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KIDS ACTIVITIES 3++:
COLOURING ANIMALS 5
KIDS ACTIVITIES ALL AGES:
LET’S PLAY TANGRAM 13
KIDS STORY 3++:
MISS APPLEBEE TURNS RED 21
A LETTER TO ADDY 33
TIP, TAP AND TOP PLAY WITH HARPER 39
COLOUR IN SECTION 53
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CONTRIBUTOR:
AMANI GUNAWARDANA MOCCO WOLLERT
Welcome to the February 2015
issue of The Australia Times Kids
magazine.
In this issue, we have colouring
animals and tangram activities.
Besides this, we have two
children stories. The first one
is Miss Applebee adventure
written by Mocco Wollert and
the other one is Tip, Tap and
To p story written by Amani
Gunawardana who is from
Rowville Aspiring Writers
rowvillewriters.wordpress.com.
As always, we do hope that
you will enjoy this issue of
the magazine.
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Animals vectors are provided by
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Mitochondrial disease (mito) can
affect any organ in anyone of any age.
www.amdf.org.au
It is often terminal; there is no cure and
few effective treatments exist.
One Australian
child born each
week will develop
a severe or life-
threatening form
of mito.”
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Jack
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Resources and materials are taken from
http://peaceofmindeducation.wordpress.com
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TANGRAM is an ancient Chinese puzzle consisting
of seven pieces that are five triangles, one square
and one parallelogram. The basic rules of playing
tangram are the seven pieces of tangram must
be used, they must lay flat and touch without
overlapping.
An example of a tangram puzzle and its solution.
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Print the tangram pattern below on a thick paper,
such as a photo paper. Then cut it into 7 pieces.
The tangram pattern
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The tangram challenges for this month.
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Written by: Mocco Wollert
Illustrated by: Jean Reeve
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There was a cat Miss Applebee,
who liked to hide behind a tree.
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She also loved to play at night,
with moon beams shining oh so bright.
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When days were warm the sky was blue,
she loved to drink the morning dew.
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She also liked to see her face,
in any wet or shining place.
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One day she saw colours in books,
and thought she’d love to change her looks.
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She touched a rose pinned to a hat,
and turned into a ROSE-RED cat.
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She jumped and ran to Susan’s place,
to show her bright new ROSE-RED face.
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Miss Applebee felt really smart,
ROSE-RED looked good with her white heart.
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But Susan cried you silly cat,
how will you get your colour back.
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She made a wish and one - two – three,
turned back into Miss Applebee.
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Asleep behind the kitchen door,
she looked just like she did before.
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A Letter to Addy….
By Mocco Wollert
My darling Addy,
I can see on the television that winter is coming to where you live and it will
be very cold. I hope that you have a nice warm jacket, a shawl and mittens.
Where I live with your great-grandfather Ninx and Miss Applebee, summer
is coming and the days are already very hot. Miss Applebee like to lie in
front of the open flywire door in the laundry because a nice breeze is
coming through there. She can also hear the dry leaves rustle out there.
She looooves playing with dry leaves.
She is always looking for cool places, like the tiled floor in our bathroom.
But the other day I found her - guess what - in the basin in the bathroom.
She looked like a rabbit in a nest. She is often naughty when I let her into
the bathroom and throws things onto the floor, like my toothbrush or a
lipstick.
I don’t know why cats like throwing things onto the floor but they all
want to do it.
Today Miss Applebee is sending you purrs and meows
and I send you lots and lots of cuddles.
Mok Mok
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nce upon a time there was a grandmother, called Mocco who loved
cats. One day, a small grey kitten came to live with her. She called it
MISS APPLEBEE. As grandma Mocco was a writer, she invented stories of
the adventures of MISS APPLEBEE for her grandchildren.
MISS APPLEBEE grew up and is now 2 years old. She is a British Shorthair
and a most loving cat but she also rules the house. Atnight she sleeps on the
foot end of grandma Mocco’s bed and she loves treats. If grandma Mocco
would not know for sure that MISS APPLEBEE is a cat, she would think that
she was a human.
Mocco Wollert is a poet with 7 published books to her name. Her 8 MISS
APPLEBEE stories are her rst step into writing children’s stories. She lives
with her husband and MISS APPLEBEE in Brisbane, Australia.
MOCCO WOLLERT is currently looking for a
publisher with distribution Australia wide for her
8 Miss Applebee adorable stories. She would like
to see thousands of grandmothers who do not have
computers reading Miss Applebee stories to their
grandchildren. Mocco has also tested the Miss
Applebee stories in Prep Schools, Kindergartens,
grade 1 and 2 with great success. They would make
great ‘First Readers’ in schools. Children are a very
critical audience and they judge honestly without
holding back; Miss Applebee passed the grade, the
children liked the simple rhymes either to read or to
sing. As there are 8 stories they would make a great
‘boxed set’, particularly in hardcover. Please feel
free to drop her an email at mocco.wollert@
bigpond.com if you are interested in publishing Miss
Applebee stories.
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Tip, Tap and Top played
dress-up with Harper.
Tip wore a hat.
Tap wore a scarf.
Top wore socks.
And Harper wore a pirate costume.
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Then, Tip, Tap and Top
played pirates with Harper.
Tip stayed in the ship.
Tap stayed on dry land.
Top looked out into the ocean.
And Harper steered the ship.
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Next, Tip, Tap and Top
played with blocks.
Tip played with the yellow blocks.
Tap played with the green blocks.
Top played with the blue blocks.
And Harper made a tower
with red blocks.
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Later, Tip, Tap and Top
painted pictures with Harper.
Tip dipped his feet into
some yellow paint and made a picture.
Tap ran away with the green paint.
Top held the paintbrush in his mouth.
And Harper painted a picture of
Tip, Tap and Top.
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Finally, Tip, Tap and Top
helped Harper tidy his room.
Tip helped Harper tidy the dress-up box.
Tap helped Harper tidy up the blocks.
Top helped Harper store the paint away.
Harper’s room was neat and tidy.
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Harper gave
Tip, Top and Tap a cuddle.
What a great day!
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