Advantages of reading

Since 1967, on or around Hans Christian Andersen's birthday, 2 April,International Children's Book Day (ICBD) is celebrated to make children love reading books.






So , why is reading a good idea?



  it improves our creativity and our imagination

  it also helps improving our vocabulary

  if we read in English or in French, we learn new words and phrases

  it improves concentration and the ability to focus

  reading increases general knowledge

  it reduces stress

  it prevents memory loss

  it sharpens our brain

  it improves writing skills

  it builds a critical mind

  it opens mind to new and diverse people, places, situations

  reading helps people relax after a stressful day

  it keeps us away from being in front of screens for many hours

  it increases your empathy ability.

  it develops your vocabulary.

  it reduces stress and...

  it prepares you and helps  you for a good night’s sleep.

So, let's start reading!

Why sports are good for us?

The International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP), which takes place on 6 April every year , helps us remember how good sports and physical activity are for people’s lives all over the world.





Let's see why...

🏃Exercise increases blood flow to the brain 

🏃it helps the body build more connections between nerves

🏃it increases your concentration
🏃sports enhance memory

🏃they stimulate creativity
🏃they are also good for our health
🏃there are different types of sports for different lifestyles and needs

🏃sports teach you how to organize your time 

🏃they boost friendships and help you build relationships with your peers 

🏃 you gain skills exercising on a court, track, or field 

    

and last but not least...

🏃sports can help you stay in shape and maintain a normal healthy weight.

💡Tip:

We recommend you for your daily fitness with your family sports, like: mountain biking, canoeing, basketball, volleyball, tennis, running, hiking, skating and yoga.

     

Choose your favourite type of exercise and keep moving!

How can we help street children?

International Day for Street Children has been celebrated since 2012, to help and protect children who live in the streets. Governments and people all over the world need to work together to protect these children's rights no matter who they are and where they live.




To help all the kids that are living in the streets we can do a lot of things like giving them a place to stay or to provide the education that they need.But mostly we should give them what they need every day ,like food,water and clothes.
In Greece, the "Smile Of A Child" is an organisation that helps these children.
In Turkey, there are a lot of associations for orphans and street children.

Kardeş Eli Derneği,Iyilikhane Çocuk Derneği and Yetim Vakfı are some of them.
But if we want to help we can host them in winter.

They can stay with us during winter.Or we can help them go to the orphanage.

Laughter is the Best Medicine!

 April 14 every year is International Moment of Laughter Day, a day to remind people to laugh out loud every day. The creator, Izzy Gesell, says laughing out loud is as important as breathing.

Laughter is the best medicine for humans. 

😄If we laugh, the world laughs. 

😄If everyone smiles at each other and cures each other's problems, everyone lives happily in a sense of brotherhood. 

😄When people smile at each other, they become medicine for each other. 

😄They bandage each other's wounds. 

😄A world where everyone lives in unity and togetherness, where no one excludes anyone. 

😄A world where happiness spreads rapidly to everyone like a contagious disease. 

Who wouldn't want to live here?

Important monuments and sites in the world

The International Day for Monuments and Sites is on April 18 each year around the world. The aim is to show people that there are thousands of sites and monuments all over the world and that we should protect and conserve them to keep our culture alive.

Let's see some important monumets around the world:

Machu Pichu is located in the city of Peru in South America. It is known that the construction of the city of Machu Pichu on the top of a mountain took 25 years. The most important buildings, such as the temple observatory and tombs, were placed on the top.

Great Sheikh Zayed Mosque  is in Abu Dhabi,in the United Arab Emirates . It is a mosque that was opened for worship in 2007.

The Qurtuba mosque is located in the city of Kurtuba, Spain. The mosque was built by I. Abdurrahman and started to be built in 785.

Taj Mahal is an Islamic religious building, mosque and tomb in India. It was built in the 17th century by Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his dead wife, Mumtaz Mahal.

The Statue of Liberty, since 1924 a National Monument, is  a universal symbol of freedom and democracy. It is in The USA.

Chichén Itzá is a complex of Mayan ruins in  Mexico. A massive step pyramid, known as El Castillo or Temple of Kukulcan, dominates the ancient city, which thrived from around 600 A.D. to the 1200s. Stone carvings survive  like the ball court, Temple of the Warriors and the Wall of the Skulls. Night sound-and-light shows illuminate the buildings' sophisticated geometry.

The Çanakkale Martyrs' Memorial is a war memorial commemorating the service of about 253,000 Turkish soldiers who participated at the Battle of Gallipoli, which took place from April 1915 to December 1915 during the First World War.

A quiz about the history of the English language

On April 23rd, English Language Day explores the development, history, and culture of the English language.April 23 was chosen because April is the month when William Shakespeare ,the most popular and important English playwright, poet and actor,  was born and died.

Click on the link below and see how much you know about the English Language. 

link to quiz

Good Luck!

How should we behave on the internet?

Netiquette is a made-up word from the words net and etiquette. Netiquette describes how we should behave on the internet with respect to ourselves and everyone else online.

Here are some ideas:

Incredible laboratories from around the world

Every year on April 23rd, World Laboratory Day celebrates the place where great inventions are made for a better life. It’s also a day to recognize the scientists who do important research and experiments to help the world.

We found some incredible laboratories around the world:

SNOLAB is interesting.Scientists investigate the astroparticle.They build this laboratory underground.This laboratory is in Canada.Scientists work with miners.

CERN is 175 meters below the ground in Geneve , Switzerland. It has the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator. It has a 27 km long magnetized ring. 

Sanford Underground Research Facility , in South Dacota, USA, is 500 meters below the ground.The old iron mine gives information about the particles in the universe. It also runs experiments involving neutrinos and dark matter.

GRAN SASSO NATIONAL LABORATORY is covered with 1400 meters of rock. It is 120 meters away from Rome. It does theoretical and experimental research on subnuclear, nuclear and astroparticle physics.

English words borrowed

 Find out English words in the Turkish Language and vice versa!

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Great inventions around the world

National Inventors’ Day, February 11th, honors inventors of the past, the creators of the present, and encourages the architects of the future.

Some inventions that made our everyday life better are:

Computers are complex machines and most high-paid jobs ask you to know how to use a computer,its hardware,software,or programs.
Difference Engine,was the first computer, designed and built during the 1820s and ’30s by Charles Babbage, an English mathematician and inventor.

a computer then

a computer now

 

The compass is a navigation device has a significant power in human exploration.It is worth noting that the first compasses were created from magnetite in China in 300 to 200 BC, during China’s Han Dynasty.

a compass in 300 B.C.

a compass now

The elevator helps people to go up and down fast without taking a single step. In 1853, Elisha Graves Otis introduced the first safety passenger elevator at the Crystal Palace Convention in New York City.

an elevator in 1853

an elevator now