Brainfeed primary 1 mar 2018

Volume II Issue 10 `65 March 2018

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Be Safe, Prevent Accidents

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Be Safe, Prevent Accidents

Volume II • Issue 10 • March 2018

INSIDE Cover

story......... 04-05

Centre Spread....... 18-27

Story................. 06

Amazing Animal....... 28-29

Safety ............... 07

Environment......... 30-31

Health ............ 08-09

Art.................. 32

Best Buddy. ........ 10-11

Craft................ 33

Special Feature......... 12

Celebration............ 34

Hobby................. 13

Quiz................. 35

Story................. 14

My Eyes Stronger........ 36

Kitchen Corner.......... 15

Fun Activities.......... 37

Picture Story......16 & 17

Hide

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Seek.......... 38

Inviting reports from schools

REPORTERS Dear children, Brainfeed Primary is having a column exclusively for young student reporters. Interesting events/activities/programmes/incidents happening in your school may be sent in lucid and simple English in 150 words. The writing should be of students’ own and creative!

The best selected report will be published in the Brainfeed Primary magazine and it could win the Best Journalist Award! So what are you waiting for? Hurry Up! Be the early bird!

Students may email their reports with a photo to info@brainfeedprimary.com

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Learn with Fun......... 39 Story................. 40 Event................. 41 Amazing Facts.......... 42 Activity. ............. 43

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Editorial

Chief Editor

Brahmam K V Group Editor

Venkat Pulapaka

Dear children,

Sub-Editor

Hope you all had a safe and colorful Holi! Safety is to be the utmost priority for anything might be electrical, water or on road. The cover story in this issue discusses about the safety week and how to follow the safety rules.

Vanalatha Reddy T Art & Design

Riaz Ahmed Artist Lakshmi D Circulation

Best Buddy column will introduce you to the domestic cat ‘Sylvester’. Know about the features of Motmots and Redhand Fish. Importance of water is discussed both in the Health and Environment column. There are many other interesting things for you as well.

Enjoy the stories and fun activities.

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Enjoy your summer break by learning different hobbies and one such is about leaf collection.

Have a funfilled and memorable summer break by utilising your time productively.

Happy Reading!!!

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Three little pigs

Boy and baby elephant

Good food and healthy food

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Cover Story - Rahul Kamath 4th March - 11th March, 2018 The National Safety Week Campaign is celebrated in India every year. It is organized by the National Safety Council to enhance the awareness of safety among people.

National Safety Council of India is a self-governing body which was established on 4th March, 1996 under the Societies Act in Mumbai. It is a national movement carried out annually to prevent and lessen the loss of life.

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It is celebrated with great enthusiasm to make young people aware of how to prevent the industrial accidents by exhibiting widespread safety awareness programmes.

During the whole week campaign celebration, varieties of specific activities are displayed to the people as per the safety requirements.

National Safety Week is celebrated on national level all over the country with many objectives, to make people aware about safety including the various health and environmental movements. To achieve the goal of developing and strengthening the SHE (Safety, Health and Environment) activities among people in their workplaces and renew the commitment of the employees towards safety and health at workplace.

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World Safety Day is celebrated on 28th April.

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Story - Rahul Kamath Listen

The lion and the mongoose were drinking water by the pond. The lion looked ferociously at the mongoose and said, “I want to eat you.”

Mongoose, unmoved, said, “What will you do eating me? I’m so small.

I won’t even fill your stomach.”

The lion said, “True. You are very small. What good can you be?” and walked away.

At night, when the lion was sleeping in his den and his cub was outside sleeping, a snake slithered by and was about to bite the cub, the mongoose jumped from the tree and fought valiantly against the snake and killed it.

The lion came out of his den and saw the snake dead with mongoose standing on top. The mongoose said, “Here’s your food.

And Oh! I may be small but I don’t go down without a fight.”

The lion felt bad for what he had said earlier and apologized to the Mongoose and they became good friends.

Moral: Don’t judge a book by its cover

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Safety

- Raell Bose Choking happens when an object or food gets stuck in the wind pipe in our throats.

It blocks the path of the air making it difficult for us to breath.

Tips to prevent choking: • Do not put small toys in your mouth • Chew your food properly • Don’t talk with food or water in your mouth

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Health

Water is called the elixir (magical cure) of life.

It is helpful to us in many ways

• It increases our energy • Helps in reducing weight

• Removes waste material from the bod • Improves skin • Makes us look young • Does not allow us to fall sick • It is a natural medicine for headache • It puts us in good mood

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KNO Drinking water makes your hair look healthy and shiny.

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Best Buddy

Sylvester the domesti in the Looney Tunes an series of cartoon is a fi

Sylvester mostly sticks speaking. He always tr the canary bird but fa to do s

Sylvester often finds a Granny’s house for th finding a

Observe the features of Sylvester. Draw and colour it.

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Listen

he domestic cat that appears y Tunes and Merrie Melodies rtoon is a fictional character.

stly sticks out his tongue while e always tries to eat Tweety, bird but fails in his attempts to do so.

ten finds a way to break into ouse for the sole purpose of finding a meal.

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In 1998 Sylvester and Tweety had their own postal stamps.

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Special Feature

- Raell Bose

Different phases of the moon were given different names by the Native Americans as a way to track the seasons and time of the year.

KNO

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The date of the pink full moon for this year is April 30.

YO DID U

The coming month of April, we will see a full moon named Pink Moon. No, it is not actually pink in colour! It was named after the pink wildflowers that grow in USA and Canada in spring time.

Pink moon is also known as “egg moon”, due to the egg-laying season It is also known as “fish moon”, as the shad fish swim upstream during this time of the year

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Hobby

- Rahul Kamath

There are over 60,000 species of trees in the world. Each tree has a different type of a leaf. No two trees have similar type of leaves. Leaf collection can be a thrilling hobby and as you collect leaves, you can identify the trees just by looking at each leaf. The leaves have to be pressed (dried) first and then they can be stuck in your notebook. Leaf collection is a dying art but you can revive it.

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KNO 1. Oils taken from some leaves have healing properties 2. Cactuses also have leaves on them

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Story Listen

A rabbit named Champu lived in a forest. He was very proud to have many friends.

One day, Champu heard that a hunter was looking for rabbits in the forest. He felt afraid and decided to ask for help. He quickly went to his friend deer. He said, “Dear friend, a hunter is looking for rabbits. Can you chase him away with your sharp antlers?”

The deer said, “That is right, I can. But, now I am busy. Why don’t you ask bear for help?”

Champu ran to the bear. “My dear friend, you are very strong. Please help me. A hunter is looking for rabbits. Can you please chase him away?” he requested the bear.

The bear replied, “I am sorry. I am hungry and tired. I need to find some food. Please ask the monkey for help.”

Poor Champu went to the monkey, the elephant, the goat and all his other friends. Champu felt sad that nobody was ready to help him.

He understood that he had to think of a way out by himself. He hid under a bush. He lay very still. The hunter didn’t find him and went away.

Champu rabbit learnt that he had to learn to survive by himself, not depending on his unhelpful friends.

Moral: It is better to rely on yourself than depend on others.

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Kitchen Corner

Ingredients: • 1 khakra • 2 slices of cheese • 1 cup aloo bhujiya • Butter

Method: • Spread some butter on the khakra • Place the 2 slices of cheese on it • Sprinkle aloo bhuijya on the cheese • Break into small pieces and eat the simple yet tasty snack

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Picture Story

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Named for their hand shaped fins, red handfish crawls on the seafloor with its limbs.

It lives along reef-sand junction, sandy areas, around and on top of rocks.

It eats small crabs, shrimps and worms.

There are two colour varieties – one with bright red and the other marked with red colour in between.

It grows from 6 cm to 13.5 cm long.

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Amazing Animal

MOTMOTS are birds of the world • The MOTMOTS are very colourful birds • They live in the forests, especially in Middle America • They have a very rich, bright plumage and a heavy bil.

• They eat small prey like insects and lizards and sometimes fruits • They nest in tunnels in banks laying about four white eggs.

• They are very clever birds • They know how to protect themselves • In case of danger they signal to each other by moving their tails back and forth

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Some species of the MOTMOTS are • Blue throated • Rufous • Rufous capped • Broadbilled • Keel-billed • Turquoise browed • Toddy • Amazonian • Andean • Blue capped • Russet crowned • Trinidad • Whooping Aren’t MOTMOTS amazing?

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Environment

- Nisha Biyani

Water is the most common liquid on earth.

• It covers about 71.4% of the

Earth’s surface • Only 3% of it is fresh water, the rest is salt water • The human body has 60% to 70% water

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Water is called unive because it dissolves everythin

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contain water inside • Living beings can survive without food but not without water • Water has no smell, taste or colour • When water freezes it turns into ice • When it is heated it turns into vapour

called universal solvent, t dissolves something of everything

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Art

THIS ACTIVITY DEVELOPS FINE MOTOR SKILLS

Join the dots and colour the picture

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Craft

You Need: • • • • • • •

Green Card Stock (2 sheets) Yellow Card Stock Scissors Stapler and Staples Glue Googly Eyes Red Balloon

Directions:

1. Fold one sheet of the green card stock in eighths 2. Repeat Step 1 using the yellow sheet of card stock 3. Fold a green strip of paper around and staple it. Loop a yellow strip through the green hoop and staple it.

Repeat the process till all of the strips of paper have been used 4. Cut one large and one small rounded triangle out of the other sheet of green card stock 5. Glue the large triangle onto the end of the paper chain for the snake’s head 6. Glue the small triangle onto the other end of the paper chain for the snake’s tail.

7. Glue the googly eyes onto the large triangle.

8. Glue the red balloon onto the large triangle for the snake’s tongue.

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Celebration - Rahul Kamath The Tulip Festival is an annual celebration held in Srinagar that aims to showcase the range of flowers in the garden as a part of tourism efforts by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir.

Srinagar celebrates Tulip Festival from April 1 to April 15 in the Indira Gandhi Memorial Tulip Garden, which is considered to be largest Tulip garden in Asia, situated at the foothills of the Zabarwan range in Srinagar, overlooking the Dal Lake. It was inaugurated in 2007 and is spread across 30 hectares.

The seven terraced garden was built with the intention to promote tourism and floriculture in Kashmir.

Tulips there range from simple whites to blushing pinks, from fiery reds to golden yellows, and hybrids with double colours.

Apart from tulips, many other species of flowers - hyacinths, daffodils and ranunculus have been added as well in the garden.

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Quiz

IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING PERSONALITIES

Jhansi Laxmi Bai A

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Sarojini Naidu

Kalpana Chawla

Indira Gandhi

Savitribai Phule

Mother Theresa

For Answers see page 43

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My Eyes Stronger

THIS ACTIVITY DEVELOPS COGNITIVE SKILLS

FIND 10 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE TWO PICTURES

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Fun Activities

THIS ACTIVITY DEVELOPS COGNITIVE SKILLS

WHAT DOES NOT FIT?

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Hide and Seek Match the picture with its number

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Match the correct shadow

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THIS ACTIVITY DEVELOPS COGNITIVE SKILLS

Learn with Fun

FILL THE MISSING LETTERS TO

COMPLETE THE CROSSWORD

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Story - Raell Bose Once, there were two friends, a donkey and a fox. They did everything together.

Listen

One day, when they were searching for food, they stopped by a hungry lion. The lion roared and said, “I will eat you for lunch!’.

The donkey got scared.

But the fox said, “I will go talk to the lion”.

The fox then showed his true cunning nature and told the lion that he would help him capture the donkey, but his life should be spared.

The lion agreed and the fox somehow tricked the donkey into falling into a deep pit. As soon as the donkey fell, the lion jumped onto the fox and ate him up!

He did not eat the donkey, as he would have himself got stuck in the pit if he jumped in to eat.

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Event - Raell Bose Did you know that we have a day to celebrate happiness?

Every year, on March 20 we celebrate ‘International Happiness Day’ all over the world.

On this day, we recognise that the search for happiness and being happy in life are the main goals for us, humans.

Happiness does not come from owning all the toys, it comes from being joyful about the ones you already have.

To be happy – • Develop a hobby • Be kind and help others • Smile

Note down or draw all the things that made you happy in the week. (Monday to Sunday)

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Amazing Facts Most people fall asleep in seven minutes

The Brain Mushroom is shaped like a brain

Bones are stronger than steel

Cheese is the most stolen food in the world

Eating too many carrots can turn your skin to orange colour

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Activity

THIS ACTIVITY DEVELOPS FINE MOTOR SKILLS

Arrange the puzzle in correct order.

Put the correct number in the space provided.

How much time did you take to complete the puzzle?

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MIX AND MATCH

THIS ACTIVITY DEVELOPS FINE MOTOR SKILLS