 - Program 8/4/08 Tue Games Night Time to get back into Cubs after the long hard holidays and Cuboree and we had 3 Investitures! Chil 15/4/08 Tue Test 8 - Fitness Bronze-P24, Silver-P39 Gold-P54 Akela 22/4/08 Tue Test 1 - Health and First Aid Bronze-P17, Silver-P32 Gold-P47 Chil 23/4/08 Wed Seeonee Meeting of Banyule District Cub Leaders - Montmorency (RSL) - 25/4/08 Fri Anzac Day Dawn Service at Simpson Barracks, Macleod and March at Greensborough Akela 29/4/08 Tue Heritage Tony Turtle came from the Watsonia RSL so we could earn part of our Heritage Badge for this year Chil 6/5/08 Tue Father & Cub Night preparing for Mothers Day It was time to get ready for Mothers Day - Dad (or Uncle, Grandpa etc) had fun beating the Cubs in games and helping with the Mothers Day gifts! Chil Bagheera 12/5/08 Mon Joint night We went to visit Eaglemont Cubs and had tons of fun - even Billycarts and chocolate! Akela 20/5/08 Tue Test 5 - Our Cub Scout Traditions Four Investitures tonight - Welcome! Bronze-P21, Silver-P36, Gold-P51 Chil 27/5/08 Tue World Conservation - Part 2 We mostly finished off our World Conservation Badge - don't forget those seeds to grow and stuff! Akela 28/5/08 Wed Seeonee Meeting of Banyule District Cub Leaders - Rosanna - 31/5-1/6/08 Sat -Sun First Aid Camp - Camp Warringal For Cubs in their final year with us - Four of our Cubs attended and earned their Level 2 First Aid - 3/6/08 Tue Test 13 - Handcraft Some weird and wonderful things made THAT night plus a new Cub Invested! Bronze-P29, Silver-P44, Gold-P59 Chil Bagheera 10/6/08 Tue Space Badge We had tons of fun in space and earned our Space badge (Yellow Book, page 132)! Akela 17/6/08 Tue Possum Prowl We went for a walk in the dark at LaTrobe to see what we could see - possums, kangaroos, bats, flying foxes, spiders, frogs... all sorts! Akela 21-22/6/08 Sat - Sun Gang Show, Family BBQ & Cub Sleepover! We saw GANG SHOW and had great fun, then we joined with 1st Bendigo for a family BBQ at the Hall, then a CUB Sleepover (well I think some Cubs got some sleep)! - 24/6/08 Tue Jungle Theme Cubs is based on the Jungle Book - we dressed up as our favourite Jungle characters! Akela 28/6-13/7   School Holidays Halfway through the year already! Who'd have thunk it? - Rosanna Cub Scouts - Term 3, 2008 - Program 15/7/08 Tue Games Night First off we created our new Six - Tawny and then had two Investitures. Then into some games to kick off the Term. Bagheera 22/7/08 Tue Test 2 - Safety Bronze-P18, Silver-P33 Gold-P48 Akela 29/7/08 Tue Sense Training We got to see how good our taste, touch, observation etc. were! Chil 2/8/08 Sat Scouts Biggest Street Party It's our Centenary, so Cubs took their parents to celebrate in St Kilda Rd Click on the link for more details Akela 5/8/08 Tue Test 12 - Self Expression We had a new Cub to Invest plus the first Going Up and Investiture into Rosanna Scout Troop Bronze-P28, Silver-P43, Gold-P58 Chil 12/8/08 Tue Centenary Night - celebrating the Centenary of Scouts in Australia Scouts Australia is 100! We got dressed up how we reckon kids would have 100 years ago and we had some old-time games 'n stuff! Akela 19/8/08 Tue Joint Night with Bundoora Cubs! So far we've visited other Packs when we've had a joint night - we thought it was time to invite some Cubs to see us! Chil 22/8/08 Fri District Swimming Night It was time to go along to the pool at Ivanhoe Girls Grammar, earn some swimming badges and have fun Akela 26/8/08 Tue Test 6 - Symbols of Australia Bronze-P22, Silver-P37 Gold-P52 Chil 27/8/08 Wed Seeonee Meeting of Banyule District Cub Leaders - Bundoora - 30/8/08 Sat Sixers Dinner A special dinner and entertainment put on each year for the Sixers in the District Bagheera 2/9/08 Tue Mother & Cub Night Father's Day was coming up! ...so we got the Mums in to have some fun and help do something for Dad! - plus an Investiture Bagheera 9/9/08 Tue Visit to East Melbourne Fire Station East Melbourne We visited the biggest Fire Station in Melbourne... pretty cool eh! Akela 16/9/08 Tue Egyptology! We walked like an Egyptian. We talked and looked like Egyptians. ...and we wanted our Mummy! We dressed up and had tons of fun with hieroglyphics, Mummys, pyramids, tomb robbers and camels! Akela 20/9-5/10   School Holidays Well that's 3/4 of the way through 2008 and we'll start Term 4 with the new early start to Daylight Saving! - Rosanna Cub Scouts - Term 4, 2008 - Program 7/10/08 Tue Games Night Welcome to Term 4 - time for some fun to get it going. Chil 8/10/08 Wed Seeonee Meeting of Banyule District Cub Leaders - at Eaglemont - 14/10/08 Tue Test 7 - Promise and Law Bronze-P23, Silver-P38 Gold-P53 Akela 18/10/08 Sat JOTA - Jamboree of the Air We headed off to Clifford Park to talk to other Cubs and Scouts on the Ham Radios, plus tons of other activities. Akela 21/10/08 Tue Masks & Sculpture We tried something different - and we even earned a badge! Bagheera 28/10/08 Tue Baden-Powell and the Jungle Did you know that Lord Baden-Powell started Scouting? Or that he based Cub Scouts on the Jungle Book? We had some fun finding out about it Akela 4/11/08 Tue C U P       D A Y There was a horse race on or something, so NO CUBS! - 11/11/08 Tue Test 3 - Ropes Bronze-P19, Silver-P34 Gold-P49 Akela 14-16/11/08 Fri - Sun Pack Holiday Our First Pack Holiday for Rosanna! Staying in the 'Railway Carriages' at Joseph Harris Scout Park - Bay Park, Mt Martha, we had Brilliant fun! - 18/11/08 Tue Test 4 - Outdoor Scouting 1 - Compass and Navigation / Maps and Hiking Bronze-P20, Silver-P35 Gold-P50 Chil 25/11/08 Tue 2nd Cub Olympiad Tonight we travelled to Paris for the 2nd Annual Cub Olympics. Akela 26/11/08 Wed Seeonee Meeting of Banyule District Cub Leaders - at Heidelberg - 2/12/08 Tue Penny Hike Does everything in your life have to be organised for you? Tonight we went for a walk - and where we went was all based on the flip of a coin! Bagheera 9/12/08 Tue Group Christmas Breakup It was time to celebrate our 2nd Christmas as a Scout Group and the first one with our new Scout Troop. Santa was excellent! Akela 19/12/08 - 28/1/09   School Holidays ...and so that was the end of another year! Time for a break before coming back at Cubs on Tuesday 3rd Feb, 2009! -