Easy Way (A Blog For Children)

Little Sparrow Says (Poem )

It is so sad that Sparrows the most common birds of our country are disappearing due to various reasons. Decline of sparrows is not good for our environment at all. If we want to save our surroundings we must save our native birds too.

This poem is dedicated to our beautiful, social bird Sparrow.

  Hello !

I am little sparrow,
have you seen me?
I hope so.

I am little sparrow
overlooked and ignored
I am little sparrow
your social native bird.

Will you let me
make a small nest?
In a corner of your house
where I can rest.

Will you give me
some grain and water?
I will be thankful to you
for food and shelter.

I will sing everyday
just for you,
I will pray with my heart,
"God bless you !"
- Aunt Mary

You can read some useful tips for saving sparrows in the article

We can save sparrow

The Pencil Story

Hello dear friends, you know me well ! I am your little Pencil, you use me to write on paper and to make beautiful drawings or sketches.I am a useful little instrument for students as well as professionals.

Today I am sharing some information about me with all of you. I hope that you will find it interesting.

Most of the people think that a pencil is made of lead but the fact is that is that pencil contains no lead. A pencil is made of Graphite which is the form of carbon. Earlier people used to call Graphite black lead.

A very large amount of Graphite(Black Carbon) was found in Cumbria (England) at a place called Borrowdale. It was the time before 1565. The people of that place found it very useful to mark their sheep. It was pure and solid to be divided into sheets. The sheets were cut into sticks.These graphite sticks or rods were placed between two wooden halves,these halves then glued together to form a pencil. That is how pencil came into existence.

Later in the year 1795 , a French officer Nicolas Jaques Conte developed the method of mixing clay with powdered Graphite

and forming the mixture into rods.The making of modern pencil is based on that method.

Today different grades of pencil are in use .The most popular and common pencil which people normally use for writing is HB grade pencil. 9H is the hardest and 9B is the softest pencil.

Now let me tell you one more thing that how I got my name.The word Pencil comes from the Latin word Penicillus which means the little tail.

So this is my little story, 'The Pencil Story'.

The Merchant And The Magical Herb 'MEGA' (Japanese Folktale )

This interesting and funny Folktale is from Japan.

One day a small merchant was returning to his home after buying some goods from another town. He got late. It was getting dark and night was about to come.

"It is not safe to travel at night", thought the merchant. "I should stay somewhere at night and should go to home tomorrow." He dropped in a village and went to an inn to spend the night.

He asked the inn- keeper to make dinner for him.

The inn-keeper's wife was a greedy woman. When she saw the goods that the merchant had brought with him, she thought "How good for us if we take all his merchandise and money.'' She told his husband what she was thinking about. "It's not so easy to take his stuff ." said the husband.

''You are such an intelligent man can't you think of something to make this happen?", said the woman.The inn-keeper got moved by the sweet talks of his wife, he thought for a while and told his wife ''It is possible to take his merchandise if you put the magical herb Mega in the merchant's food. He will surely forget a thing or two after consuming this herb.""Are you sure about that? What if he doesn't forget his stuff?" , asked the greedy lady.
He has got nothing to forget, except for his merchandise, I am sure he will forget to take it with him.
The innkeeper's wife cooked a delicious meal for the merchant and put the herb, 'Mega' in the food.

The merchant ate the food and went to sleep.
Next morning when the innkeeper's wife woke up, she saw that the merchant had left their place. She checked the room in which the merchant stayed at night thinking that he must have forgot his merchandise but found nothing. She searched again but there was nothing.
She called out to her husband and said, ''You told me that the merchant will forget his stuff but he has taken all his goods with him and there is nothing left behind."That is not possible, he must have forgot something , the herb is very effective.
The woman thought for a moment and cried.....
'' Yes! He forgot something, he forgot to pay us for the food and the stay.''
"Oh no! The man said holding his head, ''What a big fool I am!''

Japanese Folktale Re-told by -Aunt Mary

We Must Save Water (Poem)

Water is a boon,water is life,
without any water ,nothing will survive.

   We need water and animals too,
plants need water and earth needs too.

   Can't waste it,we can't make mistake,

We must save water for everyone's sake.

-Aunt Mary

A drop of water is worth more than a sack of gold to a thirsty man.