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How the months of the year were named
By Lenard R. Mahaarachchi We have seen the dawn of another international New Year, AD 2013 of the Christian year. Within this calendar year there are several other new year’s, reckoned by various social groups, like Thai Pongal that marks the beginning of a new year in the Hindu calendar or the Sinhala and Tamil [...]
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Kids’ World
How do people communicate? In early times, people didn’t have telephones or television so they communicated by sending letters, beating on drums, with the help of smoke signals, sending messengers on horseback etc. They also tied a message with a piece of string on a pigeon’s leg and sent messages that way. Nowadays, we have [...]
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The Butterfly Garden
By Aanya Wipulasena Hello kids, today we are going to tell you about our visit to see some wondrous creatures of the earth. The Funday Times crew visited a butterfly garden set up in Moratuwa by Dilmah Conservation. As concrete buildings, vehicles emitting toxic gases and other modern creations started to invade nature these jewel [...]
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Win! Win! Win! Super books from Vijitha Yapa Bookshop
9 years and below Write not more than 150 words on ‘If I were a fairy.’ Eight O’clock Tales by Enid Blyton Join the skittle-policeman on his adventures as he travels to Toytown. Find out what happens when Kick-up the donkey runs away from Twiddle the gnome. And laugh at Twisty the Brownie as he learns [...]
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Guiding Light
The International Day of the Girl Child was designated as October 11 by a resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly in December 2011, to recognize girls’ rights and highlight the unique challenges girls face worldwide. Therefore a workshop was held on October 11, 2012 at P. D. S. Kularatne Vidyalaya, Ambalangoda with the participation of [...]
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Cartoon Time!
Hey Kids! We plan to put in more cartoons in the Funday Times and what’s more they will be your own cartoons. So, here’s a chance for you to try your hand at producing your very own original cartoons. Draw a little cartoon with a caption. It could even be a small cartoon story in [...]
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To the Editor
Thank you A great big thank you from the core of my heart to the Funday Times and Cargills teams for making the 28th of December, 2012 an unforgettable day of the past year. I really enjoyed the evening on the rides at Adventura, enjoyed working as a team in the group games and whipped [...]
