Merry Christmas

We would like to wish all of our Joeys and their families a very

 

Merry Christmas

 

   

We hope you enjoy your summer holidays

And come back refreshed and ready for another exciting year in Joey Scouts in
2013

 

From

 B'Nona, Bandicoot, Brumby, Sara, Sam

City Christmas Lights

 

We started our adventure travelling by bus into the city.  We visited the Myer Christmas windows and Brumby read us the story.  We ventured downstairs in the Myer Centre for the

 divine cuisine of McDonalds for dinner and then headed over to King George Square to await the lighting of the huge Christmas Tree.  The top star on the tree is actually solar panels and the whole tree is solar powered.

 While we waited and waited and waited and waited oh sorry got carried away. . . . . and then we waited a bit more they finally decided to light it all up so we could go home.  Unfortunately it was a VERY long wait the Joeys were all amazing and had great game of go fish while we waited (it was good to see that they will be up on card games by the time they get to Rovers).  It was good to see the tree light up we all said "Awww" then some cheers went up and we headed home.

Under Water World Sleepover

 

 

Wow what an experience. We met at Underwater World with 35 of us all buzzing with excitement ready for our adventure ahead. We had been joined by some of the Oakleigh Joeys as well. What a night we were in for. . . .

 

We started in the Weird and Wonderful area seeing Lion Fish, Sea horse,  Nemo, Stone Fish and many more.

Then we headed in for our private Seal show which the kids all enjoyed the funny tricks they got up to where we learnt that the seals did all their tricks following hand signals not by sound.

 

 

We moved on to the Ray pool and then the Touch and Feel area where we got to touch star fish, sea cucumbers and learnt how they feed and move through the water.

 

After being well fed with dinner we moved on to the Rehab area behind the scenes where we saw lots of turtles who were found to be floating in the wild and had been brought into Under water world for help.  The Joeys also learnt how important it was for rubbish to go into bins rather than the ground where they wash down into our waterways affecting our wildlife.

We were then able to feed the fish and rays in the tunnel from above the tunnel which was quite amazing to see them all jump up for the food.  We didn't hold our hands over though just in case they got the wrong idea on what was food and what wasn't.

We set ourselves up in the tunnel for the night and although we were all very tired by now the experience of having sting rays and sharks swimming above us was one to enjoy.

Eventually we all slept . . . . Eventually.

Next morning we watched the seals play underwater with us.  It was amazing to watch them follow our hand movements blowing kisses to us all through the glass.

We then saw all the otters and watched them play in their enclosure. There were also more than one Joey wanting to take them home as pets.


Finally we went back down into the tunnel for one final look before it was time to head out and go home.  We were tired, but had had then best time and the kids all certainly enjoyed the experience.

A special Thank you to all the Parents who came with us it certainly helped to make the night a success.

Botanical Gardens Visit

Brumby had prepared a "spot it" book for us to complete as we followed the hide and seek trail at the botanical gardens.  We also visited the Japanese Garden, and played some parachute games in the park, spoted some ducks and turtles and no one fell in the pond.  A day well planned.

Pirate Night

Argghh  me hearty's.  It was talk like a pirate night we played lots of nautical games and dressed like a pirate to eat lots of chocolate. 

Campfire Night

Toasting marshmallows and singing around a campfire.  This was our Joeys introduction to the scouting campfire traditions.

Joey Jaunt

We started our Jaunt with Rock wall climbing which was quite touch on the little muscles to get them up the wall.  We also discovered with the Activity co ordinators that some of our Joeys didn't have enough body weight to then get back down and had to be rescued from the top by the instructors.  An interesting way to start the day.

 

We enjoyed lots of different activities including singing, obstacle courses, building with cardboard boxes, Water rockets and creating paper aeroplanes.

We explored old army jeeps and

Raced around in Chariots

 

And we ended the day with a Go cart race.  It was lots of fun!

Visiting Samford Joey Mob

Well Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble it was all about science at Samford Joeys tonight and our Joeys had the best time. We were all kept very busy at different bases with sinking and floating, Dry Ice, Static Electricity and Exploding Lunch bags

 

Everybody's Birthday

We all had a lot of fun tonight with all your favourite party games. 

Pass the Parcel

Musical Carpet Squares

Mintie Hunt

Pin the Tail on the Donkey

And we topped it all off with Chocolate Cupcakes

The Joeys were all excited to receive their Joey Birthday Badge for their camp blanket too.

Happy 21st Birthday to Joeys in Qld.

Term 3 Are we up for the Challenge

The Program and Newsletter tabs have just been updated get in for all your fun and exciting news and plans for the coming term.  Should be a good one :)

Our Cardboard Rockets

The Joeys were all completely absorbed in creation on Friday night as we followed on from our trip to the Planetarium and created our own cardboard rockets.  Here are some of our creations.

Visit to the Planetarium

Wow what a great adventure we had today. 

The Joeys were all very entertained by the "Secret of the Cardboard Box"  Which was a great show that took us past and into all the planets in our solar system.  The Joeys all seemed to enjoy the experience and we had a good look around at the space suit and pictures of the planets and the displays in the planetarium. 

Thanks to Bagheera who joined us for the event and to all the parents for driving the Joeys out to the Botanical Gardens.

To look up what other shows are on at the Planetarium go to http://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/facilities-recreation/arts-and-culture/planetarium/whats-on-at-the-planetarium/index.htm?trumbaEmbed=filterview%3Dchildren_shows  You can also be linked through Facebook if you are on there.

We were told there will be some good shows on in the holidays as well.

Annual General Meeting

The Gap Scout Group AGM will be held on Saturday 2nd June from 2pm at the den.  All parents are encouraged to attend this meeting.  This is straight after our Planetarium visit so you can drop back to the den after pick up at 1.30 in time ready for the meeting.

We hope to see you all there.

B'Nona, Bandicoot and Brumby

Things that go Bump in the night

Our first sleepover and a test run for later in the year.  After meeting together at B'Nona's house we went for a walk to the creek and fed the ducks and looked for other animals around.  Then came back for a sausage sizzled movie and some sleep eventually.

Anzac Day March

We had 8 Joeys participate in the Anzac Day March this year.  It was great to have so many there to support those who serve our country today and in the past. The Joeys all did an amazing job of marching down Waterworks Rd and then sat beautifully throughout the service.  We were very proud of all your efforts.  Well Done.

Here we are up and running

Welcome to our first Blog post on our Joey Mob Blog.   YAY! 

Our Mob has been running very smoothly in the past few weeks and it has been great sharing fun times with all of our Joeys.

Last week Ethan and Joshua were invested into our Mob.  Well done to you both and we look forward to sharing lot of fun times together.

Stay tuned for more fun events to be listed and posted about.

B'Nona

Easter Bingo at Keperra Retirement Village

We visited the residence at Keperra Sanctuary to play Easter Bingo.  Well I don't think we were prepared for how much the residents enjoyed the experience.  We must have played bingo at least 3 times over and then the Joeys worked on an impromptu concert with some Easter songs.  It was a lovely time had by all.

Venturers Visit Joeys

Our venturers came to run a night for us and made us Ice Cream Spiders.  They were very yummy and the Joeys all enjoyed playing with the Venturers for the night.