Primary School (English Medium) कक्षा ४ - CBSE Question Bank Solutions

Can you find out – the weight of how many children like you will add up to Nandu’s weight?

If you were Nandu, and you lived in a herd, what kind of things would you do?

In the elephant herd, the oldest female elephant decides everything. Who takes decisions in your family?

Make a collage of a herd of elephants in your notebook. For this, collect as many pictures of elephants that you can. Cut out the elephants and stick them in the notebook.

Nandu did things that he liked to do. If you could spend a whole day with your friends, what all would you do?

Find out and write, which other animals live in herds.

Do you also live in a group? Do you like to live together like that? Why would you like or not like to live in a group?

How do elephants feel when they are kept in chains? Discuss and share your feelings.

Have you ever taken a ride on an elephant? How did it feel?

Which animals have you sat on? Write their names.

You must have seen many animals around you – in books, in movies. Some may be alone, some in groups. Find out more about any one of these animals and write about it.

Why do you think the egret is sitting on the buffalo?

Have you seen any animal riding on another animal? Write its name.

1. The animal which is riding.
2. The animal which gives the ride.

Which animals do we use for riding?

Which animals do we use for carrying loads?

Copy the drawing of the elephant given below in a bigger size on a thick sheet of paper.

• Make small cuts where it says “cut” (✄) in the picture. Be careful not to cut off the part.
• Fold along the dotted lines [……….]
• Fold the part with [////////] pattern and push them underneath.
• Cut out the tail and stick it on.

Your elephant is ready.

• Colour and decorate it.
• Put up an exhibition in the class of all the paper-elephants that you have made.

Look at these pictures and read what these animals are sharing with their friends. Discuss these narratives sensitively in the class.

	The basket is the only home I have. I have forgotten what it is like in the open jungle and fresh air. For me, it is only the basket and the snake charmer!
	You see me in the circus – dancing and jumping through rings of fire. You clap and enjoy. Do you think that I also enjoy all this? If I do not do this I will get no food, only get a beating!
	You have only seen how fast I run. Have you seen my ‘shoes’? Do you know how much pain I get when they fix the horseshoes to my hooves?
	They make us dance and dance and dance. Even if we don’t want to, or we are in pain. That too, with an empty stomach!
	Meow! Meow! Meow! I can just roam around everywhere. Children love me a lot. They pat me and also give me milk.
	Gurtargoo! Gurtargoo! Do you know people specially call out to me to feed me with grain?

You have read what these animals say. Why do you think that some of them are sad?

Look at these pictures and read what these animals are sharing with their friends. Discuss these narratives sensitively in the class.

	The basket is the only home I have. I have forgotten what it is like in the open jungle and fresh air. For me, it is only the basket and the snake charmer!
	You see me in the circus – dancing and jumping through rings of fire. You clap and enjoy. Do you think that I also enjoy all this? If I do not do this I will get no food, only get a beating!
	You have only seen how fast I run. Have you seen my ‘shoes’? Do you know how much pain I get when they fix the horseshoes to my hooves?
	They make us dance and dance and dance. Even if we don’t want to, or we are in pain. That too, with an empty stomach!
	Meow! Meow! Meow! I can just roam around everywhere. Children love me a lot. They pat me and also give me milk.
	Gurtargoo! Gurtargoo! Do you know people specially call out to me to feed me with grain?

How do you think they are different – the monkeys that dance to entertain people and the monkeys that are free?

How many legs does this elephant have?

Is there a place near your house, school or along the road side, where trees have been planted?