HOLIDAY HOMEWORK (2015-16)

CLASS - V

ENGLISH

Books are the quietest and most constant friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors and the most patient of teachers.- Charles W. Eliot.

The importance of reading can be experienced by people from all walks of life. Although one can take reading at any age, it is much easier to begin at a young age. Reasons for Making Reading a Habit-

Reading makes you smarter as it keeps brain active and engaged in a thought process.

It makes you knowledgeable.

It improves your vocabulary and language skills.

It boosts your creativity as you imagine things while reading. These are few reasons for you to start reading but you can find many more. So, Happy Reading!!

Reading Time

Reading story books is a very good way of utilizing your time during holidays and it is an interesting way to learn.

Around The World In Eighty Days

Treasure Island

Huckleberry Finn

Gulliver’s Travels

Any one book of Enid Blyton series

Book I Read Name of book:

Author’s Name:

Major characters (and a description of each one):

Did you like reading the book ? What did you like about the book? Was there anything which you did not like? Write about it. Draw pictures related to the story .

Fun Activities

Put your pen on fire....

Search for idioms or proverbs related to fire, for example

“Adding fuel to the fire.”

Make a list and frame sentences using each of them. Also Show the idiom in the

pictorial form.

Poet in Me

Compose a poem on any one of the topics given below-

Fire –the destroyer

Fire -the friend

Fire and wind/water

Let's Imagine and Write

Imagine that while playing in the park you found a strange and shiny object in the grass. Use your imagination to write about something that happened when you touched it. Tongue Twisters

During your holidays, learn these tongue twisters and have fun. You may even

organise tongue twister races and let everyone learn these tongue twisters and

enjoy together.

Tongue Twister is a phrase or sentence which is hard to speak fast, usually

because of alliteration or a sequence of nearly similar sounds. It helps develop

speech skills and helps in speech therapy.

To get full effect of a tongue twister you should try to repeat it several times quickly

as possible, without stumbling or mispronouncing.

Red bulb blue bulb red bulb blue bulb “red blood blue blood”.

I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch

wishes, I won’t wish the wish you wish to wish.

If a slithering snail went down the slippery slide would a snail slider or slide

down the slide.

A sailor went to sea to see, what he could see. And all he could see was sea,

sea, sea

If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which

watch?

Which watch did which witch wear and which witch wore which watch?

Six slippery snails, slid slowly seaward.

I thought a thought. But the thought I thought wasn’t the thought I thought I

thought. If the thought I thought I thought had been the thought I thought, I

wouldn't have thought so much.

You must try and create at least two tongue twisters and write them on A4 ruled

sheet

Rhyme and Rhythm

Enjoy reciting the two poems given below with expression and rhythm as well as learn the poems also. Adventures

Adventures, Adventures

Are so much fun.

You can meet anyone.

You can take a trip to sun.

You never know what could be done.

How many I don't know

But there's more than one

That is cool

Or take a trip to the moon.

Please come back sometime soon.

Go as far as I can see

Let me suggest the stars are the best

most definately

But wherever you go you have to let

your mother know.

Now my poem is almost done,

Make sure to have fun.

The Fire

I am a fire, Blazing and bright! Flames ever higher, Flash in the night! Well may you fear!

Well must you learn: Come not too near -

How I can burn ! Sting like a bee! Stab like a knife! Meddle with me, Run for your life!

But if on a cold

and wintry night you spy in the darkness

my flickering light, sit down for a while

a short distance away

and comfort I’ll bring you

until it be day; treat me with caution

and treat me with care

and you’ll find what a warmth

and a love I can share. Though my heart burns with

secrets

that no one may know, you may fill all your soul

with the strength of its glow.

HINDI

MATHEMATICS

Q1) Learn tables from 2 to 20. Q2)Cut along the sides and use the five pieces to form a square.

Q3)NUMBER FUN

Q4) Replace the ? with the correct number.

Q5) SUDOKU - 6X6 Every row, column and minigrid must contain all the numbers from 1 through 6.

1 5

2 3

6 1

4 3

3 2

4 3

3 4

2 6

5 6

4 3

4 3

1 2

Q6)Put on your thinking caps and work out the numbers which fit into each space of the puzzle given below

Q7)Collect information about any two Mathematicians and briefly write about their contribution to the subject. Paste their pictures also.

SOCIAL SCIENCE

1.Prepare a pictorial presentation on computer to show the discovery of fire also state the changes it brought in our lives. 2.The graph drawn below shows the result of using fire for cooking and security purposes of a place. It gives us the picture of life of early humans before and after the invention of fire. The green bar shows how many people were eaten by lion there. The yellow bar shows number of people who suffered due to intestinal infections. The red bar shows foot injuries. Now compare the two graphs, read the data carefully and for each data analyse how the invention of fire made a difference in our lives. Interpret it and write a paragraph on the “Importance of fire to early man”, in your own words.

3. Name any two dishes of your choice which can be prepared without using fire. Write their recipes. Make them and serve it to your family member and click pictures.

SCIENCE

1. Watch these Combustion experiments with your parents.

Watch all the experiments in the link given below. http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/experiments/chemistry/fire/

For any three of the given experiments write -

1) The things you require for each experiment. 2) The procedure for the experiment. 3) Your observation after the experimentin your own words(Do not

copy from the information given on the site.) 4) The inference or the result of the experiment.

2.Watch the video,”Human Evolution, How the use of fire changed our evolution”. from the link given below. https://youtu.be/IFFD6aq43YU Now write a paragraph of 15 to 20 lines on how the use of fire helped us evolve.

COMPUTER Q1. Solve the given crossword.

Q2. There are some Computer abbreviations which you listen in your day to day life. Here are some of the Computer abbreviations. Find their full form and learn them also.

1. bmp 2. bps 3. b-to-b 4. exe 5. FAQ 6. FTP 7. GHz 8. GIF 9. C2B 10. cps 11. GIGO 12. HTML 13. http 14. IP address 15. kbps 16. MHz 17. mips 18. PDF 19. URL 20. XML

Q3. Write about the famous five Indian personalities in the field of computer. To make your work more colourful add few pictures also.

Dear children, summer vacations are a fun time to be spent with family and friends. So go ahead and enjoy with your parents, grandparents and friends. Also remember to read books, work on your handwriting and practice Mathematics daily. We have put together some interesting work for you to do during the vacations. Please do all of it in one single file/scrap book. Submit the Holiday Homework by July 10, 2015.