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Cub Scout Pack 277
(Scotch Plains, New Jersey)
 
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Welcome to Pack 277


 

Cub Scouting is the program established by the Boy Scouts of America for boys in Grades One through Five. In Cub Scouting, boys, families, and adult leaders work together to achieve these objectives:

  • Develop habits and attitudes of good citizenship. 

  • Encourage good sportsmanship and pride in growing strong in mind and body.

  • Improve understanding within the family. 

  • Strengthen a boy's ability to get along with others. 

  • Foster a sense of personal achievement by developing new interests and skills. 

  • Provide fun and exciting new things to do. 

  • Show a boy how to be helpful and do his best. 

  • Prepare him to be a Boy Scout.

Cub Scouts can participate in events like Pinewood derby, campouts, community service activities, and much more.  Apart from fun and excitement, the aim of Cub Scouting is to help boys grow into good citizens who are strong in character and personally fit. This is why we say that Cub Scouting is fun with a purpose!

  

If you want your son to have some fun, excitement, outdoor opportunities, and a chance to participate in a program in which he doesn't always have to win — instead, he learns about “Do your best” and how to he helpful to others -- then we have just the program for you!

WHAT ARE THE VALUES OF CUB SCOUTING?

The Cub Scout values are expressed in the Cub Scout Promise, the Cub Scout Law of the Pack, and the Cub Scout Motto:

The Cub Scout Promise:

I, (name), promise to do my best
To do my duty to God and my country,
To help other people, and
To obey the Law of the Pack.

The Cub Scout Law of the Pack:

The Cub Scout follows Akela.
The Cub Scout helps the pack go.
The pack helps the Cub Scout grow.
The Cub Scout gives goodwill.

Cub Scout Motto:

Do Your Best.

HOW IS CUB SCOUTING ORGANIZED?

Cub Scouting uses terms and phrases taken from stories in The Jungle Book, by Rudyard Kipling. Cub Scout leaders, parents and responsible adults with authority, are all called “Akela.”  The boys are called Cubs, and they and their leaders are organized into small units called Dens.  Dens are part of a larger Pack.  A Pack is chartered by an organization.

Some additional information on Cub Scouting can be found at the BSA National Website and at our District Website.

Cub Scouting is for boys currently in First Grade through Fifth Grade, or rising in late spring to the First Grade through Fifth Grade.  Boys do not have to go to any particular school or live in any particular area to join Cub Scouts with Pack 277.  The choice of a Cub Scout Pack is usually a matter of where friends are joining and/or the convenience of the meeting location.  Pack 277 is chartered by McGinn PTA .

Dens are organized by Grade, with age-appropriate programs and activities for each grade:


 

First Grade

Tiger

Second Grade

Wolf

Third Grade

Bear

Fourth and
Fifth Grade

Webelos



 


 


Each Den is a group of at least four, but no more than twelve, boys in the same grade. Each Den is led by an adult called the Den Leader (usually but not always a den parent), who in turn is assisted by other den parents.  Boy Scout Troop 33 also provides one or more older Boy Scouts to assist each den as a Den Chief.  Dens meet at times and places that each den decides.  Den meetings usually take place about 1 - 2  times per month, at meeting places provided by the McGinn Elementary School or other location.  Dens can also meet at someone’s home, at a school, or at some other location and time determined by the den leaders and parents. Den meetings last about an hour, den parents usually rotate bringing snacks/drinks to the meeting, and the boys work on various program activities, play games, and have fun.