Let's talk

1. Do you have a garden at home?

2. Name some flowers which grow in your garden

or near your house.

3. Give another word for ‘thirsty feet’.

4. What happens when we water plants in the morning?

Choose one answer.

(a) They will grow well.

(b) They will dry up.

5. From where do flowers get water?

(a) From the bottom (roots).

(b) From the top (leaves).

Let's write 

1. Write rhyming words for the words given below. One has
been done for you.

(a)  morning evening        (b) car   ___________

(c) high _______________ (d)boots ______________

(e) heat _______________ (f) where ______________

2. Words like , , end in . Write
six more words to which can be added at the end to
form a new word.

(a) __________ (b) ___________ (c) ___________

(d) __________ (e) ___________ (f) ___________

3.  Look for words in the poem which sound like the words
given below.

(a) are ____________ (b) there _________ (c) flour __________

(d) where _________ (e) son __________ (f) threw _________

4. In the sentences below the capital letters, commas, full
stops and question marks are missing. Put these in the
correct places.

(a) on monday i will go to school
___________________________________________________

(b) rahim ravi and raju are going to see the circus
___________________________________________________

(c) sita where are you looking
___________________________________________________

(d) the tailor went to the market mr singh
___________________________________________________

(e) every sunday i go for a walk have breakfast read story books
listen to music and watch television
___________________________________________________

(f) laxmi why are you crying
___________________________________________________

(g) what is the colour of the sky
___________________________________________________

(h) oranges mangoes bananas and papayas are fruits
___________________________________________________

Reading is fun

1. How did the boy enjoy the company of the tree?

2. How did the tree help the boy earn money?

3. What did the boy make with the branches of the tree?

4. What did the boy make with the trunk of the tree?

5. How was the stump of the tree useful?

6. Why is the play called ‘The Giving Tree’?

Word building 

1. Make new words and complete the sentences.

(a) The children love to sing __________.(loud)

(b) Read your lesson__________. (silent)

(c) Throw the ball ________. (slow)

(d) The tree gave its fruit to the boy _________. (happy)

(e) Do your work _________. (neat)

2.  Fill in the blanks with the correct word.
     My mother went to the market and bought a kilogram of

__________________ (apple/apples), a dozen _____________

(banana/bananas) and a dozen _______________________
(orange/oranges).

I love oranges. So I ate an _______________ (orange/oranges).

My brother wanted a _________________ (banana/bananas)

and my sister asked for an ____________ (apple/apples).

A tree has one _____________ (trunk/trunks) but many

_______________ (branch/branches). A ______________

(branch/branches) has a number of ________________

(leaf/leaves) and ________________ (flower/flowers).

Let's talk

1. Why should we not cut trees?

2. At the end of the play, only the stump of the tree is
left. Find out if it will grow into a tree again.

3. Say the given sentences with different expressions.

(a) Come and play with me.

(b) I want to buy things and have fun.

(c) Come and climb up my trunk and swing from my
branches.

(d) Cut down my trunk.

(e) I am too old to swing on branches.

(f) I am too tired to climb.

Let' s write 

1. Write these sentences in the correct order. Also, choose
the right word from the box and add it before each
sentence. Remember to put a comma after it, for
example, Finally, ...

First   Then   After that   Finally 

  (a) It gave him its branches to make a house.
_________________________________________

(b) It asked him to sit on the stump.
_________________________________________

(c) It gave him its trunk to make a boat.
_________________________________________

(d) The tree gave its apples to the boy.
_________________________________________

2. Work in a group and decide the things that you can do to
help your grandparents or any old person.
Now, write five of these things that you will do.

_____________   _____________   ____________
_____________    _____________

Let' s act

1. You are reading and talking about trees.
You are thinking about trees too.
Can you make the shape of a tree with
your body?

(a) Let’s see your branches.

(b) Let’s see a full tree with fruits and leaves.

(c) Enact a cut tree with only a trunk.

(d) Enact a tree with only a stump left.

(e) Communicate the idea in this play.

2. Use your body to –

stretch   bend   jump  twist   hop   climb