IT training okido TruePDF issue 69 2019

The Arts
& Science
Magazine
for Kids
Stories
Experiments
Games
Doodles
Recipe
& a poem
Issue #69
Journeys
Okido is a monthly
magazine for children
aged 3 to 7

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Published by Okido Studio
Editor Sophie Dauvois

Creative Director Rachel Ortas
Art Director Alex Barrow
Art Director Maggie Li
Design OKIDO Studio
Sub-Editing Gabby Dawnay
Contributors:
Takayo Akiyama, Alex Barrow, Gabby
Dawnay, Maggie Li, Rachel Ortas and
Francesca Sanna.
Cover illustration by Takayo Akiyama

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Editor

Creative Director

Art Director

Art Director

Bubble writer

Sophie Dauvois


Rachel Ortas


Alex Barrow


Maggie Li

Linda Scott



Hello Okido readers!
Welcome to your magazine.
This issue is about journeys.
Let’s find out more, explore,
play and have fun making,
cooking, colouring and
reading. Enjoy!
Start by writing your name:

Okido helps children learn through
play. It is full of stories, activities and
games that stimulate creativity and
inspire scientific interest.

Messy Monster
travels with some geese
(p.4). Zim, Zam and
Zoom follow the
journey of a letter
through the post (p.8).
Discover how far some
animals travel (p.12).
Read ‘The long, long
journey of the little
stone’ story (p.14).

Read the ‘We’re going
on a journey’ poem
(p.18). Make a letter
and send it to someone
(p.21). Make a ship sail
on the waves (p.30).
Play the OKIDO
journeys game (p.32).
Experiment with
friction and slopes
(p.36). Find Foxy on a
page of journeys (p.38).
Have fun and learn with
Kaz (p.40). Cook a
recipe and find out
where your food comes
from (p.42). Colour in
and doodle-do!
(p.21-28)


Story and illustration by Rachel Ortas

What’s all that
noise? Are you
having a
goose party?

Oh no, we are
practicing for a

very big journey.

6


We are going
on a looong
goose journey!

Can we
come too?

Can I come?
Can I come?
Pleeeease!!!!

You are all
welcome. Just
follow the older
geese - they will
show you the
way.

Story

We all need
to exercise for
the long
flight!

Thank you!
Come on, let’s
prepare our hot
air balloon...

7


Off we go!
Balabalaboom-boom!

How do
you know
the way?

Birds have
an inbuilt
GPS*!

Geese have a sort of internal
compass that tells them where to go.

8

*GPS: Global Positioning System

We also use
landmarks to
show us the
way!

Migrating birds travel from north to
south every year. Birds don’t have
any borders!

Oops! How
can we
navigate at
night?

At night we
use the stars
to show us
the way...

We’ve got
to fly all the
way back
home now.
Bye-bye!
9


Questions with

z m, z m & z

m

Story by Dr Sophie and
illustrations by Alex Barrow

I do love receiving postcards,
letters from my friends,
parcels from my grandma,
and my super fun magazine.
But how do they all get to my door?

The new copy
of OKIDO has
arrived!

ter
ns
M o a n e,
L
ss y
M e e ss y
l,
7 M k hil
c
,
S o don 9
n
Lo K I8
5
S0

Monster

Messy
,
y Lane
7 Mess
l,
Sock hil
,
London
S05K I89

Do letters grow little legs
and walk all the way to me?
10

M
7 e ss
So Me y M
L o ck s s y o n
S0 nd hil La ste
ne r
5K on l,
,
,
I8
9

Does a bird post letters
through my letterbox?

Do letters travel in

tunnels under houses?


I’ll ask Zim, Zam
and Zoom!

Story

Let’s find out how
your copy of
OKIDO magazine
gets to your door!
Zoom, off you go
to OKIDO Studio
and we’ll follow

ZOOM has become tiny
to fit into a magazine.
The magazine goes into
an envelope with
Messy’s name, address
and a stamp on it.

I am in the
envelope!
M e ss
y
7 Me Monster
ss
S o ck y L a n e,

h
Lond ill,
on,
S 05
K I89

stamp

ZOOM will
travel inside the
magazine to find
out the journey
OKIDO takes to
your door!

Messy’s
address
enve
lope

MAIL SACK

The postman
collects the
Okidos,
letters and
parcels...

Let’s follow ZOOM!

11


How does Zoom get to Messy’s house? Follow his journey...
I’m in a big bag with lots of other letters.
The postman drives a red van. Where are we going?
Mail Sorting Office
We have
arrived!

Inside the Mail Sorting Office
The postman
empties the post into
the sorting machine

This is where the
post gets separated
into different sizes

Weee!!!
What’s that big
spinning drum?
This checks
the stamp

Woah!

Oh no, I’m
upside down!

This machine reads the
address and postcode

The sorted letters arrive here
and are sent on their way

12

I’m 2nd
Class

The postman
loads his van


These letters and parcels are travelling
by train to another town

These letters and parcels
are travelling by plane to
another country

These letters and parcels
are travelling by van to
Messy’s neighbourhood

Distribution Centre

Now I’m in
the trolley...

MESSY LANE

Oh look - my
magazine has
arrived!

7

M es
sy
7 Me Monste
r
ss
S o ck y L a n e
,
hill,
Lo n
do
S05 n,
K I8
9

Hello Zoom welcome home!
13


Amazing Animal Journeys
Some animals make amazing journeys across the world.
Read about them here and discover which animal travels the longest distance!

1500km

Swallows fly from
Europe to Africa
to escape the cold
winter.
13000km

Eels swim from English rivers to warm
Caribbean seas to have their babies
5000km
Whales make huge
journeys across the
world’s oceans to find
warmer waters to have
their babies.

7000km

16000km
14


Some Geese can fly above
the highest mountains in
the world to reach warmer
weather. They can fly
higher than an aeroplane!

6000km

Some dragonflies fly long
distances and across oceans.
The globe skimmer dragonfly
flies from India to Africa to
find a partner.

Turtles travel some of the
longest distances to lay
their eggs in the same
place they were born.

15


The long, long journey of the little stone.
Story and illustration by Rachel Ortas

“Look at what I just found!”
“What is it?”
“A fabulous treasure! A precious stone!”
“Let me see?” says Po.
Kiki carefully opens her hand to show her brother.
“That’s a pebble!” Po laughs.
“Yes, but a fantastic one,” answers his sister.
“What’s so special about it?”
Kiki opens her hand slowly again.
“Hush hush, look it’s asleep.”
“What? It’s a stone! Stones don’t sleep.”
“This one does!”
“Hush!” says Po, “I think I saw it move.”

Kiki lifts it closer to her face.
“Hello little stone - are you awake?”
“I was so tired,” answers the stone
in a very small voice.
“It talks!” whisper the children.

16


Story
“I’ve been on such a long journey. A journey that has
taken a long, long time,” says the stone with its tiny voice.
“Tell us please, little stone,” says Kiki holding her new
friend in the palm of her hand.
So the little stone starts to tell the children about
its long, long journey.
“I used to be a huge rock living at the very top of a
giant mountain. I was enormous and beautiful.
Every day I watched the sea far, far away down the
mountain, at the very end of the green valley. And
every night I dreamt of jumping into the sea and
rolling in the waves.
“So what happened?” asked Kiki, cuddling the little
stone.
“One day, the giant mountain woke up in a funny
mood. It started to shake so furiously that I lost my
balance and rolled down the slopes of the mountain...
I rolled and rolled until I fell into the river below with
an enormous SPLASH!
17

I continued moving through the dancing water for years and
years - it was such fun!” laughs the little stone.
“All the rolling and gliding made me much, much smaller,”
continues the little stone. “One day, the river became much
calmer. I was in a green valley. I was carried along by the
stream, all the way to the sea.”
“Then I found you on the beach!” says Po.
“Oh no, not yet! I travelled the oceans for years, pushed along by the
current. I was so curious to discover the world and I was getting so
small, I could go anywhere!
One day I found a beach and decided to stay there on the warm sand.
Then you discovered me and I’m your friend now!” the little stone
whispers.
“Can we take you home?” ask Kiki and Po together.
“Oh yes, I would like that very much!” says the little stone.
“But one day, please will you bring me back to the beach?
I haven’t finished my fantastic journey yet. I still have so
far to go and so much to see! I want to do lots and lots of
rolling in the ocean waves until I’m the finest, softest grain
of sand...”
18


“But why?” cries Kiki. “That is so sad.”
“No! It will be so much fun!” answers the little stone.
“Can’t you hear all the tiny grains of sand singing in the
waves? They are having a really good
time!

But for now, you can take me home, and
I will tell you about all the things I have
seen, from the giant mountains to the
sea. And I will tell you about all the
friends I made along the way.
And even before that, I will tell you
about when I was a baby stone living on
a comet, flying through the galaxy!”
“Wow!” whisper Kiki and Po at
the same time.
Kiki carefully puts her VERY special
pebble friend in her pocket. Then she
and her brother Po run all the way
home.
19


Sing this poem by Gabby Dawnay. Illustration by Alex Barrow

We’re going on a journey
A journey
A journey…
We’re going on a journey
A journey to the Moon…
Looking out the window
The window
The window
Looking out the window
I hope we get there soon!

I see the stars a-twinkling
A-twinkling
A-twinkling
I see the stars a-twinkling
Like diamonds in the sky…
Looking out the window
The window
The window
Looking out the window
At comets flying by!
20


Poem

I spy the Earth below us
Below us
Below us
I spy the Earth below us
A ball of misty blue…
I spy the moon above us
Above us
Above us
I spy the moon above us –
Oh what a cosmic view!

We’re going on a journey
A journey
A journey…
We’re going on a journey

I hope we get there soon…
Looking out the window
The window
The window
Looking out the window
We’re landing on the Moon...
We’re landing on the Moon!
21


Let’s Okidoodle!
Follow the letter’s journey. Where will it go?

Okido
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V
1-5
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on E2
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Let’s post a letter!

Write your letter

22

Fold your letter

Send your letter


✃

1 Cut page along dotted line

2

Write letter in central square

3

Fold corners to centre


4 Tape 4 corners together

5

Turn over and write
address on the front

6

Put a stamp in the corner and

your letter is ready to post!

✃


The journey of the apple
Draw the apple’s route through the digestive system.

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Hot air balloon sums
Do the maths and write the answers in the hot air balloon baskets. Then see if you can
add up all the numbers in the baskets. Write the total in the middle cloud!

=

1

4-2
=

2

2

1=
6

3

=
+4

8-3
5-

2=

4
6
5

=

answers: 1. 3 2. 2 3. 5 4. 6 5. 3 6. 5 total = 24

2+1


Lily pad leap frog

LEAPFROG

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LILY POND

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LILYPAD

answer: leapfrog

LEAF

Help the frog get across the pond by jumping
on the lily pads. Can you find all the words?
Which word takes the frog all the way to the
other side? Colour the lily pads green.