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Question
What differences do you find between a flower and a bud?
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Solution
A flower is bigger than a bud. A bud shape is pointed and smaller in size, while a flower is larger and open.
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Are there any things in your house which have designs of flowers made on them – like clothes, sheets, vases, etc.?
Look at the designs made by your friends.
Here are some pictures of flowers. Mark a (✓) on the flowers which you recognise. Write their names too if you know.
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From the pictures given above, and other flowers that you know, give names of two which
| grow on trees | ______ | ______ |
| grow on bushes | ______ | ______ |
| grow on creepers | ______ | ______ |
| grow on water plants | ______ | ______ |
| bloom only at night | ______ | ______ |
| bloom in the day and close at night | ______ | ______ |
| Which flowers can you recognise by their scent, even with your eyes closed? | ______ | ______ |
| Which flowers bloom all year round? | ______ | ______ |
| Which flowers bloom only in certain months? | ______ | ______ |
Are there any trees or plants which never have any flowers? Find out and write.
- Have you ever seen a board like this put up anywhere?
- Do people pluck flowers even when this board is there?
- Why do you think they do this?
- Should they do this?
- What would happen if everybody plucked flowers?
You must have seen buds on the plants. If there are any flower-bearing plants growing near your school or home, look carefully at their buds.
Do you know that flowers can be eaten as well? Many flowers are cooked as vegetables.
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…”
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.
