Written by: Evangel Wong, Assistant Senior Sixer & Scribe
“BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!BEEEEP! HORSE
SHOE!” The senior sixers blew their whistle and yelled for horse shoe. It was
the first meeting after the recruit's camp. All the cubs ran into their horse
shoe position and the recruits standing at the back of the horse shoe. After
all the horse shoe procedures, everyone gathered in Indian file, with the
recruits in two groups. Mrs Koh then assigned the recruits to go to their
respective six, as the six warmly welcomed the new recruits in their team.
Once everybody settled down, the sixers had to record down the new
information about their own cubs. After that was all done, Kaa explained to us the activity for today .....
Each six was going to make one
bridge and one tower out of newspaper! We thought it was impossible!!! Kaa then told us the rules and the challenge... we
had to build a tower and a bridge in a way so that it can hold a tennis ball
for at least 5 seconds! But of course the more tennis balls it can hold the
better !
Each six can only start by having 10 sheets of newspaper.
If a six wanted more, a recruit had to recite either the scout law or scout
promise to the senior sixers and they would get 1 sheet. Kaa wanted to teach us about the 3R’S (
Recycle, Reuse and Reduce)
1,2,3 and GO! It was time to start, time to put on our thinking caps!
Time passed quickly, and it was time to STOP! Kaa and the teachers walked around testing and measuring each six’s newspaper construction, awarding each six with points. After
all the grading was done, everyone cleared up the mess. Once the kidzone was
spotless, the senior sixers commanded for horse shoe for the dismissal.
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