Treehouse Volume 2 Issue 17

Dhaka Tribune Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Volume 2, Issue 17

Tales From the City Episode 61: Daddy meow

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Jonaki's Headquarters Hey friends, This week, we have a lot in store for you.

In Discobang’s Pad (pg 2), learn about a new artist known by the pet name ‘Potua.’ Try out the math magic in Dr Meow’s lab (pg 6) while also checking out our trivia about the mysterious

disease als. Connect the dots and find out what the figure is (pg 4). Friends, please don’t hesitate to share your drawings and poetry with us. You can send it to treehouse@dhakatribune. com. We look forward to it.

Love Jonaki

A weekly production of

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 Contributor Anika Jannat

How did Inspector Danger know? Today’s newspaper on the chair gave Bruce Bumster away.

Contents

Cartoonist Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy Rio Shuvo Graphics Mohammed Mahbub Alam Tahsin Momin Colour Specialist Shekhar Mondal Kazi Syras Al Mahmood 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 Quiz Word on the street Want some stickers

3 Tales from the city Daddy Meow

4 Bhootum’s Classroom Amazing facts Learn English kids

5 Speedy’s Zone

Writing Contest 2014 Writing tips Connect the dots

6 Dr Meow’s Lab

Fun science Plastic milk Magic Math magic Fiction Death Trivia A mysterious disease

Discobang's Pad

2 Profile of a Bangladeshi painter

Who is the artist of these pictures?

He is known in Bangladesh as Potua, a word usually used by folk artists. He always tried to spread the culture of his country and the beauty of rural Bangladesh through his paintings. In addition, his work has come to be a part of Bangladesh’s political history. One of it is the amazing artwork of Yahya Khan, the Pakistani president who ordered cruel killings in Bangladesh.

word on the street

Want Some stickers?

Source: Jaago Foundation www.jaago.com.bd

“Will you buy some stickers, please?” says the little boy’s face. This little future businessman is surrounded by all these bright colours around him. With eyes full of big dreams, he sits in his tiny stall full of beautiful stickers and waits for his friends to show up. Even though he could not go to school, he still finds a meaningful way of spending his childhood, and let his friends experience the joy of a colourful life.

Raisa Rahim

Suhadha Afrin

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Treehouse Comic

3 Created and story by Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Illustration by Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy Colour by Rio Shuvo

Tales From the City

Episode 61: Daddy Meow

The story so far

Dr Meow faces his worst nightmare

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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

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Speedy's Zone

Writing tips

Read before you write, and then read again!

What makes a great story far better to read than a good story are the little mistakes. Little mistakes add up to a big one, and that affects your story much more than you would think. Here are a few of those mistakes to look after, if you want to make your essay spotless of red marks.

Spelling The easiest to spot and most annoying of all are the careful spelling mistakes make readers think poorly of the writer. So be careful care when you revise and spot them out,

Tense Mistakes in tense makes the sentence sound wrong and confuses its meaning. Be aware of them.

Singular/Plural This mistake is a silly one, and can be noticed easily by the readers too.

Revise your writings well, and revise again.

No headings Your story may be great, but without a heading it’s pointless. In a writing competition, this will take away a lot of marks.

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Connect the dots

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Dr Meow's Lab Fiction

Death

trivia

A mysterious disease • Social media is now filled with “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge”.

Starting from Robert Downey Jr to former president George W Bush, almost every celebrity took part in it. Apart from the challenge here are a few facts which you should know about ALS. • The full form of ALS is “Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis”.

• It is a disease that affects the nerves that connect the hands, legs etc.

• The nerves die and the organs stop working. Imagine a person who wants to drink water but can’t grab the glass because his hand is not working!

• The signs of ALS are having a hard time in moving the arms, or in talking or chewing or swallowing.

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Samia stopped running and decided to take rest for a few seconds. She could see Jimmy running without even looking back. Samia used to find it very cute and it was something she loved to do after a busy long day. Jogging in the park with Jimmy was the best part of her day. She started running again. She saw a crowd gathered around something lying on the road in

front her. Was it..? No! She didn’t even dare to think something like that. She pushed through the crowd and saw her German Shepherd lying on the ground in pain.

Samia woke up from her dream. She was sweating. She repeated the words her therapist advised her to say, “Jimmy is gone. I left Bnagladesh. Toronto is my new home.” Anika Jannat

Math Magic

Magic for Kids

What you’ll need?

• A piece of paper • A pen • An envelope

What to do?

Before you start your magic show muliply the current year by two and write it on a paper. Put the paper inside an envelope and start your show.

Ask one of your audience members to volunteer. Ask the volunteer the following his/her birth year and the year he/she started school.

Now subtract each answer separately from the current year. Add the two years he said with the answer you got from subtracting before. Hand him/her the envelope and ask them to open it. And voila! Anika Jannat

Fun

Science

What you’ll need?

• There’s no cure for ALS.

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• ALS doesn’t spread by touching.

What to do?

• There’s no test that can identify ALS.

• It is sometimes called “Lou Gehrig’s Disease” as baseball player Lou Gehrig suffered from this disease.

• Even now, doctors have no idea why ALS occurs.

Anika Jannat

Plastic milk

Adult help A cup of milk A bowl A strainer Four teaspoons of white vinegar

Ask an adult to heat up the milk but not to boil it. Then ask the adult to pour the milk into the bowl. Add vinegar to the bowl and stir it for 1-2 minutes with a spoon. Now carefully pour the milk into the sink through the strainer. After you are done you will see a droplet of milk in the strainer. Let it cool for few moments then wash it with water. You can mold it into any shape you like. Within few days it will harden like plastic.

Anika Jannat

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