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

Can you tell how many days will a bud take to bloom into a flower? Let us try and find out.

1. Choose a bud that is growing on a plant and look at it every day. Write the name of the plant.
2. When you first saw this bud, the date was _________. Now when the bud has bloomed into a flower, the date is _______. How many days did the bud take to become a flower?
3. Ask your friends the names of the different flowers that they have seen. How much time did it take their buds to become flowers?
4. Also, observe how many days the same flower took to dry.

What are the different ways we use flowers in our daily life?

Do you know that flowers can be eaten as well? Many flowers are cooked as vegetables.

Are flowers cooked in your home as a dry vegetable, a gravy dish or as a chutney? Find out which flowers are used for these.

Find out the names of any two flowers which are used for making medicines?

How is rose water used in your house? Is it used as medicine, sweets, lassi or something else? Find out and tell others.

Find out and write the names of some more flowers that are used for making colours.

Can you think of a colour of which there is no flower?

Write the names of such flowers which are used to make scents.

Have you ever read or heard any songs about flowers?

Let us sing this song -

“Good gardener, make for my Banna a garland of flowers;
She went looking for flowers in the garden in heaven;
Make a garland of flower buds if there are no flowers…”

“Good gardener, make for my Banna a garland of flowers;
She went looking for flowers in the garden in heaven;
Make a garland of flower buds if there are no flowers…”

Do you know when such songs are sung?

“Good gardener, make for my Banna a garland of flowers;
She went looking for flowers in the garden in heaven;
Make a garland of flower buds if there are no flowers…”

Do you or anybody else at home know other such songs?

Collect songs, poems, etc., on flowers. Write them down and put them up in the classroom.

Are any special flowers used on certain occasions/festivals by your elders? Make a list of different occasions and the flowers used at each.

Have you ever seen anyone selling flowers anywhere? If there are any flower-sellers nearby ask them these questions and write -

• What are the different flowers that they sell? Ask them the names of three flowers.
• Where do they bring these flowers from?
• Why do people buy flowers?
• In what forms do flower-sellers sell their flowers? Look at these pictures. Tick against those forms that you have seen.
  
  Any other form that you have seen -
• Have you seen flowers offered at many religious places?
• What do we do when they dry up?
• How will you use them?

Some flowers are used in different forms - like rose and marigold are used in garlands and as loose petals too.

• Find out the prices of these different forms.
  

  One flower	______
  One garland	______
  One bouquet	______

• Has the flower-seller learnt to make bouquets or a net of flowers from anybody? From whom?
• Would they like the other members of their family to do this work? Why?

You could do this in groups of five or six each.

• Collect flowers that have fallen from trees or plants and bring them to the class.
• Spread these flowers neatly between the sheets of an old newspaper.
• Make sure that the flowers do not touch each other.
• Now put a heavy object on the newspaper. Leave it pressed for ten to fifteen days at one place.
• After this, take out all the flowers very carefully and prepare a scrap book. You can take a used notebook or old newspapers for this.
• You can also use these dried flowers to make pretty cards.

Draw a flower of your choice and write its name below.

Talk to any one of your grandparents or any other elderly person. Find out, when she or he was eight-nine years old -

• Where did she or he live? Name that place.
• From what material was her or his house made?
• Did they have a toilet in their house? If no, where was it?
• In which part of the house was food cooked?
• A lot of mud was used when Chetandas' house was made. Why?