1. family and parenting
2. children

Chapter - 1
Myself
Aim:
•To know about yourself
•To develop certain skills—communication and listening skills
Teaching Apparatus
Chart paper, placards of different colours and different animals,
crayons, pencils, a pair of scissors, children’s clothes
Method
Day 1
Since this is a topic about which a child has some knowledge, you can start the
class by asking children about what they know about themselves. Jot down all
the points on the blackboard. Allow the children to come out with different
points about themselves. Ask questions related to their age, their favourite
colours, hobbies, etc.
Ask a few children in the class to give description about themselves.. Ask them
to tell about their names, last name, age, and the name of their best friends.
This will make them understand that everybody in the class have a different
name and surname. All of them have different hobbies too.
Ask them questions about their family and family members. What do their
family members do?
The children of first grade like to talk about themselves. Help the children to
learn about their individualities, similarities and differences. This activity will
help in improving the sense of togetherness in the children. At later stage,
phonics can also be incorporated. Ask the children to divide themselves into
three or four groups. Now provide them a question paper which has space to
write the answers.
Sample questions
What makes you different from other people?
What are the similarities in between you and your friends?
What makes you so special?
Who are your family members?
This activity will help in the improvement of awareness of the child about
himself or herself.
Day 2
There are several other activities that can help in improving the self awareness
such as asking the child to trace his outline on a chart paper. Ask him to draw
face, nose, eyes, ears, hands and legs in it. The child can cut the outline. Assist
them if they need your health. The children have to make a similar outline. They
will now staple the two outlines together. Stuff them with tissue paper,
newspaper, what ever is available. Now, dress the dummy with the child’s
clothes. Although this activity will take a few days to complete but the child will
enjoy seeing a glimpse of themselves in their own clothes. This activity will
again help in improving the self awareness of the children.
Day 3
Bring a big chart paper in the class. Ask the children to sign on the chart paper
by writing the things that they like about themselves. Display the collage in the
classroom.
These are the activities that will help the children to know about the similarities
and differences among themselves.
I love to do gardening. Tell the children that all these question are related to
them. Also, ask them questions like what is the job of your father? What your
mother does? Which is your favourite dish? Ask the children to listen to the
question and give a response after each question. Encourage the children to
participate and teach the chapter from the book.
Recapitulation
Let the students write a few lines about their family, school, and themselves.
Revision
The class can answer the question at the end of the chapter.
Chapter - 2
My Body
Aim
• To identify the external body parts.
• To understand the functions of different body parts
Teaching materials
A large sheet of paper, pencil, eraser, a CD player, pictures of
different body parts, a large sheet of paper, a chart of growth pattern
Method
Day 1
Start the class by asking different questions in the class like
• Can you observe different parts of your body?
• What are the different parts of your body that you can see?
• Name all the body parts and jot them down in your notebook. You can write
down all the answers given by the children on the blackboard.
Let the children come out with different views and answers. Ensure that each
child participate in the question and answer round.
As a brief outline, the students of this grade are expected to learn their body
parts along with their functioning such as what are the functions of your head,
neck, arms, forearms, etc. As a teacher, you can demonstrate the students the
locations of different body parts on a poster of our body parts. Point the
different body parts and say their names aloud. Ask the students to repeat their
names together. Now, the teacher can name the body parts aloud and can ask
the children to move them. The teacher can take help of a poem to give the
children a visual feedback. This will help the children to retain the names of the
body parts.
Day 2
After learning and identifying the names of different body parts, provide a
worksheet to the children in which they have to match the name of the body
part to its image. This will also help them to memorize the spelling of each body
part.
The teacher can also play the games like "YOU SAY". In this, she can ask the
student to perform different tasks based on different body part, for example the
teacher can ask the children to tilt their neck to the right and then to the left. This
movement will create a link between the child's brain and body as their name
will be processed from thought into action.
Conduct another activity by dividing the children into two groups. The students
will be asked to make their own body outline. Pass a large sheet to every child.
One child will lie down on the paper while the other child will draw an outline of
this child. Now each child will label their body parts in this outline. Display the
outline of each child in the class and provide your corrective and positive
feedback to the child.
Day 3
You can also play the “Hockey Pockey" song or "The Bone Bounce" by Luck
Jensenas. These songs depict connection in between different body parts.
Now take a body outline and ask the children to help you to label the names of
different body parts. Ask them to identify a few body parts that are still missing
in the outline.
Along with, you can also give an idea to the children about how our body
changes with growth. Ask the children to bring a few photographs from their
childhood to their present age. Now ask them to compare their photographs
from then and now. This will make them understand how their body has
changed.
Besides these, display some charts that depict that how a boy or a girl grows
into an adult and an adult gets old. These activities will help them to understand
a few traits that are similar to themselves.
At the end of the discussion, ask them about the inference than we can draw
from the lesson. Spend a couple of periods in discussions before taking up the
chapter.
Recapitulation
Ask the children to label the names of different parts of our body on an outline of
our body.
Revision
The class can answer all end of the chapter questions.
Chapter - 3
Sense Organs
Aim
• To teach them the identification of different body parts
• To understand the different types of sense organs
• To understand the functioning of different sense organs
Teaching materials
Paper, pen, crayons, songs, CD player, different types of food items
Day 1
As a part of recapitulation, ask the children about the uniqueness of our body
parts. Tell them that it is one of its own kinds. It has five sense organs—
hearing, seeing, touching, tasting and smelling. The most special feature of our
body is that we are able to think and feel things..
Make pairs of children. Ask them to look at each other to understand the
differences in their eyes, nose, skin colour, height, etc. Tell them that each pair
has to elicit at least one difference. List them on the blackboard. After listing all
the differences tell the children that we all are different and come from different
families and different places. This activity will help the children to understand
that we all are different about the variations in between us and that we all are
different in one or other way.
Take the students to visit a garden. Ask them to demonstrate the actions of
different body parts with help of small games that demonstrate functions like
running, jumping, skipping, hopping, sliding, crawling, etc.
Day 2
Each student has to demonstrate a way in which they can move their body
parts. The students will in turn show you movements
Play a song in the classroom that the children can listen to and enjoy. Ask a few
questions to the children related to the song like which body part help us to hear
the song. The children will answer ear. Along with it, you can also teach the
children about the importance of keeping our ears and nose clean.
Like wise, you can explain the children the significance of different sense
organs like our nose. Provide them a few materials with different fragrances in
them such as rose, soap, perfumes, etc. Let the children smell them.. Wait for
a few minutes and ask the children about the smell of these things. The children
will tell about their likings and disliking for different smells.
Day 3
Visit a nearby park with the children for a picnic. The children will bring different
types of foods, fruits, breads, snacks, etc. Keep these food items separately in
bags such that the students can’t see through. The students will be then asked
to identify the food items by smelling, touching and tasting. This activity will
help them to use their different senses.
Ask the children to close their eyes. Wait for a minute. Now tell them to open
their eyes and explain any five things that they can see around them. This will
make them understand the significance of their vision.
Recapitulation
Ask the children about the functions of different body parts and how do our
sense organs help us?
Revision
Let the class answer the questions given at he end of the chapter.
Chapter - 4
Keeping clean
AIM
The children should be able to understand
• importance of cleanliness. •
• relationship between cleanliness and good health. •
• inculcation of good habits related to cleanliness.•
• development of good food habits
Teaching materials
Bags, any electronic item say a mobile phone, Power point
presentation.
Day 1
Introduce the topic to the children by emphasizing on the need of inculcation of
personal care and hygiene. Students should understand the importance of
habits like washing hands before and after every meal and other aspects of
personal hygiene. Explain the children different ways by which they can keep
their body clean. Ask the questions like
• What will happen to us if we will start eating food from the road side vendors?
• What will happen to our teeth if they are not brushed regularly?
• How often should we wash our hands?
• How often should we take bath?
• Elicit answers from the class.
As a teacher, explain to the children the meaning of 3Ms-- care taking of myself
, i.e. myself, my clothes and my surroundings.
Display a power point presentation to the children that helps the children to
understand the meaning of cleanliness.
1.Why is it important to take bath everyday?
2.Why is it important to brush our teeth clothes?
3.Why is it important to wear clean clothes everyday?
4.Who help us in getting ready for the school?
5.How often should we wash our hands, brush my teeth a have a bath?
Discuss all these questions in detail. Devise and explain a personal care plan
to the students so that they can grasp the necessary aspects of personal care
in their day to day life. The power point presentation should show the correct
ways of how to wash hands, brush teeth, comb hair, etc.
The students will then practice the steps taught by the children.
Day 2
Emphasize on dental care as the children are prone to cavities. Divide the
students in a group of four or five and ask them to discuss about the need of
keeping their teeth clean. The children can discuss in their groups the
necessities of maintaining hygiene.
Now show the children 3 items like
clothes, school bags and electronic toy. Ask the children to divide themselves
into groups and discuss how they can take care of these items.
Clothes and bags: Looks cleaner, smells good, make us feel smart and stays
for a long time bags. Are needed everyday while going to school.
Electronic toy: It is expensive and contains necessary details. Students will
share their ideas with the whole class. Provide them a situation to the children
like you well playing in the garden and suddenly it rained heavily and you got
wet and muddy what well you do now?
• I well walk into the room with my shoes.
• I will take off my shoes and will go inside.
• I will take source and will change my clothes.
Recapitulation
The teacher will reinforce all the aspects of the lessons and will ask the
students to demonstrate activities like washing you hand, brushing your teeths,
etc. Students should be reminded to follow the personal care plan and should
from a programme for themselves that they need to follow everyday.
The class can answer the questions at the end of the chapter orally.
Chapter - 5
Clothes we wear
AIM
To make the children understand
• importance of clothes.
• Different types of clothes that we wear.
• necessity of wearing uniform
• importance of clean clothes
Teaching materials
A slide show on different kinds of clothes, a variety of worksheets.
Method
Day 1
Demonstrate a slide show to the children that displays different kinds of
clothes. Divide them in the groups of three or four. Ask them to discuss and
write the benefits of the clothes. Assess whether the students have any
difficulty about the slide show. Motivate the children to ask questions. If they
are asking no questions then make sure that they have understood the
move/slideshow.
Ask students to search pictures of different types of clothes worn in different
seasons. They can collect pictures from the internet or magazines. The
students can search pictures of clothes worn in different seasons. They can
even search the dresses worn by the people of the other countries. After they
have collected sufficient pictures, ask them to make a collage by pasting the
picture and writing a few lines of information about it. The teacher should walk
around the students to see whether they have understood the activity and
whether they are working on it. Assess the children on the basis of amount of
information gathered long them. Appoint an extra point to the group who have
brought information from five different sources.
Day 2
Distribute a worksheet to every child in which they have to match clothing
names with their pictures.
Explain the worksheet to the students and ask them a few questions to find out
whether the students have understood the instructions. You can assign a
matching exercise to the children where they can match the clothing items to
their names. Encourage the children to play a nice game by naming clothes
belonging to different states.
Give them a situation like their parents are taking them to Rajasthan and they
have to pack clothes for their trip. Select any one child who can act as a
shopkeeper and teacher will distribute paper money. The children salesperson
has paper cut clothes and the every child will go one by one and will say I want
this cloth. If the child is unable to say the name of the dress, the teacher will
encourage her to speak out. Salesperson will then tell the price of the item and
child will pay the price.
The game will run like us this manner. This activity will help the children to learn
more names of clothes.
Ask the class to find out the source of woollen and cotton clothes. Try to know
how those materials are used to make clothes.
Recapitulation
The class can answer the questions at the end of the chapter orally.
Chapter - 6
Our food
AIM
To make the child understand
• the connection between good health and healthy food
• The difference between healthy food and junk food.
• The three main meals of the days, i.e. breakfast, lunch and dinner.
• Inculcation of good food habits.
Teaching materials
Clay, crayons, magazines, newspapers, worksheets, picture of a thin
and an obese man
Method
Day 1
Students should be able to tell about the foods that we eat daily. They should
understand the concept of healthy food. Students should understand the
difference between healthy food and unhealthy food. They should understand
the necessity of breakfast, lunch and dinner.
At this point of time, give the children a basic idea of healthy diet that includes
serving from different food groups. Tell them the importance of healthy
schedule and good food habits.
You can begin the chapter by showing two pictures to the students. In one
picture, there is a sick child who is sitting on a chair and is writing something
with a very weak expression. In the other photo, there is a healthy and happy
child, who is hale and hearty, and playing in the park. Ask the students about
the difference in between the two pictures. Correlate these pictures to their
food habits and tell the children about the adverse effects of eating unhealthy
food.
Day 2
Ask the children to bring crayons, clay and play dough. Encourage the students
to make a display of their favourite food. Display the same in the class later.
When children are doing this activity, you can suggest the children to make
healthy food items like rice, eggs, dals, fruits, vegetables, etc.
Tell the students about a brief of what they should take in the breakfast, lunch,
dinner and at what time they should take their respective meals.
You can also provide a week chart to the students suggesting about the food
items that they can have in breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Day 3
Provide a theme to the children to prepare their food plate. They can find
pictures from magazines and newspapers. Tell the students that they can plan
either the three, i.e. breakfast, lunch or dinner. Instruct them to take care that
the meal should contain all the healthy food items in it.
Recapitulation
Let the children study about the healthy food items in detail and prepare a food
chart of breakfast, lunch, dinner based on their studies.
The class can answer the questions at the end of the chapter orally.
Chapter - 7
Water
AIM
• To understand uses of water
Water is very precious for us.
• To explore the ways in which water is useful for other living things
like plants and animals.
• To find out the ways of saving water.
Teaching materials
Worksheets, blackboard or white board, chalks
Method
Day 1
This chapter depicts the importance of water as precious and useful resource.
Ask the students the about the different sources of water.You can ask
questions to your students like:
• Can human beings service longer without food on without water?
• What is your favourite activity done with water?
• Where all can you see water?
Allow the child to actively participate in the discussion and ask them to give
answers. Write the answer given by the children on the blackboard, in points
and discuss each correct answer. Explain to the students that water is a gift of
nature that both animal and people can use. Ask the students what would have
happened to their lives in the absence of water.
Introduce the topic on the uses of water by asking the children a few questions
like:
• What are the ways in which your family uses water?
• Why do we need water?
• Did any of the uses of water by your family was new for you?
Day 2
After the discussion, the teacher will read the chapter slowly in the class. She
will also try and make sure that each child should understand the concept in a
simple manner.
Upto this point conduct a quiz in your class that involves questions starting from
what if. For example what if we do not have clean drinking water?
Make sure that every child should come with at least one view. Collect the
information from every
child and conclude the activity by asking following questions:
• According to you, what is the most important use of water?
• As per your opinion, what is the least important use of water?
Try to improve the higher order thinking skills of the children by giving them a
situation like what will happen to us if we drink impure water? Should we buy
eatables and drinks from the roadside hawkers? Explain your answer.
Recapitulation
The teacher will recapitulate the topic by summarizing the topic like all living
things need water to live. We need water to drink and to brush our teeth. Like
us, animals and plants also need water.
The teacher can also guide the students to solve the exercises given after the
completion of the chapter. A few activities such as the picture-based activity
based on use and misuse of water will help to inculcate the better
understanding of the concept.
Revision
The class can answer the questions given at the end of the chapter. The
children can also revise the concept by holding a discussion on the topic water
is important, water is pure—save every drop of water.
Chapter - 8
Air
AIM
Students will discover that
• Air is everywhere
• Air occupies space
• Air has mass
• Air is useful to us in many ways
Teaching materials
Plastic bag, balloons, Thread stick
Method
Day 1
Give an introduction to the children about air. Ask them a few questions like
• Can they see Air?
• Where is air present?
• Is it present outside the classroom?
• Is it present inside the class room?
• Where can they see air?
• Can you feel air?
Allow the children to think and introspect about these questions. The basic aim
should be to focus on the properties of air. The teacher can explain each
property with the help of a group activity.
Teacher can take a plastic balloon and can trap air in it. Now ask the children, if
they can see air. Most of the children will say no. Try to make the children think
like if they can see air inside the balloon. A few children will say yes. Then put a
question like
• How do you know that there is air in the bag?
• Do you think that air is present outside the classroom?
Day 2
Send a group of four children outside the playground and ask them to trap air in
an air bag. When the child comes back with the trapped air inside the bag,
explain the children that air is present everywhere and it occupies space.
Conduct another activity to make the children understand that air has mass.
Take two balloons and ask any two volunteers from the children who can blow
air in the balloons. Hang the balloons at each end of the stick. Now hang the
stick from the center with a string. Ask the children what do you think will
happen? Make them understand that the end of the stick will bend towards the
inflated balloon side.
Day 3
Explain to the children that air is an essential and is necessary for our living.
Help them to conduct a breathing exercise. Ask the children to keep their hands
on their stomach and to breathe in. Now ask them to breathe out by keeping
their hands on their stomach. Ask the children what did they fill? What was the
movement of the stomach while breathing in and breathing out. This activity is
important for the children to understand that air is important for all of us.
Make the children understand the harmful effects of pollution. Ask the children
to suggest any are way in which they can help in keeping the air clean. Also tell
them that planting tress help in keeping the air clean. List all the ways on the
blackboard as suggested by the children for example riding on bicycle,
walking, planting trees around our home and taking are of the plants.
Recapitulation
Ask the class, to draw a flowchart that depicts the properties and various uses
of air. Ask them to conduct small experiments like how can they show that air
occupies space or air has weight.
Revision
The students can answer end-of-lesson
Chapter - 9
Safety Rules
Aims:
To help the children understand the sources of risk
• At home
• On the road
• While travelling, e.g. in bus
• While swimming
Teaching materials
Worksheets, chart paper, pencil, colours/crayons etc.
Method
Day 1
While starting the chapter, make the children understand that you want to teach
them how to stay safe at different places.
Start the class by asking a few warm up questions like
• What do you understand by safety?
• What should you keep in mind while standing on a wet place?
• what are the safety rules that the children know?
Encourage the children to participate in the discussion and elaborate their
correct views to make the other children understand the sources of risks and
the necessary precautions that should be taken for it.
Divide the class into five or six groups. Give each group a theme like safety
rules at home, safety rules on the road, safety rules in the bus and safety rules
while swimming. Ask them to prepare a poster based on the appointed theme.
Each group has to present one poster where they can incorporate the do’s and
don’ts related to the particular theme. The students can later provide a gist
related to the particular theme. The gist can be explained by any one of the
representative from the group. The representative will explain the poster and
safety rule hidden behind it.
Day 2
You can also present certain situations to the children in the form of
worksheets, where a situation is written and the child has to write Yes or No
based on their understanding of the safety rules. For example,
ü
You are at the park and you see a kite falling from the sky. You ran to catch the
kite. YES/ NO
ü
You are in a hurry and want to cross a road. You took the help of an elder to do
so. YES/NO
ü
You are all alone at the home and someone is ringing the bell. You will open
the door and will allow him/her to enter the home. YES/No
ü
You went in the kitchen and started cutting the fruits with a sharp knife.
YES/NO
Continue to present such type of scenarios to the children. Ask any of the
students to explain the correct answer.
Here comes the need to explain to the children that these rules should be
adopted while walking on the road or any other situation to secure themselves
from any sort of danger. You can explain them the difference in between the
road and the footpath. The children should know that they should walk with the
grownups and should hold their and while walking on the road. They should
know that they have to wear a helmet while travelling on a two wheeler and they
should wear the seat belt while travelling in the car.
Recapitulation
Let the children answer the questions like where should we walk on the road?
Where should we cross the road? Which traffic signal tells us to cross the road?
Etc.
Revision
The class can answer all the end of lesson questions.
Chapter - 10
My Family
AIM
• To make the students understand
• that families are of different types
• identify the differences in the family
Teaching material
Colour pens, construction paper
Method
Day 1
The teacher can ask the class by asking the following questions:
• who all are the members of their family.
• Are their family small or big?
In this context, explain the children about their relationships with other people
such as the relatives apart from their father and mother.
Start the chapter with a with a small warm up exercise where the children will be
asked to draw faces on fingers. They can put a small puppet head. The children
can draw the different members of their family on their fingers.
Give each student a piece of construction paper along with their family photos
and a few pictures from magazines and newspapers. Ask the children to make
pictures of their favourite family members in it.
Day 2
On the basis of the knowledge about their family, the children will complete the
exercise. Ask one of the children to read the chapter aloud in the classroom.
In between the chapter, ask them the basic questions like
Whose family is big?
Whose family is small?
Summarize to the children the meaning of the family and its importance. Also
brief them the difference in between the joint family and the nuclear families.
Recapitulation
For the purpose of revision, ask the children to perform the following activities:
• Writing the names of the family members on a piece of paper
• Reading a few lines aloud in the classroom in form of an essay
• Answering the questions given in the exercise orally
Revision
The class can answer all the end of lesson questions.
Chapter - 11
Sharing Work
Aim:
To make the child understand importance of
• Taking care of each other at home.
• Sharing work at home
Teaching material
Sheet of paper, pen, papers, salted biscuits
Method
Day 1
The teacher can try to engage the students in meaningful conversation about
sharing and caring.
Another important aspect in this chapter is to discuss sharing of some work at
home. Prepare a skill sheet for the children to answer. Incorporate questions
based on the degree of work they share in the family. For example
• Who helps you in eating your breakfast, lunch and dinner?
• Who wakes you up in the morning?
• Who washes your clothes?
• Who washes utensils?
• Who mops the floor?
• Who washes the fruits?
• Who takes care of the plants in the garden?
Check and discuss the answers given by them. Provide opportunities to the
students to share their personal experiences. Explain them the necessity of
sharing work and helping one another in a family.
Day 2
Ask them a few points a few points related to their contribution of work at home.
Work on the strategy of Think-pair-share. You can provide the students a time
structured situation like the following: Sonika’s mother has got fever. She is all
alone with her mother at the house. Her father has gone to office. What all are
the ways in which Sonika can help he parents?
Give some time to the children to think individually about this situation. They
can work in pairs to solve the problem and can share the ideas with the class. It
will help the children to develop better understanding of the concept. In this
way, you can help them to discuss and understand the caring attitude in a
family.
With this concept, read the chapter aloud in the class. Always emphasize and
give special attention on correct pronunciation. Ask the children to read the text
after you in order to improve their reading skills.
Recapitulation
Ask the children
• To prepare lemonade for their parents at home
• To speak five sentences about caring and sharing
• Let the children answer the questions like why should we share work in the
family?
• Who looks after you when you are not well?
• Who takes you to the doctor when you are sick?
Revision
The class can answer all the end of lesson questions.
Chapter - 12
My Home
Aims
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To make the children understand
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Features of a good house
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Importance of different types of rooms in a house
Teaching material
Chart papers, crayons, scissors, thermocol, pins, fevicol
Method
Day 1
The teacher should explain the significance of a house in our lives. Te teacher
can write the word HOUSE on a blackboard and can divide the class into two
parts. Each group will tell some points that are related to the characteristics of a
good house.. The teacher will list these points on the blackboard. Once the
children are done with their ideas, the teacher will shortlist the correct points
and will explain them to the children. The group with more number of correct
points will be considered as the winner.
The teacher will ask the children about the importance of a good house. She
will explain to the children the necessity of a house in our lives.
Day 2
The teacher can show a picture to the children where a child is living with her
family in a single room and another picture where the child is living with her
family in a big house which has a variety of rooms. With this, teacher can
explain the children about the different parts or different types of the rooms that
a house consist of.
• The teacher can also ask the students a few questions like
• In which room of the house do you sleep?
• In which type of a room do you eat your food?
• Why do we need a house?
You can also provide a worksheet to the children where there are different
types of rooms shown in it. The children have to write down the name of each
room in the space provided.
Day 3
The teacher will now talk about the different types of houses that are found.
She can arrange a small trip to a nearby village. Ask them to observe the home
of the villagers with the homes in which they live. This will help the children to
understand the basic concept of difference in between a Kutcha house and a
pucca house.
She can also assign them a craft activity where the children would be asked to
prepare a framework of the house with the help of thermocol, pins, fevicols and
colours.
Recapitulation
Assign homework to the children based on the questions like
• what are the features of a good house?
• What are the different types of houses?
• What is a kutcha house?
• What is a pucca house?
• What is the difference in between the houses found in the cities and villages?
• What are the different tyes of rooms found in a house?
Revision
The class can end of the chapter questions orally. Ask the children to discuss
and name the different types of houses.
Chapter - 13
Our Festivals
Aims:
The child will be able to understand
• Main festivals of India
• Characteristic features of these festivals.
Teaching material
Festival chart, power point presentation, Gulal
Method
Day 1
This lesson plan will help the children to understand the cultural values
followed in their homes. The child will learn to appreciate the cultural values of
their as well s other’ traditions. Encourage the children to learn about these
festivals through group discussion and sharing.
The teacher can bring placards or charts related to different festivals. This will
help in generating interest in the students related to their cultural traditions. For
example, you can show a picture to the children which pertains to any of the
festivals like a picture of colour/gulal in context of Holi.
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What can you see in this picture?
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When do you play with Gulal?
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Have you ever played with clolours like gulal at your home?
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What all are the colours that you love to play with during this festival?
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On which festival do we play with colours?
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Can you name a few festivals that are celebrated at your home?
The teacher can also divide the students in five groups. She can assign one
festival to each group and can ask them to collect information and prepare a
poster based on the assigned festival. Ask them to incorporate the following
points along with a pertaining picture of these festivals.
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When do we celebrate this festival?
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Why do we celebrate this festival?
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What special dish is prepared by your mother on this day?
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What clothes do you wear on this festival?
Day 2
The teacher can also ask the students to prepare a greeting card or any other
craft item such as a diya based on the theme of these festivals.
Show them a power point presentation where you can depict or display them
the different festivals which are commonly celebrated in our country. The
children will identify the pictures and thus the name of the festival.
Also , the teacher can keep a few things related to a particular festival. For
example
Recapitulation
Let the children answer the questions like for which festival do people decorate
Christmas tree. List the activitivities that you would on Diwali, etc.
Revision
The class can answer all the end of lesson questions.
Chapter - 14
Our Neighbourhood
Aim:
• To make the child understand the area around our house is our
neighbourhood.
• Important places around their house
• Features of neighborhood
Teaching material
record sheets, paper, pen, pencil
Method
Day 1
Introduce the chapter to the children by identifying the main features of the
neighborhood. Make them understand that the area around them is their
neighborhood. Examples of the areas in the neighbourhood include school,
market, police stations, post offices, etc. Ask the children to make the drawing
of the street where they live. Explain to the children that the people who stay
near our home are called our neighbours.
The teacher can plan and take the children to a small visit in the town. She can
introduce the basic places that are found in the neighbourhood. Tell the
children about the following important places like
• School: The place where we learn an study new things
• Hospitals: Where sick people are given treatment.
• Bank: Where valuable things are kept
• Market: Where we can find many shops
The small visit will give a clear picture to the children about their
neighbourhood. Now the teacher can write a sentence on the board like There
is/are ____________ in our neighbourhood. Now ask the children to suggest
some answers other than the places that they have visit.. This will help the
children to come out with new answers that will help them to build the concept
of neighbourhood.
You can also ask the children about what they all saw in the tour. Now write
down their observations on the black board. If you find that a few observations
of different groups are repeating then do not write them twice. Now correlate
these observations of the children with the meaning of neighbourhood.
Tell them there are many places such as park, school, post office, bank, etc. in
our neighbourhoodThey provide us important services.
Day 2
Reda the chapter aloud in the classroom and ask the children to repeat the
same. This will help in improving the reading skills of the children. Provide a
brief idea to the children about the necessity and usefulness of these
neighborhood areas. Divide the children into small groups and give them a
theme like what is the importance of good neighbours. Each group has to frame
at least five points. Later, discover their observations in the class along with
your explanation for the necessities of the neighbourhood.
Reinforcement
Ask the children – what do they understand by neighbourhood?
• Who are their neighbours?
• What is a hospital?
• Where do we go to offer our prayers?
• What is the difference between fire station and police station?
Questions such as Ram want to send birthday card to his uncle. Which place
do you think he should go to send his wishes will help in improving the Higher
Order Thinking Skills of the child.
Revision
The class can answer all the end of lesson questions.
Chapter - 14
People Who Help Us
Aim:
To raise the awareness
• about the people living in our neighbourhood
• about the benefits of helping people
Teaching material
Flash cards
Method
Day 1
Start the lesson by taking one person at a time and telling the children about the
ways in them he is helping us. Begin the chapter with various activities to help
the children to connect with the topic. Along side, it is necessary to explain to
the children that we should always remain humble and polite towards these
people.
You can start the class by asking the children how they think that your friends
are helpful to you. Allow the children to brainstorm all the things that they feel
their friend do to help them. Write down the information on the blackboard. Give
a brief description to the children about the different peoples who help us.
Take the placards of different people who help us. For example, dentist, a
carpenter, farmer, cobbler, doctor, tailor, etc. Now draw a sewing machine and
ask the children who uses this machine to stitch your cloth.
Day 2
Give a situation to the children say my chair is broke. Who can help me? My
tooth is paining. Who can help me? I want beautiful flowers in my garden. Who
can help me? Based on the answers of these children, assign them the marks
and write them on the blackboard. Read a story for the children that involve
various characters like plumber, barber, mason, tailor, etc. In every part of the
story, ask the children about the people whom you are describing. You can
also show the flash cards of a dentist to the children. You can ask questions to
the children like Do you know this man? Narrate them a story of a child who
used to eat food from the road side vendors. One day his stomach got upset
and he went to the doctor who gave him medicines to get well soon.
Like wise you can narrate a poem in the class to tell them the significance of a
teacher
I'm happy that you're my teacher;
I enjoy each lesson you teach.
As my role model you inspire me
To dream and to work and to reach.
With your kindness you get my attention;
Every day you are planting a seed
Of curiosity and motivation
To know and to grow and succeed.
You help me fulfill my potential;
I'm thankful for all that you've done.
I admire you each day, and I just want to say,
As a teacher, you're number one!
Recapitulation
Let the class discuss the importance of people who helps them in their home.
Ask the children a few questions to recapitulate the chapter such as
• How does a teacher and doctor help you?
• What should we give to the people who help us?etc.
Revision
The class can answer all the end of lesson questions.
Chapter - 15
Our School
AIM
• The child should be able to describe his/her school.
The child should be well aware of the various rooms found I the
school.
•The child should be well aware of the people who help in running
the school
Teaching materials
Notebook, pencil, eraser, worksheets
Method
Day 1
The teacher can start the chapter by asking a few questions to the children
such as
What is the name of your school?
Why do we go to school?
Tell the names of the few places that you can see in your school.
Draw a rough map of the school on the blackboard. Ask children to draw the
same in their notebook. Ask them to label the different parts of the school is.
Now ask them which part of the school is their favourite and why?
Along with, you can provide a sentence structure to the children such and ask
them to fill in the blanks.
This is my school. The name of my school is __________________. I study in
class ___________. I love to go to school. We go to school to study and to learn
new things.
Ask the children to brainstorm and describe their classroom in five lines. Listen
to their observations and help them to analyse the importance of their
classroom. Ask them questions like what will happen if we have no classroom
to study. Tell them that every place in the school has its importance.
Day 2
Arrange a small visit for the children in the school itself. Visit different places of
the schools with them and explain them the necessity of each and every place.
After the visit is over, provide a worksheet to the children that involve the
following questions:
1.How many students are there in your class?
2.How many classroom are there in your school?
3.At which place do we sit and read the books?
In the same trip, show the children the many people who work in the school.
Make them understand that we should respect all the people in the school.
Give them a worksheet with pictures of a few people who work in the school
such as security guard, Principal, assembly hall, gardener, etc. Ask them to
describe and write any one duty of these people in the school. The teacher can
also ask the children to communicate with these people for better
understanding of their jobs. For example, their working hours, things that they
like about their jobs, etc.
You can also give the children an outline of the school and ask them to colour
the picture with different colours to make the school more beautiful.
Recapitulation
Let the children revise the chapter by giving answers to the questions like
Why do we go to school?
What are the things that we learn at school?
Name the people who work at school.
Ask a few questions to inculcate the higher order thinking skills in the children
such as Reeta’s mother give her money to deposit the school fee. Whom do
you think should Reeta contact to pay her fee?
Revision
Ask the children to do the exercises given at the end of the chapter.
Chapter - 16
Travel and Transport
AIMS
To make the child understand
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The meaning of transport and communication.
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Types of transport
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Means of communication
Teaching materials
Blackboard, charts for means of transportation
Method:
Day 1
Give a brief description to the children about the different types of
transport—land, water and air. You can make them understand the meanings
of these terms by correlating the topic with the real life examples. Tell the
children about the importance of these transports in our day to day life.
Ask a few children about the ways by means of which they come to the school.
Some of them will say car, bicycle, etc. Elaborate the answer by telling children
that all us reach to the school travelling some distance. For travelling, modes of
transportation are required.
Explain to the children that everything including the food products come to us
by travelling some distance.
Tell them that these things can reach us by train, ship, aeroplane or truck.
You can also show them flash cards of different vehicles to give them a visual
feedback of the vehicles. Briefly explain to the children the difference in
between the types of transport like land, water and air.
Day 2
Ask the children the names of a few transportations list them on the
blackboard. Tell the children that these transports were unavailable in the
ancient times. You can also ask questions to the children like where do they
like to spend their vacations? How did they go there? How can they travel a in
rivers and lakes?
Give a situation to the children like Rohit lives in USA and is coming to attend
his friend’s marriage who lives in Rajasthan. Help Rohit and give him some
suggestions that how can he reach to Rajastaan from USA. At this point of time,
make the children understand that animals can also be used to travel from one
place to another. Ask them a question like Name the ship of the desert.
Day 3
In continuation to the day 2 exercise provide a situation to the children and tell
them that Rohit has fell ill and he is unable to attend his friend’s marriage. What
all the modes of communication that he can use to explain his situation to his
friends. This will help the students to understand about the means of
communication which help us to stay in touch with the people who lives far
away from us. We can use telephones, letters and emails as the means of
communication.
Explain the children that e mails reach faster than letters. And telephones are
the fastest means of communication.
Recapitulation
As a part of recapitulation ask a few questions to the children like
The fastest means of communication
Fastest means of transport
Examples of land, air and water transport, etc.
Revision
Ask the children to do the exercises given at the end of the chapter.
Chapter - 17
Our Universe
Aim:
• To learn about The sun moon and the earth
Teaching materials
• Globe
• Sun made of chart paper
• A crescent moon made of chart paper
• Model that shows layers of the earth
Start the class by asking the children to look outside the window on a sunny
morning. Ask them what makes the sky look so bright. They will say the sun.
Now tell them to stand where the sunlight is falling and then ask them to stand
in the shade. Ask them how they felt standing in the sunlight and then in the
shade. Teach them about the sun which gives us light as well as warmth. Ask
each child to hold them hand in the sunlight and feel the warmth of the sun. Tell
them that the sun is the source of heat and light on earth. It is a huge ball of fire
that is very very hot.
Now show them the globe and ask what it is. Ask them what the blue colour on
the globe is. Tell them about our planet earth and how it is different from all
other planets. Tell them how the sunlight falls on earth and gives heat and light.
Tell them about the movements of the earth that bring day and night and
change in seasons on earth. Also tell them about how the earth is divided into
layers.
Tell them to look at the sky at night. Sometimes they might not see anything but
on some nights they might see a crescent shaped line that grows bigger and
bigger every night to form a round silvery ball that glows in the night sky. Tell
them about the moon and how it moves around the earth. Tell them about the
phases of the moon.
RECAPITULATION
Ask the children to use the chart paper to make the sun, earth and the moon.
Ask them to show the different layers of the earth.
REVISION
Ask the children to do the exercise at the end of the chapter.
Chapter - 18
Plant life
AIM
Students will
• Differentiate between types of plants
• Describe the needs of the plants
• Describe the uses of plants
Teaching materials
Chart showing parts of plants, video, DVD, CD player
Method
Day 1
Briefly explain to the children about the different types of plants. Bring the
children to the playground and ask them to observe the different types of plants
around them. You can start the chapter by showing a power point presentation
to the children that features different types of plants. Ask them do all plants look
alike? Make sure that your power point presentation contains all the different
varieties of plants like and tall, short and bushy, very small and thin, and those
who can creep on the ground. Ask the children to select any one of the plants
that they would like to learn more about. The children will collect ten points
about their favourite plant and will read them aloud in the classroom.
Ask the children to draw the picture of this plant in their drawing book and to
label its different parts.
Show a chart depicting the parts of the plants and make the children
understand the basic idea about the different parts of the plants, their needs to
grow and their multiple uses. Make them understand that every part of the plant
has some specific work to perform.
Day 2
When the children have collected all the facts about their favourite plants,
divide them in a group of four. Ask them to share their work and to find the
similarities and differences in the facts collected. This will help them to
understand the various features of different plants. At this point of time,
introduce the topic of different types of plants, i.e. trees, shrubs, herbs,
climbers and creeper, etc.
When the children become aware of the different parts of the plants, explain to
them the needs of the plants to grow. You can perform a simple exercise by
dividing the children into two groups. Ask both the groups to plant the seed in
the garden.
You can give an assignment to the children to find out the various uses of plants
and to paste some photographs related to uses of plants in their scrapbook.
Discuss and tell the children that plants are useful not only to us but also to the
animals. They give us a variety of things like coffee, tea, sugar, vegetables,
fruits, grains and tea.
Hold a quiz in the class and Let the children brainstorm and tell you a few tricky
questions like
• Which animal get s it food from a plant?
• What do birds like to eat?
• Which plant fiber is used to make our cloth?
Recapitulation
As a part of recapitulation, provide a worksheet to the children and ask them to
look at the pictures and write whether it is a herb, shrub or a climber.
Ask a few more questions to the children like
What are the different kinds of plants?
What are herbs? Give two examples.
What are shrubs? Give two examples.etc.
Revision
Ask the children to do the exercise at the end of the chapter.
Chapter - 19
Animal around us
AIM
• To recognizes the different types of animals in the surroundings •
To make the children understand the difference in between
domestic animals and wild animals. .
•To understand that animals also require home to live.
Teaching materials
Pen, paper, crayons, etc.
Method
Day 1
Start the chapter by briefing the children about the different types of animals.
Tell them that there are many animals around us. Some of them are big, some
of them are small. Some of them can fly To make the child understand the
concept of different types of animals, provide them a list of six animals out of
which of them are big animals or small animals or birds, etc. See whether the
children can figure out the difference in between these animals. You can also
ask questions like
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Can anyone think of some animals that are big?
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Can anyone tell the names of animals that are small?
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Where can we find birds?
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Why can't we have a lion as a pet?
Arrange a small trip with the children to a nearby zoo. Ask them to sit into
groups and jot down the names of all these animals. Ask them to think and find
out as many similarities and differences in between these animals as they can.
A zoo is a place where the children will see a large variety of insects, water
animals, wild animals and domestic animals.
After the visit, facilitate a brief class discussion to identify the different types of
animals and insects as mentioned in the textbook.
Day 2
Now ask the children what do they know about forests? What does it look like?
How can they differentiate forest from their home? Here you can explain the
term habitat which is in the context and can talk about as many habitats of
different animals as you can. You can explain to the children about desert and
homes for pet animals.
You can also ask the children to draw a painting of a forest where they can
show different types of animals living in it.
Tell the children about the difference in the home made by animals and the man
made homes. Ask the children about the need and uses of home as they have
learnt about them in the past.
When the children become aware about the different types of animals and their
homes, show them a small video which describes the eating habits of the
animals. While showing the video, explain the children that animals need food
to live and grow. It gives them energy to move around and hunt for food.
While showing the different videos make them understand the difference
between plant eating and flesh eating animals.
Recapitulation
As a part of the recapitulation, tell the children to discuss about the animal life,
their types, eating habits and living habits.
Ask them a few questions like
Where do wild animals live?
Name any two animals that eat plants.
Where does a rat live? etc.
Revision
Ask the children to do the exercise at the end of the chapter.
Chapter - 20
Sun, moon and stars
Aim:
• To learn about The sun moon and the earth
Teaching materials
• Globe
• Sun made of chart paper
• A crescent moon made of chart paper
• Model that shows layers of the earth
Method
Day 1
Start the class by asking the children
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What is the colour of sky in the morning?
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What is the colour of the sky in the night?
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what makes the sky look so bright?
Teach them about the sun which gives us light as well as warmth. Ask each
child to hold them hand in the sunlight and feel the warmth of the sun. Tell them
that the sun is the source of heat and light on earth. It is a huge ball of fire that is
very very hot. It rises in the morning and sets in the evening.
Bring the children to a garden in a bright sunny day. Ask them to stand in the
sunlight and then stand in the shade. Ask them how they felt standing in the
sunlight and then in the shade.
Day 2
Now show them the globe and ask what it is. Ask them what the blue colour on
the globe is. Tell them about our planet earth and how it is different from all
other planets. Sometimes they might not see anything but on some nights they
might see a crescent shaped line that grows bigger and bigger every night to
form a round silvery ball that glows in the night sky. Tell them about the moon
and how it moves around the earth. Tell them about the phases of the moon.
After the explanation show them a video that shows the different shapes of the
moon. This will help the children to understand that the moon can be full, half or
crescent-shaped.
You can also assign the children to go to the terrace in the night with their
elders. Ask them to count as many stars as they can and let you know about the
numbers. The variations in the answers of the children will help [p them to
understand that the stars are uncountable.
You can also visit a planetarium with the children to make them understand
these heavenly bodies. After coming back to the classroom, follow these
simple steps to connect with the children.
1.Remembering: Ask the children to close their eyes and remember what all
did they see in the planetarium.
2.Discussing: Now ask the children one by one to name those things that they
see in there. You can ask the children to not repeat the name that has been
written on the blackboard.
3.Telling: Now ask the students to tell their experiences to one of the members
in the family. This will help them to revise a few of their learnt concepts. For
example, describing earth, moon and sun to someone.
4.Organising: Now ask the children to write their experiences in few lines.
RECAPITULATION
Ask the children to use the chart paper to make the sun, earth and the moon.
Ask them to show the different layers of the earth.
REVISION
Ask the children to do the exercise at the end of the chapter.