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Chapter UNDERSTANDING, COMMUNICATING AND WORKING WITH BEAVERS 6 Growth and Development Characteristics of Beavers 4 Characteristics of Brown, Blue and White Tail Beavers 4 Needs of Beaver-aged Children 4 Your Influence on Beavers 4Choosing Appropriate Activities for Beavers 4 Helping Beavers to Communicate 4 Behaviour and Discipline 4 Beavers with Disabilities 4 References
GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT CHARACTERISTICS OF BEAVERS Physical Growth At this stage in life, a Beaver’s body does not grow at a fixed speed. Instead, there will be periods of slow and steady growth followed by rapid growth spurts. As a result, a Beaver whose movements were stable and comfortable may begin feeling awkward and uncoordinated. Your Beavers’ large muscles are stronger and more highly developed than their fine muscles, such as fingers. As children mature, their smaller bones and fine muscle control become more developed, giving them more precise coordination and dexterity. The Beavers’ five senses are almost completely developed and are beginning to work together. This, with their improving ability to handle objects, enables children to perceive and explore their world better. Beavers have high energy levels and are good starters. However, they can tire easily and may not always be interested in completing a task. Mental Growth At this stage, children gather information through direct physical contact. Beavers need and take great pleasure in handling objects: weighing, touching, turning, and placing them. They are very sensitive to shapes and colours, and fascinated by motion. Beavers have a limited ability to concentrate. They need variety, change and movement from one activity to another. They also have limited ability to project in time. They see everything in concrete terms. This means that planning is beyond the mental grasp of Beaver-aged children. The vocabulary of Beavers is still expanding. Often, although they are clear about the meaning of their words, their listeners may not be. Beavers have a strong desire to improve their language skills, and love to listen to stories, sing songs and recount activities. Through language, children can ask “how” and “why” questions about their world. It’s at this stage that their perception of relationships begins to evolve. They start to understand cause and effect, and realize that actions have consequences. Up to age 10 to 12, children have not fully developed their values or moral reasoning. They look to adults for active examples of what is right and wrong. Since Beavers learn much by watching what you do and repetition, you can help them develop good values through activities such as repeating the Beaver Promise and Law every week, role modelling, sharing, and treating all people equally and fairly. Social Growth Beavers have a natural desire to play with friends. They’re becoming less self-centred and more interested in others. You can encourage them to share, take turns, and participate in colony or lodge activities. But Beavers can also be impatient if they find they have to wait long. Children of this age need ongoing recognition and reinforcement for their participation in activities. It’s important to show them your appreciation or disapproval. Such reinforcement often enables them to carry on with something that interests them. Routines and structure are important to Beavers. They provide a clear beginning and end to activities and security through familiarity. Beavers need to know what is expected of them in simple language. They develop a healthy self image through successfully completing routines. 6-1
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Page 4 and 5: 2 Scouting’s Mission Statement As
Page 6 and 7: Chapter 1: Welcome to Beavers! . .
Page 8 and 9: 6 ! Notes
Page 10 and 11: SO YOU’VE VOLUNTEERED TO JOIN SCO
Page 12 and 13: Mission Scouting’s Principles are
Page 14 and 15: Code of Conduct 4 Position Statemen
Page 16 and 17: 2-2 We have a duty of care to keep
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Page 22 and 23: BEAVER LAW, PROMISE AND MOTTO For B
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Page 40 and 41: CONSTRUCTING BIG BROWN BEAVER Mater
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Page 44 and 45: LEADERSHIP REQUIREMENTS Beaver lead
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Page 62 and 63: WHY TAILS? “I like to wear my Bea
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Page 72 and 73: 1. Linking Colony and Pack Leaders
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Page 84 and 85: GAMES Games are essential to the fu
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Page 98 and 99: ELEMENTS TO THEMES The Beaver progr
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Spring Birds Talk about what happen
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Beaver Meeting Schedule: One Month
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Resource People Gathering Activity
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10 Chapter PLANNING AHEAD Purpose a
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LONG-RANGE PLANNING 10-2 One of you
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then more detail for the month you
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10-6 ! Notes
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There’s a variety of different so
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Scouting personnel can help you tap
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Scouts Canada’s Web Site Our web
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12 Chapter MEETINGS AND CEREMONIES
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Gathering Activity With Keeo, be re
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Ensuring Beavers Get Home Safely Mo
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Beavers draw a picture of a scene f
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12-8 Notes Beaver-Cub Link Badge T
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GAMES AND PROGRAM GOALS Games are p
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When you notice Beavers are getting
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Back-to-Back Building Beavers choos
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Chapter 14 CRAFTS, MUSIC, STORYTELL
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14-2 4 Be familiar with the crafts
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Potato Printing Beavers can create
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Feather Fodder Before starting this
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Mystery Rhythm Your entire colony o
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14-10 I’ve been picking up the li
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STORYTELLING AND PLAYACTING Stories
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You can act out a story in many dif
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Movement Encourage Beavers to move
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14-18 ! Notes
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TAKING CARE OF THE WORLD Nature is
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IDEAS Area and council newsletters
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More About Birds Contact bird enthu
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Where is your shadow? Is it longer
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Fly A Kite When you feel the wind o
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LOVE OF SELF One important and ofte
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Beaver’s answer even though it ma
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Activities On a winter’s evening,
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USING THE OUTDOORS Scouts Canada be
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Preparations Contact the place of i
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18 Chapter ORGANIZATION Colony Supp
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GROUP/SECTION COMMITTEE A group com
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All new leaders agree to acquire th
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BEGINNINGS WITH B.-P. Before lookin
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Venturers: Unit name: Company Typic
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APPENDIX “A”: BEAVER TERMINOLOG
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APPENDIX “B”: CHILD ABUSE: A GU
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Try not to ask questions. Do not su
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APPENDIX C: CODE OF CONDUCT Resourc
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Scouter’s Promise . . . . . . . .
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