SPLIT UP OF SYLLABUS FOR 2011-12

ENGLISH

CLASS III

MONTH THEME/SYL LESSON SUGGESTED SUGGESTED EXPECTED VALUE NO. OF

LABUS LEARNING PERIODS
ACTIVITIES/ RESOURCES/ OUTCOME
PROJECT
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April & *The child Good *To recite the poem *Visuals of *Recites, *Love 13
May and nature Morning with appropriate morning scene appreciates, for

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(Poem) actions understands nature
*The world *To appreciate, & enjoys the
around (Language
items: Nouns, rit
understand &
enjoy
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*Appreciation antonyms, *Able to *Good
of beauty in synonyms) *To emphasize on write a short Manners
nature
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spoken part description

proper way of
*Able to use
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wishing
language
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*To drill of items

language items:
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Nouns, antonyms,
synonyms

*Underlining the *Flashcards of

nouns from the nouns,
passage antonyms &
synonyms
*World building
game

*To draw pictures *Drawings

of day & night
and to ask the
children to write
two words each
from each picture

*Write a paragraph
on Your favourite
thing in nature
The Magic *To read aloud with *Able to *Respect 22
Garden proper voice enjoy for the
modulation reading the environm
(Language story & ent
items to be *To do silent comprehend
drilled reading by children *Trees in the *Care for
i)Noun, and to ask school plants
questions to test compound
understanding

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find names of the *Flashcards

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trees growing in
your school

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*Drilling of Simple
ii) simple Present Tense in
present tense,
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sentences
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*To show flash
cards of different *Able to
colours to children,
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convey a
ask them to co-relate
these colours with message in
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different things and writing

speak sentences in
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simple present tense

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eg. The crow is

black.
*Able to
*Read & arrange
exchange
the sequence cards *Sequence
ideas with
in proper sequence cards
the peers
*Slogan writing on
Environment

*Making a flower
scrapbook & *Flowers,
labelling the visuals of
flowers
flowers

*To ask them to

talk about their *Clues written
favourite flower on flashcards
based on the given
clues and then write
about it

*To take a list of

 words, visit the
school garden,
encircle the things *Pictures
that one finds and related to each
to write two word
examples of each:
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Trees-

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sentences giving the

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*Pictures of
names of flowers
that you might like flowers

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to grow in your
garden eg. In my
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garden I would like
to grow ..
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*Use the letter

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to make new words

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The Plant Fairy-

Looking Around
class3

*Read and reread *Recites, Love for 6

Bird Talk the poem aloud Related poems understands, other
June/July Birds appreciates living
laying stress on on birds
(Poem) certain words and & enjoys the things
Differences &
phrases poem such as
disabilities in (Language
nature item:Use of birds and
*Use of dont & *Able to
contractions arent in sentences animals
express
dont, arent) Visuals/picture thoughts
*To go for nature books on birds freely
walk, look at the from class
birds and express library, *Able to
thoughts and
carry out a
feelings freely
brief
 conversation
*Write a paragraph seeking/
on Birds based on giving
Project Bird
information
Watching

*Write sentences on
what birds
can/cannot do

*Discuss how birds

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can also be different
from each other with
special reference to Masks of

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children with special elephant and
needs other animals
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*Role play of two
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elephants talking
about people Pictures of
birds, Visuals
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Nina And *To narrate the

Baby Sparrow story with the aid of *Picture
*Reads the
picture sequence sequence cards, Learns to 18
(Language cards/ puppets, puppets story , feel
Item children to listen understands empathy
and answer the *Books from & enjoys
i)Framing of Multiple Choice for the
questions class library suffering
Questions *Reads
starting with *Answers on aloud with
Can *Children to frame
flashcards proper voice
questions based on
ii) Adjectives the given answers modulation
using `Can`
* Uses
*To complete the `Can` and
words using the `adjectives`
right pair of letters in
(eg meaningful
spa_ _ ow) sentences

*To make a word

with four letter *Visuals
words
 *To look at the
visuals and write
describing words for
them (adjectives)

Plants, trees, Little by *Listen & then *Poems on *Enjoys Care of 8

recite the poem

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vegetables Little (Poem) plants reciting the plants
*Recite similar
poems like In the poems with
Growth *Library

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heart of a seed rhyme and
The rhythm
*Germinate a seed,

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importance of
list the things &
trees and conditions needed
plants in our
lives rit
for germination/
growth of a plant
*Germinating
seeds
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*Can use
*Drilling of nouns nouns,
(Language in singular & Plural adjectives
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item i) forms, adverb & *Related visuals and adverbs

Nouns- adjective in proper in proper
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Singular & context context

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Plural Forms)
*Write words
ending with ly
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ii) Adverbs *Pictures

Fill in the blanks
iii)Adjective) with the correct
describing words:
A _____ acorn *Pictures
The ____ branches
A ______ shoot
The _____ oak
The _____ bed

tiny mossy
slender
little
mighty

*Class discussion *Can take

on Importance of *Objects part in group
plants & to ask discussion
children to write a obtained from
plants and able to
paragraph on it
express
ideas in
writing
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the story aloud with *Picture *Takes part
correct panorama in
August The pronunciation and dramatizatio 10
Enormous rise and fall of the *Class library n
Turnip books & visuals *Healthy
voice
(Story) * Children to do *Enjoys Food
silent reading and reading the

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teachers to ask lesson and *Sharing
questions to test &

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able to
their understanding
comprehend working
*Dramatization of together

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*Able to
the story *
*Drilling of new make

(Language rit
words in proper
context
opposites
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item i)Noun
opposite, *Drilling of the
singular - language items like *Able to
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plural nouns & Simple write

present/ Simple paragraphs
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ii) Tense past *Flashcards on a given

(Simple *Find the opposite topic using
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Present & words from the Simple

story
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Simple Past) Present &

*Games on
singular/plural Simple Past
*Visuals
*Colour the
present tense red & *Can
past tense green
exchange
*Show a visual of
children playing in ideas with
a garden, and ask peers
questions and
encourage them to
answer in present
continuous form
*Paragraph on The *Vegetables
vegetable I like the brought by the
most/ I should eat students
vegetables because

*Write the name of *Chart of

the vegetables we vegetables
get in summer and
in winter
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integrated &
correlated with The
story of Food-
Looking Around
class 3

*Teachers to recite

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Water, Sea Sea Song (A the poem followed *Visuals of *Able to *Save 5
and Sounds Poem) by children beaches from recite and water

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*Children to observe
calendars/ enjoy the and save
The the visuals of
beaches & speak newspaper/peri poem, and life

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importance of odicals appreciate
about them
water in our collected by the the rhythm
lives
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*Drilling of
language item
children & sound
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Life in the Sea noun opposite *Able to
words write a short
*Children to
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composition
underline the nouns
(Language based on
(naming words) in
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item: Noun) the given sentences picture

*Children to play
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games with
rhyming words and
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opposites

*To make a list of

The sources of
water *Visuals on
Sources of
*To mix a number
Water &
of words (things)
found in the sea/on Things found
the sea shore and in the sea/on the
not found, & to sea shore
write these words
separately
*Odd Man out to
call out 3 words *Flashcards
and children to
identify the odd
words

*Children to add
one letter to make
new words, for *Flashcards
example O
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*Picture
composition
*Model of
aquarium

A little Fish *Children to read *Visuals of sea *Can read *Self 11

out the story aloud

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Story beach aloud with awarenes
with expressions &
(Story) gestures proper s(Strengt

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*Children to do pronunciatio h, Weak-
silent reading n, ness),
followed by understand

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questions to test & enjoy *Safety
their understanding

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*CLOZE test (a
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use the
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story with every 7th *Passage for
given
word missing and CLOZE test
children to fill up language
from any story
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the missing words items in

book
to complete the proper
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story) context in a
paragraph
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(Language
* Children to match
Item i) the words with their
collective meanings *Matching
nouns *Drilling of cards *Able to
language items convey
ii) Past form collective nouns, message
past forms of verbs, through
iii)Degree of adjectives writing
comparison - *Team game based
adjective) on collective nouns
* To find the past
*Flashcards
forms of the given
words from the
story
*To fill in the *Flashcards
blanks with the
correct degree of
comparison
followed by the
production of
degree of
comparison in a
meaningful
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*A passage with
some mis-spelt
words to encircle
the wrong words &
re-write the passage *Library
using correct
*Internet
spelling

*Dramatization -

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management in

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case of
accident/fire/earthq

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uake/floods & talks
about it

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*Discussion on
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different kinds of
*Visuals on life
fish in the sea &
under water
other water
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animals, and their

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life underwater
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*Guided writing -
Water pollution &
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its harmful effects

*Clue words
on sea life
related to the
topic

September Sky, colours,

insects *Balloons of
The Balloon *Children to recite Able to read, *Respect
*Appreciation Man (Poem) the poem with different recite & for
of natural rhythm and rhyme colours enjoy the people in 8
beauty * To recite rhymes poem different
about colours occupati
* To fill the ons
balloons with *Worksheet *Able to
different colours, write simple
paste them on a sentences in
sheet of paper, cut present tense
and make a bunch,
attach strings of RED BLUE
different colours,
and speak a few
 sentences on what
you did
*Word
*To find out the puzzle/maze
colours in the maze
by reading the
letters vertically &
horizontally

*To make a list of

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things which fly

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*To draw a rainbow
& name the colours
*Drawings

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*To identify the
words from the

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jumbled letters
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*To change each *Worksheet
word into a colour
name (add or
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change a letter) eg
Add a letter ink
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pink;
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*To change two

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letters turtle -
purple

*Guessing game- to *Flashcards

speak out one word
for these sentences,
One who sells milk,
brings letter,washes
clothes etc

*Role play of
people of different
occupations

*Drilling of new
words from the
Language poem in meaningful
item - sentences
opposites
*Drilling of
language item
opposites, *Visuals and
Internet *Able to
finding out the
 opposites from the resources read the
poem story with
proper
*Visuals
*Picture pronunciatio
presentation of
different weather *Sequence n and pause,
sunny, windy, cold cards/word and to
etc and write two cards comprehend
sentences on each it

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The yellow *Children to read given
right to
Butterfly the story aloud with prepositions
*Picture of a freedom

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(Story) correct in verbal as
butterfly of every
pronunciation and well as
living
pause
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communicat
thing
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*Children to do ion
silent reading
followed by
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questions to test
their understanding
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(Language
Item *To match answers
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Preposition) with questions

*Drilling of
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language item
Preposition used in
the story and write
a paragraph using
those prepositions
*Paper folding
activity Children *Visuals on
to make a butterfly butterflies
from paper, and
teachers to
Put the paper
butterfly in different
positions (on a
flower, in a box
etc.) asking
questions, Where is
the butterfly?

*To make two *Able to do

words from one picture
word for e.g. composition
butterfly butter+
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*To observe the

picture of a butterfly
and talk about its
different body parts

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jumbled sentences
in proper sequence

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*To write a few
sentences on If I

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were a butterfly.

October Land & land

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forms
Trains *Respect 6

(Poem) rit
*Children to recite
the poem with *Pictures of *Can recite
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people
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Travel proper intonation means of the poem who help
*Children to recite transport with proper us in
intonation
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other poems related different

to various means of fields of
(Language
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transport life
item Simple *Able to
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present tense) *Drilling of narrate and

Language item
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write his/her
Simple present experiences
tense in proper of any scene
context

*To enact a scene

from a railway *Visual of a
station (have railway station
characters like
porters, Vendors,
passengers, etc. )
and write a small
paragraph on it
using simple
present tense
*Word train
*Word train
Children to draw
bogies of train and
write a word and to
let them write
words starting with
 the end letter of the
previous word

*To complete the

statements from the *Worksheet
jumbled words. E.g.
trains are a means
of PTORRANST
(TRANSPORT)
etc. and encircle the

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correct spelling *Word list

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*Drilling of new
words in proper
context *Clue words

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*Children to write a related to the
few sentences about topic
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an interesting
journey by using A Visit to a
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the clue words Railway Station
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The Story of * Safety 10

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the Road *MCQ habits

*Children to read *Able to
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aloud with proper read and

pronunciation &
understand
pause
*Children to do the story
silent reading
*Able to
followed by
question-answer write a short
activity to test their composition
comprehension based on
picture
*Dramatization of
the story

*To rewrite the *Can use

jumble sentences to *Picture of a proper
learn about road road scene punctuation
safety marks
Language eg.play/on/never/roa
item d/the *Able to
*Picture write a
Can/cannot, composition
paragraph
*Drilling of the use
of can/cannot expressing
Punctuation
ability using
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production of the
same in a paragraph

*Drilling of
language item
Punctuation
followed by
punctuating a
passage *Musical

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CD/cassettes
*Match the sounds
with the names

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*Singing & dancing
to rhythmic

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music/musical

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instrument

*Work sheets of
*Road symbols
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road signs (Name
these signs) e.g. U-
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Turn, No Parking,
Zebra-Crossing,
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Traffic light, Speed

breaks, Name the
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road signs
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Note- This lesson

may be integrated
with From here to
there, Looking
Around- class 3

November Pets, animal

homes and
animal friends Puppy and I *Care for 12
(Poem) *Any movie on pets and
*To recite the poem animals *Able to other
(Language with proper rhyme recite, animals
The item noun, and rhythm understand
importance of Simple *To enact the poem and
animals in our Present tense) as a conversation appreciate
lives amongst different the poem
characters named in
the poem *Picture cards *Able to pen
of animals & ideas of
*To match the name importance
their young
 of the animals with ones of animals
its young ones & in our lives
sound using
different
*To talks about their
forms of
experiences with
*Pictures/visual Simple
their pets
s of different Present
*To identify the breeds of dogs
different breed of
dogs from the

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pictures

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*Drilling of Simple
Present tense
*Work in pairs

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Use the words
given in the box
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and speak out and
write e.g. Cow
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domestic A cow
is a domestic
animal.
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*To write a few

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lines on My Pet/A
Little Tiger, pet you wish to have
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Big Tiger *Able to

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read and
(Language of secure
*Children to read the understand
item : love and
story aloud with the story
proper pronunciation care of
i)Simple past parents
and pause
tense *Children to do
silent reading
ii) Question followed by
word) *Visual cards
question-answer *Can write a
activity to test their short
understanding description
*To use cut outs/ of the
pictures cards/
animal
visuals to show *Cut outs/
pictures of young visuals *Can carry
ones & homes of
out a brief
animals
*Speak a few lines conversation
on Save the seeking/givi
Tiger ng
information
*Children to narrate *Posters from on
a story about Project Tiger dwindling
 animals *Library number of
tigers
*Drilling of the use Flashcards
of Simple Past
tense in proper
context followed by *Flashcards of
the production of question words
the language item
in a paragraph

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*Drilling of *Spell cards
Question words

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why, who, what
verbally

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*To add ed to
make past tense of
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the given action
words
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*To make questions
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from the story

*To use spell cards,

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blend cards to learn *Crossword

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spellings puzzles
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*To fill up one

missing letter to
make a correct word
*To read the clue &
solve the puzzle on
animals
Write a paragraph
on Our national
animal

December Communicati
on & letter
writing Whats in the *Respect 6
Mail Box? *To recite the poem for all
individually or in professio
(Poem ) groups with proper *Able to ns
Games & play intonation and *Rhyming cards recite with
action proper
intonation
*To identify the and *Dignity
rhyming words with *Model of a
postbox, letter understandin of labour
the help of rhyming
cards box, pictures, g
 *To enact the journey postage
of a letter (Letter --- materials
postbox mail-man *Able to
post office postman write an
letterbox of a house)
and frame sentences to informal
tell about the journey letter
of the letter

*To read & put the

*Flashcards *To take
cards (telephone,
telegram, aero plane part in role

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etc.) in proper box
play
labelled

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TRANSPORT/COM
MUNICATION

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*Drilling of the use of
always/never/though *Pictures/visual
s
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in a meaningful
context
*Postcard
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*Role play of people
of different
professions
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*Guided letter writing

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Note- May be
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correlated with Here

comes a letter,
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Looking Around, class

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My Silly *Able to *Importa 5+9

Sister (to be *Children to read the read and nce of
story aloud with
cont.in Jan) understand the role
proper pronunciation
and pause the story of family
*Able to members
*Children to do silent narrate
reading followed by
question-answer his/her
activity to test their *Books from experiences/ *Self
understanding class library incidents reliance
*Children to listen to
a story by *Able to
Rabindranath Tagore express
& answer the MCQ *Photographs of
(Language his/her
family members
item i)Noun *To speak about their ideas/though
-numbers experiences with their ts in writing
 ii) Suffix siblings

iii)Punctuatio
n) *Drilling of
Language item
i)Noun -numbers

ii) Suffix

iii)Punctuation
*Worksheet
*To use clues to

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change the number
from one to many

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e.gg One goose
change oo to ee
many geese

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*Children to drill the

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Use of suffix like
ful, ly, ish in the
given words e.g.
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beauty +ful
=beautiful,
soft + ly =softly,
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green + ish =
greenish etc.
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*Children to
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Punctuate the given

passage
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*Children to write a
paragraph on their
father/mother
mentioning how they
help at home
January Growing up,
expressing
emotions &
feelings Dont Tell
*Children to recite the *Able to *Love, 6
poem with proper
(Poem) recite the cooperati
intonation *Flashcards poem with on and
Language rhythm and respect
item *Word list
*Drilling of language rhyme, for
Contractions item contraction in
comprehend differentl
dont, Im, proper context and
match the contractions it y- abled
Ill, cant, its with its full forms people
etc

iii)expressing *Drilling of sentences

future expressing future
time, and then tell &
write about their
 ambition- what they *Can share
want to become/do experiences
when they will grow
up with friends

*To write down the

rhyming words from
the poems

*Using the letters of

the given words make
new (minimum three-

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lettered) words
*Talk about a few

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things you would
love to do but your
elders wont let you

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do
*Write a few

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sentences on When I
grow up, I want to
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Hes my Sequence cards

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brother *Children to read

*Interper 12
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aloud with proper *Able to

[Language pronunciation and
read and sonal
item i) pause relations
*Children to do silent comprehend
Noun Flashcards the story hip
reading followed by
(opposites question -
answer activity to test *Able to
ii)verbs their understanding exchange
(action ideas/feeling
words)] *Drilling of
Language items in s through
proper context i) sign
Noun (opposites language

ii)verbs (action words) *Can

Find the opposite express own
words from the story
thoughts
*To change the words
into its opposite words about the
*To speak in sign given topic
language and others in writing
to identify the action
e.g. -Sing, read, win
etc.
February Animals
Animal
habitat How *Love 10
creatures *Children to read the for
poem aloud laying *Able to
Different move (Poem) stress on action words animals
regions like recite the
desert areas, *Drilling of doing poem and
cold words *Clue chart understand
(Language *To talk about, the different
mountains, Item: Doing What do you do
hot jungles etc words) types of
when you are bored?

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movements
*Enacting the

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movements of *Can
animals /birds exchange
ideas with

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*Match the animals
peers on the
with their movements
*Worksheet given topic
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*To arrange
movement words from
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slow to fast
*To make pairs of
*Movement
rhyming words from words
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the poem
*To encircle the
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silent letter of the

words
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e.g. Walk, know,

Knife, calm etc Worksheet
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*Children to write a
few sentences on I
feel happy when.

*Able to
The Ship of *Children o read
read the
the Desert aloud with proper
pronunciation and story and
pause understand 14
*Children to do silent *Books from
reading followed by *Able to
question-answer class library
take part in
activity to test their
comprehension *Mask of camel dramatizatio
*To read a story on & lion n
(Language
animals & answer the
item: i)Has/ MCQ *Sequence *Can carry
Have cards out
*Dramatization of the conversation
ii)Questions) lesson in pairs *Visuals of
 *Arrange the camels giving
dialogues sequence information
wise
*Can write
*Writes the features *Worksheet
of camel which help composition
it to survive in desert *Visuals of s based on
*Quiz on animals pictures
different
regions using
*Drilling of
has/have
Language item: Has/

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Have and production
of the same in a
paragraph

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*To make questions
based on animals

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*To see the pictures

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and write a story
from the given clues
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*To talk about
different regions like
desert, mountains,
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jungle and about the

respective flora and
fauna
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March

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