Wonder Class 1

GOOSE : Not I!

CAT : Not I!

LITTLE RED HEN : OK, then I will plant it myself.

NARRATOR : And she did!

The Little Red Hen watered the plants. The wheat started
to grow. The wheat grew and grew until it was very tall.
Finally the wheat was ready to be cut.

LITTLE RED HEN : Who will help me cut the wheat?
DOG : Not I!
GOOSE : Not I!
CAT : Not I!
LITTLE RED HEN : OK, then I will cut it myself.

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NARRATOR : And she did!

The Little Red Hen cut and cut and cut the wheat. She cut
down all the wheat and gathered it into a large pile. There
was a lot of wheat in the pile. The wheat was ready to be
beaten.

LITTLE RED HEN : Who will help me beat the wheat?

DOG : Not I!

GOOSE : Not I!

CAT : Not I!

LITTLE RED HEN : OK, then I will beat it myself.

NARRATOR : And she did!

The Little Red Hen beat and beat and beat. She beat all the
wheat until good wheat came out. There was a large pile of
good wheat. The wheat was ready to be sent to the mill.

LITTLE RED HEN : Who will help me take the wheat to the mill?

DOG : Not I!

GOOSE : Not I!

CAT : Not I!

LITTLE RED HEN : OK, then I will take it myself.

NARRATOR : And she did!

The Little Red Hen took the wheat to the mill. There it was
ground into flour. All the flour was put in a large sack. The
Little Red Hen brought the large sack of flour back home.

LITTLE RED HEN : Who will help me bake the bread?

DOG : Not I!

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GOOSE : Not I!
CAT : Not I!
LITTLE RED HEN : OK, then I will bake it myself.
NARRATOR : And she did!
The Little Red Hen baked the bread in the oven until it was

toasty brown. The good smell filled the house. When the
bread came out of the oven, it smelled very good . . . very,
very good!

The dog, the goose, and the cat smelled the bread. They ran
to the house to get some. The Little Red Hen put the bread
on the table.

LITTLE RED HEN : Who will help me eat this good bread?
DOG : I will!
GOOSE : I will!
CAT : I will!
LITTLE RED HEN : Oh, no, you won’t!
NARRATOR : And she ate up all the bread herself.

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Did A Kernel is the inner part of a
seed.
YOU
kernel
Know?

This is a play. A play in also called a drama. A play is a story that is meant
for reading aloud or acting out. When you take part in a play, you play the role
of a character. You say their words.
The people who play the parts of the characters are called actors. Some plays
have a narrator. The narrator tells what is happening in the play.
Have you acted in a play yet?

Act out this play in your class.

Vocabulary

1. Draw a line from the words to their matching pictures.

farm

mill

wheat

bread

flour

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2. Make a sentence using each of these words.

plant
ground
help
home

Comprehension Activities

1 Fill in the blanks using the words given in the box.
watered beaten mill smell

a. The Little Red Hen ……………………… the wheat.
b. The wheat was ready to be ……………………… .
c. The wheat was ready to be sent to the ………………… .
d. The good ……………………… filled the house.

2 Answer the following questions.
a. With whom did the Little Red Hen live on the farm?
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b. What did she find on the ground?
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c. Where did the Little Red Hen take the wheat to grind into flour?
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d. Why did she eat the bread alone?
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3 The Little Red Hen finally baked the bread. Steps to bake the
bread are given below but the pictures are not in the correct
order. Match the pictures with the correct sentences.
a. She planted and watered the

plant.

b. She cut the wheat.

c. She beat all the wheat until all the
grains had fallen out of the wheat
plant.

d. She took wheat to the mill.

e. She ground the wheat into flour.

f. She baked the bread in the oven.

g. Yummy! Toasty brown
bread.

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4 Circle the animals which lived with the Little Red Hen in the
farm.
horse pig dog

goose parrot bear

monkey cat cow

Creative Writing
Make a list of farm animals that you have seen till the date

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Do we need animals? Why?

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Project Activity
Draw a hen and colour it

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