Treehouse Volume 2 Issue 34

Dhaka Tribune Wednesday, January 7, 2015

Volume 2, Issue 34

JONAKI AND FRIENDS SURPRISE !

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Jonaki's Headquarters Hey friends, This week is a relaxing one, with an awesome movie to watch (pg 3) and a very interesting book to read (pg 3).

Kick back with a puzzle (pg 4) and a glass of chocolate milk, while staying ahead in history with many surprising

facts about Scotland (pg 5), enough to impress your teacher. Make yourself a pen holder (pg 6) and share your writings, drawings or poetry with us!

Feel free to email us at treehouse@dhakatribune.com

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 Natasha Rahman Saudia Afrin Raisa Rahim Rad Sharar Baizid Haque Joarder Solution: Robinson Brother # 3 is the bank robber. He disguised himself with a moustache to frame his other brothers, but the buttons on his jacket sleeves gave him away.

Contributor Pragya Rahman Ehsan Sunny

Contents

Cartoonist Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy Rio Shuvo Graphics Mohammed Mahbub Alam Colour specialist Shekhar Mondal Advertising Zia Ur Rahman Production Masum Billah Circulation Masud Kabir Pavel Mail us at treehouse@dhakatribune.com www.dhakatribune.com

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2 Discobang’s pad

Facts Interesting facts about Scotland Word on the street Growing up-2592

3 Tales from the city

Book The Giving Tree Movie The Boxtrolls Family

4 Bhootum’s Classroom Amazing facts Learn English kids Colour it

5 Speedy’s Zone

The many wonders of Scotland

6 Dr Meow’s Lab

Fun Science Making a pen holder Food facts Haggis

Discobang's Pad

2 Word on the street

Growing up-2592 Discobang is a real party animal. He loves meeting new people.

This little girl has decked up in order to look just like her mother and she even wore her mother’s sandals! Even though the sandal is too big to fit her tiny feet, she seemed to have put in a lot of effort to keep her balance wearing it. But what she doesn’t know is that she will one day have to fill in these shoes once she grows up to take responsibilities.

Maesha Joita

Source: Jaago Foundation www.jaago.com.bd

Suhadha Afrin

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Interesting Facts About Scotland Edinburgh was the first city in the world with it’s own fire brigade in 1824.

Scotland uses pounds to buy and sell things. However, compared to the rest of the UK, Scotland actually has one-pound notes.

The modern game of golf came from Scotland in the 15th century The world’s first international football match: Scotland Vs England took place on November 30, 1872 at Hamilton Crescent in Glasgow.

The hot blast furnace was made in 1828.

The waterproof raincoat was made in 1823.

The creator of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was Scottish.

The famous Harry Potter series is part of Scottish literature.

Scotland’s national animal is the unicorn.

Scotland has about 790 islands and 130 are places where people live.

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The Treehouse Library Have you read an awesome book lately? Tell us about it.

Send your book review to treehouse.dt@dhakatribune.com

Movie

BOOK

tree gifts If you are planning on reading something fun, get yourself “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein. Now what is the book about? Trees are nature’s gift to man. The story is of a female apple tree and a boy who can talk to the tree. In his childhood, the boy enjoys playing with the tree, climbing it’s trunk and eating the apples. Soon he grows up and becomes a teenager and starts to ask for things from the tree.

With everything he asks for, he has to sacrifice some parts of the tree. In doing so, all that is left of the tree is a stub. The book is indeed wonderful and enjoyable to read.

Ehsan Sunny

a scrappy Family Based upon the children’s novel “Here Be Monsters” by Alan Snow, The Boxtrolls is an adventurous and adorable movie. The Boxtrolls are a group of weird, ill-behaved underground trash collectors. They find an orphaned boy, Eggs and lovingly raise him as their own. The Boxtrolls have built an incredibly enormous house under the streets of Cheesebridge where they raise Eggs. The story is of how Eggs tries to save his friends from Archibald Snatcher, who is an evil pest killer and the villain of the story. When Snatcher comes up with an evil plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs decides to go above to the ground and “into the light,” where he meets Winnie, an amazingly wholehearted girl. The team up together and make a brave plan to save the Boxtrolls family. You should definitely watch this movie with your friends or family. Have fun!

Ehsan Sunny

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Bhootum's Classroom

4 Meet Bhootum, the landlady of the Treehouse. She’s strict, but has a heart of gold.

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

© British Council 2013

Colour it

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Speedy's Zone

5 Speedy might be a turtle, but he’s not slow. Travelling the world and staying fit are his favourite things.

Facts

The many wonders of Scotland Come and read about a magical place called Scotland. If you want to know how magical it truly is, then let us tell you that Hogwarts is thought to be somewhere in Scotland and most of the Harry Potter films were shot in the highlands of Scotland.

Clothing It is normal for men in Scotland to wear “skirts” or “kilts,” as they like to call it. It is a part of their tradition to wear kilts and do not be surprised when you see a group of brothers walking down the streets of Scotland dressed in their Sunday kilts. Their kilts can be very colourful and very bright.

Instrument Scotland has their own traditional instrument called the bagpipes. They are very muvh like the flute but are much harder to play than a regular flute. A bagpipe has many pipes and a bag filled with air. You have to blow into the pipes much like a flute to make the tune you want and keep playing it with both hands. It needs a great amount of skill to play the bagpipes.

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Legend The lakes of Scotland also known as “Loch Ness” in the Scottish highlands have been known to be the home of the great Loch Ness Monster. Even though no one has seen the Loch Ness Monster, yet in films and books it is believed that the creature is very friendly and nice.

Prayga Rahman

Dr Meow's Lab

6 Dr Meow is a genius doctor and scientist who lives in the Treehouse.

Fun

Science

Hold IT! It’s better to have your pens, scales and pencils organised in one place.

You can start by making your own custom pen-holder using simple things What you will need: • Craft sticks or ice-cream sticks • Glue • Coloured paper • Ribbon • Scissors • Paint brush • Tube shaped cardboard container (like a Pringles can) • Rubber bands How to do it: Cut down the container so that it’s about the same height as the craft sticks. Also cut the paper to fit around the container.

Use the glue to attach the paper to the container. Let it dry. Apply glue on one side of the craft sticks and paste them over the container. Make sure to cover the whole container with sticks. Wrap the rubber bands around the container so the craft sticks dry in place. Once dry, remove the rubber bands. Tie a ribbon around the container to make it look better.

Ehsan Sunny

Food facts

yum!

Haggis is basically a sausage made with the heart, liver and lungs of a sheep mixed with spices, oatmeal, salt and stock. It is usually served with turnips and potatoes, and is the national dish of Scotland.

Both kids and adults all around Scotland are always up for a plate of haggis as it is very tasty and filling.

Pragya Rahman

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Histories of Magic

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The Lost City of Atlantis Atlantis is a legendary "lost" island subcontinent often seen as an advanced, perfect society holding wisdom that could bring world peace.

The idea of Atlantis has fascinated adventurers, historians and mystery solvers for years. Unlike many legends whose origins have been lost in the mists of time, we know exactly when and where the story of Atlantis first happened. The story was first told in two of Plato's speeches, the "Timaeus" and the "Critias," written about 330 B.C. Plato shows Atlantis as an island bigger than Libya and Asia Minor set up together in the Atlantic simply past the lands of Hercules. Its society was very modern and it had a government like the one in Plato's "Republic." Legend has it that Atlantis was protected by the god Poseidon,

who made his son Atlantis the ruler of the city which the island and the surrounding ocean its name. As the Atlanteans grew more powerful, their morals fell. Atlantis came under attack of natural accidents such as tremors and earthquakes and eventually sank in a night and a day into the sea around 9600 BC. Every once in a while, archeologists spot a swampy, ancient city in waterfront Spain, a creepy undersea city of rock in the Bahamas—that may be a source of the Atlantis story.

Of these, the site with the most facts is the Greek island of Santorini, a half-submerged island made by the enormous volcano going off, whose eruption may have ended the civilization completely.

Ehsan Sunny