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Let your child know about the Mars Orbiter, The Asian Games, and Why the Kashmir and Assm Floods happened, through this issue of the Young Chronicle.
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YOUNG CHRONICLE Jan 29th, 2014
Mars? Did they look like us? Were there any trees? Seas and Oceans? Their Mumma told them that Mars didn’t have any Trees, Seas and Oceans. But there were a lot of stories about Aliens living on Mars. Rambo was very excited at hearing this.
He instantly pulled out his Art book and started drawing an Alien. Here are some images he sketched.
Breaking Rambo’s imagination, Papa then told Rambo and Pranks that Mangalyaan had been sent by India, to find out whether Mars ever had water or not. The scientists would find this out by carefully studying the surface of the planet.
Pranks agitatedly asked, “What is Mangalyaan? Is it like a spaceship or a rocket?” Papa then explained that
it is a satellite. A satellite is an object that moves round and round a planet. Mangalyaan has been created by scientists, to click close pictures of mars. They plan to study the images and find out if there was water and life on mars before.
Rohan (a.k.a Rambo) and Priyanka (a.k.a Pranks), the Acha Bacha twins, were very excited that the Mangalyaan had joined the mars orbit. It sounded so cool! But they didn’t quite know what all of this meant. What is the Mangalyaan, and where is Mars, they wondered.
When they asked Mom and Dad, they were told to open their encyclopaedias and search for the Solar System.
The ‘Finding Mars Mission’ Rambo and Pranks found that Mars was a neighbouring planet. It is Red in colour and just like Earth, it goes round and round the sun.
If you see the picture above, Mars is the fourth planet from the sun. Pranks and Rambo had found Mars, and they were very excited.
What’s Mangalyaan? Why is everyone
talking about it? Wow! Pranks and Rambo were impressed at Mars. They had a lot of questions. Where there people on
THE YOUNG CHRONICLE Finding Mars!
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We are so confused. Now, what is the Solar System?
We have to get to the bottom of this.
What would a Martian look like?
Why is the satellite to Mars Called Mangalyaan?
The satellite to Mars is called Mangalyaan because
Mangal (in Hindi) = Mars
Yaan (in Hindi) = Vehicle
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Where are Kashmir and Assam? And what are Floods?
Floods occur when it rains a lot, or when a lot of snow melts suddenly. Mostly, places that have a river flowing close by, experience floods, when the river cannot hold the amount of water. Water then overflows, causing floods.
In Jammu and Kashmir, continuous rainfall led to the flooding of the Jhelum and the Tavi rivers. In Assam, it was the Bhramaputra river which flooded.
Many people were left homeless, and had no access to food and water, for many days. Houses, schools have sunk.
Pray for the flood affected people, and tell your parents to send some food and medicines for the flood victims.
Here’s a Prayer for the Flood Victims
Oh dear lord,
Please hear my plea.
Please take care of the people
The Assamese, Jammuites, and Kashmiris.
Give them health and the courage
To build back what they lost.
The families who have lost loved ones,
Need courage, to move ahead at all cost.
Give people the strength
To share and help others,
In this time of need,
We are all bothers and sisters.
If you are an Acha Bacha or an Achi Bachi, Share your
prayer poem, with us at [email protected], before 15th October, and win the
badges below.
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The 17th Asian Games are being held in Incheon, South Korea. Can you find South Korea in the map below?
THE ASIAN GAMES
Archery
Sandeep Kumar, Rajat
Chauhan, Abhishek Verma , won the Gold.
Squash
Saurav Ghosal led the team that won the gold medal.
Shooting
Jitu Rai: Men’s 50-metre pistol
Tennis Hockey
The Indian men's
hockey team won the Gold
Medal Math India has won 57 Medals in all. If India
has won
11 Gold Medals
10 Silver Medals Then how many
Bronze Medals has India
won? Email Your answer at [email protected]
and see your name in the next issue
Boxing
MC Marykom won the Gold in Boxing
Sania Mirza and Saketh Myneni won
the Mixed Doubles.
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The Asian Games Crossword
THE BRAIN TRAIN
Email us your solutions to all the puzzels in the Newspaper, at [email protected] and win Acha Bacha
and Achi Bachi Badges. All the Best!!
Word Meanings
Thought for the Week
The Future Depends on what we do in the present.
Mahatma Gandhi
Get to the Bottom of This: Getting to know the truth behind something.
Neighbouring: Right next to each other, or close by
Aliens: People belonging to a very different place or society, or a different planet. People who look or act strangely.
Impressed: To get or give a good impression or image about something.
Imagination: The act of imagining something
Studying: To gain knowledge through reading, observation, and research. To research and get to the depth of something.
Surface: The top most layer of everything
Occur: A happening
Jhelum: A river that flows through Kashmir
Tavi: A river that flows through Jammu
Bhramaputra: The longest river in India. It flows through the north-
The Never Ending Questions!
