Question 1:
How much money did you spend on your books this year ?
Answer:
I spent some one thousand two hundred rupees on my books this year.
Question 2:
What kind of a school uniform would you like to wear ? Draw a picture of it in your notebook and colour it ?
Answer:
I would like to wear white shirt and navy-blue half pant and blue tie in my uniform.
Question 3:
Do you know someone who wanted to study, but could not do so ? Talk about them in the class.
Answer:
Yes, I know one boy in my neighbourhood but could not. He left his studies after the death of his father. He left his studies for want of funds.
Question 4:
Have you seen any insects near flowers ? Find out their names and write.
Answer:
Yes, I have seen insects like butterfly and honeybee near flowers.
Question 5:
Why do you think they come to the flowers ? Find out.
Answer:
Honeybees are attracted towards flowers and plants bearing sweet fruits. Honeybees suck nectar from the flowers. On the other hand butterflies are attracted towards flowers due to their gorgeous colours.
Question 6:
When honeybees fly, there is a kind of sound. Can you try to copy this sound ?
Answer:
Honeybees when fly produce buzzing sound. Yes, I can.
Question 7:
What do people in your area put on the part of the body where the bee has stung ?
Answer:
People in my area put slaked lime (chuna) a white powder on the part of the body where the bee has stung.
Question 8:
What will be the total cost of Anita’s 20 boxes ?
Answer:
40,000.
Question 9:
Anita and others in her village get ` 35 for one kilogram of honey. How much does one kilogram of honey cost in your town ?
Answer:
In my town, the cost of one kilogram of honey is ` 160.
Question 10:
What are the different colours of honey that you have seen ?
Answer:
Pale and golden brown.
Question 11:
Is honey used in your house ? What is it used for ?
Answer:
We take one spoon each, of honey, every morning. It keeps us slim and healthy.
Question 12:
Which are some other insects that live together in a group, like honeybees ?
Answer:
Ants, termites and wasps live together in groups like honeybees.
Question 13:
Have you seen where ants live ?
Answer:
Ants live in nest inside the soil.
Question 14:
What kind of eatables attract ants ? List them.
Answer:
Grains, fruits and sweets and dead insects.
Question 15:
Look at a line of ants. What is its colour ?
Answer:
The colour of line of ants may be either black or red.
Question 16:
Every child has a right to free education upto class VIII. Do you think that all children are able to study upto class VIII ? Discuss.
Answer:
All children are not able to study even upto class VIII due to various reasons. Some of these are :
1. That the family may be too big and parents may not be able to support them and they may require child’s help in their bread earning activity.
2. The parents are illiterate and poor and cannot help them to understand their study material. Secondly, they are poor so they can not spend on their tuitions, with the result the child drop out.
There may be many more reasons for not being able to study upto VIII and they drop out.