DAV PUBLIC SCHOOL, SRESHTHA VIHAR
HOLIDAYS HOMEWORK 2015-16
CLASS - VI
ENGLISH
Q1.Read a story based on animals. Write a letter to your friend telling him/her about the story and the
moral of the story you have read.
Q2.Collect information on any one of the planets, present the information attractively on A4 size pastel
sheet. Prepare a role play from the same information.
Q3.Read the novel- Heidi and answer the following questions in about 20-30 words. Do the work in your
Literature Copy.
i Who was taking care of Heidi after her parents death? Where was she taking her and why?
ii Heidi was taken to Frankfurt to become Clara’s companion. Why did Clara need a companion?
iii Who was Fraulien Rottenmeir? Did she like Heidi? How can you say?
iv Did Peter like school? Who encouraged him to be regular to school?
v What was Clara’s surprise for her grandmother and father?
Q4. Edit the following passage. Make the table of correct word and incorrect word in your EPNB.
i. I is sorry for not writing since a long
ii. time. I getted your last letter over a week
iii.ago. A lot on things have happened
iv. since then. Last week Kunal,his cousins and
v. I go to Jaipur. We stayed at a tourist lodge
vi. and visiting the Hawa Mahal and the Jaipur Palace.
vii. Jaipur is famous from handicrafts.
Q5. Un jumble the following words to make meaningful sentences.
i. must/eat/slowly/we/our/food.
ii. horse/fast/galloped/the.
iii. old/spoke/man/loudly/the.
iv. walk/long/a/for/went/Simran.
v. Ankit/a/cartoon/watching/is.
Q6. Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs.
An ______ (injure) peacock _______(fall) from the branch of a tree. It ____ (is) in danger of being _______
(crush) by horses passing by.
My grandfather _______ (pick) it up and brought it home. My father and brother ______ (give) a bowl of meat
to the peacock at mealtime. He was naughty and would sometimes _______ (pull) the tail of our pet
dog.
Q7. In the poem Leisure the poet has used much alliteration. Read the other poems of your Literature
book and find three more examples of alliteration. Write them in your Literature Notebook.
NOTE: Do Q1, 3 & 4 in your EPNB.
MATHS
INTERDISCIPLINARY PROJECT
Draw a bar graph of time taken by various planets (rounded off to nearest
hundred) to revolve round the sun.
Q1 How many milligrams make one kilogram?
a) 1000 b) 10000
c) 1000000
d) 100000
Q2 How many millions make a billion?
a) 100
b)1000
c) 10000
d)10
Q3 The Hindi Arabic numeral for the Roman number is CCCXL is
a)350
b)190
c)210
d)340
Q4 A number is divisible by both 5 and 7, by which other number will that number
be always divisible?
a) 21
b)35
c)14
d)28
Q5 The smallest number which when rounded off to the nearest 100 becomes
equal to 300 is
a) 250
b)299
c) 251
d)349
Q6 Perform the following subtractions. Check your result by the corresponding
additions.
1010101-656565
Q7 Find the product by rearranging
4 X 4957 X 25
Q8 Solve using distributive property
8937 X 648 + 8937 X 582 – 8937 X 230
Q9 Write the following in roman numerals
a) Year in which India became republic.
b) Year in which common wealth games were held in India.
Q10 The population of a town is 450772. One out of every 14 is reported to be
educated. In all how many educated persons are there in the town?
Q11 The population of a town was 50,000. In one year it increased by 3659 due to
new births. However, 6397 persons left the town during the year. What was the
population at the end of the year?
Q12 The product of 2 numbers is 5,04,347. If one of the number is 317, find the
other.
Q13 The mass of a brick if 2kg,750 gram what is the total mass of 14 such bricks?
Q14 Rahul purchased 15 chocolates and 3 pastries. Cost of 1 chocolate is Rs 10 and
cost one pastry is Rs 15. Find the total money spent by him.
(use distributive property)
Q15 Find a number which when divided by 35 gives the quotient 20 and remainder
18.
Q16 In a society, there are 15 small buildings and 22 large buildings. Each of the
large buildings has 10 floors with 2 apartments on each floor. Each of the small
buildings has 12 floors and 3 apartments on each floor. How many apartments are
there in all.
Q17 Which least 6 digits number is exactly divisible by 75.
Q18 Which is the greatest 4 digit number exactly divisible by 40?
Q19 Divide and check your answer
12345 ÷ 975
Q20 Which least number should be added to 1000 so that 30 divides the sum
exactly.
Q21 In the given figure, name p
q
r
s
A
D
C
B
E
t
(a) all the pairs of parallel lines.
(b) all the sets of collinear points.
(c) the lines whose point of intersection is D.
(d) the lines whose point of intersection is B.
(e) any 3 pairs of intersecting lines.
(f) the point of intersection of lines r & t.
(g) the point of intersection of lines q & s.
l
Q22 In the given figure, name
m
X
W
r
n
V
Z
Y
q
p
(a) lines concurrent at W.
(b) lines concurrent at Y.
(c) point of concurrence of lines l, q & r.
(d) any 4 pairs of intersecting lines.
(e) 2 pairs of parallel lines.
(f) the lines whose point of intersection is V.
(g) all the points that lie in this plane.
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French
Learn one French poem on any theme(e.g food, colours, seasons, body parts and on any
grammar topic etc),write it in your French notebook with related pictures and download its
video in disc also for recitation in class.
HISTORY
Life of Early Man
Q 1. Justify the statement that necessity is the mother of invention. (Value based question).
Q 2. Why did Early Man start storing grains after the beginning of settled life? (Hots question).
CIVICS
Our Community Life –Unity in Diversity
Q 1. Why man is called a social animal? (Value based question).
Q 2. What civic values are inculcated in you by your family, school and neighbourhood? (Value based question).
Q 3. How our life is made easy by Division of Labour? (HOTS question).
GEOGRAPHY
Representation of the Earth
Q 1. Prepare a sketch of the route between your house and your school.
NOTE: All the questions are to be done in the home work copies of History, Civics and Geography.
Inter-disciplinary project- Make a 3-D model showing the various phases of moon using any material of your choice.
Science
Task 1-----
ISA work
Activity : To prepare a life sketch including biographical information and significant contribution
of various scientists.
Topic : Legends of Science
Use encyclopedia/ library/ online resources to undertake in depth research on the life and
significant contribution of the given scientist. Prepare a life sketch of the scientist allocated as
per roll numbers.
Scientists covered :
GALILEO GALILEI
1-17
ISSAC NEWTON
18-34
THOMAS ELVA EDISON
34onwards
Instructions : Work on following lines to make your project presentable and meaningful:
1) Make 10-15 pack of cards which include essential information about scientist like - date ,
place of birth and death ,nationality, education at various levels, research work, inventions,
contribution to other subjects, awards, quotes etc.
2)The size of each card should be 21cm in length and 14.5 cm in breadth with a common
design at the back of all cards.(You can use the picture of scientist at the back of first card of
the pack)
3) Font size of the content should be large and legible.
4) Use thick sheet to make cards and put precise information on it.
5) Use picture wherever possible.
Task 2--------------Activity( To be done in science activity file)
Do the detailed research and find out states of matter of different heavenly bodies.
a) Solid
b) Liquid
c) Gas
d) Semi solid
Summarize your finding in the pattern given below.
SN
1
2
3
4
STATE OF MATTER
Solid
Liquid
Gas
Semi solid
NAME OF THE HEAVENLY BODY
Task 3---------------Assignment(To be done in homework notebook)
Q1 Complete the following table.
DEVICE
ELECTRIC BELL
BATTERY
STREET BULB
BURNING WOOD
REFRIGIRATOR
MOVING FAN
ROCKET IN SPACE
TYPE OF ENERGY POSSED
INITIALLY
TYPE OF ENERGY POSSED
FINALLY
Q2 In which of the following cases work is done? Give reason
a)
b)
c)
d)
Raman is kicking a stone along the ground.
A boy pushes a boulder with a lot of force but the boulder does not move.
Leaves lying on the ground beneath a tree.
A tennis ball lying on the table.
Q3.How much work is done when a train is driven by a force of 1000N through
of 200m?
distance
Q4.Why we should not burn husk, dried leaves and parts of plant? Suggest another way for
their disposal.
Q5.Draw any two food chains (one land and one aquatic) and label primary and secondary
consumer.
Task 4---------Read the chapter Nature of matter and underline the difficult words
SANSKRIT & MORAL EDUCATION
Get the following survey done for 5 friends and bring the survey form to
school.
STUDENT COMPUTER USE SURVEY
.
1. What Grade are you in?
6
7
8
9
10
2. Answer the following questions about your computer use.
Yes
No.
No
Does your family have a computer at home? If not, answer no and skip to
question 4.
Do you use the computer at home for school work?
Is your computer connected to the Internet?
Do you have email at home?
3. How often do you use the computer at home?
Seldom or never use the computer
Use computer 2 to 4 times a month
Use computer weekly
Use computer daily
4. Answer the following questions about your computer use.
Yes
No
If you do not have a computer/Internet can you use one/it from
somewhere else?
Does your teacher use email for communicating with your
parents?
Does your teacher uses email for school assignments?
5. How often do you use the computer at school?
How often do you use the computer at school? Seldom or never use computer
Use computer 2 to 4 times a month
Use computer weekly
Not Sure
Use computer daily
6. When do you have access to computers at school? (check all that apply)
When do you have access to computers at school? (check all that apply) Before School
During School
After School
Other (please specify)
7. How do you use the computer? (check all that apply)
How do you use the computer? (check all that apply) Research
Email
Instant Message
Games
Word Processing papers
Databases
Spreadsheets
Multi-media projects (PowerPoint)
Other (please specify)