Treehouse Vol 1 Issue 19

Dhaka Tribune Wednesday, August 21, 2013 Volume 1, Issue 19

Tales From the City Episode 18: The plan

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Jonaki's Headquarters Hey Friends!

August is a funny month. You never know whether it’s going to be sunny or rainy tomorrow. Did you know that rainbows are caused by light rays being bent through raindrops?

Thinking about that put us in the mood for rainbows, and that’s why we have some colourful crafts and

experiments for you to try this week.

Why not make your flowers bloom in a rainbow of different colours? Or make some bright paper lamps? Check out what Dr Meow has in store for you.

Are you having a fun time being back at school? Write to us at treehouse@ dhakatribune.com and let us know.

Love Jonaki

A weekly production of

DhakaTribune Editor Zafar Sobhan

Magazine Editor Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Treehouse Team Sabiha Mahmud Sumi Rubab Nayeem Khan Munira Fidai Afshan Sattar Azfar Rahman Natasha Rahman Saudia Afrin Tahsin Momin Sama E Deen Rifat Binte Haider

Solution: What is a patient with a broken arm doing in a gastro-intesinal ward?

That seems a bit odd, inspector Danger said so himself 0 and how right he was!

Cartoonist Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy

Contents

Graphics Sabiha Mahmud Sumi Asamul Haque mamun Production Masum Billah Advertising Shahidan Khurshed Circulation Wahid Murad Email treehouse@dhakatribune.com Website www.dhakatribune.com

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Sports star Miroslav Klose Teacher of the week Ahmed Shamim Kamal Word on the street Nasir & Jalal Learn English kids Tongue twisters Superhero Professor X

3 Tales from the city The plan

4 Dr Meow’s Lab

Pet tips Top 3 safety tips DIY Origami paper lanterns Fun science Rainbow carnations Animal facts Cheetahs

5 Speedy’s Zone

Book Destiny, Rewritten Movie Adele Blanc-sec Cartoon Axe Cop Toy Pebble Videogame Chronicles of Riddick

6 Bhootum’s Classroom Amazing Facts; Fun facts Jokes

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teacher of the week

TEACHING WITH

A VISION

An erudite and wonderful personality, this week our favourite teacher is Mr. Ahmed Shamim Kamal. Mr. Kamal embarked on his teaching career with a dream to change lives and create bright futures for his students. After completing his SSC and HSC in science, Kamal did his honours and masters in English and started his teaching career in Oxford International School.

From there he joined Scholastica as a teacher of English Literature in 2006. Presently he teaches literature in classes 8, 9 and for O levels. When he isn’t teaching, Kamal writes, collects various books for his collection and sets his free time to “observe the world with pleasure and find ourselves.”

Currently he is completing his MA in ELT from Dhaka University.

Wahid Al Mahmud

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Miroslav josef Klose

Professor X Alter ego Professor Charles Francis Xavier Species Human Mutate Place of Origin Earth Team Affiliation X-Men, Illuminati, Genoshan Excalibur, Cadre K, Brotherhoods of Mutants, Shi’ar Imperium, Star Jammers, The Twelve, Defenders.

Notable Aliases Onslaught, ConsortRoyal, Founder, X, Warlord, Entity Abilities Genius-level intellect, Telepathy, Empathy, Mind reading and control, Memory alteration & erasure, Mental bolts, Psionic blasts, Induced paralysis, Illusion casting, Great tactician and strategist, Astral projection, Eidetic memory tahsin momin

Nationality Germany Date of birth: 9 June 1978 Age: 33 Country of birth: Poland Place of birth: Opole Position: Attacker Foot: Right Major Teams: SG Blaubach-Diedelkopf (1997-98) FC 08 Homburg (1998-99) FC Kaiserslautern (1999-2004) Werder Bremen (2004-07) Bayern Munich (2007-11) Lazio (2011-present) Career Statistics Goals scored 199 Games played 499 Yellow card 33 Red card 3 tahsin momin

word on the street

LearnEnglishKids

tongue twisters Tongue twisters are difficult to say.

How fast can you say it without making any mistakes?

Eleven owls licked eleven, little, liquorice lollipops.

Abir Adnan

Brothers in arms You can play this game and more online at: www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglishkids

How often do we help someone in trouble? These two are an example we can learn a lot from. Nasir and Jalal are best friends.

Their friendship started with a little act of kindness by Jalal. Little Nasir was getting beaten up by a random stranger he had asked money from.

Jalal intervened and he begged the guy to stop. The stranger came back to his senses after Jalal’s plea to stop. He felt really guilty and apologised and walked off. Nasir was really shaken up. But he was really grateful to Jalal for saving him.

To this day they are brothers in arms.

Nobi Rahman

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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 18: The plan

The story Jonaki is really happy to have a new friend. Her friends at the Treehouse are not so happy about this. They just might have a very good reason for this.

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Dr Meow's Lab PET TIPS

3 safety tips for pets Whether it’s a cat or a dog, you should always focus on making your home pet friendly for your four-legged friends. Secure your home before it’s too late. The following tips should do the trick!

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Origami paper lanterns

You’ll need • An origami book (you’ll find them at Boi Bichitra • Origami paper

Clean If you are serious about bringing in a pet, then you should clean everything in your house and keep it clean for at least 4 days or more until you have to clean it again. If your pet makes a mess, clean it up straight away, before it’s too late.

Fun

Organise Keep your pet’s toys, brush and other items in one place. You wouldn’t want them to get mixed up with yours.

If they are lying around elsewhere, guests might trip on them, and you would not want that to happen.

Bathe Cats will need a shower, once every month. Dogs, on the other hand need a bath every time they get dirty. Follow this, and you’ll have a stench free home, and a healthy and happy pet.

Rubab Nayeem Khan

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animal facts

CHEETAHS • The cheetah is the fastest animal on Earth.

• It can speed up to 113km/h from rest in just a few seconds.

Science

• The long black “tear lines” running from the inside of the cheetah’s eyes to its mouth protect its eyes from the harsh sunlight.

RAINBOW CARNATIONS!

Step 1 Start with a square origami paper with designs on both sides, coloured side down. Both diagonals. Make sure they crease well when you unfold.

• Cheetahs are the only big cats that cannot roar but purr.

• Cheetahs have poor night vision.

Step 2 Fold one corner to the centre, and then repeat for the other 3 corners. Your origami paper will look like a kite now.

• They cannot climb trees.

• Cheetahs originated over 4 million years ago and thus are one of the oldest big cat species in history.

Step 3 Flip the paper over.

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Step 4 Now fold the bottom tip to the centre and then repeat the same thing for the other 3 tips. bigstock

Step 5 Flip it over again.

Step 6 Fold the bottom right corner to the centre. Repeat for the other 3 corners.

Step 7 Open the paper at the top. Pry open the paper, fold the flap to the top and away from you. Press the paper flat, and voila, your paper lantern is complete.

You will need • White carnations • Food colouring • Water • Scissors • Seven clear jars How To Put a few drops of each of the rainbow food colourings into the seven separate jars. Top the colours with water. Cut the carnation stems in a slanted way and put each flower into the different coloured solutions. Leave the flowers

in the jars for 8-10 hours and watch blooming rainbows! For best results, leave the flowers overnight.

Explanation As water evaporates from the flowers, more water is pulled up through tiny tubes called xylem that run up the flower stem. The food colour particles diffuse with this water to all parts of the flower, especially the petals, giving the white carnations these amazing rainbow colours ! sama e deen

Rubab Nayeem Khan

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Speedy's Zone

MUST play game

Let the fight begin!

Book

The Chronicles Of Riddick: Assault On Dark Athena is a must play for avid fans of action adventure games. As the famous criminal Richard B. Riddick, your objective is to break out of Butcher Bay, a menacing and nearly inescapable intergalactic prison and gain freedom.

From fist fights to smashing weapons, the use of various game play devices will help you complete your

mission and guarantee your freedom.

Critical thinking and caution will save you in the nick of time, though it might take a lot of patience to break free.

But with fantastic voice acting, graphics and intriguing story plots, this game will entrance you and will definitely live up to be one of the top action treats on your list.

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Discovering fate The Story Eleven year old Emily Elizabeth Davis is surely destined to be a great poet like the legendary Emily Dickinson.

When Emily asks her mom who is a professor and a writer, about her dad, her mom hesitates at first. Eventually, she tells Emily that her father’s name was written somewhere in Emily’s favourite Dickinson’s poetry book.

But when Goodwill mistakenly takes the book away, it’s up to Emily and her friends to embark on a journey around the city of Berkeley, and to recover what will mark Emily’s destiny.

Any Good?

With several Emily Dickinson’s poetry and valuable messages on the importance of family, friendship and moralities, Destiny, Rewritten will teach you to be kind, compassionate and creative. Get hooked till the very last page of the book. Sama E deen

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AXE RULE Here’s an animated series written by a kid. It is about a police officer who uses his axe as a weapon to fight evil.

He sleeps only minutes a day and spends every night battling bad guys like Telescope Gun Cop and Doctor Stinkyhead. From Aliens to zombies, the police officer fights everyone.

Anyone who threatens Axe Cop’s friend, or messes with the law automatically becomes an enemy.

Although Axe Cop initially started as a web-comic, it went to become a novel and now an animated series.

Although there is violence involved; the series is filled with amusing moments ready to capture your heart. rifat binte haider

Adventure Reloaded The popular French detective, Adele Blanc-Sec is a movie about a preWWI journalist who investigates mystical occurrences. Although a French movie dubbed into English, this movie has been said to be the modern day Lara Croft based movie.

Adele sets out to Egypt to find the famous pharaoh and the imprisoned scientist in hopes to find her sister again. Her adventure is matched with her action abilities which capture the mind of young audiences. If one watches the movie attentively, they are rewarded with a unique heroine and a historical fantasy. rifat binte haider

Dolls and soft toys are every child’s first playmate. However, conventional plastic dolls and furry teddy bears may not be as safe for your child as you’d like to believe.

Having said that, Treehouse brings to you, a distinctive gift that can safely be your little one’s first toy, Pebble. Pebble, an initiative

by Hathay Bunano, sells hand manufactured soft toys with unique, quirky designs all over the world.

Hathay Bunano (translated as hand knitted) is a Bangladeshi non-profit fair trade organisation with the aim to provide local employment for disadvantaged rural women, while also preventing economic migration to the cities. This exclusive toy range has items like rattles, made with organic cotton to ensure the baby’s hygiene, hats, blankets, sets of toy characters, animal friends, food chewies, Christmas décor and rag dolls! For more information, contact http://www.akhoni.com/Pebble and gift your child something that is safe for them and screams cute!

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