Treehouse Vol 1 Issue 9

Dhaka Tribune Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Volume 1, Issue 9

Tales From the City Episode 9: welcome home

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Jonaki's Headquarters Hey Friends!

We tried a couple of new things last week, and we hope you enjoyed them. This week, we have some oldies but goodies for you.

Amazing Facts are back, with the maze puzzle. After visiting China last week, this week, we’re going to Ancient Rome. We

also have some math tricks for you to try making schoolwork easier.

Do let us know if there’s something else you’d like to see in the Treehouse.

Send us your drawings and poems! We love hearing from you! Write to us at treehouse@dhakatribune.com

Love Jonaki

A weekly production of

DhakaTribune Acting Editor Zafar Sobhan

Magazine Editor Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Treehouse Team Sabiha Mahmud Sumi Tashhid Abdullah Rubab Nayeem Khan Munira Fidai Afshan Sattar Azfar Rahman Natasha Rahman Saudia Afrin Contributor ASM Foysal Apurba Karmaker

Solution: The sleeping gentleman is the theif. The magazine on his head has been turned round, indicating that he has left his chair, presumably to steal the wallet.

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Cartoonist Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy Graphics Sabiha Mahmud Sumi Mohammed Mahbub Alam Production Masum Billah Advertising Shahidan Khurshed Circulation Wahid Murad Email treehouse@dhakatribune.com Website www.dhakatribune.com

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2 Discobang’s pad

Sports Star Chris Gayle Super hero of the week Superman Word on the Street Raihan Learn English Kids Paint it

3 Tales from the city Welcome Home

4 Dr Meow’s Lab

Animal facts Prairie dog DIY Edible Colour bombs Fun Science Water surface tension Pet tips Taking care of baby chicks

5 Speedy’s Zone

Book Doll Bones Movie Return to Nim’s Island Toy Stretch, bounce and play!

Video game Plant. Sow. Relax.

Music Mister Rogers’ Music

6 Bhootum’s Classroom Amazing facts Math tricks; History facts Wizard of ID

Discobang's Pad

superman

Alter ego Clark Kent Place of origin Krypton Team affiliations Justice League, Legion of Super-Heroes

SPORT'S STAR

2 super hero Partnerships Batman and Wonder Woman Notable aliases Gangbuster, Jordan Elliot, Nightwing, Nova, Superboy Abilities Superhuman strength, speed, stamina, invulnerability, flight, freezing breath, superhuman hearing, and multiple extrasensory and vision powers

word on the street

Holding out!

Chris Gayle

Life sometimes teaches us a huge deal at a very tender age; about responsibility, one’s family and how you do need to sacrifice a little. But no sacrifice is too big when it comes to his mother, says Raihan – the 11 year old boy who sells toys on the roads of Rayer Bazar.

Being the only child, he has to help his single mother and even though Raihan would have loved to go to school and play during the rest of his

learn english kids

paint it!

Here are the names of four rooms: kitchen, living room, bedroom, bathroom Paint the things you normally find in the living room purple.

bedside table

wardrobe

birthday cards shower

Paint the things you normally find in the bedroom green.

bed

television fridge

armchair

Paint the things you normally find in the kitchen pink.

bath

magazines

sofa

toilet sink

Paint the things you normally find in the bathroom blue.

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PINK/ late cake, birthday cake, bread Answers PURPLE/BAKERS choco NGROCERS aste, shampoo GREEN/GREE CHEMISTS toilet paper, toothp card, BLUE/NEWSAGENTS birthday tomatoes, bananas, potatoes newspapers, magazines

Name Christopher Henry Gale Born September 21, 1979 Birthplace Jamaica Teams West Indies cricket team; Worcestershire, Royal Challengers Bangalore; Stanford Superstars; Dhaka Gladiators; Western Warriors Position All-rounder (Batting preferable) Batting style Left-handed Bowling style Right arm off break Career statistics (ODI) Total matches - 242 Runs scored - 8,442 Batting average - 38.85 No of 100s - 20 No of 50s - 45 Highest score - 175 Balls bowled - 7,026 Wickets taken - 157 This year you will be seeing Gayle play for Dhaka Gladiators in Bangladesh premier League (BPL).

day like other kids, Raihan’s love for his mother outshines every other joy in life.

This 11 year old is proud of himself and says in an enthusiastic tone that he is happy with his work because at the end of the day he is able to lessen his mother’s burden, even if it is by a tiny bit. Yes, sometimes life does teach us a lot … and sometimes we just need someone else to tell us the story. Tasmia Nahreen Ahmed

Source: Jaago Foundation www.jaago.com.bd

Tahmeed Shadab

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Treehouse Comics

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Created by Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Story by Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Illustration by Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy

Tales From the City

Episode 9: welcome home

The story Welcome Home Jonaki’s first sight of the City was of traffic jams. Will she find a home in the Treehouse? Let’s read and find out.

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Dr Meow's Lab Fun

Science

Water Surface Tension

diy

Edible Colour Bombs!

Rainbow cupcakes are an easy and fun way to add some oomph to vanilla cakes!

Step 1 Get hold of some vanilla cake batter!

Step 2 Divide the batter evenly between six small bowls.

Step 3 Put two drops of each of these food colourings into the first five bowls: red, orange, yellow, green and blue.

For the last bowl, add one drop of red with two drops of blue to make purple! So now you have 6 different colours!

Step 4 Prepare the cupcake tray by lining them with white cupcake wrappers Step 5 Drop in a tablespoon of the purple batter, and then a tablespoon of the blue batter and so on till you reach the top of the rainbow. (Purple, then blue, then green, then yellow, then orange, then red).

Step 6 Preheat oven to 180C and bake for 18 minutes. Let those colour bombs cool before you frost them with white buttercream! Add a dash of rainbow sprinkles to finish it off.

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In this experiment we will see how soap works to clean the body and help remove stains from clothes.

This experiment explains how cleaning has nothing to do with dirt; rather it has everything to do with the soap’s reaction to the water!

What you’ll need: a bowl of water, some black pepper, and a bar of soap.

Step 1 Sprinkle black pepper into the bowl of water (which is a combination of oxygen and hydrogen) Step 2 Place one of your fingers into the water and watch how the pepper clings to it.

Step 3 Remove your finger from the water.

Clean the finger, and then dry it.

Step 4 Rub soap over the clean finger.

Step 5 Place your soaped finger back into the water. Can you see how the pepper flees from your finger?

The pepper had nothing to do with it! The soap that was rubbed onto the finger changed the water’s surface tension.

The water is a combination of hydrogen (which has a positive electric charge) and oxygen (which has a negative electric charge), so that water molecules actually hold together almost like tiny magnets.

These tiny magnet-like molecules create such a tight surface that pepper alone cannot break it. It is also the reason why light bugs can walk across water like animals and humans do on land.

Soap, however, has a component that breaks apart the molecules, unlocking the water magnets, scattering the pepper. This is why soap works as a cleaning agent. It causes the water molecules to loosen up, and not to hold on tightly. This is how soap manages to clean you and your clothes! Afshan Sattar

PET TIPS

little ball of feathers Baby chicks are without a doubt the most adorable things. Let’s face it we all go “aww” when we see a poofy yellow baby chick.

But drooling over its cuteness won’t be enough to take care of it. Here’s what you need to know about caring for baby chicks.

Nursery If you are planning on keeping more than one baby chick then you should make a proper nursery for it. A nursery must include a cage. Find a cage which is big enough to fit more than one baby chick. Make sure it’s big enough so that your baby chicks don’t fight for territorial rights!

Warmth Baby chicks need warmth because they are so fragile. But you cannot go overboard with the warmth dose.

Therefore you must place a 250 watt

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light bulb 18 inches above the bottom of the cage. Be careful with the warmth though. The last thing you would want is to grill your precious baby chick.

Food Feed your baby chicks flavoured foods like rice, bits of tomatoes, fresh corn and of course chicken feed. Never feed sweets, meat, cake or eggs to your baby chick.

Water Frequently change the water in their cage. You wouldn’t want a dehydrated baby chick chugging down dirty water.

Affection manual This isn’t a cat or a dog, so you can’t hug it too hard or play ups-a-daisy with it. You’ll just be scaring the life out of the tiny little thing. Pet it gently; and make sure it doesn’t run out of your sight. Rubab Nayeem Khan

Animal facts

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Not your Usual Pup Prairie dogs are found in grass lands in North America.

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They are herbivorous mammals whose diet consists of grass, insects, small seeds, roots, fruits, and buds.

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They live in underground burrows and dwell as a community.

These communities are called towns. Each town covers less than half a square mile. The largest recorded prairie dog town covered some 25,000 square miles.

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They use their dichromatic color vision to detect predators from a great distance. High pitched calls are used to alarm the other prairie dogs from approaching predators.

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They are often considered to be pests for digging up burrows and spoiling harvested roots.

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During the 20th century, 98 percent of prairie dogs were extinguished.

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Speedy's Zone PLANT. SOW. RELAX Barb has been working so hard at her job at Big Corp, that she doesn’t even know how to relax. When her boss puts her on vacation so that she can chill out, she has no idea what she should do. Visiting her friend Flo at the diner, she realises that by starting a small gardening company on her roof, she can relax and enjoy the thrill of doing something new. That’s where the fun starts.

book

Movie

Garden Dash is a time-management flash game from Playfirst Games. In each level, you get customers requesting a certain type of plant that you will have to grow. Each plant requires a different routine for care, and each level gets a little harder as you have to deal with all these different plants to grow. It’s a fun, fast-paced game, with enough variety to keep kids busy for a long time, and helps build time-management skills as well as teach about plant care. sabrina fatma ahmad

music

return to nim’s island doll bones Author Holly Black Genre Horror Age 10 Treehouse Rating 4/5 Parental Advisory While Doll Bones is creepy, it’s not violent. The story deals with the unexplained death of a girl years ago.

The three main characters struggle through pre adolescent changes and disturbed family backgrounds.

They do not inform their parents before leaving on their overnight adventure.

The Story 12 year old Zach is coaxed by his father into leaving action figures and imaginative storytelling that he enjoys with his childhood friends, Poppy and Alice. But when Poppy claims of dreaming that their doll is controlled by the spirit of a young girl, who will haunt them until they give it a proper burial, confused Zach sets off with his friends all the same.

Any Good?

Doll Bones is an eerie tale for non violent kids. The author beautifully highlights the confusing turning points of childhood when children leave their imaginative world behind for older pursuits, like sports and dating.

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Return to Nim’s Island is an adventure-fantasy film with messages about friendship and perseverance. This movie is a sequel to the 2008 production, Nim’s Island. The setting is the same as its prequel, a remote and idyllic South Pacific Island but the cast is completely different.

Nim and Edmund both are now fourteen years old. Nim is still a tomboy but not entirely uninterested in boys. When Edmund runs away to the island because of trouble at home, he unfortunately brings a trio of poachers with him.

The poachers want to build an elaborate tourist resort and they begin vetting Nim’s home and harming the wildlife. With Nim’s dad away in Brisbane, the responsibility falls to Nim and Edmund to save the island from the poachers. There are some tense and perilous moments when poachers trap Nim’s animal friends and threaten her friend’s and her life. Saudia afrin

MUST PLAY VIDEO GAME

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stretch, bounce and play!

Mister Rogers’ Music

Kids today may not remember the joys of shows like Mister Rogers Neighbourhood, with their emphasis on life lessons, and feel good fun.

Now that Youtube is back, there’s a way for them to enjoy the best of these PBS kids’ shows ... in the form of music.

PBS Digital Studios have their own Youtube channel. In one of their recent projects they’ve taken some of the inspirational messages from shows like Mister Rogers Neighbourhood and Reading Rainbow, and used the magic of auto-tune to turn them into wonderful music videos that have just the right listening materials for kids.

They sound great too. “We can sing together” from Mister Roger is our favourite.

Find the songs at http://www.youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios Positive messages 5/5 Positive role models 5/5 Fun factor 3/5 Sabrina Fatma Ahmad

Slinkys are the age old formula for fun, fun and more fun! Available in fun rainbow colours, in a variety of sizes and made in plastic, metal etc, they are one toy you never outgrow.

Slinkys are toys made of helical spring that can stretch and bounce up and down. Kids can spend hours balancing Slinkys in the palms of their hands and with a little force transfer their weight coil by coil, from one palm of their hand to the other.

Not only do they provide great visual effects, they are also safe enough for kids to use and big enough so that chokings hazards are out of the question.

It’s best to buy plastic ones which don’t tangle easily or can be detangled easily when they do. Buy them at your nearest toy store and treat your child to hours of fun and smiles each day! munira fidai

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