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A large part of our brain develops by the age of six. Children need awhole range of activities to strengthen different skills. Our activities have been carefully designed to test 10 key areas. Use this magazine to unleash your child’s potential. Be empowered – know how each activity helps.
Note to Parents
What’sInside...
November 09, 2014
Issue: 20
Volume: 1
Memory & Thinking Skills
Listening
General Knowledge
Self Esteem & ValuesWriting
Science & NatureReading & Comprehension
Rich Vocabulary
Creativity
Maths
Dear Parents,
I do hope you have a wonderful holiday.
Our new issue explores another habitat – grasslands. Learn about many of the wonderful animals that live in these areas. Children are fascinated with most grassland animals – the lion, giraffe, zebra, meerkat and many more.
We have also included activities centred around the theme of Halloween. This issue is full of witches, crazy hats and angry bats!
Write to us and give us your feedback. Do visit our website www.myteamexplore.com when you have some time.
Happy parenting!
Gayatri Singh
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Grasslands Synonyms
The sweet little witch
African Savannas
Mission Mars
Animal Pick
Learn all about this habitat When two words mean
the same!
A perfect Halloween tale
All you need to know
with Avi and Zip
Fun facts about giraffes
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Grasslands Grasslands are open places, full of tall grass
and a few bushes and trees. Some amazing animals live here.
Grasslands have huge areas of long grass.
Grasslands are home to many different kinds of animals.
We continue to explore habitats in this issue. Here we take a journey to discover grasslands.
Note to parents
Read Aloud
Kids Explore November 09, 20144
Write the correct word under the picture.
DID YOU KNOW
Wheat is also a kind of grass?
ForestsDesert
GrasslandsMountains
1 2
3 4
A habitat means the home of animals and plants. Every
place on Earth has different conditions. Animals and
plants adapt to these conditions to make it their home.
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Grassland AnimalsGrasslands are home to the majestic lion. Animals
like the zebra, rhinoceros, giraffe, cheetah and wildebeest also live here.
There are grasslands all around the world, except for Antarctica.
EuropeNorth America
South America
Asia
Australia
Africa
There are
grasses that are
taller than
a person!
DID YOU KNOW
Kids Explore November 09, 20146
Unscramble the words under each picture to identify the grassland animal.
Who AM I ?
fGrfIeA
PheANTLe
AhCeThe
PALorDe SoBIN
erZAB
erMKATe
LNIoerDe
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African SavannasGrasslands are also known as
savannas. Many dangerous animals live here.
The hippo has a bad temper and can charge at you. Watch out! They run faster than us too!
The mosquito kills more people than any other animal because it spreads diseases, like malaria.
The black mamba’s poison can kill.
The male elephant can attack you without a reason.
Read Aloud
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Arrange the number from largest to smallest.
8
48 33 88 23 14
55 23 44 21
Giraffes live in Africa too. Help the
baby giraffe find his mother.
tracing pathS
9
23 99
48 8
25 101
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I can readColour the correct shape or letter by following
the instructions
Colour the third shape blue, and the sixth shape red.Colour all the other shapes in green.
Colour the fifth letter in orange, and the seventh in blue.Colour the other letters in purple.
Write the middle number.
grasslands
Kids Explore November 09, 201410
94 5
876yellow
brown orange
blue
red
green
This is a fun way to mix math with creativity. Let’s make math more fun!
Note to parents
Do the subtraction sums in the picture. Then colour the picture using the colour codes.
Subtract it
10-1
6-2
9-0
9-1
9-1
10-2
10-2
8-2
6-0
5-0
5-0
7-1
6-1
8-3
8-0
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GrasslandBugsThe grasslands are home to many different kinds of insects.
Look at the patterns below. Write down the letters that best describe the pattern. The first one has
been done for you!
ABC
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Picture SUDOKU
Fill in the blanks using the pictures above. There should be only one of each picture in a row and column.
Kids Explore November 09, 2014 13
Halloween is celebrated on the 31st of October, every year.
Join the dots
Join the dots to reveal the animal.
A child learns sequencing while joining these dots!Note to parents
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Help the witch find her home.
MAZE
Kids Explore November 09, 2014 15
Practice MakesPerfect
Practice MakesPerfect
Practice Makes
W is for
WITCH
WWWWwwww
Let’s practice writing the letter ‘W’ or ‘w’'
Write the letter `w´ in the spaces below to complete the words.
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W
More letter ‘Ww’
W W W W
w w w w w
Colour the objects whose name begins with the letter `w‘
Watermelon
Whale
Wheel
Bat
Duck
Kids Explore November 09, 2014 17
lost in spacePart I
And India has managed to
send a satellite to orbit Mars!
Hi and welcome to Mars! It’s cold here, so make sure you’re
bundled up.
You’re an alien? I thought they weren’t real!
Wow!
Wow, I wonder what Mars is like?
andZipavi
Kids Explore November 09, 201418
Wow, there’s so much red sand here! Now I know why it’s
the Red Planet.
Wow, this mountain
looks as high as Mount Everest.
Mars also has two
moons- one more than Earth! They are called Phobos
and Deimos!
I hope you are enjoying this tour
of our solar system.
Where do you want to go next?
Actually Avi, it’s taller. This is
Olympus Mons, and is almost three
times as high as Everest!
Jump! See since Mars’ surface gravity is 37%
of Earth’s you can jump three times as high
here!
To Venus!
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Halloween
Monster Bookmark
MATERIALS NEEDED:
STEP BY STEP METHOD:
Do you love to read? Let’s make our own monster bookmark.
• Chart Paper
• Glue
• Googly Eyes
• Scale
• Any coloured paper
• Black chart paper for teeth
Take a chart paper and draw a
10cm x 10cm square on it. Cut
the paper into a square.
Fold the paper as shown into half
Fold it further into a smaller square
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Open up the square and fold
sides into a triangle shape
Stick the triangles to the front. This is how the front portion of the bookmark should look
Now, start sticking your bookmark. Once you have stuck
the triangle, apply glue on just
one side of the triangle and stick
it to the square as shown
Take any coloured paper of your
choice and cut two 4.5cm x 4.5cm
squares. Cut one from the centre to get two triangles
Stick the back of the paper together and the red square
paper onto the back
Cut the black paper into two
tiny triangles for the monster
teeth and glue the googly eyes
and the black teeth as shown
Your monster bookmark is ready to be used!
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Using shapes
This activity reinforces the math concept of shapes while building creative skills. Further, the step by step instructions build comprehension skills.
Note to parents
step 1
Triangle
Rectangle SquareCircle
step 2
Can you make a dog using shapes?
Let’s try this.
Kids Explore November 09, 201422
step 5
step 3 step 4
We can also make a house using triangles, squares
and rectangles.
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SynonymsSynonyms are words with similar meanings.
We can write better if we use similar words rather
than repeating the same words.
The large elephant picked up the
large log with his large trunk.
The enormous elephant picked up
the big log with his large trunk.
Big Large
That sounds awful! Replace large with similar words.
Doesn’t that sound better?
Little Small
Happy Glad
Fast Quick
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Match the word with its synonym
afraid evil
below correct
wicked sad
sick relax
right scared
rest under
unhappy scream
shout tidy
neat ill
Kids Explore November 09, 2014 2525
SPOT THE DIFFERENCESAnimals on a boat - how many can we see?
Kids Explore November 09, 201426
Can you spot the differences between the two pictures?
HINT: There are 10 differences
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A Jack-o’-lantern is a carved
pumpkin. Carving pumpkins (and
earlier turnips!) to make lanterns is a
Halloween tradition. Match the two
that are exactly alike.
ThinkStation!
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What I See!What I See!
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There is so much food in the picture. Can you help me find
the following?
coffee
pineapplepastry
kitchen knife
fish
mushroompizza
chocolate
butter eggs
ice cream
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Giraffes are the tallest animals in the world;
they can grow up to 17 feet tall! Male giraffes
are taller than the females. Giraffes have long
tongues too! They use their long neck and
tongue to eat leaves from the tall trees.
GiraffeANIMAL PICKANIMAL PICKANIMAL PICK
Read Aloud
Visit our website www.myteamexplore.com for more animal facts and videos.
Giraffes need
between ten
minutes to two
hours of sleep
every day!!
DID YOU KNOW
Giraffes are herbivores. They eat
plants. Their favourite food are
the leaves of the acacia tree.
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Just like each person has different
fingerprints, no two giraffes are
born with the same spot pattern.
The male giraffe is called
a bull; while the female is
called a cow and the baby
giraffe is called a calf.
Just like cows!
Catch our video on giraffes at
http://www.myteamexplore.
com/v-explorer-videos/explore-
nature/animalfacts-Giraffe.html
Note to parents
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The Sweet
Little WitchThe Sweet
Little WitchLong long ago, there lived a sweet, little girl named Jane. She lived with her parents and her brother, Jason. While they looked like any normal family, Jane and her mother were actually witches and her father and brother were wizards!
They all knew magic and life was good because all they had to do was click their fingers to get work done! Jane was happy and loved her life, but what she hated most was Halloween, because the leaves start falling and the days got shorter and colder around Halloween.
While all the children were excited to wear costumes and go trick or treating, Jane hated Halloween
because the witch costumes did not look very nice. “Witches don’t look so horrible,
my mom and I look nice,” said Jane to the kids in her school. All of them
laughed at.
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Jane was upset and told her mother she did not want to be a witch anymore. On Halloween night, all the girls from Jane’s school decided to go trick or treating. Jane went along with them even though she did not want to. The last house they went to belonged to a grumpy, old man who hated children. He opened the door but refused to give them any treat and said, “I’d rather take the trick, because I am not scared of children like you!”
One of the girls told him that Jane was a real witch but the grumpy, old man didn’t believe them. “Show him, Jane!” shouted the girls. Jane cast a magic spell and turned the grumpy, old man into a tiny mouse! The grumpy, old man said sorry and asked for forgiveness. Jane turned him back into his old self again. He was so scared that he ran back inside the house and got them a box full of chocolates and asked them to come back every Halloween! Jane became the most popular girl in her class and was happy she was a witch!
Research indicates that children who read everyday perform better in tests.
Note to parents
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DownAcross
2. A bird that is out at night6. I am the biggest land animal7. I am big, dangerous and love to sit in the water!8. Check out my black and white stripes
1. I have a long neck3. I have back spots and
my name begins with L4. I am the fastest5. I am king of the jungle9. I am an insect that has
an army
Do you know these animals? Complete the crossword below.
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Grassland Animals
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SHOP
The Magic letter
hop
bar
cod
bit
hope
bare
code
bite
eWe can change the sound of a word by
simply adding an "e" at the end.
A rakeE themeI kiteO coneU huge
It’s like magic!!!
The magic '"e" changes the sound of the vowel to be similar to the sound
of the name of the vowel.
This is how it happens
Can you hear the difference in the sound of o?
It just gets a bit looooonger
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Write down these words with the use of the magic "e"
cape
Grammar can be simple and fun. Help your child recognize the difference in the sounds.
Note to parents
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Bush: A thick, short plant which has many stems coming out from the trunk.
VWord ListWord List
Disease: An illness or sickness.
Enormous: Very large, huge.
Dangerous: Not safe
Desert: A dry, very hot (although some can be cold) piece of land that has very few plants and people.
Forest: A place that has many trees and lots of plants and animals.
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Forgiveness: Not getting angry or punishing someone for something they did wrong.
Grumpy: Bad-tempered or unhappy.
Herbivore: Animals that only eat plants.
Mountain: A part of the Earth’s surface that is much higher than the places around it.
Poison: Something that can kill or harm a person if they eat/drink/touch it.
Popular: Well liked; having many friends
Similar: Alike.
Wizard: A male witch; a man who has magic powers
Malaria: A sickness caused by mosquitos.
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Friendly Frog PosterI made this!
Amulya S ShenoyAge: 6 years
Soham M.
Naina Elizabeth Jose
Our Winner
The six best entries from our Friendly Frog contest (September 25, 2014 issue)
Kids Explore November 09, 201444
Sanhitha S.R.
S. Tharun Prakash
G. Darshini
Colour the Picture on page 46 and send
it to us. The best entries will feature in
our November issue.
Upload the art at:
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Please send in your entries by November 15, 2014.
You can also upload the art at: www.myteamexplore.com/ drawing-and-colouring/halloween/
You can also download this page from
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Parents’ Corner
We can start our children with fractions pretty early. Fold a napkin or a sheet of paper in half, then in quarters. Do that with food on the dining table – cut a roti in half and then a quarter.
Get you child to help you bake a cake. Then cut it up into pieces – starting with half, quarter, and eights. You can do that with a pizza too. You can do this with fruits and vegetables too.
This is a fun game all kids love. It reinforces basic arithmetic concepts at the same time. Here is how you play it – take 10 balls of paper. Give your child 5 and take 5. Toss the balls into the basket taking turns. Then count your score – number in the basket, number outside. Write them in a sheet of paper.
Fraction fun
Paper in the basket
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How it helps: Fractions can be a difficult concept when introduced later, but if you child understand the concept practically – the fact that it is really dividing a whole – it gets very easy.
How it helps: Soon she/he will be able to get a good control of the 5-fact family. Change the number of balls to progress. This activity is great in building motor skills too!
3 in + 2 out = 5 balls
1/2 1/4 1/8
or 5 balls – 2 out = 3 in
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Inclusive education is when children, with and without disabilities, participate and learn together in a classroom. Research has shown that inclusive education has a positive impact. KIDS Explore visited Greater Valley School, Greater Noida to understand their special education program. Mrs. Poonam Chaubey, Principal, spoke with us.
Special achievementsMost of our students have won accolades in sports and art competitions held in YMCA (Greater Noida and Delhi). Our student, Somansh Shukla, has been selected from U.P. district to represent India in the upcoming Special Olympics to be held in Los Angeles, USA in 2015.
“With great power, comes great responsibility. As an educational establishment, it is our foremost responsibility to offer knowledge to all children. By
involving special needs children into our main stream classes we solve a dual purpose - it sensitizes students and also helps these special children learn to interact socially. The special education program at our school ‘SAAMARTH’ - is a cluster of resources that is
dedicated to supporting the educational needs of students with one or more disability areas. The purpose of this early Intervention program is to improve cognitive, linguistic, social, and emotional outcomes of young children and lead to their successful inclusion into society. Our school offers specific facilities like Occupational therapy; Pre-vocational training, Special Educators who design and deliver tailor made Individualised Education Plans (IEP) and Speech therapy.”
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Events in your city
The primary focus of this event is to help beginner readers to understand how letters are linked to sounds and form letter-sound correspondence. It will also help them learn how to apply this knowledge in their reading.
The India Kids’ Fashion Show provides an opportunity for parents and kids to explore the kids’ fashion industry. A majority of talented designers showcase their products – from apparels, room décor, toys and games, entertainment and lifestyle to furniture accessories – all related to the kids’ choice!
Since 2010, this written competition is conducted annually for students who wish to participate on an international level and get awarded for their good handwriting skills. Now flaunt your handwriting and win prizes!
The Kanagawa Biennial World Children's Art Exhibition is held every two years and showcases children's art from all over the world. It aims at fostering the dreams and creativity of today's young children through art, and further understand the world's diverse cultures.
I leap I read
India Kids, Fashion Show
Handwriting Olympiad 2014
Kanagawa Biennial World Children’s Art Exhibition
Where: Bangalore13th Oct – 28th NovAge: 2- 4 yearswww.ileap.in
Where: Mumbai1st -2nd NovAge: 3-14 yearswww.ikfs.org
Where: PuneTill 30th NovAge: 7-15 yearswwww.handwritinglearning.com
Where: HyderabadWhen: Till 31st OctAge: 4-15 yearshttp://www.earthplaza.jp/biennial/English/index.html
Team Explore is holding a video competition for schools across India. There are tablets and even cycles to be won! Visit www.myteamexplore.com for more details.
Shri Ram School Moulsari, Gurgaon
Celina Gandhi, a Grade VII student made
the winning poster.
school competitions
The Great Science Experiment
Winner of our Anti-bullying poster competition
School:
congratulations!
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1. Desert
2. Mountains
3. Forests
4. Grasslands
1. Giraffe
2. Cheetah
3. Zebra
4. Elephant
5. Deer
6. Lion
7. Leopard
8. Bison
9. Meerkat
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88, 48, 33, 23, 14
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AAABAAAB
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afraid – scared
below – under
wicked – evil
sick – ill
right – correct
rest – relax
unhappy – sad
shout – scream
neat – tidy2. owl
6. elephant
7. hippo
8. zebra
1. giraffe
3. leopard
4. cheetah
5. lion
9. ant
Pipe
Cake
Vase
Cage
Wave
Bone
Cone
Rose
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