Champak proudly presents the results of the Season 7Champak Creative Child Contest Season 7. Space Two little astronauts in the palace Misplace a vase in space, They chase and race at a great pace But with no grace! At last, they find the vase with no base, They replace the base While eating bouillabaisse in space! Yash Arya, 11 years Navi Mumbai Sanyukta Sunil Mahakal, 10 years Model English School (MIDC), Dombivali Ichha J. Gala, 10 years Drisha Ramesh Shetty, 9 years Model English School (MIDC), Dombivali Model English School (MIDC), Dombivali An exciting drawing competition! Pranjal Sudesh Sawant, 10 years Sanakshi Devendra Koli, 7 years Hitali Dhiraj Chaudhari, 6 years Champak Creative Child Contest was organised at Model English School (MIDC), Dombivali. 136 students participated in the contest and enthusiastically submitted their drawings. Certificates were given to the best entries.
Parth Shashikant Suvarna, 6 years Soham Khandare Vikram, 7 years Model English School (Ramnagar), Dombivali Model English School (Ramnagar), Dombivali Shravan Narnath Salunkhe, 6 years Champak congratulates the winners and would love all our Model English School (Ramnagar), Dombivali readers to participate. So grab your writing and painting material and get those creative ideas flowing. To participate look for the Champak Creative Child Contest advertisement in this issue. Hurry! Topics for next month’s wild card entry are: l Earth Day l World Book Day l World Heritage Day Send your entries on A4 size paper. Postal address: Champak, Delhi Press, A-4, Shri Ram Industrial Estate Wadala, Mumbai- 400031 E-mail: [email protected] Visit our Facebook page for updates: www.facebook.com/ChampakMagazine Deetya Barayala, 7 years Vardhan R. Ingle, 8 years Tvisha Rahul Jain, 7 years Champak Creative Child Contest was organised at Model English School (Ramnagar), Dombivali. 32 students participated in the contest and enthusiastically submitted their drawings. Certificates were given to the best entries.
SpOt the Difference Circle 10 differences you can find between the two pictures. Us and Them enlarge itself, thus cracking the exoskeleton. When it cracks, the As we grow older, we outgrow our grasshopper is covered in soft skin clothes—they become short or tight. that stiffens when exposed to the Similarly, as the grasshopper grows, its sun and becomes the exoskeleton. A skin becomes small for it! grasshopper sheds its exoskeleton a This skin is the exoskeleton or the number of times in its nymph stage hard outer cover or shell that covers where it resembles an the body of a grasshopper. The adult but lacks wings. exoskeleton protects the grasshopper’s After the final moult, A grasshopper’s soft internal organs and holds them in its wings become ears are on shape. However, it does not stretch as fully functional. its belly, the grasshopper grows. Thus, when a grasshopper outgrows tucked beneath its exoskeleton, it begins the process its wings. of moulting—a process of shedding skin, commonly seen in snakes and lizards. In order to moult, the grasshopper swallows a large amount of air to
Hesitation No More Harish Bhandari Manu was a quiet, shy girl. She spoke very little and was never recently been selected to play volleyball at involved in any fights at school the national level from her school team. or at home. She did not even fight with Her team even won the first prize in the competition held in Odisha. her little brother Aditya, who would trouble her whenever he had the chance. Manu was so shy that she never asked any questions in class even when she had His school teachers complained about a doubt. him at every parent-teacher meet. There were other quiet children in the class, But Aditya was a bright student and but Manu was the quietest. Her classmates good at sports, just like Manu who had had named her the ‘shy girl’ for this reason. March (Second) 2020 55
Manu’s parents were worried about her personality and style. I am always there to shy and hesitant nature. Her father was an guide her,” replied Manu’s mother. army officer. Manu’s behaviour worried It’s not that Manu was not smart. She him but he knew it was a trait that she was very good at her studies and all had got from him. He too had been shy the teachers knew that. But she never as a boy but eventually, he opened up and answered in class, even when the other mingled with everyone. students distracted her and made fun of But when Manu did not change even the teachers. after primary school, her mother started Her friends, Teena, Riya and Varnika, worrying. never paid attention to what the teacher Diya’s mother once told Manu’s mother, was saying. Instead, they spent time “It is not good for anyone to be so shy imitating the teacher and having fun. and hesitant. It gives other children a Whenever a teacher wrote a question on chance to tease her as they know she the blackboard, these girls made paper tails won’t say anything in return. I suggest you and stuck it to the back of the students who speak to her.” got up to answer the question. This made “I have spoken to Manu. She likes being the entire class laugh. While Manu did not on her own and I don’t want to force like their behaviour, she could not complain her to change. All kids have their own because she was hesitant.
p s babu One day, Manu’s mother met Riya and it was time Manu spoke for herself. She Varnika in the market. She asked them went home and told her husband what the how Manu was in class as they were her girls said. They both knew that Manu was friends and they would know best. The good in studies and always completed her two girls took this chance to get Manu class work. into trouble. Manu’s father called out to her. He told “Aunty, Manu doesn’t pay attention her what her friends had said about her in class, and when the teacher asks a doing badly in class. question, she just starts crying,” they said. Seeing no reaction from her, he said, “Manu, “She never finishes her class work. That’s your friends have just said bad things about why she only gets a C grade all the time,” you and you have nothing to say. Does that added Riya. mean it’s true?” Manu nodded. Varnika added, “She’s always scared!” “Manu, you are a good girl. It’s okay to Manu’s mother realised that the girls were be shy but it is also necessary to talk taking advantage of Manu’s silence and if something wrong is happening. You should stand up for yourself.” March (Second) 2020 57
Manu was still quiet and sad. She thought when you have so much knowledge?” Teena, Riya, and Varnika were her friends. Manu listened carefully to her father. Her father knew Manu was sad but she She said, “Papa, from now on, I will try still did not say anything. to participate more in class. I will also He continued, “You don’t have to be correct my friends when I think they are scared to speak the truth. You have the wrong. I will not shy away from standing biggest treasure in your hand. Your books! up for myself.” Remember, books are a student’s best Manu’s confident look as she said this friend, as they show them the right path to made her parents happy, and they hugged take. You spend a lot of time with books her tightly and have learnt so much. Then, why hesitate Page 23: Maze Page 35: Hidden Picture Page 41: Page 51: World Sparrow Day World Theatre Day 1. China, Antarctica, Japan 2. New Delhi 1 - F 2 - H 3. berries, moths, small insects, seeds 3 - D 4 - E 4. bridges, roofs, tree hollows 5. pollution, lack of trees 5 - G 6 - A 6. hanging artificial nests outside your houses, keeping a pot of 7 - B 8 - C water and grains outside your houses, planting more trees 58 March (Second) 2020
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