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Question
What did you see at the wedding that you attended? Draw some pictures in your notebook. Then look at the pictures drawn by your classmates.
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Solution
House and pandals were decorated with flowers and lights. A lot of sweets and varieties of food were made. All of the family members were dancing and enjoying themselves at the marriage. Colourful fireworks were arranged. Everyone wore new clothes.
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Who were the members of Nimmi’s family before the arrival of her baby sister?
Has a small brother or sister been born in your home or in any house in your neighbourhood?
- How does it feel to have a new baby at home?
- How have things changed at home with the new baby?
Find out all about the youngest child in your home or in the home of a relative. Then write -
- When was the baby born?
- Is the baby a boy or a girl?
- How are you related to him or her?
- Where was the baby born?
- Who does the baby look like?
- What is the colour of his or her hair?
- What is the colour of his or her eyes?
- Does the baby have any teeth?
- What do we feed the baby with?
- What is the baby’s length?
- How many hours a day does the baby sleep?
- What different sounds does the baby make?
- Who does the baby stay with most of the time?
- Stick a photograph of the baby or draw a picture in your notebook.
Do you think that there will be any change in Nazli’s family after this wedding? What will change?
- Do you think there will be changes in the home from where the new bride has come? What kind of changes?
- Talk to your mother and aunts in the family. Ask them about where they lived before they got married.
- Who were the members in their families then?
- Has anybody in your family been married recently? Who?
Write down the reason for this change.
In Nimmi’s family -
Write down the reason for this change.
In Tsering’s family -
There can be many reasons for changes in families. Can you think of some more reasons?
Talk to three old people – one from your family, one from your friend’s family and one from a family in your neighbourhood. Ask them these questions and fill in the table.
| Sr. No. | Question | Your family | Friend’s family | Neighbour’s family |
| 1. | Since how many years has your family been staying here? | |||
| 2. | Where did your family live before coming here? | |||
| 3. | How many members are there in your family today? | |||
| 4. | How many members were there in your family 10 years ago? | |||
| 5. | What were the reasons for the changes in your family in the last 10 years? | |||
| 6. | How do you feel about all these changes? | |||
| 7. | What problems do you face with changes in technology? |
Do you remember the picture of Sitamma’s family tree which we saw in Class III?
- You had also drawn a family tree of your own family. Let us again draw the family tree of last year in your notebook.
- Ask your grandmother or grandfather how many members were there in their family when they were your age? Then draw a family tree in your notebook of their family when they were young.
- Can you see yourself, your brother or your sister, your mother or your father, anywhere in this family tree?
- Now draw a family tree of your present family in your notebook.
- Can you see yourself anywhere in this family tree? Who are the members of your family today? Where are your grandparents?
- Are there any such children in your neighbourhood who had to drop out of school? Do they want to go back to school?
- What are they doing these days?
