About Cedar Youth Wing

Vision: World Ready Youths, Ready to serve, Ready to lead

Mission: Develop the leader within

Value: Integrity, Perseverance, Excellence

To aim, to strive, to triumph

image takend from National Youth Council

String figures

Did you know that in some parts of the world kids know how to make dozens and dozens of amazing string figures? Making string figures is a pastime that kids and adults throughout the world have enjoyed for thousands of years.

String figures are really fun to make! Long before TV, or even books, people were using string figures to illustrate the stories they told around the campfire.

What are string figures?

String figures are designs formed from nothing more than a loop of string. Most of the time, people use their fingers to weave string figures, but sometimes, they also use their toes, knees, elbows, and mouth. The result is often a fabulous pattern!

Who invented them, and why?

No one knows for sure. String figures were once known to nearly all native inhabitants of East Asia, Australia, Africa, the Arctic, the Americas, and the Pacific Islands. In fact, some designs are believed to be ancient, perhaps dating from the stone age. Their function varied from place to place. In some locations, string figures provided a much needed artistic outlet -- competitions were held to see who could make the most interesting design. In other locations, string figures were used by tribal storytellers to illustrate their tales. Elsewhere, string figures served as good luck charms to help ensure a bountiful harvest or a successful hunt. But in most locations, string figures were made simply to kill time!

Some interesting patterns
(see if u can identify e picts formed using e string)

the string game!

Homecoming

Homecoming for ex-cedarians to launch the opening of Cedar Youth Wing

Water Babies? Are they alive?

Water Babies, if u haven noticed, are the most IN thing now. What it actually is remains a mystery to all. Some claim that these UFO (unidentified floating objects) aka water babies can multiply like a amoeba if u put in a BOY water baby & a GIRL water baby, others claim that plants or some other weird living things have grown out of these water babies.

after doing a check online, i found out that these so called water babies are actually just water crystals and contary to popular beliefs, it is NOT a living thing, NOR a baby.

How Water Crystals Work

Water Crystals are odorless white water-absorbing polymers that absorb and hold water. These little water crystals absorb up to 400 times their weight in water, and expand to many times their original size to make beautiful clear gel-like water crystals.


Some of the uses include
- Water used in floating candle displays
- Fresh flower arrangements
- Growing plants without soil
- Hand crafts and home decorating
- ice/heat packs.

These water crystals are most commonly used in gardens and farms as they are useful in capturing excess irrigation in any type of gardening or farming. They also help keep the soil moist, creating a healthier growing environment.

more info @ howstuffworks

what a search in youtube turned up

so cedar primary has left its footprints on youtube. this graduation clip's quite interesting. do hope we can have more clips of cedar primary popping up on youtube soon :)

cheerios & nice job to e graduated batch of cedarians year 2006.