Kids Alive! – formerly The Young Soldier – Issue No 7272
28 August 2021
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id you enjoy watching the thrilling action at the Olympics? Well, the sporting excitement isn’t over – the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic flame was lit in the Olympic Stadium this week and some Paralympians have already won gold, silver or bronze medals! During the Games, more than 4,000 world-class athletes are competing in 539 events across 22 sports, including athletics, equestrian, swimming, wheelchair basketball, fencing, rugby, shooting and much more. Two new sports have been added to the programme for Tokyo 2020 – Para badminton and Para taekwondo. Watch out for our Paralympics GB stars! Britain’s Para swimmers won an awesome total of 47 medals five years ago at the 2016 Paralympics. Silver medal-winners Thomas Hamer and Scott Quin and multiple gold-medallists Bethany Firth, Stephanie Millward and Hannah Russell hopefully will add to their medal tallies in the swimming pool. Another medal hopeful is 20-year-old sprinter Thomas Young from Loughborough, Watch the Tokyo who won silver at the 2019 World 2020 Paralympics Championships. Boccia is an indoor on Channel 4 Paralympic sport similar to bowls and Britain’s David Smith – with two Paralympic gold medals – is the current world champion. Whatever your favourite sport or whoever you’re cheering for, the talented Paralympians competing at this year’s Games will be sure to inspire you with their skill, determination and courage!
I love Channel 4’s trailer for the Tokyo Paralympics! It gives a little insight into what Paralympians go through to prepare for the Games. Towards the end of the ad a strapline appears saying: ‘To be a Paralympian there’s got to be something wrong with you’. It reminded me of the Bible story when people grumbled about Jesus hanging out with sinners (Matthew 9:9–13). Jesus told the grumblers that sinners were exactly the people he’d come to save. It’s like he was saying, ‘To be a Christian there’s got to be something wrong with you’. Of course, Jesus knows that no one is perfect, which means he actually came to save all of us – grumblers included. That’s great news for me and it’s great news for you. Jesus loves us in spite of our faults and mistakes and wants to help us be the best people we can be.
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o you want to hear something really cool? Jesus thinks you’re fantastic and wants you in his Kingdom! Even cooler than that – he wants grown-ups to be more like you! I’m a dad and being a dad is great! When my son, William was younger, I got to play with all sorts of fun toys. Back then, we would play together with Hobbit toys, Transformers and Skylanders Giants. Now, I’m a grown man and Will is a teenager, so if we sat around playing with Transformers or ran through the park pretending to be Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf, we’d get some funny looks! But when Will was a child and we played Transformers or Skylanders Giants together it was totally fine for me to act like a kid! What am I trying to get at? Jesus wants grownups to come to him as the children did in the Bible. The children were really excited to see him and just wanted to spend time with him and be blessed by him. It was a big thing for them to meet Jesus. Imagine how excited you’d be if you got to meet your favourite footballer or pop star. Before you got to them you might have to get through their heavies or minders. It was a little bit like that for the children in this week’s Bible story – Jesus’ ‘heavies’ (the disciples) tried to stop them, but Jesus told the disciples to let the children meet him. Jesus is greater than any footballer or pop star, yet he wants you to come to him. He thinks so much of you that he wants to spend time with you. Not only that, but he also wants grown-ups to copy your attitude towards him. Now that’s really cool!
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CHECK OUT YOUR BIBLE – MATTHEW 19:13–15
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Are you looking forward to watching the pARALYMPICS 2020, Readers? See if you can spot this version of me on ANOTHER PAGE IN THIS WEEK’S ISSUE.
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Kids Alive! is 140 years old, so let’s take a peek each week at some historic happenings in each decade from 1881 to 2021… One of the biggest bicycle crazes in Europe and America happened in the 1890s. That’s because a new bicycle with two small wheels powered by a chain and gears was invented. It replaced the old penny-farthing bicycle, which had one huge wheel at the front and a tiny wheel at the back. In the winter of 1895, William Morgan invented the game of volleyball in Holyoke, Massachusetts in the USA! Originally called Mintonette, the new game was played indoors with any number of players hitting a ball back and forth over a net.
The first modern Olympic Games took place in Athens, Greece, in 1896. They were inspired by the ancient Olympic Games held between the eighth century BC and the fourth century AD in Olympia in Greece. The ancient games included athletics, wrestling, boxing, and horse and chariot races.
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Why did the little boy take his bicycle to bed with him? Because he didn’t want to walk in his sleep! Why can’t skeletons lift weights? Because they’re all bones and no muscles!
Why do rugby fans eat up the sport? Because it’s scrum-ptious!
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What kind of horse is good at swimming? A seahorse!
PARALYMPICS WORDSEARCH Find the Paralympic sports (in capital letters) in the grid below
Starting at row 1, use the letters from the row above to make a new word in each row until you arrive at the base of the pyramid with a six-letter word. Clue: Sound of thunder.
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TAEKWONDO TRIATHLON JUDO Wheelchair RUGBY GOALBALL POWERLIFTING EQUESTRIAN ATHLETICS CYCLING Wheelchair TENNIS BOCCIA Wheelchair FENCING Wheelchair BASKETBALL SWIMMING TABLE TENNIS Sitting VOLLEYBALL T A E K W O N D O X G P A S C I T E L H T A O X B S W I M M I N G W A V L F E N C I N G E G L O E T E N N I S R B N B L T R I A T H L O N I A L E U B S J I C O K L L E N G V W F C X D T C L Y N B P T I U Y U S Y O B I Y I A M Q R J L C N A S N B A S K E T B A L L G N A I R T S E U Q E L
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Ho ho, ha ha, he he!
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boat feel better? Give it some vitamin se a!
Why did the fish stop lifting weights? It pulled a mussel!
Why don’t grasshoppers watch rugby? They prefer cricket!
In which direction does a chicken strut?
What do you call a sheep doing karate? Lamb chop!
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1 Drinking vessel or trophy. 3 Marine mammal. 6 Writing material. 7 Propel a boat with oars. 8 Fairy tale opening: ‘_ _ _ _ upon a time’. 10 One of Henry VIII’s wives, _ _ _ _ Boleyn. 12 Did a marathon. 13 Concur. 15 Sacred song. 16 Passenger vehicle.
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1 Furniture item used for storage. 2 Apple seed, for example. 3 Ride the sea waves with a board. 4 Protective garment. 5 Small pincer-like tool for handling small objects. 9 Fairground treat, _ _ _ _ _ floss. 11 Feeling of discomfort or ache. 14 Bone in one’s chest.
Mix and Match 1 Tokyo 2 Paris 3 Rio The Paralympic Games are currently being hosted in Tokyo. They were previously held in Rio and are due to be held in Paris in 2024. Match each city to its national flag.
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ummer has nearly ended but that doesn’t mean the opportunity to be outdoors and explore the natural world is over. There is still plenty of daylight at the end of each day plus weekends to discover wildlife in gardens, hills, woods and ponds! If you’d like to learn more about the UK’s awesome animals, flowers and plants, why not enter this week’s competition? There’s an opportunity to win Wild Child: A Journey Through Nature – a brilliant book by 17-year-old award-winning conservationist and author, Dara McAnulty. Discover fantastic facts about native creatures and plants, including migration and metamorphosis. Each section has an activity to do at home, such as planting wild flowers, making a bird feeder, trying pond dipping and building a vivarium (a small enclosure for raising animals or plants). There’s also advice for young conservationists and instructions on how to follow the countryside code when you’re out and about. For your opportunity to win a copy of Wild Child: A Journey Through Nature answer the question below and email your full name, age, address and answer to kidsalive@salvationarmy.org.uk to reach us by Friday 17 September when the winners will be chosen – remember to put ‘Wild Child Competition’ in the subject box. You can also enter by filling in the details on the coupon below and posting it to: Wild Child Competition, Kids Alive! 101 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BN.
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It’s back to school this week! Are you looking forward to seeing your mates and swapping stories about what you got up to in the summer holidays? In this week’s colouring, it looks as if Naughty Norman is thinking up some mischief for the new term! Why don’t you add some colour? Grab some pens, pencils or paints or stick some stuff on to make a collage. Then email your colourings to: kidsalive@salvationarmy.org.uk – make sure you write ‘Naughty Norman Colouring’ in the subject box and give us your full name, age and address. Alternatively, you can post your colouring to: Your Space, Kids Alive! 101 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BN. One last reminder! If you’re sending by post remember to fill in your details on the left so we know who you are.
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Positive Power It might seem like going back to school is a sad time, but it doesn’t have to be. There are loads of good things to look forward to as well – hanging out with your mates, learning cool stuff, getting new stationery and taking part in clubs and groups again. Think positively! Learning is a wonderful thing – a really clever man once said, ‘Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world!’ That man was Nelson Mandela and we think he’s definitely right!
Stress-free Start There are also things you can do to prepare for your first day back: a school Get yourself back into ing to bed at routine – that means go king your lie-ins an earlier time and ma be such a shock shorter. Then it won’t on the first day! when you’re woken up
Have a healthy brea kfast on your first morning. This will set you up for the rest of the day.
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Get yourself some new stationery. You’ll feel better about what’s to come if you have a wicked new pencil case! Lay out your uniform and pack your school bag the night before your first day to avoid a mad scramble in the morning.
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Newbies Welcome d Are you starting a new school this year? Have you move , Right house? Or is it your first day at secondary school? take a deep breath and don’t stress. We can help you day here. It’s totally normal to feel worried about your first ng starti t abou somewhere – even grown-ups get nervous to time new things, such as jobs. It might take a little bit of eventually calm down. You can help settle in, but that butterflies-in-your-stomach feeling will dent and being honest rather than make starting a new school easier by trying to be confi Smiling at others and saying hi is also making up stuff about yourself that you think is cool. a friendship. Joining clubs or teams important – saying hi might be all it takes to start off are also great ways to make new friends.
The Big B We know that lots of readers worry about bullying. Unfortunately it does happen at school, but that doesn’t mean it’ll definitely happen to you. Even if it does, there are ways to stop it. Your first move should be to talk to a teacher and your parents or carers. They can’t help if they don’t know anything about it. Remember, being bullied doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with you. It’s not your fault – it can happen to anyone, even awesome people such as David Beckham and Barack Obama were bullied once!
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! k n a B l o o h c S Back-to d some lots of you this week an It’s back to school for n be new uniforms! These ca of you will be wearing been for families who have expensive, especially Salvation the pandemic. Shipley struggling because of and of affordable second-h Army is providing loads s, ilies – as well as PE kit school uniforms for fam and lunch bags. stationery, school bags
Volunteers have been washing and preparing about 20 bags of donated school uniforms a week to help children get ready for the new school term. What a fantastic way to show God’s love to people! Well done to everyone who donated uniforms and the volunteers who helped to prepare them!
Dawn, who heads up the uniform bank, helps to sort out uniforms
Get In Touch
The ‘Kids Alive!’ team isn’t working in the office at the moment, but we still want to hear from our readers. Please email your news, colourings, reader profiles and anything else you’d like to share with us to: kidsalive@salvationarmy.org.uk. We’d especially like to know whether your church or Sunday school is doing something cool during this difficult time. So get in touch to let us know how you’re staying connected!
If you’d like to star in our reader profile section we’d love to hear from you! Get a grown-up to send us an email using the address in the purple box to the left. Then we’ll send you the forms to complete. Birth Date ofAge
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Age? 8. Favourite colour? Orange. Favourite food? Spaghetti. Favourite sport? Tennis. Favourite bit of Kids Alive! ? KA! JAM. Favourite Bible story and why? Daniel and the lions’ den, because it shows that God is always with us. Favourite TV programme? Avatar: The Last Airbender. What do you want to be when you’re older? Astronaut. Pets? Betty and Boris, our lovebirds. Hobbies? Art and boxing. Tell us a joke. Why did the cow cross the road? To get to the moovies! What special skill or talent do you have? Boxing. Tell us something interesting about yourself. I like playing with my pet lovebirds. Is there anything else you would like to tell us? I have a sister called Tamara.
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WHICH IS WHY I DECIDED TO PLANT SOME FLOWERS TO BRIGHTEN THINGS UP A BIT.
AFTER A WHILE, EVEN US PENGUINS GET FED UP WITH ALL THIS SNOW.
I CAN’T SEE ANY FLOWERS, PERCY. NEITHER CAN I, PATCH. I THINK I MIGHT HAVE CHOSEN THE WRONG KIND.
WHAT FLOWERS DID YOU PLANT, PERCY?
SNOWDROPS! CHUCKLE!
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