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Question
Collect songs, poems, etc., on flowers. Write them down and put them up in the classroom.
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Solution
Do it yourself.
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Have you ever read or heard any songs about flowers?
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Do you or anybody else at home know other such songs?
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?
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.
