Treehouse 2:14

Dhaka Tribune Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Volume 2, Issue 14

Tales From the City Episode 58: What’s going on?

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Jonaki's Headquarters Hey friends, This week we have a joke for you, that is guaranteed to make you laugh (pg2).

Learn how to make amazing hand dotted glasses at Speedy’s Zone (pg5) and amaze your friends and family with a new magic trick at Dr Meow’s Lab (pg6). You’ll also find a review on

a fun and adventurous movie, Barbie and the Pearl Princess (Pg 5). Feel free to share your poems, drawings and stories with us. You can e-mail us your work at treehouse@dhakatribune. com. Send as much as like, we love hearing from you!

Love Jonaki

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DhakaTribune Editor Zafar Sobhan Executive Editor Shahriar Karim Managing Editor Jahangir Hyder Magazine Editor Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Asst Magazine Editor Tahsin Momin Treehouse Team Fuad M Hossain Natasha Rahman Saudia Afrin Baizid Haque Joarder Rad Sharar Raisa Rahim Solution: The extremly long coat in the halfway gave Lomg John away.

Contributor Alveera Mamoon Imad Khan Anika Jannat

Contents

Cartoonist Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy Rio Shuvo Graphics Mohammed Mahbub Alam Tahsin Momin 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

4 Bhootum’s Classroom

3 Tales from the city

5 Speedy’s Zone

Joke Player profile Eden Hazard

What’s going on?

Amazing facts Connect the dots Learn English kids

DIY Hand-dotted glasses Movie Barbie the Pearl Princess Book The Little Prince

6 Dr Meow’s Lab Fun science Big dry ice bubble Magic Knife eater

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Discobang's Pad Sports star of the week

Eden Hazard Joke

Q: What did the hamburger name his daughter?

A: Patty!

Eden Hazard is quite a football player. He’s a Belgian player who currently plays for Chelsea and Belgium’s national team. At only 23 years of age, he has grown as a

footballer; enough to become as well known as other big players such as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

He has 80 goals in total, quite a lot for an attacking midfielder/winger,

who mainly helps in creating goal scoring moments. Outside Football, he’s a big fan of Naruto, which is always a fun fact to know!

Imad Khan

word on the street

Rain has never been so charming; looking at it, I felt something inside me and I thought: ‘’Why can’t the older people cannot enjoy it, as the kids do?’’ Their faces show how much they enjoy every drop , allowing themselves to have fun, slapping the water often. They are trying to teach us to live in the moment. Shirin Parveen

suhadha Afrin

Source: Jaago Foundation www.jaago.com.bd

It’s about learning to dance in the rain

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Treehouse Comic

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

Tales From the City

Episode 58: What’s going on?

The story so far Bhootum is angry at Dr Meow. Jonaki wonders why this is so.

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Bhootum's Classroom

TONGUE TWISTERS Tongue twisters are difficult to say.

How fast can you say it without making any mistakes?

I can think of six thin things, but I can think of six thick things too.

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

Š British Council 2013

Connect the dots

TONGUE TWISTERS Tongue twisters are difficult to say.

How fast can you say it without making any mistakes?

The big bug bit the little beetle, but the little beetle bit the big bug back.

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

Š British Council 201 3

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Speedy's Zone

Life Lessons from an Adventure The Little Prince was released in 1946 for children to read, but because it is so deep, it can be read by adults too!

Anyone can read it and learn a lot from it – about life, the world, and living things.

Not to mention the story is very emotional; there is no doubt many children and adults have cried and laughed while reading the book. The story is about a little prince who leaves

DIY

Hand-dotted glasses Bored of your plain old glass or water bottle? Not anymore! Here’s a fun and interesting way to decorate your glass on your own, without having to ask your mothers to buy you a brand new mug.

What you’ll need: • • • •

Colourful acrylic paint Glasses and bottles Jars Cotton buds First, get your materials and select the item that you want to decorate. This

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could be a glass, a glass bottle, a jar, or anything that you think would be fun to decorate. Use enamel acrylic paint because that will last longer. Once you have brought out the paint, dip your cotton buds into them and apply dots on the glass. Place the dots on the bottom part only because it looks nicer. Make sure you mix lots of colours. Once the paint dries, your glasses will look prettier than the ones you find at stores.

Alveera Mamoon

To the rescue In this movie, Barbie is shown as Lumina, a beautiful and fun-loving mermaid girl. She has the ability to change the colours of pearls. Lumina works in a mermaid salon. She becomes the most famous hairstylist in the entire city. Soon, Madame Ruckus, the octopus who owns the salon, tells all the employees they are invited to the royal ball. Her friends help

her to make a beautiful gown for herself.

However, evil tries to take over at the ball and Lumina is expected to use her powers to save the kingdom. The movie focuses a lot on fashion and dancing, and is filled with positive messages. Overall, a great watch for you kids.

Alveera Mamoon

TOY

Heli fun Every time you hear a plane flying over your house, don’t you feel like flying one too? This toy helps you do just that.

The light frame of this helicopter makes it very easy to handle. You can control your helicopter from another

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room with its remote. Who doesn’t love remote controlled toys? Get yourself one of these online and share the fun with you siblings.

Anika jannat

MUST read book

his planet and visits far away places, meeting different kinds of people and talking with them, learning about their ways and their past. The book may look little at first, but you know what they say: “You should never judge a book by its cover!” The book is actually a pretty big adventure.

Imad Khan

ART Tutorial

drawing tutorials

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Dr Meow's Lab

Fiction

The Joy in Sharing This one day I felt like the loneliest person in the world. I had no one to talk with, or any friends nearby that would like to spend some time with me. Sad about the problem I had to deal with, I stepped outside my door into the outdoors to find something to give me some sort of happiness.

I went to a nearby shop to buy some biscuits which I dearly loved, but sadly

trivia

Facts about the Milky Way

food can only pleased for a short while.

But along came a dog that looked at me and then at the biscuits. We shared the last few together and quickly became friends and I no longer felt what I felt a while back. We had to go our own ways later, but it was surprising how sharing really helped us both feel better.

Imad Khan

magic

Knife Eater Let’s say you are at the dinner table, or even better, at a restaurant with your family. Someone takes a glance at you, and notices you eating a knife. It’d be sure to freak them out, no? Learn the knife-eating magic trick and you will surely scare anyone who’s around you.

Here’s what you do. First, pick up your knife.

Look around a few times, so people

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notice something fishy. Then, pretend as if you are about to eat the knife, but stop once. Cover the whole knife with your fingers, and then quietly drop it into your hands, but making it seem as if it’s still in your hands.

Pretend to gobble the whole thing up and you are guaranteed to hear a shriek or two.

Alveera Mamoon

Science

Big dry ice bubble What you will need

• The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our solar system • The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy that is shaped like a disk.

• The Milky Way is made up of over 200 billions stars, gas and dust.

• The sun moves around the centre of the Milky Way • The oldest star in the Milky Way is 13 billion years, which is almost as old as the universe • Apart from the Milky Way, there are other billions of galaxies in the universe Alveera Mamoon

1. Dry ice 2. Water 3. Mixture of soap and water 4. Bowl 5. A strip of material or cloth

What to do

Place your dry ice into the bowl and pour some water. Dip the material/ cloth into the soapy solution and run it around the lip of your bowl. Drag the material across the bowl. Step away from the bowl and watch you bubble grow.

Precaution

Dry ice can damage your skin. So have an adult help you with this.

Anika Jannat

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