Treehouse Volume 2 Issue 36

Dhaka Tribune Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Volume 2, Issue 36

JONAKI AND FRIENDS Storytime storytime

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Jonaki's Headquarters Hey friends, Let us take you to the wonderful land of Tenochtitlan, a beautiful city-state, in Histories of Magic (Pg7). Learn amazing things about Sierra Leone in Speedy’s Zone (Pg5). Check out the toy review in Jonaki and the Treehouse (Pg3), and may be you can ask your loved ones to buy it for you for your next birthday! Don’t

forget to send us any poems, arts etc at treehouse.dt@dhakatribune.com Have a great week!

Love Jonaki

A weekly production of

DhakaTribune Editor Zafar Sobhan Magazine Editor Sabrina Fatma Ahmad Asst Magazine Editor Tahsin Momin Treehouse Team Natasha Rahman Saudia Afrin Raisa Rahim Rad Sharar Baizid Haque Joarder Contributor Pragya Rahman Ehsan Sunny Solution: The cat-loving lady is the killer. She lies when she claims she hates dogs - yet there is a dog in the house. Proof: The doggiebone in the bowl.

Cartoonist Syed Rashad Imam Tanmoy Rio Shuvo

Contents

Graphic 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

2 Discobang’s pad

4 Bhootum’s Classroom

3 Tales from the city

5 Speedy’s Zone

Trivia Word on the street Profile on Sierra Leone

Movie Cradled in rage Toy Careful where you stand

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Amazing facts Colour it British Council

Facts Leone Stars

6 Dr Meow’s Lab

Cloths Dressing in guise Food Chewing on stew

7 Histories of Magic A lost floating city

Discobang's Pad

2 Trivia

Profile on Sierra Leone

Discobang is a real party animal. He loves meeting new people.

Sierre Leone is best known for their big diamond mines and cocoa trees that give us chocolates. It is on the Atlantic Coast of West Africa with coastal wetlands rising to mountains called the “lion mountains.” The name was given by a 15th century Portuguese explorer, Pedro de Sintra in the year 1462 after he was surprised by the beauty of the wonderful mountains. Sierra Leone was a British settlement from the 1800s until 1961. Sir Milton Margai was the country’s first prime minister after the country received it’s independence from Great Britain.

The capital of Sierra Leone is Freetown and the population of the country is 5,525,000. It is called so because of the country’s history about freedom and erasing slavery. The languages spoken in Sierra Leone are English, Krio, Mende and Temne. There are mainly Muslims in Sierra Leone along with a few Christians and a lot of other people from different religions. The currency that is used in Sierra Leone is called leone. Pragya Rahman

Word on the street

An amazing childhood A happy childhood is the best memory one could have. It’s the endless joys from little things, laughter, having fun with friends, which make us remember our childhood.

Let’s make every child’s day a happy memory by promising them a secure life! Shahela Afroz

Source: Jaago Foundation www.jaago.com.bd

Suhadha Afrin

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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

Filled with rage Maleficent is a fairy with wings who lives in the Moors- a magical forest. When she is young, she meets a boy named Stefan who is also the father of the girl whom she befriends later on in her life as an adult named Aurora. As Stefan and Maleficent grow older, she becomes the protector of the realms. During this time, King Henry the ruler of the neighbouring land plans on conquering the Moors but does not succeed as Maleficent drives him and his army away. The king later on declares that whoever kills Maleficent will have his daughter’s hand in marriage and will be the next

in line for the throne. Stefan, being determined goes to meet Maleficent but cannot kill her as they were once friends. Instead he drugs her and cut her wings off with a sharp iron tool, leaving Maleficent wingless. Stefan goes onto marry the king’s daughter eventually becoming king.

After the birth of Stefan’s daughter Maleficent curses her with the curse of eternal sleep on her 16th birthday mentioning that she will: ‘prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel’. There is however an antidote: true love’s kiss. Maleficent begins to watch over young Aurora

as she grows up and they soon meet and become friends. Aurora soon befriends Prince Phillip whom she grows fond of. Aurora also learns of her true identity and this forces her to love her roots and rush to the castle whereupon she pricks her finger on a spinning wheel and

falls to a sleep like death. Maleficent takes Phillip to the castle so that he can kiss her and bring her back, but it is revealed that Maleficent’s motherly love and her kiss on the forehead break’s the curse. It was after all, something of true love.

Pragya Rahman

Toy

Careful where you stand Operation is a fun and interesting game to play when you’re bored and even when you’re not bored.

It has pieces that you have to match according to the pictures of Sam’s body. Once you’re done with that, get your tweezers out and get ready to pick out the pieces from Sam’s body. If you move your tweezers an inch too far, the whole board starts to vibrate and Sam’s nose goes red and you lose. It is a great game for the entire family to play. You can play in turns and keep scores. Sam’s a great friend to spend an evening with but here’s a word of warning: don’t feed him your vegetables!

If you want to be a doctor who cuts people open, this is a great toy to have. Pragya Rahman

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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

Leone Stars Climate

Rank

Sierra Leone enjoys a tropical climate with beautiful tropical rainforests, beaches, mangrove swamps and mountains.

Sierra Leone ranks 103rd in the list of the most populated countries in the world.

Resources

Sierra Leone is rich in mineral such gold, titanium, rutile along with diamonds.

Police

Sierra Leone police force is one of the oldest police in West Africa. The police force was started by the British in 1894.

A huge part of their wealth comes from natural resources, and yet a most of the people lives in poverty.

Ethnicity

Sierra Leone is home to 16 cultural groups including Creole, Kuranko, Fula and Mandika.

Affect of War Sport

Football is the most popular sport in Sierra Leone. The national team is called “Leone Stars.”

Diamonds

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Poverty

A civil war began in Sierra Leone in 1991 but fortunately ended in 2000.

Sierra Leone has the third largest seaport in the world, called the Queen Elizabeth II Quay.

The motto of Sierra Leone is: Unity, Freedom and Justice.

Two thirds of the population in Sierra Leone is not educated.

War

Waterway

Motto

Literacy

On February 14, 1972, the country made the world headlines when the world’s third-largest gemquality diamond called the “Star of Sierra Leone” was found in Koidu, Sierra Leone. The “Star of Sierra Leone” was bought by the famous New York jeweller, Harry Winston for $2.5million at 968.8 carats. It was later re-cut into 17 pieces and 6 of them were set on a brooch called the “Star of Sierra Leone,” made by Harry Winston.

Pragya Rahman

The civil war destroyed 1,270 primary schools and in 2001, 67% of school going children left school.

Dr Meow's Lab

Dressing in guise

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

Cloths

The men in Sierra Leone often wear traditional pull-on pants with a matching tunic (a long shirt) with machine embroidery. In formal places, they may wear a large matching gown like a coat over the top and a small “pill box” hat. Women often wear a “lapa” or skirt, made from a large piece of material wrapped around the waist. Blouse styles may be fitting tops or larger, loose tunics or gowns. Women mostly have a matching headband to wrap around the head. These are the traditional clothes that are commonly worn. However, western wear is also popular for those who have access to it. It is not uncommon to see people in Sierra Leone wearing the same styles as you might see in Europe or the United States., such as t-shirts, shirts, jeans and formal trousers, shorts etc. Pragya Rahman

Food

Chewing on stew In Sierra Leon the main food that people love to eat is rice. There is a popular saying that goes something like this: “If I haven’t had my rice. I haven’t eaten today.” So the eating habit in Sierra Leone, as you can see, is quite similar to Bangladesh. Popular dishes are stews made of fish or meat.

The sauces for the stews are made with cassava leaves or potato leaves. Other basic things used in making the sauce are tomatoes, onions, red peppers, yams, and palm oil. People in Sierra Leone also love their seafood such as oysters and lobster.

Fruits such as pineapple, banana,

watermelon mangoes, papaya, avocados, guava and oranges are often eaten as snacks. Vegetables are often cut and fried as chips, and served as a snack, much like the potato chip. Pragya Rahman

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Histories of Magic

A lost

floating city

The Aztecs were the last local American rulers of Mexico.

Tenochtitlan was an Aztec altepetl (city-state) located in an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico. It was founded in 1325 and became the capital of Aztec Empire in the 15th century.

Tenochtitlan was a “floating city,� built in Lake Texcoco, on one natural and many man-made islands. It covered about eight to 13.5 square km. Raised roads connected the city to the mainland, with bridges that allowed canoes and other traffic to pass freely. If the city came under attack, the bridges could be pulled away in order to protect it. All sections of the city could be visited either on foot or by canoe because of a series of canals.

The palace of Moctezuma II also had two zoos. One section had birds of prey and another had regular birds, reptiles and

mammals. About 300 people were taking care of the animals. There was also a botanical garden and an aquarium. The aquarium had ten ponds of salt water and ten ponds of fresh water, with fish and aquatic birds.

Aztecs believed that the world would come to an end unless they sacrificed people and offered their hearts to their sun god, Huitzilopochtli. They built pyramids and temples where they sacrificed prisoners from the cities they had won over. Aztec priests used knives with stone blades to kill up to 1000 people each week.

Cloth, maize, pottery and luxury goods were brought to Tenochtitlan from the these cities by workers and traded in four huge markets. Officials made a list of all the things used in picture writing.

The Aztecs called for war on any tribe that refused to pay them.

Ehsan Sunny