YESWIN /AMMU/ TRY THESE TOO.

• Children learn through observation, imitation and collaboration. 
• They also learn through concrete experiences, using their senses and acting to.
•   The content included in this book is drawn from the experiences of children and is suitable for their developmental needs as it provides ample opportunities for imagination, storytelling, art, music and play. 
• The themes of self and society, toys and games, health and hygiene, cleanliness, environment, travel, culture,national identity and patriotism and the values pertaining to Global Citizenship Education (GCED).
• An effort is made to present language-learning as a holistic process of 
• thinking,
•  listening, 
• observing,
•  speaking, 
• reading, 
• imagining 
• and writing.
•  So, a reading activity may be followed by a drawing task or an oral discussion or could be preceded by a discussion on a picture and so on. A variety of activities, tasks, songs, poems and stories help the learner comprehend and practice the concepts. These are done through various sections, like 
• ‘Let us sing’, 
• ‘Let us speak’, 
• ‘Let us read’, 
• ‘Let us draw’, 
• and ‘Let us write’. 
• This not only helps the learner in the process of language acquisition but also builds up their confidence level.
•  Activities such as ‘Join the dots in alphabetical order’ is an example of an instruction that the child needs to understand to complete a given task.
• Chapter 1 of Unit 1 titled ‘My Family and Me’, talks of parts of the body with an emphasis on hygiene; it also helps children to associate actions with words. 
• Chapter 2 inculcates politeness by introducing the various ways of greeting others, including ‘Namaste’. 
• Chapter 3 introduces young learners to the concept of family, through a story of a sparrow family, enabling them to learn words related to family members.
•  Unit 2 titled ‘Life Around Us’, introduces children to the animals and birds in the surroundings. 
• In Chapter 2, children learn the prepositions ‘up’ and ‘down’ through the familiar Indian folktale ‘The Cap-seller and the Monkeys’.
•  Chapter 3 emphasises rhyming words, throught the comic strip ‘Catch me if you can’.
•  Chapter 4 introduces young learners in the farm and around the home. 
• Unit 3 titled ‘Food’ in Chapter 1, provides a glimpse of the variety of fruits, vegetables and flowers found in our country. Chapter 2 
• titled ‘The Food we Eat’ emphasises having respect for food, importance of saying a short prayer before eating meals, and addresses the diversity of food in our country.
•  Unit 4 titled ‘Seasons’ in
•  Chapter 1 discusses the various seasons, and the changes in temperature, items of clothing, etc. 
• Chapter 2 has a beautiful story on the colours of the rainbow. The chapter ends with the colouring of the national flag. Multilingualism has been interwoven into the tasks and activities with specific guidelines to the teacher, wherever required. 
• This facilitates the learner to move progressively from the home language to English.
•   It also helps to shift from teacher-driven classroom to learner-centric classroom. 
• Language and literacy, 
• physical, 
• socio-emotional, 
• aesthetic and cognitive domains
•  have been integrated along with the development of positive habits to create a learning impression in totality for children.
•  Development of 
• Annamaya,
•  Pranamaya,
•  Manomaya, 
• and Vignyanmaya kosha 
• is an ongoing process which
•  leads to the manifestation of Anandmaya kosha. 
• The present textbook is a step in this direction.
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• man  hut  go  cat mat sit food eat come
• One syllable words.
• farmer far mer 
• carrot car rot 
• market mar ket
•  brinjal brin jal
•  mango man go
•  breakfast break fast
•  dinner din ner
• THESE ARE TWO SYLLABLE WORDS.
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• This cow is brown.
• That cap is purple.
• This is my lunch.
• These are four oranges.
• That jeep is green,
• Those are  yellow bananas.
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• Who am I??????
• I am hard and brown outside.
• I am soft and white inside.
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• My colour and my name are same.
• I am a round shaped fruit.
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• I am a pink vegetable.
• I make you cry,when you cut me.
• Some of us are white too.
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• We are green and purple.
• Some have seeds. some don't.
• Who are we?
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• Seasons.
• Find out the two different words.
• Have you seen the Sea?
• Whose son are you?
• Spring is a time, when children play. Flowers bloom, every day.
• Summer is hot. To stay cool, everyone wants a dip in the pool.
• Monsoon clouds Are filled with rain, Make you feel Cool again.
• Winter is cold. On sunny days, People enjoy the sun’s rays.
• Summer,Winter.Spring, Monsoon.
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• Summer is hot. Winter is cold. Rainy season, the black clouds bring rain. Spring is the time we, the birds and all enjoy more.
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• My mom wears Sari. My grandfather wears Dhothi.
• My father wears pants and shirts.My grandfather wears a white cap. My father wears a tie.My sister wears a frock.
• My cousin wears Salwar  and khameez.
• My uncle wears a T-shirt.
• My uncle wears Dhothi and Anga vasthram.
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• I hear thunder, I hear thunder, 
• Oh don’t you? 
• Pitter patter raindrops, 
• I am wet through.
• Rain on the green grass, 
• Rain on the trees, 
• Rain on the rooftops,
•  And rain on me.
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• It was raining outside. 
• Anandi was fast asleep dreaming of rainbows. 
• She woke up to look out of her window. 
• There was a huge, bright rainbow across a clear blue sky.
• Anandi ran out to the garden with Milli, her favourite cat. Anandi loved to draw and paint. 
• Today, she wanted to paint the flowers of her garden with the colours of the rainbow.
• She coloured one flower with violet, and another with the indigo of the rainbow. 
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• One with the blue and leaves with the green…. One with orange…. One with red…. But she left the yellow so that the Sun may look bright and gay.
• And lo! There were beautiful flowers all over the garden.
•  The Sun was up there shining in its yellow glory. 
• After giving colours to the flowers and the Sun, the rainbow was gone…
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• My name is ___Sruthi.___________________________ . I am _______________6____________ years old. I study in _________________VijayaAshram_____________________ school. My favourite colour is __green_______________________ . I like ice-cream.
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