• Cub Scouts are Scouts in primary school grades Kindergarten through fifth grade.

  • Cub Scouting is a family-oriented program designed specifically to address the needs of younger boys and girls.

• Boy Scouts are Scouts in secondary school, grades six through 12.

  • Boy Scouts is designed to achieve the aims of Scouting through a outdoor programs and peer group leadership with the counsel of an adult Scoutmaster.

• Each Cub Scout grade is a Den

• All of the Cub Scout grades in entirety is the Pack.

• A Troop is the Boy Scout group in entirety.

• Each grade level has an animal or emblem associated with it, this is called a rank

  • Kindergarten – Lion

  • First Grade – Tiger

  • Second Grade – Wolf

  • Third Grade – Bear

  • Fourth and Fifth Grade – WEBELOS

• UNIT: Pack 457 is a unit, or one group of Scouts in a District.

• DISTRICT: Pack 457 is one of 16 Cub Scout Packs in the Matinecock District, which covers all the Packs in Smithtown and Huntington. A districts is a section of a larger region. 

• COUNCIL: Suffolk County Council overseas all of Suffolk County Scouting and is made up of four Districts. 

1. Matinecock District - Huntington and Smithtown

2. Sagtikos District - Southwest Suffolk

3. Benjamin Tallmadge District - Northeast Suffolk

4. Trailblazer District - Southeast Suffolk

• NATIONAL BSA: National Boy Scouts oversees all Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts for the United States.

• Every Scouting unit “belongs” to a community-based organization like a school, religious institution or service club. which provides leadership, meeting facilities, encouragement, and other support as needed. 

• Pack 457's Chartering Organization is St. Luke Lutheran Church in Dix Hills, NY, https://stlukedixhills.org

Resources

• MacScouter’s Big Book of Skits

• Cub Scout Song Book

• Cub Scout Leader Book

• Cub Scout Leader Activity How-To’s

• Meeting Resource Guide

• Belt Loops and Pins Guide

• Webelos Planning Program

• 100 Ideas for Pack Meetings (1950)

• Special Pack Meetings (1954)

• Games for Cubs (1945)

• Games for Cubs (1952)

• Gilcrafts’s Book of Games (1928)

• Outdoor Games for Scouts (1952)

• Wide Games (1933)

• Scouting Games by Sir Robert Baden-Powell

• The Cub How-To-Do-It Book

• The Cub Nature Book

• Carpentry For Boys (1965)

• Working Models (1964)

• Baden Powell’s Outlook (1909-1941)

• A Scoutmaster’s Notebook I (1962)

• A Scoutmaster’s Notebook II (1962)