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Dhaka Tribune Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Volume 1, Issue 47

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Jonaki's Headquarters Hey friends, Did you all have fun on March 17? If you didn’t know it was National Children’s Day. Yes, it was a day we celebrated all you adorable lovelies. This week on Dr Meows Lab, find out what Ginger the Persian cat is up to in Pet Tales. Try out

the colourful DIY in Speedy’s Zone with your friends and get your hands messy.

Send in your pet stories, pictures, stories and poems to treehouse@dhakatribune. com . Have an awesome day!

Love Jonaki

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DhakaTribune Editor Zafar Sobhan Magazine Editor Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Treehouse Team Sabiha Mahmud Sumi Rubab Nayeem Khan Fuad M Hossain Munira Fidai Natasha Rahman Saudia Afrin Tahsin Momin Baizid Haque Joarder Rad Sharar Contributor Syed Azraf Zaman Afshan Sattar Namira Shameem Sama E Deen Khatidja Hussein

Solution: A bullet moves one and a half times faster than sound (app. 450m/second versus 330m/second), so no matter how fast your reflexs are, nobody would be able to react the way described by Ken Dixon.

Contents

Cartoonist Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy Rio Shuvo Graphics Tahsin Momin Mohammed Mahbub Alam Colour specialist Shekhar Mondal Kazi Syras Al Mahmood Production Masum Billah

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Advertising Shahidan Khurshed

Event Mythical creature of the week

Circulation Wahid Murad

Word on the street Trading happiness Meet the Artist

Email treehouse@dhakatribune.com

Bob Kane

Website www.dhakatribune.com

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Phoenix

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4 Bhootum’s Classroom

Amazing facts; Connect the dots Learn English kids Paint it!

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DIY Puffy paint Book The kite rider Toy Piranha panic Video game Mario Kart 7 Drawing tutorial

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Pet tales Fly, fly, fly!!!

Trivia Did you know?

Magic Disappearing Coin Fun science Parachute

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Discobang's Pad events

Dhaka Reading Race Begins Involving children more into reading, Monasa Learning Centre is cosponsoring the Dhaka Reading Race, an inter-school reading competition that

has been going on since March 1.

The winning class of the month-long reading competition, win a pizza party courtesy of Pizza Roma. There will also be certificates and a coupon for free Yo Berries frozen yogurt, for those who meet the target of 600 minutes.

Meet the Artist

Bob Kane was a comic book artist for DC comics, and Batman is not his only work. He even created Batman’s enemies; Clayface, Two-face, Penguin, Scarecrow and even the Joker.

Cat Woman and Robin were also drawn by him.

The all-powerful Superman, at first, became everyone’s favourite after he was created. And Batman was Bob Kane’s answer to Superman, and what an answer it was! Rad Sharar

BATMAN The Caped Crusader, Bruce Wayne, The Dark Knight, the protector of Gotham City, This superhero has many names, but we know him as Batman. Everybody loves Batman, but it is time we knew the person who drew him first over 70 years ago! His name is Bob Kane, and he was the father of one of the coolest superheroes ever made.

mythical creature of the week

word on the street

A Nest of Flames Suhadha Afrin

Trading Happiness An amazing bird that doesn’t lay eggs, or gives birth, the Phoenix is the bird of fire. Every few hundred years, it bursts into flames and a new Phoenix comes out from the ashes. This famous bird from Arabia was thought to live for 500 to 1,460 years. When it comes close to dying, it stops flying and builds a nest of sweet smelling

spices like cinnamon and stays there until it is born again.

Bright red and golden in colour, some stories say that the new baby phoenix takes the ashes it was born in and puts it inside an egg. It then carries this to Heliopolis, an Egyptian city that worships the sun god Ra.

Every life is lived differently. Some buy toys, some sell them. These little angels sell happiness. They sell the smiles that the father has on his face when he takes the toy home to his child at night. They sell the hope that the kid feels when he is waiting at

home for the father, they sell dreams that the mother has, of a happy family night. It’s all a matter of how you think - some people may feel sorry for these children. TREEHOUSE proudly calls them “givers of joy.”

Munira Fidai

afshan sattar Source: Jaago Foundation www.jaago.com.bd

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Art Competition

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Tales From the City Episode 43: Back to back

The story so far Speedy is trying to remember back when he met Discobang for the first time.

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Bhootum's Classroom

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connect the dots

paint it!

Paint the words – magic spell A witch is making a magic spell.

She’s putting some strange things in her pot! Can you colour the five scary animals in the picture?

Colour the spider’s legs red.

Colour the frog’s head green.

Colour the bat’s body purple.

Colour the cat’s tail black.

Colour the snake’s head yellow.

Colour the snake’s body orange.

Find lots more fun things to do at: www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglishkids

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Speedy's Zone

MUST read book

Drawn by the Wind Haoyou is twelve. Picture a boy, rising up high into the clouds. While birds have wings, Hayou has a kite to fly. In China, then called Cathay, Haoyou is a kite rider who sees if the winds are right for flying kites. He is known by many names - Sun Swallow, QiQi, Phoenix, Eyes-in-the-Sky. His father’s death changes Haoyou’s life, and he now has to protect his mother from danger. While Haoyou is doing his best, the Jade Circus and the Great Miao

diy

You need • 1 cup salt • 1 cup flour • 1 cup water • Different food colouring • Squeeze bottles

Instructions Add one cup salt, flour, water, and a good size of food colouring into a squeeze bottle. Use different bottles for different colours and when done, squeeze the bottle to form puffy arts. When the paint dries, it will be sparkly and rough because of the added salt. If you want more of the sandpaper-y feel, try adding glitter or even sand. Sama E Deen

Toy

Meanwhile in the Amazon Imagine you’re diving in for a swim in the rivers of Amazon when suddenly a fierce group of piranhas attack you! What do you do? Well lucky for us, we are not in the Amazon. But you can be if you play Piranha Panic.

Firstly, in the game you roll the die and the die decides the player’s next move. Each player has three fish marbles in the game which are attacked by the

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piranhas and your aim should be to keep them away from the piranhas as much as possible. The die decides how far your fish marbles move or whether you are eaten by the piranhas. The first player to get all three fish marbles upstream, wins.

This thrilling game is a lot of fun, whether you play it for the first time or the 100th time. Piranha Panic is available in Lavender. Syed Azraf Zaman

Load the Cargo with Mario With more than 100 games out, Mario is just getting started. Mario Kart 7 for the Nintendo 3DS came out on November 2012. Let’s take a look at what the game is all about.

A racing game with all your favorite characters like Yoshi, this game is loaded with competition and the delight you want in action. You get to collect coins and even use weapons to get rid of the

Namira Shameem

ART Tutorial

GET YOUR MESS ON! For all the art lovers out there, this DIY is just the right “mess” for you.

gives him a job he cannot say no to. He can travel the Empire for free, perform in front of the great Kublai Khan. But will Haoyou leave his mother behind? Is the Great Miao really who he says he is?

Geraldine McCaughrean’s “The Kite Rider” is interesting and full of adventure.

It carries you away, like Hayou, into an exciting magical world!

enemies. The biggest test is to finish the race and using your own ideas to win. The game has different places and challenges that will keep you interested all the way!

You can find the game at the UAE market.Even if you haven’t heard of the video game, why not load the cargo with Mario and enjoy one of the best games of the decade? Saba Sattar

drawing tutorials

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Dr Meow's Lab

pet tale

Fly, Fly, Fly!!!

Fun

Ginger, the gorgeous Persian cat, is a very lazy one! He hardly moves or plays. But when it comes to his meal time, Gingee, his “pet” name, would absolutely eat anything and everything. Eggs, meat, milk, vegetables, give him anything and he’ll finish everything. Now as we know, Ginger is very lazy, this one incident really left us surprised at him. One fine evening, a fly got in, and it was making everyone in the house angry. And

Science

then it followed me to my room where Gingee was asleep. Gingee woke up to the sound of the fly and started following it everywhere. After the fly was nowhere to be seen and it was time for Gingee’s lunch, I called him but there was no reply.

He kept his mouth closed and refused to eat. On forcing his mouth open, we saw the insect fly away! We all laughed, and after a lot of hard work the fly was gone! anka malik

Trivia

Did you know?

FLY AWAY

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Fun Science this time brings to you an amazing experiment on how to make your own parachute! Get, set, fly You need • A plastic bag • Scissors • String • A small object for weight Instructions Cut out a large octagon (an eight sided shape) from the plastic bag. Make a small hole at each of the eight corners. Tie eight pieces of string of equal length to every hole. Tie the hanging ends of the strings to the item you took as a weight.

Take this parachute and drop it from above to learn what happens.

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Only about 10% of the entire world’s population is left-handed.

We need to mix our food with saliva to taste it. You can try this yourself by first drying your mouth completely, and then asking a friend to feed you something while your eyes are closed.

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About 70% to 80% of a normal human brain is made up of water.

The teeth enamel is the hardest matter in our body.

The hyoid bone is the only bone in our body that is not stuck to any other bone. It is stuck to muscles instead.

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When we sneeze, we create a wind of 66kmph, and when we cough we create a wind of 100kmph.

It is said that the brain gives out the same power as a light bulb.

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magic What to do • Hold your left hand to the back of your neck.

• Tell your buddies that you are trying to make a coin vanish by rubbing it on your elbow.

• Hold the coin in your right hand and rub it on your left elbow. Take away your hand and the coin will drop to the floor.

• Act disappointed and tell your buddies that because your trick did not work, you must try again.

• Pick the coin up with your left hand and act like you’re putting it in your right hand.

• Now put your left hand back behind your neck and start rubbing your left elbow again. Only you know that the coin is concealed in your left hand.

• Let the coin drop down your shirt (wear it tucked in!)

• Now stop rubbing and take your hand away to show your friends that the coin has vanished!

Disappearing Coin What you need • A coin

How it works When you let go of the parachute, the weight falls slowly because a large area of the parachute, stops the air and slows it down.

Sama E Deen

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Munira Fidai

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