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INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT GOOGLE DOODLE

What is Google Doodle?

Google is the biggest and most popular search engine. We see the the logo of Google on it's home page when we open the Google to search something.
Doodle is an artistic form of Google logo. Google makes some interesting changes to it's logo to celebrate events, occasions, holidays and anniversaries and the life of famous personalities.

First Google Doodle
The first Doodle was made in the year 1998 in honor of Burning Man festival( An American event). This Doodle was designed by
the founders of Google Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

   First Google Doodle

First animated Google Doodle
The very first animated Google doodle was posted in 2010 to mark the birthday of famous scientist Sir Issac Newton. It was a beautiful animated image of apple falling from the tree.

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First interactive Doodle
In May 2010 Google introduced their first interactive logo of the game Pac-Man. People who visited Google could play Pac-Man on the logo.

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Who creates Doodle?
Doodles have been created and published by a team of Google employees. The member of this team are called Doodlers.

Now enjoy some amazing, adorable Doodles from Google-

Link to Mother's day Doodle

Link to Father's day Doodle

Link to Children's day Doodle

Link to First day of spring

Link to Earth day Doodle

You can visit Google.com to search and find thousands of interesting, beautiful Google Doodles.

Have a wonderful day

-Aunt Mary

SUMMER HOLIDAYS ARE HERE (Poem)

Month of May brought long, hot days,
And now we have our summer holidays

Summer holidays mean no to school,
Waking up late with no set rule.

Little home work, easy to be done,
Lesser studies and lot's of fun.

Playing and talking and watching cartoon,
Fun continues till the end of June.

Beautiful time comes once in a year,
Summer holidays are best days ever.
- Aunt Mary

THE STORY OF PRINCESS MOUSE ( Finnish Folktale )

One fine morning a father was having breakfast with his two beloved sons. He told his young sons,'' My dear children, now you both are old enough to get married and according to our culture you should cut a tree and should go into the direction in which the tree falls to find your bride.

"Alright father. As you wish." , the two brothers agreed.
The elder brother already liked a girl and he made sure that the tree fell down in the direction of girl's home.
Younger brother Mikko cut the tree and went the way the fallen tree pointed out. It was a lonely way which led him to the forest.
There was a small house in the middle of the woods.He went inside but the house was empty.

Mikko became so sad , he sat down under a tree outside the house.
"I am not going to find my bride...No one lives here.", he murmured.
"I live in this house, please don't loose heart, I will be your bride.", Mikko heard a voice. He looked around but nobody was there. Mikko got a bit scared.

"Hello, I am here." Oh! the voice was coming from the ground.
The young man looked down and he saw a little mouse on the ground near his feet.
"I will be a very good wife ,please marry me'' , said the small mouse.
"How can I marry a mouse ?", the amazed and surprised young man said.
''Stay with me for some time , I am sure you will like me and will select me as your wife.'', said the little mouse.
Mikko felt pity for her, he smiled and said, ''Alright I will stay here for a while."
He stayed with the mouse , she sang a beautiful song for him. Mikko liked her a lot, she was so nice.

Mikko went back to his home, he didn't tell his father that he had met a mouse.
''Dear sons, I want to give a little test to your to be brides, they have to weave a fine linen cloth for me'' Mikko's father told his sons.
Next day Mikko went to the mouse and told her about the test.
"Don't worry, believe me everything is going to be fine.", said the little mouse.
Mikko was tired he fell asleep. The mouse wove a beautiful linen cloth with the help of her mouse friends. She folded the cloth and packed it in a nutshell.
Mikko got up, the little mouse gave him the nutshell and said'' I have woven the cloth, I hope your father will like it.'' Mikko took the shell and returned home.
When his father opened the shell he got amazed to see the yards of fine, beautiful fabric. ''Your bride is such a wonderful weaver, I am lucky to have her as my daughter-in law.'' said the happy father.
Next morning Mikko visited the mouse and told her that today is the day of their marriage.
The little mouse climbed into a carriage which was pulled and driven by rats.
They reached home, everyone was astonished to see the mouse,''Look! Mikko's bride is mouse.''
''How can you marry a mouse?'', his brother shouted with anger. He threw the carriage into the river.
Mikko's eyes filled with tears, ''You killed my sweetheart, I can't live without her!", he cried.
And just then, a beautiful princess came out of the river along with four horses.

''A witch had cursed me and turned me into a mouse.'' ,she told Mikko and his family,''The curse could only end if my lover's brother would hate me.''
Everybody got so happy that Mikko's bride was not a mouse , she was a princess, and what about Mikko?
Well.... he was the happiest man on the earth.
He got married to the princess and they lived happily ever after.

(A folktale from Finland)
  Retold by- Aunt Mary

United We Stand, Divided We Fall ( Moral Story )

Once upon a time a man lived in a village with his three sons. All three of them were good, hardworking fellows. The old man had no complaint with them except that they fought with each other all the time.

'They fought for every single reason , big or small.'

The poor old man always told them to stop fighting with each other and to stay united but all his efforts failed. He got so worried, ''My sons fight all the time even in front of my eyes, what will they do after I die! I have to do something about their quarrels. He continued thinking.
Next day he called his three sons, when they came he gave a bundle of sticks to his elder son, ''Come on let me see if you can break it or not ?''
The elder son tried but couldn't break the sticks.
"Now it's your turn." , said the old man to his second son. ''Break it.''
The second son tried with all his strength to break the bundle but he failed too.
"Can you break these sticks my son ?" , asked the father to his youngest son .
The young man tried so hard but did not succeed.
Now the old man took back the bundle of sticks and separated the sticks and gave one stick each to his sons and told them to break it.
The three boys very easily broke the stick.
Listen my boys said the old man to his sons,'' You become as weak as a single stick when you are divided, but when you are united you are as strong as a bundle of sticks . So if you want to be strong and powerful do not fight with each other and stay united.''
The three young men had now learnt a big lesson of life. They promised their father that they will not fight again and will maintain their unity as brothers in the upcoming life.

Moral of the story is-United we stand divided we fall

Aesop's Fable Re told by -Aunt Mary

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Did you know these amazing facts ?

Dear kids, here are some amazing facts that you would love to know.

Without air sky would look black even during the day.

Frogs have sticky tongues. They flick them out to catch flies.

In Japan people are employed to push the passengers on to crowded tube trains.

In Australia some farms are so big and large , farmers use planes to get across these farms.

Panama hats are made from Palm tree leaves that grow in Ecuador.

Some singers can sing a note so high that it will shatter a glass.

The golden-white coat of Arctic foxes turn white in winter to hide the animals in the snow.

The German composer Beethoven was only three when he performed his first piece of music.

In 1963 a volcanic island suddenly appeared in the sea .It is called Surtsey.It is now home to plants.

In South America some bridges are made of plaited grass.

At the age of two years, a boy is half his adult height.

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.

KNOW FIFTEEN AMAZING FACTS ABOUT LION

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Dear children, Here are some amazing facts about the king of jungle 'The Lion'.
All these facts have been taken from Wikipedia

   Facts about lion
1.Lion is the second largest cat in the world after the tiger.
2.Wild lions live in Africa and in Asia.
3. Lions live for ten to fourteen years in the forest but they live longer than twenty years when they are captured. The reason behind this is that they get hurt while fighting with other lions in the jungle.
4. Lions sleep for 20 hours a day.
5.A group of lions is called a pride. There may be ten to forty lions
in a pride.
6. The baby lions are called cubs they are born after three and half months.
7. The cubs are born blind they can not see well untill they are about two weeks old.
8. Lionesses the female lions usually do the hunting for pride , sometimes lions help them in hunting to take down the big animals.
9. Lioness is smaller than lion and runs fast over short distances.
10. Every lion's roar is different from other lion.
11.Each pride of lions has a home area that is called territory.
12.Tiger,Jaguar and leopard are supposed to be the closest relatives of lion.
13. Unfortunately there are only 30,000 lions left in the forests of Africa.
14.There are only 350 lions left in Asia and they live in Gir Forest in India.
15.Lions are used as symbols representing courage.
   -Aunt Mary
   Have a wonderful day

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