PREPARED BY ADABEL BINIAM AUGUST 30, 2020 Skysubway Children’s Newsletter News from above Ethiopia: Shadey/ Ashandiye - Girls' Festival Festivals in Ethiopia are typically colorful and exciting. Our country has cultural, Origami religious, and other festivals that can attract Origami is the art foreign tourists and local participants to come of paper folding, and gather to watch the procession and take which is often part. The most known name of which held associated with every year in Amhara and Tigray States is Japanese culture. It Shadey, Ashendye, Solel, Mariya, which is the is for all ages as name for a tall grass that young women they are sooo fun to usually tie around their gowns as a type of make! decoration. Look at the picture below! ! The occasion usually takes place between August till September with traditional dressing, cultural costumes, and dances. It is a popular festival which booms the voice Making yummy’s of young women and girls loudly! Recently, it is advised that,due to the risk of Let’s cook, bake and keep both our COVID-19 to celebrate the ceremonies at hands and brains home with limited guests. Grrrrr! This busy! COOKIES corona is starting to annoy me! YUM YUM Refer these books for your activities, they are available at Super Readers Library go to www.superreaderset.com Draw a cute Cat! Hey! Remember the last time you drew a bear? How about a cat this time? Mau Mau! 1 Rights For Donkeys! If a donkey, right now right here could talk, it would say: I QUIT! Imagine you were a Donkey. You’d be fed and rarley cared for. But you’d need to work, no matter what. For example: You would carry needed supplies of clean water and firewood for home. Or you need to pull carts with goods to trade at the market. But it isn’t as easy as it sounds like. One mistake and “BLAM!!!,, You’ve been whipped! Autsch, that hurts! Like the old saying: The man or woman who has no Donkey, becomes the Donkey! That’s defenetly why Ethiopia has so many Donkeys. We got about 8.8 million donkeys, that’s a pretty impressive number! I mean, no one wants to be a Donkey! Well not me, cause the way all those donkeys have been treated. What about you? The Ethiopian Herlad Lake Tana in danger " Lake Tana is the main source of Abay or known as the Blue Nile, and is the largest lake in Ethiopia. Lake Tana is found in the Amhara Region. Wow! Are those people proud? They better be, cause it is 50% our drinking water. But don’t stick your head into the water and drink from the lake! It first needs to be purified. It is also 60% of Abay. How amazing is that!! Now you know how important it is that Lake Tana does NOT dry out! You are probably asking: Why is Lake Tana drying out? It is because it has been attacked by Water hycantith? haycath? hyacinth? Yes, water hyacinth. It is a small plant that sucks up water and can completeley dry out a whole water source. If 2 we do not fight against it, we might lose lake Tana! Which means a lot of tourisum and we will lose Abay, the longest river in the World. The Ethiopian Herlad The world waits to see Kenenisa versus Kipchoge battle in London The battle for the supreme title between our Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele and the Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge and at the London Marathon on October 4 is back on. The London Marathon organisers commited that the race will be held place, six months after its acctually scheduled date in April. The race, however, will only allow the best athletes compete. Which is in a corona-secured environment. Of course! Or else they wouldn’t compete! That means, that the duel between Kenenisa and Kipchoge will take centre stage . Info about these two record breaking runners: Eliud Kipchoge is a Kenyan long-distance runner Olympic champion, a four-time London Marathon winner who competes in the marathon and formerly the 5000 metres. He is the world record holder in the marathon with a time of 2:01:39, set on 16 September 2018, at the 2018 Berlin Marathon. His run broke the previous world record by 1 minute and 18 seconds. Kenenisa as you may all know is an Ethiopian long-distance runner and the current world record and Olympic record holder in the 10,000-metre. He also was the world record holder in the 5000-metre from 2004 until 2020. He won the gold medal in both the 5000 m and 10,000 m race at the 2008 Summer Olympics.The world record was nearly broken by Kenenisa Bekele at last September’s BMW Berlin Marathon. Kenenisa Bekele, who is twice World Athlete of the Year, finished just two seconds outside Kipchoge’s world record. 3 Animal World Abyssinian cats With their unique ticked coats, sleek bodies, and friendly personalities, Abyssinian cats stand out in the cat world. Learn about the Abys mysterious and amazing history and how it overcame struggles in the early 1900s to become one of todays most loved breeds . The Abyssinian is a breed of short-haired cats with a distinctive "ticked" tabby coat. With ticked, I mean the hair color on the top is different than the one on the bottom, which makes this cat breed very different than others. You can call them simply: Abys. They are named after the Abysinnian tribe. Now known as Ethiopia. They say a small cat named Zula was took in by a British governor who took her to Britain. In the 1900’s the Abys where about to die out! But now there absolutely fine. Well, almost. Funny but serious fact: When an Aby gives birth usually there are more boys than girl kits. Which means it is hard for Abys to double their popularity. Because you need a girl and a boy for more babies! # 4 Adey and Adam Gender Intellegence! 5 Please read the facts below and discuss with a Grownup you trust Two large limbic system structures, the amygdala and hippocampus, play important roles in memory, emotions, and coping with stress. The hippocampus is larger in women than in men, which explains why women are usually better at expressing emotions and recalling intricate physical details. Even under moderate stress, a woman will tend to speak with an emotional voice, as her thoughts become flooded with past memories. A man will commonly misinterpret her reaction as extreme and assume she is feeling powerless to solve an overwhelming issue. He reasons that if he were having that level of an emotional reaction, he would need to talk through his problem with someone as well. Ref : Annis, Barbara; Gray, John. Work with Me: The 8 Blind Spots Between Men and Women in Business. 6 Riddles and Jokes 7 Answers for the past riddles on the first issue 1.grandfather, father and son! 2. WHAT is the name of the first kid! Get it? Do you have any Questions, Suggestions or news, riddle or story to share? We would love to hear from you, please contact us at [email protected] or at our telegram address: https://t.me/SuperReaders (just copy and paste this link to reach us) 8.