East Ryde Joey Scout Program

 

Date:	Leader:
Theme:   Law and Promise	Meeting Type:       Hall

 

Time	Activity Description	Equipment Required:
	Coming in activity	Colour in Anthony Ant
5.45	Opening parade	Flags - practice salute and scout sign
5.55	Law and promise relay	Law & Promise lines
6.00	NSEW	I promise (scout sign) To do my best (salute) To love my God (hand on heart) And be helpful (link arms)
6.05	Duck, duck goose BP style	Nothing
6.10	Craft: Promise tree	Twig tree, promise leaves, pens scissors hole punch
6.20	Promise fishing Promise jigsaw/pop sticks	Fishing magnets
		Popsticks and jig saw
6.30	story	Anthony Ants big promise
6.35	Whacky story	Story and words…
6.45	Closing parade	Flags
spare

 

 

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Bless all joeys everywhere,

Help them remember their promise to share.

Guide them all safely home today

And watch over them while they work and play.

 

Amen

 

 

 

 

 

Games/Craft Information:

 

Promise Tree

• To make a promise tree you need a twig that looks like a small tree, firmly planted in plasticine.
• Each joey cuts a leaf shape from paper and makes a hole at one end.
• On one side they write or draws what they intend to do to keep their Promise during the following week e.g. make bed or be kind to brother. On the other their name. The leaves are then hung on the branch of the small Promise tree.
• The following week any joey who has kept her Promise replaces the leaf with …..

 

 

Rest of games we have done many times!

 

ANTHONY ANT

 

 

 

 

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Anthony Ant’s Big Promise - Joey Scout Resource Book – Promise and Law

Anthony Ant and his family live in the Snowy Mountains. His mother was very ill. She was very worried because winter was rapidly approaching and with it the snow season.

Now everyone knows that ants don’t go outside when it snows; they block up their doors and stay snug inside their cosy hole in the ground. Before they can do this though, they collect all the food they can find and store it in their holes so that there’s enough to last all winter.

Poor Anthony’s mother was so sick, she was unable to collect the food for her family; so she called Anthony to her bedside and told him that he, as the oldest, would have to do this very important job for her. She made him PROMISE that this would be done.

So Anthony took a bag and went to collect food. He felt really happy that his mother had trusted him to do such an important job. No sooner had he set out, when his best mate called out “Hey, Tony, let’s go and play chasings with the others”. Poor Anthony wanted to play with his friends so badly, but he’d made the promise to his mother and he knew that he couldn’t break a promise, so he said goodbye and continued his search.

He spotted some biscuit crumbs dropped by a human. As he reached the crumbs, another ant sneaked up behind him and shouted “BOO!” Poor Anthony got the fright of his life. It was his cousin, Andrew, and he was rolling around on the ground laughing his head off. Andrew and Anthony always played hide and seek together. “Come on, Anthony. It’s your turn to hide now.” Anthony was tempted to forget gathering food and the PROMISE to his mother, but he knew that no matter what happened, he couldn’t break a promise. He said goodbye and continued on his way.

It wasn’t long before Anthony had collected lots of food and he was getting tired. He put his bag down and rested under some shady reeds. Louise the Ladybird lived in the reeds and she wanted to play too. Anthony explained that he couldn’t and Louise went off to find some other friends. Anthony felt sad and lonely.

The wise old owl, who was great at solving problems, saw that Anthony was sad and flew down to see why. Anthony explained that he was tired of collecting food and he would have rather been playing. The owl listened then said “You know what you have to do Anthony. Your mother is sick and the family will starve if you don’t keep your promise. You know that promises are very important things and you must do everything you possibly can to keep your promise”. With this advice, Anthony set off once again. He gathered so much food that his family could stay underground for a whole year, if they wanted to. When he finally arrived home, his mother was very pleased with him. Anthony had kept his promise and this made him happy because you should do your best to keep a promise.

 

 

 

 

 

Special News Report

Good evening, I'm 1, and this is a special report from NASA. Strange things are occurring during this important mission to the Moon. As most of the world knows, the astronauts on this mission are studying whether or not it is possible to 2on the Moon.

Today, two of the astronauts, 3and 4, were outside the space shuttle performing tests. The astronauts reported that an alien spacecraft with 5lights landed next to the space shuttle. More than 6aliens left the spacecraft and 7over to the astronauts.

Astronaut 3said, “The aliens are about 8meters tall, and they have 9skin. We think they 10, but we are not sure.”

The astronauts have been trying to talk to the aliens. “Communication has been difficult,” astronaut 4told officials at NASA. “The aliens make sounds like 11when they are talking.”

The aliens stayed on the Moon for about an hour before they got back into their spacecraft and flew away. Before they left, they gave the astronauts one 12. NASA officials think this is a token of friendship and hope we see our alien friends again.

I'm 1, and this has been a special report. Thank you.

Special News Report

1 Famous person	1    ELVIS	1   PRINCE CHARLES	1    JAMES BOND
2 Present tense verb	2     LICK	2    SNEEZE	2    LEAP  FROG
3 Name	3     ILARA	3   BROWNIE	3    ZAPHOD
4 Name	4   ELLIOT	4   TEGGIE	4    YOUR  NAME
5 Adjective	5   SMELLY	5  FLUFFY	5 CHOCOLATE
6 Number	6  45,673	6   5,789,056	6  2,345,678
7 Past tense verb	7  PHONED	7   SWAM	7 TANGOED
8 Number	8  4,356,789	8   2,456	8  6,789,234
9 Adjective	9  GREASY     YELLOW	9   SPOTTY      GREEN	9  PURPLE     RUBBER
10 Adjective	10  CHA CHA	10  STINK	10  SNORE
11 Animals	11 GIRAFFES	11   WORMS	11 POSSUMS
12 Singular noun	12  SLUG	12   JELLY  BEAN	12  TOILET ROLL