Holiday Homework Class IV i

V.V.D.A.V PUBLIC SCHOOL

HOLIDAYS HOMEWORK ,CLASS IV-i

That time of years’ come round again,

So we wish you all the best

The joy that comes from knowing you

Makes us feel that we have been blessed

So we’ll share with you our feelings

At this special time of year

May your holidays be a delight

Filled with happiness and cheer

Happy Holidays!!!!!

SCIENCE

Q1.Whenever man saw birds, he always fantasized to fly like them. He then made kites, hot air balloons and then finally air planes. Trace this journey of man from his fantasy to fly to reality. Make a PowerPoint presentation (minimum 8-10 slides) taking the following points into consideration:

1. Features of birds which help them to fly.

2. Features of kites like the material used, shape, size etc. which help them to soar high.

3. Features of a hot air balloon.

4. Man’s various attempts to fly. (HINT: use of wings, jumping off high mountains etc.)

5. Inventors of air planes.

6. Early airplanes and modern airplanes.

Supplement your PowerPoint presentation with appropriate pictures.

Save your presentation in a pen drive and also bring a thumbnail printout of it.

Q2.Revise the different body systems – skeletal system , digestive system , breathing system .

Write at least 3 interesting facts for each body system on an A-4 sized cartridge sheet.

ART

CREATIVITY AT ITS BEST

Kites are flown all over the world. Different countries have various kinds of kites – monster kites, dragon kites etc. Using your imagination create any three different kinds of kites. Use bright coloured pastel sheets and decorative material.

MATHS

Q1. Symmetry is all around us. Even the kites that you have created in Art holidays home work have symmetry in them. Decorate these kites with symmetrical designs and fill the following table:        

No. of lines of symmetry in 1 kite
No. of vertices in a kite
Length of the sides of the kite (of any one kite)

Q2.Worksheet Booklet (Unit 2)

Do worksheet number: 3,6,7,9 to 16, 18 to 25

ENGLISH

It’s Summer time . It’s time to chill out, relax and rejuvenate yourself. Go out and play, visit family and friends, plan a trip to a hill station and have a blast. Have fun doing the activities given below and take care of your health too by eating fresh and nutritious food and exercising regularly.

Q1) BOOK WORLD  : Read the given stories. Make a list of new words that you come across. Pen these words down and make sentences of any ten words  from each story in a separate Englishnotebook. Arrange the main events that occurred in any two of these novels in a sequence to give a brief summary of it.

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Gulliver’s Travel

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Rapunzel

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Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

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The Lion King

Q2) MY BOOK JACKET : Using ivory or cartridge sheets ,design a book jacket for your favourite book. Your book jacket must have a front cover with attractive illustrations and the name of the author while the back cover having a short summary of the book. 

Q3) KITE FLYING IS FUN : You all must have flown kites or helped your friends or family to do so. Imagine yourself to be a kite, flying  merrily in the vast blue sky and write how you felt while flowing along the cool breeze and gazing at things down below.

 SOCIAL SCIENCE                                                      

1)Find out any celebrity who has adopted a child. Then create a survey form in the format given below. Do this activity in scrap file.

                                                              Survey Form

Name of the celebrity who has adopted a child                            

__________________________________________

When did they adopt  the child? _________________________________________

How many children they have adopted ? __________________________________________

Name and age of the adopted child.___________________________________________

Find out two reasons for adopting a child.___________________________________________

Do you feel  adoption is good.____________________________________________

   

Paste the picture of the celebrity

2.   KITES PROJECT

    The main goal is :

    Sharing the local kite traditions of your country and the world.  

    Here are some guiding questions to consider:

a)   Are kites flown at special times of the year, or for special occasions? 

                     

b)  Where do most people fly kites (the beach, parks, roof-tops…)? 

c)What are most kites made out of?

d) Are there different styles of kites in your country? What makes them different?

e) What is the word you use for kites? Are there different names for different types?