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To enhance their learning skills in a fun and playful manner, Brainfeed has brought brand new children’s educational magazine, Brainfeed Primary, exclusively for 6-8 age group.

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This issue contains stories, amazing facts, thematic topic information, quiz, jokes, craft and other fun activities in colourful layouts and easy to read text. Children will enjoy reading, gain knowledge, and learn age appropriate skills.

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Stories capture the children’s imagination and will encourage them to think out-of-the box. At the same time, they will improve their reading skills and will know about different aspects of life through fun.

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‘Back to school with a bang’ feature focuses on preparing children for new academic year with high spirits. ‘Use water smartly’ is an informative feature that brings awareness in children about using water carefully. The Birds pull-out poster is for wall display. Academic skill sheets would help children develop problem-solving skills and analytical skills.

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Volume I

Editorial

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Back to School with a Bang!

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Use Water Smartly!

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Short Story

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Issue 1

June 2016

Yummy Tummy!

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Creative Corner

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Sports

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Quiz

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Picture Story

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Best Buddy

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Handwriting

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Art and Craft

31

Blowing Bubbles

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Children’s Column

32

Parenting

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Healthy Habits

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Encouraging Hobbies

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Fun Activities

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Animal World

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Yoga through Alphabet 38

Birds Poster

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Button Art

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cover story

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fter a long and happy vacation, it’s time children got back to school. To make a good beginning one must plan ahead.

Find all the words that are related to the school.

One is done for you.

Every child feels excited about going back to school. Remember hanging out with friends, meeting new classmates, buying new school supplies and of course showing off. Isn’t this fun?

Get Organized Check your school schedule – at what time school begins and ends each day.

Discuss with your mother and plan a healthy breakfast and lunch menu to be followed once the school begins.

Keep your uniform and other school stationery ready before hand. Take advantage of the offers available in the market for different school products and spend money wisely.

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“I am very excited to be back at school. I’m looking forward to meeting my friends and teachers. I want to play sports and learn new subject concepts too.”

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Talk to your class teacher along with your parents, and find out her expectations about your school work and plan accordingly.

Discuss with your friends Call and talk to your friends about new things at school in the new academic year. This will reduce your anxiety and help you will feel confident.

So children, gear up to begin a new and eventful academic year. Happy Schooling!

Use Water Smartly

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ater covers 71% of earth’s surface and remaining part is land. Water is mainly found in oceans and other large water bodies. Though water covers major part of our earth, only a small quantity of it is pure and the rest is salty.

Pure water is used for drinking purpose.

World Environment Day June 5

Water is a natural healer. Drinking lots of water everyday keeps one fit and strong. One must drink at least 6 to 8 glasses of water every day. Use water carefully. Do not waste water.

A person cannot live without water for more than a week.

Today water pollution is also a major problem.

Some things like detergents, oils, insecticides, food waste and garbage that human beings are carelessly throwing away are contaminating the water in lakes, rivers, seas and oceans. All the waste should be disposed carefully to keep the water clean and usable.

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WATER Activity

Arrange a large vessel in your garden and collect rain water in it. Use this water to water the plants.

Do not leave the tap water running when you are brushing your teeth.

Water used to wash vegetables and fruits can be used for plants.

Fix leaking taps immediately.

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Harvest rain water.

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short story

The P roud Monkey Listen

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Once upon a time, some sailors set sail on their boat to visit a faraway country. One of the sailors, Gavin, brought his pet monkey along with him.

One morning, when the boat was in the middle of the sea, a big storm turned the boat upside down.

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2 All the sailors and the monkey fell into the water. The monkey could not swim and it tried to get hold of something to save itself. Just then, a dolphin came and lifted the monkey out of water. Soon, they reached an island and the monkey jumped onto the shore.

Then, the dolphin asked the monkey, “Do you know this place?”

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“Yes, the king of this island is my friend,” replied the monkey.

The dolphin knew that nobody lived on the island.

So dolphin said, “Oh! Is that so? Now you can ask the help of your friend to get back home.”

The dolphin swam away.

The monkey shouted, “Hey! Wait!”

But the dolphin did not stop.

Now, the monkey understood that it is alone in the island.

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Yummy Tummy!

Strawberry

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trawberries are delicious and healthy too, aren't they?

Straw berries are rich in Vitamin C. They help develop your body resistance to fight against infections. Fresh strawberries when sliced and added to fruit salad taste good. You can eat them as snacks too. Strawberries tend to perish soon. So buy and eat them within a few days. Here is a yummy strawberry recipe for you.

It’s very easy and less time consuming recipe that you can try and enjoy at home.

Ingredients: • 2 sliced strawberries (for garnish) • 6 cups fresh strawberries • 3-4 scoops strawberry ice cream • 1/3 cup milk • ¼ whipping cream • 2 tablespoons sugar • 1 tablespoon lemon juice

Creamy Strawberry Milkshake

What to do?

United States is the largest producer of strawberries in the world Strawberries are the only fruits that have seeds on the outside The natural acids in strawberry help remove teeth stains

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Place entire ingredients into a blender. Now, blend the ingredients for few minutes until you get a smooth and creamy milkshake. If you like the milkshake little thinner then add some more milk. Pour the milkshake into a glass and garnish with sliced strawberries. Your milkshake is ready!

Sports

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ports are very important for children.

Children will learn and develop many physical and mental skills while playing.

Introducing the child to organized sports like tennis, football and so on needs some preparation.

By the time a child is five years old, the child learns to run, jump, kick and throw a ball to certain extent. Now they have to sharpen their skills and slowly learn complex activities.

What must parents do?

Every child is naturally active. So parents must take advantage of this fact and work on it. They must make sure that the child remains active through the day in a structured manner as mentioned below: • Children must get at least 60 minutes of physical activity under adult supervision.

• Children must get at least 60 minutes of free play.

• Children must not be inactive for more than an hour except while resting /sleeping.

Your child needs to participate in fun and challenging activities to develop required skills and coordination techniques for organized sports. Make sure to give your child a healthy and balanced diet to keep him/ her fit and strong.

Note: Introducing child to organized sport without understanding the fitness of the child will make it difficult for the child and may even discourage child’s future participation in sports.

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Rohan loved watching butterflies. One day‌.

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Oh! Lovely! This is a cocoon. A butterfly comes out of this.

I think the butterfly is not ready yet.

The next day, Rohan again went to see the cocoon.

Finally, one morning, the cocoon cracked a little.

For many days, Rohan watched cocoon eagerly.

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Butterfly tried hard to come out of the cocoon. But it could not.

Oh! Butterfly, I will help you.

Using scissors, Rohan made the crack bigger.

I am very excited!

Yippee! The butterfly is coming out slowly.

The butterfly has come out‌ but... it is unable to open its wings properly.. something is wrong...

to be continued...

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Handwriting

Fine Motor Skills is one of the secrets for the

Y. Mallikarjuna Rao

Best Handwriting

Director National Handwriting Academy, Hyderabad Email:handwriting56@gmail.com

For strong and supple wrists and fingers Fingers and wrist need to be supple and flexible for smooth and problem free writing. The following activities aim at developing fine motors skills for the strength and flexibility of the wrist and fingers.

Activity -

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Get some plastic clay, also called play dough. Make different shapes from it. You can use two or three different colours and form shapes and join them to form different forms like – you can make the head and hands of a man with one colour and the trunk with another, legs with another and join these to form the shape of a man.

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Activity Place your hand on a piece of paper. Trace out the shape using a pencil or pen. Ask the child to fill it with colours or buttons or peas etc. Later ask the child to place his hand on a sheet of paper and trace out the shape and then fill it similarly or use colours to fill it.

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Mix water colours or poster colours on a plate or bowl. Ask the child to dip fingers in the colour and paint different shapes using his fingers. He can make the shape of a flower drawing a circle in the middle and drawing the shapes of petals around.

Ask the child to experiment with different shapes. Since the child finds it easy to use his fingers and there is no need to control the movement of a brush, the child will enjoy the activity.

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Science

Blowing Bubbles!

Blowing bubbles is fun, isn’t it? Do you know that you can make bubbles solution on your own at home? Read on to know how to make bubbles. Enjoy blowing. Pop!

What You Need • Liquid dish soap • Distilled water or tap water • 2 table spoons of sugar • straw

What to do Take 6 cups of water into one container and add liquid dish soap into the water. Slowly stir it until the soap gets mixed completely.

Add sugar and again stir the solution. You can use this solution immediately to make bubbles. But to make better bubbles leave the solution for a night.

Dip the straw in the solution. Now slowly pull it out, wait for a few seconds and then blow. Your saop bubble is ready!

Why does a bubble pop?

A bubble is just air that is wrapped in soap and water (soap film). The outside and inside surfaces of a bubble contain soap molecules (small particles in soap). A thin layer of water lies between the two layers of soap molecules.

The soap and water together hold the air inside.

A bubble pops when the water trapped in between the layers of soap evaporates.

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parenting

Bringing Up

Happy Children

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happy child is what everybody wants at school and at home. A child’s overall development happens when cognitive skills, emotional skills, social skills and physical skills are all equally developed. A child can build these skills by his own experiences only.

Young children learn by doing. So elders must make sure they get a chance to learn through right experiences at school and at home.

A happy child prefers to spend the time developing the following qualities rather than being merely bookish.

Creativity

Critical thinking

Motivation Perseverance Curiosity Enthusiasm Kindness Optimism Fairness Confidence Cooperation Generosity Honesty Character

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As the new academic year has begun, children are ready to learn many new things at school and of course have fun too. Children should be encouraged to actively use all five senses to learn: seeing, touching, smelling, hearing and tasting. The more meaningful an experience, the more often a child will do it again and again. Each time an experience repeats, the child begins to build confidence and competence.

So the better communication between the parents and the teachers, the more the chances a child will learn confidently without any confusion. Positive experiences are always fun, age appropriate and encouraging. They help the child learn to play with others, benefit from good adult role models and develop new skills.

Teachers and parents together must make sure that a child has fun, loves to learn at school and at home and always stays fit and healthy.

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Hobbies

Encouraging Hobbies Developing hobbies in children at an early age is important for their social and emotional development. It also creates a positive impact on the self esteem and self confidence of a child. Hobbies will inculcate discipline and help in overall development of the child. For young children, collecting toys is an interesting hobby. They will enjoy collecting toys of different shapes and sizes.

Little girls love collecting Barbie dolls. Similarly, boys will find collecting toy cars interesting. Whatever is the hobby, children must seriously learn to stick to that hobby till certain period of time. They should keep their toys safely in a box and should not scatter them everywhere. Otherwise, the toys might get lost or broken and all the fun in collecting will also be lost.

Ruth Handler is the creator of Barbie doll. The first Barbie doll was introduced in both blonde and brunette in March 1959.

Ruth got inspired by his little daughter Barbara’s interest and love towards fashion dolls.

“My whole philosophy of Barbie was that through the doll, the little girl could be anything she wanted to be. Barbie always represented the fact that a woman has choices.”

1. Which two things you can't do during breakfast?

3. I’m full of keys, but I can’t open any door! Who am I? 4. People buy me to eat on but never eat me! Who am I? 5. Why do ducks fly south?

6. Who comes to a picnic but is never invited?

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Answers 1. Eating Lunch and Dinner!

2. Pillow 3. Piano 4. Plate 5. Because it’s too far to walk!

6. Ants

2. What loses its head in the morning and gets back at night?

Animal World

Cheetah

Listen

Cheetah is the world’s fastest land animal. It is also known as hunting leopard. While running, cheetah uses its tail to steer like a rudder of a boat.

Cheetahs are mostly found in eastern and southwestern Africa. Very few of them can be seen living in Iran.

Cheetahs are the only big cats that hunt during the day.

Woolly Mammoth Have you seen ‘Ice Age Movie’?

How was the big woolly mammoth?

It was huge and amazing. Isn’t it?

Well, this big woolly mammoth is an extinct relative of today’s elephants. Mammoths lived during the ice age period and are believed to have died because of change in weather conditions. They were herbivores and ate leaves, bushes, willow and fir. It is believed that they ate around 700 pounds of grass and leaves each day!

• A cheetah has 2000-3000 spots on its body • Today we can find fewer than 10,000 cheetahs in the wild, far less than 1,00,000 cheetahs a hundred years ago • The tusks of mammoths were very long, nearly 5 meters.

Whoa! Mammoths used these tusks for fighting and digging in the snow

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creative corner

Drawing

Thumb Drawing

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Tick [

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1. Who among the following is popularly 6. Which of the following is a string called ‘Chacha’? instrument?

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2. Which animal carries its baby in its pouch? 7. Which of the following is a healthy food?

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3. Circle the bird that cannot fly.

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8. Identity the flowers and write names.

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4. Identify the cartoon character popularly 9. Circle the tallest animal. called Mickey Mouse.

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5. What is the national sport of India?

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10. Which sense organ helps us to taste the food?

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BEST BUDDY Best buddy

Doraemon

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Doraemon Every child loves to watch the weird robot cat, Doraemon. Initially, Doraemon was started as a comic character by Japanese manga series and was created by Fujiko F. Fujio, a Japanese comic writer.

This series was first published in December 1969, simultaneously in six different magazines. Nearly 1,345 stories were created as part of original series and were published by ShoganKukan. The stories extended to forty-five volumes.

In 1979, a newly established animation studio, Shin-Ei Animation produced the animation series of Doraemon, which became very popular.

MS-903 is Doraemon’s production code.

facts • Doraemon was originally painted in yellow colour.

• In the beginning, Doraemon had a pair of ears, but were bitten off by rats.

• Doraeman was very depressed after losing his ears. He cried and cried for a long time.

Gradually, his yellow colour faded into blue, which we see today.

• The birthday of Doraemon is observed on 3 September. He was manufactured in Matsushiba robot factory.

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What do children learn from Doraemon episodes?

Watching Doraemon, children grow up learning many values like friendship, courage, respect towards elders, family bonding and integrity.

They also learn various environmental and social aspects that are very important for every child to know.

ART & CRAFT

Paper Plate Clown Get a paper plate, glue, scissors, googly eyes and colour papers. Use colour papers and make two hands, cap, eye brows, nose and a mouth for the clown under adult supervision. Now paste the different parts on the paper plate as shown. Your paper plate clown is ready!

It’s interesting, isn’t it?

Colourful Rainbow Take required colour papers and tear them into small pieces. Now paste them in the rainbow as shown.

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Children‘s Column

The Bumble Bee ‘Buzz, buzz, buzz’ said the Bumble bee Here it comes, he’s after me Oh no, he’s not, for I can see He’s is on his way to the apple tree.

Sowmya, I Std. Jahnavi, II Std.

My Toothpaste Got my tooth paste, got my brush I won’t hurry, I won’t rush Making sure, my teeth are clean, Front and back and in between When I brush for quite a while, I will have a happy smile.

Naveen, II Std.

Zaid, II Std.

Sherly, II Std.

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Healthy Habits Learning and practising healthy habits is very important for children. The habits that children learn in the childhood last a lifetime. Earlier a child learns good, healthy habits, the easier it is to retain and follow them in later life.

Wake up early in the morning.

Flush the toilet after using it.

Brush your teeth twice daily, in the morning and at night.

Take a bath everyday to stay clean and tidy.

Wash your hand with soap before eating.

Parent Tip Sometimes a lazy child doesn’t show interest in learning. In such case understand the child’s unique methods, strengths and needs and motivate the child in the best

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fun activities

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fun activities Find the two similar pictures.

Match the animals with their food.

What does not fit ?

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fun activities

Show the way

Help the mouse to reach the cheese.

How many horses do you see ?

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do and learn Circle the action words below.

Match the animals with their homes.

Complete the crossword with the help of the clues given.

Horse Hive

Dog Den

Bees Stable

Tiger Coop

Across 1. A ------- of people.

2. A ------- of cattle.

3. A ------- of books.

4. A -------- of bananas.

5. A -------- of players.

Hen Kennel

Down 1. A ----------- of sailors.

7. A ----------- of fish.

8. A ---------- of flowers.

9. An -------- of soldiers.

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YOGA through alphabet

Courtesy: www.abcyogaforkids.com

Every year ‘International Yoga Day’ is celebrated on June 21.

Yoga develops body awareness in children and they also learn how to use their bodies in a healthy manner. It helps them build concentration and reduce stress.

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button art

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Austria

Canada

Bangladesh

Bahrain

Brunei

Bulgaria

Chile

China

Cyprus

Denmark

Finland

France

Hongkong

India

Ireland

Italy

Flags Egypt

Germany

Estonia

Great Britain

Iran

Iraq

Japan

Jordan

A flag is the symbol of unity, honour and freedom of a country.

A country uses its flag to portray itself to the rest of the world. Take a look at different country flags.

Indonesia

Iceland

Kazakstan

Korea

Kuwait

Lebanon

Libya

Malaysia

Netherlands

Nigeria

Norway

Oman

Pakistan

Palestine

Philippines

Qatar

Romania

Russia

Saudi Arabia

Singapore

South Africa

Spain

Sudan