Innholdsfortegnelse for No. 75 i The Week Junior

Trump’s first 100 days as president “ I thought it would be easier.” That’s what Donald Trump recently said in an interview about his job as US president. Saturday 29 April marked 100 days since he officially became America’s leader. Trump may be finding the job tough, but a lot has already happened in 100 days. Here are three of the biggest events. 27 January – Trump’s travel ban On 27 January, just seven days after Trump became president, he signed an order preventing all Syrian refugees (people fleeing war or hardship in their home countries) from entering the US. He also stopped people from seven countries whose citizens are mostly Muslim – Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen – from entering the country for 90 days. Trump…

Vancouver, Canada Rocket man flies British inventor, Richard Browning, has flown an Iron Man-style suit at the Ted (Technology, Entertainment and Design) conference. The suit, which uses six jet engines, can travel at about 200mph at a height of 300 metres. Browning’s eight-year-old son named his invention the Daedalus suit, after the father of Icarus – a character in Greek mythology who flew too close to the Sun. Watch him in action at youtube.com/ theweekjunior Los Angeles, US Museum of ice cream opens Los Angeles is already home to a number of amazing attractions, including Hollywood, but now it’s got another: a museum dedicated to ice cream. The museum has 10 galleries, each containing incredible ice cream-themed artworks, including a greenhouse full of mint plants growing in chocolate soil. There’s…

UK’s rarest plants may soon be extinct If you’ve ever found yourself staring out of the car window on a boring drive then you’ll probably – without realising it – have seen a huge number of rare plants. That’s because road verges (areas of grass beside the road) are home to more than 700 species of wild plants. That’s nearly 45% of all the types of plants in the UK. However, that might not be the case for much longer. A new study by conservation charity Plantlife has shown that 12% of them are in danger of extinction – and more will be at risk if steps aren’t taken to protect them. Nowadays some of the UK’s rarest plants, such as fen ragwort and wood calamint, are only found growing…

London’s new super sewer For more than 150 years, London sewers have served the citizens well. Pumping around 2,800 million litres of waste every day, the system has been called a masterpiece of Victorian engineering. However, with more than eight million people living in the city, the sewers can’t take much more. For years, the population in London has been growing, and with more people comes more poo. This increase in sewage means that the drains are overflowing before the water has been cleaned, which means that waste flows straight into the River Thames. Now, building has begun on the Thames Tideway Tunnel, also known as the super sewer, to help tackle this growing problem. The new super sewer will be 16 miles long and 7.2 metres in diameter. Running…

Chelsea FC youth team On 26 April, Chelsea beat Manchester City to win the FA Youth Cup for the fourth season in a row. Mark Selby Selby won the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield on 1 May, beating John Higgins by 18 frames to 15 in the final. It’s Selby’s third world title and he won £375,000 in prize money. Anthony Joshua The British boxer beat Wladimir Klitschko to win the World Boxing Association world heavyweight title at London’s Wembley Stadium. Joshua was already the International Boxing Federation world champion. Lizzie Deignan The 28-year-old British cyclist won the women’s Tour de Yorkshire race for the first time. Belgium’s Serge Pauwels won the men’s race.…

Ironbridge Gorge is named after the Iron Bridge, a 30-metre-long bridge that spans the River Severn. Built in 1779, the incredible structure was the world’s first iron bridge. It was a bold, forward-looking project, and the bridge has come to symbolise the Industrial Revolution, a time in history that changed the way people in the UK lived and worked forever. Now, Ironbridge Gorge has 10 museums, each filled with exhibits that shine a light on the country’s industrial past. At the Coalport China Museum you can see demonstrations of traditional pottery techniques (British pottery was famous across the world); and the Museum of the Gorge shows how this beautiful spot has been home to industry since the 17th century. The most spectacular museum in Ironbridge Gorge, however, must surely be…

Usain Bolt: The Final Chapter 1.15pm on 6 May, BBC One Usain Bolt will run the final race of his incredible career at the World Athletics Championships in London this August. In this documentary, legendary British runner Steve Cram goes to Jamaica to ask Bolt about his time in athletics, and meets the people closest to him to find out how he became the fastest man on Earth. Evermoor Chronicles 6pm, Mondays, Disney Channel In the first episode of the second season, Bella is all set to leave the village of Evermoor forever, with the hope of following her dreams of becoming a fashion designer. However, when Ludo ruins Bella’s fashion project and is sent to Gross Island, he witnesses something that means Bella must stay in Evermoor. Mexico: Earth’s…

Name: Monty Year: 5 Monty’s comic strip is about the adventures of Bad Barry the Bank Robber. “I practised drawing the characters, then imagined the story. I planned ahead before I drew each panel. I really enjoyed drawing the city and the speech bubbles. The hardest bit was the car, as I had to get it the same in each panel. Drawing comics is a lot of fun; you can do whatever you like and make it yours. You never really know what is going to happen next in comics.”…

Celebrating Vaisakhi Name: Dhaya “On 14 April, Sikhs all around the world celebrate Vaisakhi. If you don’t know what Vaisakhi is, it’s a festival to remember the birth of the Sikh religion. In 1699, the 10th guru – who was called Guru Gobind Singh – wanted Sikh people to have an identity and to feel united and proud of their values. He asked Sikhs to wear the five Ks (physical symbols), which helped Sikh people to be recognised as strong but peaceful and fair. The five Ks are kara,kesh,kachera,kangaand kirpan (bangle, long hair, shorts, small comb and small dagger). On the day of Vaisakhi, a new Sikh flag, called Nishan Sahib, is put up after washing and cleaning the flagpole. The gurdwara (place of worship) prepares special vegetarian foods and…

1What is Antarctica nicknamed? a) The White Continent b) The Snowy Landscape c) The Ice Country 2On what date does May Day fall? 3What type of delicious museum opened in Los Angeles in the US? a) Cake museum b) Ice cream museum c) Cookie museum 4True or false? Parkour means “to fly” in French. 5For how many years was Tony Blair prime minister? 6How many different species of caterpillar are there on the planet? a) 180,000 b) 190,000 c) 200,000 7Who is the leader of the Labour Party? 8True or false? London’s new super sewer will be 16 miles long. 9On which bridge was a model T-rex spotted? 10In which country did the Orienteering Championships take place? a) Italy b) France c) Spain 11True or false? Tilly and the Time…

FINISHING THE MARATHON Two competitors have finished the 26.2 mile London Marathon days after it started. One of them, Mr Gorilla, spent six days crawling the race, raising £26,000 for endangered gorillas. Patrick Barden, who has cerebral palsy, finished the marathon after five days, walking the route with a frame. FELIX THE CAT Felix, the office cat of the Royal Docks Management Authority in London, got quite a shock when he rolled into the River Thames after being chased by another cat. A passerby rushed to the rescue after spotting Felix in trouble and lifted him to safety. BIRD SPOTTERS Hundreds of bird spotters have flocked to North Ronaldsay, one of Scotland’s Orkney islands, after a red-winged blackbird was spotted near a local bird observatory. The blackbird, which is an…

As a result of being featured in many adverts, YouTube videos, music videos and films, parkour has attracted many fans in recent years. A 2016 survey by a government organisation, Sport England, revealed that more than 96,000 people aged 16 and over had taken part in parkour at least twice in the month before the survey was carried out. In January 2017, the UK became the first country in the world to recognise parkour as an official sport. This means that parkour organisations can apply for government funding to promote the activity so that more people know about it and may be encouraged to give it a go. Now that it is an official sport, parkour could be taught in schools across the country. Although it’s usually done outdoors or…

Chameleons change the colour of their skin by releasing hormones, which are chemical messengers in the body, so there is a chance they could lose this ability if they had an illness that upset their hormone system. For the most part if a lizard is ill it will just appear a dull colour – such as brown – to let other lizards know it’s unwell. Do you love animals? ZSL London Zoo’s Junior Zoo Academy is a great way to learn about creatures from all over the world. Find out more at zsl.org/experiences…

Night riding This aerial picture shows a huge junction in northern China, lit up by cars’ headlights. Weirdy beardy A man shows off his spectacular whiskers, before a beard and moustache competition in France. Snail’s pace People enjoy the Snail Mound at the Garden of Cosmic Speculation in Scotland. Dino crossing A model T-rex crosses Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, to mark the launch of an exhibition. Cheese chasers Competitors chase wooden blocks, shaped like cylinders of Stilton cheese, down the street in Stilton, England. Seeing double Pairs of twins pose for a photo at an annual twins festival in south-west China. Feeding frenzy Peckish pelicans scrap over a fish in Greece. They’re starving because the lake where they get food has frozen for the first time in 10 years.…

5 brilliant journals Get scribbling in the pages of these inspiring and creative journals – you’re the star. The Book of Me by Adam Frost. Illustrated by Sarah Ray (Bloomsbury Publishing) Fill in this book with fun facts all about yourself. If you ran your school, what would the rules be? Would you rather be able to talk to animals, or speak every language in the world? Award-winning author, Adam Frost has penned this book full of crazy questions and entertaining activities to help you document everything there is to know about you. My Listography by Lisa Nola. (Chronicle Books) Do you like making lists? If so, this cool illustrated journal will help you to create your own autobiography in easy list form. Carefully note down all the details of…

AirPano City Book iOS (£2.99) Have you ever wondered what it would be like to hover in a helicopter above cities like New York, Paris or Rome to peek at their famous sites from above? Now there’s a way to do it from an iPad or iPhone. It’s an app called AirPano City Book, whose developers have taken 360° photographs of some of the planet’s most interesting cities. Besides the three already mentioned, you can check out Amsterdam, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Dubai, Moscow, Shanghai and Singapore, choosing from views of lots of different buildings and landmarks in each. The app is easy to use: you swipe through an on-screen pop-up book to choose a city, then decide which photo to view. If you’ve ever been fascinated by apps like Google…

Do I need to be arty to draw comic strips? No. As long as you have a good imagination, you can create stories with very simple drawings. How do I get started? Once you’ve thought up a character – and a few adventures he or she can get into – print out some comic-strip templates from Google Images. Now grab your pencil, a rubber and a sharpener, and off you go. Where can I read published comic strips? Look out for ThePhoenix– a weekly story comic. For online comic strips, head to dckids.com (home of Batmanand SuperHero Girls) and wbkidsgo.com (Scooby Dooand Tom&Jerry).…

Binned food costs billions Anew report, produced by a group of Members of Parliament (MPs), says that food waste in England has reached critical levels – and that something needs to be done to address the issue. How much food is wasted? According to the United Nations’ (UN) Food and Agriculture Organisation, every year one third of all the food produced in the world for people to eat is thrown away. This means that about 1.3 billion tonnes of food is being wasted. According to the report, called Food Waste in England, UK households are responsible for wasting 7.3 million tonnes of food every year. The report says that the value of this food is more than £10 billion. This means that, on average, households with children are wasting around…

When Tony Blair became the head of the Labour Party in 1994, he made history as the youngest person ever to lead the organisation – he was 41. Three years later, on 2 May 1997, he made history once more, when his party won the general election. In the contest, Labour won 418 out 659 seats for its Members of Parliament (MPs) in the House of Commons. The victory was described as a “landslide” because it was so big, although according to people with him at the time, he refused to believe he had won until the final vote was counted. Even after that, he remembered in his autobiography, he was “scared”. Blair’s path to Parliament started when he was young. He was inspired to pursue a career in politics…

A five-year-old tortoise On 22 April, a tortoise who got himself stuck in a narrow gap between two houses in Dudley, West Midlands, had to be rescued by firefighters. Using a plastic spatula and a very long stick, the fire crew were able to help the five-year-old trapped animal get out safely. Sea lions Sea lions off the coast of California, in the US, are dying from poisonous algae – a type of tiny plant. The algae is eaten by fish and mussels, which the sea lion then eat. The poison from this algae affects the sea lions’ brains, causing the animals to forget how to find their food and avoid predators.…

On 18 April, the Prime Minister, Theresa May announced that there is to be a general election. A general election is a nationwide vote that gives people in the UK, aged 18 and over, a chance to decide which political party they want to run the country. On 8 June, people will vote for the candidate from their local area (constituency) whom they would like to represent them. The winning candidate in each area will become a Member of Parliament (MP). The political party that has the most MPs becomes the ruling party and forms a government. At the moment the Conservatives are the ruling party, which is why their leader, Theresa May is the Prime Minister. On 3 May, Parliament was dissolved. This means that there are no MPs…

More than 800 schoolchildren competed in the World Schools Orienteering Championships on the island of Sicily, Italy, between 22 and 28 April. Orienteering is a sport where runners race between checkpoints, called controls. They use a map and a compass to find the controls and press an electronic card against each one to record their route. Often the race is across fields, hills and challenging terrain, but it can even be in school playgrounds. The event had courses between 1.5 and 4.2 miles long. Five runners from each team navigated the course, and their best three individual times were combined for the team time. In total 146 teams from 27 countries, including China, New Zealand, Russia, Spain and Sweden took part in the annual event. England and Scotland had 14…

What time would you go to if you had a time machine? I’d like to go back to the Age of Discovery. My dad was a geography teacher and I grew up surrounded by maps, and stories about explorers. I’d love to have been with Marco Polo as he travelled around Persia, India and China at the end of the 13th century, seeing things only a handful of Europeans had seen before. Which historical figure would you most like to meet? I played a Russian count on TV. We filmed a lot of it in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, and my hotel room in the old part of the city overlooked the very street Napoleon had marched up on his way to Russia. He hurriedly escaped down the same…

Harry Styles to tour the world Former One Direction star Harry Styles has announced that he’ll be going on a world tour later this year. Since One Direction broke up, Styles has been working on a solo album, and he released his first single earlier this month to fantastic reviews. His album is coming out on 12 May, and tickets for his concerts have just gone on sale. He’s playing four concerts in the UK – in Glasgow, London and Manchester and. Styles has also just tried his hand at acting, and will be making his on-screen debut this summer in the war film, Dunkirk. Young Dumbledore’s nerves Jude Law, who voiced the evil bogeyman Pitch Black in Rise of the Guardians has revealed how nervous he feels about his…

Danger Mouse Ultimate Android / iOS (Free) He’s the greatest! He’s fantastic! And if there’s danger on your tablet or smartphone, Danger Mouse can now be there. Having returned to TV with a new cartoon on CBBC, the eye-patched secret agent and his sidekick, Penfold, are the stars of a new mobile game. It’s a platform game that gets you to play both characters, running, jumping and collecting special power-ups, including shrink ray-guns and a rocket pack. It’s simple to start, but you’ll meet tough end-of-level bosses, and plenty of challenges. Trying to get three stars on every level will keep you coming back, too.…

From the Smurfs to Spider-Man to Dennis the Menace, lots of the characters that you know and love from TV and films started (and are still going) as comic strips. Comics are a brilliantly visual way of telling a story. And anyone can have a go at drawing their own – all you need is paper, a pencil and a good supply of ideas. Comic strips are made up of boxes or panels filled with images and text. Each shows a moment in time, following on from the previous panel. First, you need to think of a character. Try doodling a few ideas to see what works. If you’re not confident at drawing, use stick people or just create a character called The Blob. Its facial expressions and the things…

Fix a bike puncture What you need ● Spanner ● Tyre levers or two spoons ● Bike pump ● Bucket or bowl of water ● Puncture-repair kit ● Cloth ● Sandpaper Instructions Having a tyre mended in a shop can cost up to £10. Save your pocket money by learning how to do it yourself. Turn your bike upside down. Remove the wheel by loosening the nuts with a spanner (unless your bike has quick-release wheels). Some bike tyres can be difficult to remove, so ask a grown-up to help. Remove the tyre using tyre levers that slide between the wheel and the tyre itself. If you don’t have any levers, use the handles of two dessert spoons. Remove the inner tube and inflate with a pump a bit, but…

This week’s issue includes a story about a very expensive pair of jeans that come with a muddy coating. They’ve been called a “costume for wealthy people”. Ripped jeans with frayed holes have been popular for a while, and many people are prepared to pay a high price for items of clothing that look like they’ve already been worn out. Last year, a US department store was accused of insulting the poor after it started selling dirty trainers with duct tape stuck on them for the equivalent of £450. For people with few clothes, or those who live in places where it can be hard to keep clothes clean and tidy – like a refugee camp – the muddy jeans must seem like a ludicrous idea. So, what do you…

Follow The Week Junior on PopJam @TheWeekJunior You can download the free PopJam app from the App Store or GooglePlay. Last week we asked you if all children should get to go to the theatre. “Some children might not want to go to the theatre” @ShirtAndTie “They should read the book and see the play” @SonnyM333 “Theatre is a treat for everyone” @custard101 Here’s what you thought about cooking pre-packed food in a washing machine… “That would be very handy especially in a big family” @Happygirl994 “Imagine your clothes smelling of chocolate, yum” @Bobrules5690 “Ha! Here’s your dinner and here’s your uniform” @bluekittycat5 “Would taste disgusting if it was in with dirty clothes” @Snagglepuss01 Tell us what you think of this week’s issue. We’ll give you a shout out if…

E.T. spotted in a tree A woman in London got an out-of-this-world surprise while helping her father chop down a tree. The pattern in the tree markings in the centre of the trunk looked just like the famous Hollywood alien, E.T. The rings develop as the tree grows, and can be used to tell the age of the tree. This one had grown with a natural pattern that resembled the extraterrestrial inside its trunk. The woman thought it was hilarious. “I’ve shown a couple of people and they all think it’s funny,” she said. Muddy jeans for sale When shopping for new clothes, most people like to replace their old, worn clothes that they’ve outgrown with clothes that look and feel brand new. A US department store, however, is selling…