Henry Park Pelican (Cub) Scout

Written by Foo Zhen Xi, Sixer & Scribe I had just logged into the scouts zoom call ready in my uniform. Raksha warmly greeted everyone then it was time for horseshoe flag raising. After that, Rui Min the senior sixer, conducted 1 minute of silence then we started the day. Kaar broke us up into our breakout rooms to make of robot out of recycled materials with a theme. My six decided to do a compartment robot with a lot of compartments to hold things and our theme was the earth, along the lines of recycling. I made my robot by cutting open a box then put two cups on top and two on the sides. I then cut out some blue recycled paper into circles then drew green spots on them and stuck it to my robot. I checked with my six to see if they were doing okay and luckily they were all doing fine.  After that we got called back into the main meeting room to present our robots. I represented my six this time. Finally after seeing every sixes robots, it was my turn to present my robot. It went

Written by Caitlyn Lam, Asst Sixer & Scribe  That Saturday, Dragonheart taught us about the topic Map and Compass. He showed us 16 directions, North, South, East, West, North-east, South-east, South-west, North-west and more.  Then he showed us maps and taught us bearing. He said to find a landmark, look at the map and spin the map, until the landmark that is infront of you is also at the top of the map.  After that he taught us how to read and write MGR. I specifically liked that activity because it challenged me to see very small dots. It was so fun that I did it again and again and again.