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Vocabulary FA

 
Read the lines below.
Like a cat waiting for a rat,
We wait for Mr Sunday.
Here, as the children wait for Sunday, they are compared to a cat waiting for a
rat. The word like is used to make the comparison.
Now read the following lines:
As fast as any cheetah,
Each Sunday rushes by.
Here, we compare the speed at which Sundays rush by to the speed of a cheetah.
The word as is used to make the comparison.

A simile is used to compare two things using the words like or as.

Examples: This bag is as light as a feather.

She sings like an angel.

Look at the pictures and fill in the blanks.

as big as a elephant

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as cold as an ice

as small as mouse
cheetah
Amy runs like a

Paul swims like a fish

Tina sings like a cuckoo

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Project

Making a Scrapbook
Scrapbooks are a good way to keep memories alive. Let us learn how to make
a ‘memory book’.
What you need: A blank scrap file; photographs of family holidays, celebrations
or any special day; craft scissors; glue; colour pens
Steps:
(1) Select 7 or 8 photographs you want to add to your scrapbook.

(2) Group like photos on one page.

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(3) Write something important about every photograph.

(4) Add colours to your scrapbook. Use flowers, ribbons or anything you like
to decorate each page.

(5) Your scrapbook is ready. You can share it with your friends now.

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5 The Tooth
Fairy
Ah! Look my tooth
has fallen out. Who is the
Tooth Fairy?

Lucky you! The Let’s read
Tooth Fairy will about her.
come tonight.

Angelina the fairy lives in Fairyville, a land far, far away. She
is very excited. It is her turn to visit Earth today for the
very first time.

‘Angelina,’ the Fairy Mother says, ‘today you must
choose a job. Choose carefully. Think of how you can
help others.’

The Fairy Mother sprinkles fairy dust on Angelina.

‘Off you go!’ she says, blowing her a kiss.

Angelina flies to Earth and lands in a park. She hears
some children talking. ‘Kusha is not well,’ says Dora, a
small girls with glasses. ‘She hasn’t come out to play with
us today.’

‘I miss her,’ says Vanya. ‘Me too,’ says Reema. ‘She makes me laugh.’

Angelina wants to know why Kusha has not come out to play with her friends.

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She flies across the park to Kusha’s house. Kusha is inside.
She has lost a tooth and does not feel well. Angelina sprinkles fairy dust on
Kusha’s head. Kusha cannot see the fairy, but suddenly she feels better. Kusha
runs out to join her friends.
Everyone is happy to see Kusha. They play games and sing songs.

That night, Angelina goes back to the Fairyville. ‘What did you see on Earth?’ her
Fairy Mother asks her. ‘Did you choose a job?’
‘Mother, I saw lots of children,’ said Angelina. ‘I
love the way they talk and play and sing songs.
A little girl lost her tooth today, and I made her
feel better. I want to help children like her.’
‘Helping others is a great job,’ the Fairy Mother
says. ‘And whenever a child loses a tooth you can
bring it back to Fairyville to turn it into a star.’
So Angelina becomes the Tooth Fairy. Since
then, when boys and girls lose a tooth, the
Tooth Fairy comes to collect it. Then she turns
it into a twinkling star to shine over Fairyville!

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Reading 1 FA

 

(1) Who says the following lines?
(a) ‘Kusha is not well. She hasn’t come out to play with us today.’
(b) ‘A little girl lost her tooth today and I made her feel better.’
(c) ‘Helping others is a great job, Angelina.’

(2) Answer the following questions:
(a) Where does Angelina live?
(b) Where does she land when she visits Earth?
(c) Why does Kusha not come out to play with her friends?
(d) How does Angelina help Kusha?

Reading 2

The fairy mother says, ‘Helping others is a great job.’ Do you agree with
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the statement? Discuss with a partner. 

Vocabulary FA

 
Suffixes -ful and -less
A suffix is a group of letters that is placed at the end of a word to form a new word.

Examples: harm + ful = harmful
harm + less = harmless
The suffixes -ful and -less are added to many other words to make new words.

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Make new words by adding -ful and -less to the end of each word below.

Word -ful -less
care
colour
fear

help

use

Grammar FA

 

Present Tense
Simple Present Tense

Varun eats healthy food.

Varun exercises in the morning.

Varun swims in the evening.
Eats, exercises and swims are verbs in the present tense.

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Verbs which tell us about something that happens in the present are in the present
tense. They describe daily habits.

The verbs eats, exercises and swims tell us what Varun does every day.
Let us see how we change a verb into present tense.

Verb Present Tense Present Tense

(for he, she, it and (for I, we, you, they and
singular nouns) plural nouns)

read reads read
look looks look
swim swims swim

care cares care
take takes take

(1) Circle the correct verb in the brackets to complete each sentence.

(a) The little children (wait/waits) for their school bus.
(b) Reema (talk/talks) to us politely.
(c) We (eat/eats) oat flakes for breakfast.
(d) The train (come/comes) at 6 o’clock.
(e) They (build/builds) a house with building blocks.
(f ) You (write/writes) a letter to your grandpa.
(g) Harsh (watch/watches) television every day.

(2) Fill in the blanks with the correct present tense form of the
verbs in the box below.

wait  paint  swing  clean  swim
(a) I for my bus at the bus stop every morning.

(b) Simran her room.

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(c) Raj in a river.
(d) Monkeys on the trees.
(e) They
the walls.

Writing FA

 

Fairies are magical creatures often found in stories. Paste a picture
of your favourite magical creature in your notebook and write five
sentences about it. Look at the example below.

Fairies live in fairy land.

They have wings and a magic wand.

(1)
(2)
(3)

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(4)
(5)

Speaking FA ASL

  
Work with a partner. Spot the differences in the pictures below. The
person who finds the most differences wins the game.

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Listening FA ASL  

   

Listen to the audio and tick the correct answer.

(1) How many baby teeth do children have at the age of three?

(a) twenty (b) twenty-five (c) five

(2) How do teeth help a child?

(a) to walk (b) to run (c) to chew

(3) At what age, the baby teeth start falling?

(a) one or two (b) five or six (c) seventy or eighty

(4) What replaces the baby teeth? (c) soft teeth
(a) permanent teeth   (b) milk teeth

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6 Finny Goes
to the Park

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Finny is on the way to the market with her Mom. They pass by a park. Finny
wonders what is in the park. She wants to go inside.
One day, Finny’s Mom takes her there. Finny is surprised. She looks all around.
Some children are playing with a ball. One boy is riding a bicycle.

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Finny sees a long bench. She sits on it. Suddenly her seat lifts up in the air. Finny
gets a shock. She looks all around her.
Oh, poor Finny! She is sitting on a see-saw. Her friend Percy is sitting on the
other side.

Finny sees a merry-go-round. She hops onto it. A boy pushes the merry-
go-round. It goes around slowly.
‘Wheee!’ shouts Finny.
Finny loves the new things that she has found in the park.

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Then Finny sees a slide. She climbs up the steps to the top. She sits on the slide.
Then, whoosh! Down she slides!

Finny jumps off the swing. The park is green, and there are beautiful flowers
everywhere. Finny sees a butterfly and runs after it.

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Finny walks on. She sits on a swing. Over and back she goes. She tries to
touch the sky. Finny laughs when the swing goes high.

Finny’s Mom comes to
pick her up. Finny is very
tired. She falls asleep as
soon as she lies on her
bed!

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Reading 1 FA

  

(1) Where does Finny want to go?

(2) Who sits on the other end of the see-saw?

(3) Fill in the blanks using the words in the box. butterfly  swing
goes high.
(a) Finny laughs when the

(b) Finny runs after a  .

(4) Who comes to pick her up?

Reading 2

Do you think Finny likes going to the park? How do you think she feels when she
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goes to the park for the first time? Discuss with your partner. 

Grammar FA

  

Comparative Form of Adjectives

Read the sentences under each picture.



The green ball is big. The red ball is bigger.

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We can compare the size of the green ball with that of the red ball.
When we want to compare the size, or any other property of two things, we
use the comparative form of the adjective.

Sometimes, we add –er to the each adjective to form it’s comparative.
Example: tall taller short shorter
(1) Write the comparative form of each adjective by adding –er.

(a) cute
(b) sharp
(c) hard
(d) warm
(e) clean
(f ) fast
(g) slow

Vocabulary FA

 
Prefixes
Read the sentences below.
Finny is not happy.
Finny is unhappy.

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The word unhappy has the prefix un- (which means not) before the end of the
word happy. The word unhappy means not happy.

A prefix is a group of letters placed before a word that changes its meaning
and form a new word.

(1) Add un- to the each word below to form its antonym.

(a) lock

(b) do

(c) even

(d) fair

(e) kind

(f ) safe

Now read the following sentences:

Mom tells a story.

Mom retells a story.

We add re- to a word to show that something has happened again. The prefix re
means again. Mom retells a story, which means she tells it again.

(2) Fill in the blanks by adding un- or re- to the words in the brackets.

(a) I (read) the lesson for the test.

(b) Finny (ties) her shoelaces and takes off her shoes.

(c) Mom (locks) the front door and goes inside.

(d) Dad (heats) the soup for us.

(e) I (write) the story neatly.

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Listening FA ASL  

   

Listen to the poem carefully. Make a list of the things
Finny thanks God for.

Speaking FA ASL

  

Imagine you are Finny.You want your mother to take you for a picnic
in the park. Share with your class how you will convince her.

Writing FA

  

Do you go to the park with your friends? Write five things that you
do together in the park.

I play with a ball in the park.

 
 
 
 

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Space Adventure

I will build a spaceship
In my garden shed.
As soon as it is finished,
I will paint it red.

Its big yellow door
Will open very wide.
The small pink metal steps
Will take me right inside.

I will fly by myself
And take it very far
Until I can see
The silver shining stars.

I will keep on flying
Till I reach the Moon.
When I step on it
Then I’ll come home very soon.

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Reading FA

  
Put the following sentences in the correct order:
__ The poet will fly the spaceship
__ The poet will reach the moon.
__ The poet will paint the spaceship red.
__ The poet will come home.
__ The poet will see the stars.
__The poet will sit inside the spaceship.

Activity

Design Your Own Spaceship
Imagine your own spaceship. Draw it on a
piece of paper. Describe to your classmates
and teacher what your spaceship looks like.

Mention the following things in your description:
(1) The colour of the spaceship
(2) Its shape: Is it long and cylindrical or saucer

shaped?
(3) The number of windows and doors it has
Talk about the journeys you will
make in your spaceship.

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Project 3

Make a collage
Collage is the art of pasting pictures on to a piece of paper. Make a collage of
your favourite sport. Follow the steps below.
What You Need: old newspapers and magazines, glue, scissors, sketch pens
and a sheet of coloured paper
Steps:
(1) Cut out pictures of the sport you have chosen from the old newspapers

and magazines.

(2) Paste as many pictures of the sport as you can on the sheet of paper.

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(3) Use sketch pens to write a suitable title for your collage.
(4) Show your collage to the class.
(5) Tell the class at least three things about the sport you have chosen.

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7 The Magician
and the Tortoise

Mike, don’t eat Sammy, I Speedy is a
sweets all the time. love sweets. tortoise. He used
If you will eat too But who is to eat a lot of sweets
many sweets, you and then he lost all
Speedy? his teeth. Let me
will end up just
like Speedy. tell you how.

A long time ago, there lived a wise, old magician named Tura in the forest. All
the animals loved him. They came to him for help. Once, a tortoise came to him.

Tura, my friend, Dear Speedy, I can
I need your help. give you teeth. But
I want teeth. I want promise me that
to eat nuts and you will take good
candy. Please give
care of them.
me teeth.

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Please give me Promise me
teeth,Tura, and that you will
I promise I will brush your
look after them. teeth twice a
day and not eat
lots of candy.

Tura waved his magic wand and
said, ‘Hippity hop, Hippity hop, my
dear magic wand, let Speedy have
teeth.’ Swoosh! Whoosh! Suddenly
Speedy had a gleaming set of teeth.

Speedy was very happy. His new
teeth looked great. Speedy forgot
about his promise. He started
eating candy. He did not brush his
teeth twice a day, and even when
he did, he always rushed. He liked
sweets so much that he began to
eat more and more.

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One day, Speedy’s front tooth started to decay. He did not pay any attention to
it. Soon the decay spread to his other teeth.

One by one his teeth started to fall out. One day, Tura came to visit him.

Tura was sad that Speedy had not kept his promise.

I have Speedy stop
some teeth eating candy.
left. I can still Take care of
eat candy. your teeth.You
are losing them

fast.

Soon there was only one tooth left in Speedy’s mouth. He ate a sweet. ‘Ah! My
tooth,’ he shouted. His last tooth fell out.
Speedy started to cry.
Oh! I wish I looked after my teeth.
Oh! I wish I stopped eating sweets.
Oh! I wish I brushed my teeth.
Goodbye to the things I now can’t eat.
This is how Speedy the tortoise lost
all his teeth. Now you know why
tortoises don’t have any teeth any more!

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Reading 1 FA

 

(1) What was the name of the magician?

(a) Tura (b) Tuna (c) Speedy

(2) Why did Speedy visit Tura?

(3) What did Speedy do when he got teeth?

(4) One day Speedy’s front tooth started to (grow/decay).

(5) Mark each sentence true (T) or false (F).

(a) Speedy kept his promise.

(b) All of Speedy’s teeth fell out.

Reading 2

How do you think Speedy looked after losing his teeth? How do you think he
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felt? Discuss with your class. 

Vocabulary FA

 
Antonyms – Revision
We know that pairs of words that are opposite in meaning are called antonyms.
Examples: start stop   close open

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Read the following sentences. Rewrite each sentence replacing the
underlined word with its antonym. Use the words in the box below.

cold  always  small  sad  old

(1) A young man sings a song.
An old man sings a song.
(2) It is very hot outside.

(3) Kim never tells lies.

(4) Dan is very happy today.

(5) My cat is very big.


Grammar FA

 

Past Form
Read the sentences below.

Kelly missed her school bus.

Sammy finished her work on time.

These sentences tell us that the actions have already happened. These actions
are said to be in the past form.

We add ed to action words in the simple past form.

thank thanked   climb climbed

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Write the past form of these words. Past Form

Present Form
jump
push
call
talk
brush

Irregular Verbs

We do not use d or ed with some action words. We change these action words
into new words.

Read the action words below.
tell  told    sell  sold

When an action word ends with -ell, we change -ell into -old.
grow  grew    throw  threw    draw  drew

When an action word ends with -aw or -ow, we replace -o or -a with an -e.
pay  paid    say  said    lay  laid

When an action word ends with -y, we change it to -id.
sleep  slept    keep  kept    feel  felt

When an action verb has -ee, we remove one -e and put a -t at the end.

Fill in the blanks with the past form of the verbs in brackets.

(1) Shane (say) that he likes to play football.

(2) Anni (tell) me a funny story.

(3) The shopkeeper (sell) all his toys yesterday.

(4) The plant (grow) as high as the wall.

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(5) My mother (pay) our electricity bill last Monday.
(6) I (sleep) for an hour in the afternoon.

Listening FA ASL  

   

Listen to the story and fill in the blanks.

hands  listened  legs  good listeners  lips  eyes  ears

Ms Brown’s class was very naughty. The students always (talk) to

one other. They never to their teacher. One day Ms B  rown

taught the children how to become a .

She told them to follow five simple rules in order not to miss anything important.

She sang, ‘ are watching, are listening,

are closed, are still and are quiet.’

All the students followed these simple rules and became good listeners.

Writing FA

 

We need to form good habits to keep our teeth healthy.Write a
set of rules for healthy teeth.

 

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Speaking FA ASL

  
If Tura let you use his magic wand what would you wish for? Remember,
you have only one wish, so think carefully before you make it!

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8 The Wright
Brothers Were
Right

Oh, Mike, Thanks, Sammy.
that’s such a I got it as a present
nice toy plane. from my uncle. He also
Who bought told me the story
it for you?
of the Wright
Brothers. The Wright
brothers? Can
Yes, their
story is really you tell me
interesting, Sammy. their story,
Let me tell you
more about Mike?

them.

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Orville and Wilbur Wright were What
brothers. From the time they were is it,
little children, they spent all their time Father?
together. They shared all their toys.

One day, they were reading books in
the study. Their father came into the
study to show them something.

‘Orville, Wilbur, I’ve got a gift for you,’
their father said. The boys wanted to
see it.

Come
out to the
garden and
I’ll show

you.

The boys followed their father into the garden. He
stopped beside a small wooden box. Opening it, he
took out a toy and a rubber band. He fitted the
toy with the rubber band. Swoosh! Suddenly,
the toy was flying in the air.

The boys were surprised. They clapped as the
toy flew up into the sky. After a few seconds
the toy fell down. The boys picked it up. They
loved their new flying toy.

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Wilbur, I don’t know,
why doesn’t Orville. Let’s
make a toy that
toy keep flies for longer
flying?
in the sky.

Wilbur and Orville played so much with the toy plane that one day it broke. The
boys were sad. They remembered how the plane had looked. They promised
each other that one day they would fly in the air, just like the tiny toy plane.
The Wright brothers worked very hard and made the world’s first successful
aeroplane.

Reading 1 FA

 
(1) What were the names of the Wright brothers?
(2) What were they doing in the study?

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(3) Fill in the blanks with the words in the box below.
surprised  flying  rubber band  gift  clapped

One day their father brought a for them. It was a

toy. The toy flew with the help of a  . The

boys were to see the toy. They laughed and  .

(4) What happened to the toy one day?

(5) What did the brothers promise each other?

(6) What did the Wright Brothers make when they grew up?

Reading 2

(1) Why do you think the boys were so interested in the toy plane? S

(2) Do you think Orville and Wilbur could have made the aeroplane if they did
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not work together? 

Grammar FA

 

Apostrophes and Contractions

Read the sentences below.

Han does not know that hens lay eggs.

Han doesn’t know that hens lay eggs.

The sentence above shows that doesn’t is a short form of does not. We can also
say that doesn’t is a contraction of does not.

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(1) Use a contraction to complete each sentence.

(a) He (has not) completed his homework.

(b) She (does not) shout at anyone.

(c) They (do not) share their toys.

(d) Amit and Arun (have not) cleaned their room.

(e) I (do not) know how to draw a horse.

Now read the sentences below.
I’m a good girl.
You’re very clever.

The words I’m and you’re, are short forms of I am and you are. The letters that
are removed are replaced with an apostrophe (’). These are contractions.

(2) Circle the correct full form for the following contractions:

They’re They will They can They are
He’s He is He can He will
She’s She will She is She can
It’s It is It can It will
We’re We will We are
You’re We can You can You will
Don’t You are Do nut Don to
Didn’t Do not Did to Did not
Did nut

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Vocabulary FA

 
Synonyms
Read the pairs of words below.
little small quick fast

These words in each pair have similar meanings. They are called synonyms.

Match the words in Column A with their synonyms in Column B.

A B
big begin
quiet pretty
sick large
start silent
beautiful
close ill
present gift
shut

Listening FA ASL  

   

Listen to the riddles. Find the answer to each riddle by unscrambling
the words.
(1) What has a face and two hands but no arms or legs?
(2) What has a thumb and four fingers but is not alive?
(3) What has to be broken before you can use it?
(4) What belongs to you but is used more by others?

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(5) Everyone has it and no one can lose it. What is it?
(a) L O K C C
(b) L E V O G
(c) G E G
(d) M E N A
(e) H S A W D O

Writing FA

 

What do you want to be when you grow up? What is your dream?
Don’t forget! You can be anything you want.

When I grow up, I want to become a  .
  
  
  
  

Speaking FA ASL

  
Did you have fun writing about what you would like
to be when you grow up. Now share your writing with
your classmates.

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I Am a Butterfly

Once I was a teeny, tiny egg,
When I came out, I had six legs,
I was in there for three, four days.
It felt so good in the bright sun rays.

I ate green leaves, and I became bigger,
All my friends called me a caterpillar,
I grew stronger, everyone could see.
Later, I crawled to the branch of a tree.

I ate so much that I wanted to sleep,
In a thick, warm sheet, I snuggled up deep.
When I woke up, I looked here and there,
I had a story, I wanted to share.

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I grew up proud and beautiful,
With wings so bright and colourful.
I sit on flowers, I am a butterfly.
I smile at you, when you pass by.

Reading FA

 
(1) How many legs does a caterpillar have?
(2) How long is it before the caterpillar comes out of its egg?
(3) What does the caterpillar eat?
(4) What does a caterpillar grow into?

Activity

Butterflies are colourful and beautiful.We see them sitting on flowers.
Draw a butterfly and write five sentences about it.

The butterfly is very beautiful.

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Project 4

Be a postman. Deliver a message.
Some people do not use the dustbin when they are in a public place.
Some people throw their rubbish anywhere, on roads, in parks, etc.
We should keep our surroundings clean. Be a postman and deliver this message
to everyone around you.
What you need: coloured paper, crayons and markers.

Step 1

Choose a coloured sheet.

Step 2

Write the message you want to deliver on it.
Example: Please put your rubbish in the dustbin.

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Step 3
Draw a picture on the sheet of paper and colour it.

Step 4
Write your name at the bottom.

Step 5
Copy the message on to 4 other sheets of coloured paper. Draw pictures.
Step 6
Deliver the message to your family and friends.

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9 Momotaro

These rice
cakes are tasty. T  hey

make me feel so
strong.

Just like How can
they made rice cakes make
Momotaro
feel strong. you feel
strong?

Who is
Momotaro?

Let’s read
about him.

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A long time ago, an old
woman and her husband
lived in Japan. Every day,
the man went out to cut
firewood, while the woman
washed clothes in the river.
One day, when the woman
was washing the clothes,
she saw something big in the
water. She picked it up. It was
a giant peach. She thought
that she and her husband would have the peach for dinner. So she took it home.
When her husband came in, he was very happy to see the peach. He took a big
knife and cut it in half. A small boy jumped out of the peach. At first, the husband
and wife were afraid. However, after the little boy told them not to be scared,
they were happy and decided to bring him up as their son. They named him
Momotaro. Momo means ‘peach’ in Japanese, and Taro is a Japanese boy’s name.

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Momotaro grew up to be strong, brave and kind. He was stronger than everyone
in the village. One day, Momotaro heard about the devils who spread fear among
the people. He decided to go to the land of the devils. He wanted to fight them
and make them run away. His parents were not happy. At first, they did not
want him to go, but at last, they agreed. They made some rice cakes for him. He
packed the rice cakes in a backpack and said goodbye to his parents.
On the way, he met a dog. ‘Momotaro, where are you going? And what have you
got in that bag?’ the dog asked.
‘I am going to the land of the devils,’ Momotaro said.
‘I have rice cakes in the bag.’ He opened it. ‘If you come with me to fight the
devils,’ he said, ‘then I will give you a cake.’
‘Yes, I’ll come,’ said the hungry dog, and Momotaro gave him a rice cake. Then
they met a chicken. Momotaro gave a rice cake to the chicken, and the chicken
joined Momotaro and the dog. Then they met a monkey. Momotaro gave a rice

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