Good Little Scout Leader

As intimated in a previous post, I was dealing with the dilemma of having to come up with a new meeting plan for my 11-year old Scouts. I decided to be a good little Scout leader and just do it. It really wasn't as hard as I was expecting. I created a meeting plan oriented around earning the ranks up through First Class in order. I had originally been worried that I would have a hard time spreading the topics out across meetings, but it wasn't that bad. There was only a couple of times where I had to have two different topics in the same meeting and that's not really a bad thing. About the only topic I refused to split up was the practical part of the swimming stuff. If I'm going to the trouble to organize a swimming activity to get the Second Class requirements covered, then I'm just going to do the First Class ones at the same time. It seems ridiculous to plan another swimming activity a month later to cover those two additional requirements. I'm doing swimming toward the end of the Second Class curriculum any ways, so a little overlap isn't bad. The plan for each rank also includes one campout; because a campout is required for each rank. This presents a slight problem because it winds up giving me more campouts in a year than the Church allows for 11-year old Scouts. This program is a six-month program so the idea is that it gets repeated twice during the 11-year old's time with me. This means that I can have Scouts start at any time in the plan and they will definitely get everything covered to get them to First Class. The only thing is that the stuff at the end of First Class is a little more geared toward older Scouts. It's not enough to really worry about, though. The plan actually allows for seven flex weeks in the six month period. The idea is that there will be meeting cancellations occasionally for holidays and other things so this plan allows for that. I presented the plan at our committee meeting today and everyone seemed to like it. Now I just have to execute the plan and see if I haven't overloaded a meeting some place.