Innehållsförteckning för Issue 6 2021 från The Little Issue

In this issue find out why Awonke’s maths teacher went missing and what he did about it: page 18. Read the story about the Smuts family and find out if they stayed hungry: page 30. Cook with Clever Cat and make a delicious cheese dip for your chips or nachos: page 11. That would be healthier than eating sugar wouldn’t it? It would also help you concentrate better at school. Also see the actual size of the amazing elephant shrew. Measure on your ruler: page 14. Win a FREE book on page 3. Also cook, draw, read silly stuff and much more. Enjoy. Editor P.S Visit www.littleissue.org.za to download older copies of the little issue. Answer to the riddle on the cover: Because they only have one boot!…

Clever Cat makes a ‘c’ sound at the start of words like C A T. Say ‘c’. MAKE A CHEESE DIP INGREDIENTS 2 cups grated cheddar cheese 1 can evaporated milk 4 teaspoons cornflour (Maizena) HOW TO MAKE IT 1. Mix the cheese and cornflour in a saucepan. 2. Pour evaporated milk over the cheese and cornflour. 3. On a low heat, gently mix until the cheese is melted and smooth. Ask a grownup for help with this. 4. Pour into a bowl and dip chips or nachos! Dip your chips or nachos into cheese!…

Awonke Nqayiya. Maths star. 25-years old. From Eastern Cape. Went to Seku Primary School. Awonke grew up in Centane in the rural Eastern Cape. His parents worked on a farm and they never went to school. But they were very smart people and encouraged Awonke to finish school and study at university. When he was in Grade 4 Awonke had a really nice maths teacher who helped him learn about counting and numbers in a fun way. He says he became passionate about maths because of the positive attitude of that teacher. “Some teachers are really good at explaining how things work, and they make if fun. So they help you learn more easily. You become excited about classes”, Awonke says. But his school had no computers or science laboratories.…

DNA AND GENES DNA is found in every single cell in your body. You got half your DNA from your mother and half from your father. Inside your DNA are your GENES. GENES contain all the information that tell your body what it is going look like! DID YOU KNOW? Koala’s have fingerprints so similar to humans, that detectives could be fooled at a crime scene! BODY CHECK Check this list to see which genes you have. Find your genetic trait In the name column list your name and the names of the people in your family. Tick the traits that belong to you and to them. A TRAIT is something that stands out and makes you look like YOU! COMPARE YOUR TICKS. YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEE WHO…

UBaba uSmuts wayengumdobi. Kodwa, izinhlanzi zazingeziningi ngendlela ezaziba ziningi ngayo, futhi ngezinye izinsuku wayebuya engabambanga lutho. UBaba uSmuts wabantu wayezizwa ekhathazeke kakhulu. Kwakuba ngalezi zikhathi lapho uMama uSmuts wayemuwola khona bese ethi, “Sizobona ukuthi sihlanganisa ini nani.” Bese oSannie noFrikkie bengeza ngokuthi, “Sihlale sikwenza lokho, Baba.” Kanti babehlale bekwenzeka ngempela ngoba … wayengekho umuntu owayetshala otamatisi ababomvu, ophepha abaluhlaza okotshani, nezaqathi eziklamuzelayo kanye neklabishi eliklamuzelayo, ukudlula uBaba uSmuts esizwa uSannie noFrikkie. Kanti-ke kwakungekho muntu, kwakungekho muntu nhlobo, awayengaphendula otamatisi ababomvu, ophepha abaluhlaza okotshani, izaqathi eziklamuzelayo kanye neklabishi eliklamuzela ngokwedlulele, akwenze kube yisidlo esiconsisa amathe ukudlula esikaMama uSmuts, esizwa uSannie noFrikkie! Ngolunye usuku, uBaba uSmuts waba nenhlanhla yokubamba izinhlanzi ezinhlanu. Wathengisa ezine wase egcina eyodwa aya nayo ekhaya ukuze ibe yisidlo sakusihlwa. Ngesikhathi uBaba uSmuts edlula isitodlwana sasepulazini sikaMaria, uMaria wamemeza…

Mehleng ya kgalekgale rapolasi e mong mane Moletjie, Limpopo, o kile a tshwara diodishene tsa mmino. Rapolasi eo o ne a batla sebini se hlwahlwa se neng se kgona le ho bapala mmino hantle. O ne a batla mohlodi wa diodishene hore a ilo bapala lenyalong la hae. Rapolasi a bitsa diphoofolo tsohle mmoho. “Ke kopa le mmamele ka hloko ho sohle seo ke se buang,” a rialo. “Hosane, ke batla hore le tle holong ya setjhaba ho tla leka diodishene tsa mmino. Ke batla hore le tle le hlwekile le shebahala hantle. Le lokela ho tseba ho bina le ho bapala mmino hantle, mme ke batla hore le be le thahasello ho seo le se etsang. Tlong le tlo mpontsha kamoo le nang le bokgoni ka teng.” Diphoofolo kaofela…

Ola little issue Mexico! A warm welcome to the sixth edition of little issue. The theme of our message is expansion, distribution, and progress. We have successfully expanded the distribution of little issue to Grade R-3 schools and NGO partners in KwaZulu-Natal for Semester 1 in 2021, and plan to distribute to more provinces per year. The little issue project aims to substantially, and equitably, increase the number of magazines per province once we have established a sustainable footprint in each. Fondation Ipsen, our France-based founding funder and publishing and project partner, has initiated an expansion plan for little issue, this time to Mexico! And yes, it has been published in Spanish and distributed to children’s hospitals in Mexico City. Celine Colombier-Maffre, Manager of Publications for Fondation Ipsen, believes that…

NOBODY IS MORE IMPORTANT OR LESS IMPORTANT THAN YOU. It doesn’t matter if people are brown, green, black, pink, white or yellow! It doesn’t matter if they come from another country! It doesn’t matter if they live on the moon! Does it? THE RIGHT TO LIVE WITHOUT ABUSE. SPEAK OUT. TELL SOMEONE. Nobody is allowed to hurt or threaten to kill you. Nobody is allowed to look at or touch your private body parts covered by your swimming costume. Nobody is allowed to ask you to touch them or show you pictures of naked people. EVER. FREEDOM AND SECURITY. Nobody can put you in jail without a reason or stop you from moving around. In jail, nobody should hurt you in any way. CHILDREN ARE NOT ALLOWED TO WORK. Nobody…

Tidi counts out 32 sweets. Penny counts 14. How many more sweets does Tidi count than Penny? UTidi ubala amaswidi angama-32. UPenny ubala ayi-14. UTidi ubale amaswidi amangaki ngaphezu kukaPenny? Nambi sells ice-cream to friends. He had 72 ice-creams to start with. He has 23 left. How many ice-creams has Nambi sold so far? UNambi uthengisela abangane bakhe u-ayisikhilimu. Ubenama-ayisikhilimu angama-72 okufanele aqale ngawo. Usele nangama-23. UNambi uthengise ama-ayisikhilimu amangaki kuze kube manje?…

Moenie met ’n prinses mors nie! Deur Rachel Valentine en Rebecca Bagley, Human & Rousseau In ’n koninkryk ver, ver weg maak ’n trol ’n groot gemors en almal (veral die ridders) is baie bang vir hom. Ontmoet drie vasberade, vreeslose prinsesse met wie niemand sal wil mors nie. ’n Boek wat wys dat meisies alles kan doen wat seuns doen, en dalk nog beter. Prinses Pampoenpit deur Bianca Flanders en Zinelda McDonald, LAPA Uitgewers Prinses Pampoenpit het ’n geheim … Sy hou glad nie van haar hare nie! Haar wilde, woeste krulle weier om getem te word. Sy kry dit ook nie weggesteek nie. Hoekom kan haar hare nie net soos die ander kinders s’n lyk nie? Wanda by Sihle Nontshokweni, Mathabo Tlali, and Chantelle and Burgen Thorne, Jacana…

APPEARANCE Skinny black legs and a long nose that looks like an elephant’s trunk. Believe it or not … they really are related to elephants! SPECIAL SKILL They clear little pathways for themselves, which they use as escape routes and for hunting bugs more easily. SIZE? 15 centimetres! SUPERPOWER They can jump almost 1 metre high. That’s about the length of 3 school rulers lined up, plus a little bit extra. RUNNING SPEED One of the fastest mammals on earth. They can run 30 kilometres per hour. An Olympic runner reaches a speed of 20 kilometres per hour. HABITAT They live in Africa, in the Namib Desert and in forests, grasslands and woodlands. Some types can be found in South Africa. Humans have destroyed their habitat by taking land for…

WHO DO WE HAVE HERE? Look at the picture of Andy Trapp. Use the labels on the picture and your imagination to write a description of what type of person you think he is. Don’t forget – Andy is always late. His shoelaces are usually untied, and he shouts to other kids in class. Remember, he once climbed through an open classroom window to get his suitcase when he found the door locked. Some questions to think about that might help you: What does he enjoy? What does he eat for lunch? Who are his friends? What is his personality? How does he smell? What does his voice sound like? Some words that might help you: grungy, dirty, sweaty, wrinkly, stinky, muddy, naughty, loud, lost.…

Papa Smuts was a fisherman. But, fish were not as plentiful as they used to be and some days he came home empty handed. Then poor Papa Smuts would feel really downhearted. That’s when Mama Smuts would give him a big hug and say, “We’ll make ends meet.” And Sannie and Frikkie would add, “We always do, Papa.” And somehow they always did because … no one could grow redder tomatoes, greener peppers, crunchier carrots and crispier cabbage than Papa Smuts, with the help of Sannie and Frikkie. And no one, absolutely no one, could turn the reddest tomatoes, the greenest peppers, the crunchiest carrots and the crispiest cabbage into a more scrumptious meal than Mama Smuts, with the help of Sannie and Frikkie! One lucky day, Papa Smuts caught…