VIDYA BHARATI SCHOOL

VACATION ENRICHMENT PROGRAMME

` GRADE-V (2015-16)

NAME:_________________ CLASS:_____________

Dear Parent(s),

‘Exciting time is here again!’‘Exciting time is here again!’‘Exciting time is here again!’‘Exciting time is here again!’

Its time for Summer Vacation and fun filled activities. Children are reservoirs of potential which

needs to be tapped and channelized in diverse ways. We at VBS feel that it is very important to

fire their imagination and foster an outlook that helps them explore, discover and rediscover.

Summer Vacation is the best and fruitful time for learning and for nurturing creativity.

A few suggestions that you may keep in mind.

• Spend quality time with your children.

• Take them out to outings and have fun time together.

• Help your children to become independent by giving them responsibilities.

• Inculcate in them good manners, healthy habits and respect for elders.

• Inculcate the feelings of empathy, affection and tolerance in your children.

• Converse with your children in English.

• Encourage your children to read books to enhance their language skills.

ENGLISH

Q1- Make a table mat – Take A-3 size sheet of any light colour, write parts of speech , give one

example of each. Decorate it and get it laminated. Use it in school every day during lunch break.

Q2. Replace the nouns with appropriate personal pronouns wherever necessary. Then re-write

the whole passage below.

Mahatma Gandhi was a follower of truth and non-violence till Mahatma Gandhi died. Mahatma

Gandhi’s autobiography ‘My Experiments with Truth’, records all major events of Mahatma

Gandhi’s life. People seeking truth must read ‘My Experiments with truth’, as many times as

possible to imbibe the principle of truth and non violence in the people’s lives. People should

also discuss the contents of the biography with people’s mentors and well-wishers.

Q3-Collect information about anyone of these two authors (Ruskin Bond /R K Narayan) and

write a short biography in your, self designed scrap book. Find out the titles of some of the

books written by these authors and try to read at least a story written by one of them. Write a

story report of the story you read in your scrap book. The guidelines for writing the report are

given below-

STORY REPORT

Name of the book:______________________________

Author's Name:________________________________

Major Characters : _____________________________

Summary of the story in your own words.

Q4- Read newspaper and select 5 new words daily (Date wise) . Write the meanings of words in

a self designed dictionary.

Q5-Prepare a Diary to describe your activities for the entire day (Date wise).

A riddle is a statement or a question with a hidden meaning that forms a

puzzle to be solved. A “riddle rhyme” is a riddle that is written in the form of a poem.

For example:-I have streets but no pavement, I have cities but no buildings, I have forests

but no trees ,I have rivers yet no water. What am I? (MAP)

Try to solve these riddles with the help of your family members.

You may enter, but you may not come in, I have

space, but no room, I have keys, but open no lock.

What am I?

I am a green ball that doesn’t bounce After I’ve

been popped from my green house. I’m good to

eat, but not with a fork; I’d help teach the

alphabet if I could talk. What am I?_____________

Call it a cob or call it an ear, There are many

yellow me's in here. I grow on a plant that's a tall,

tall crop and I have a cousin whose name is Pop.

What am

I?____________________________________

Skin of brown, grows underground, Baked, boiled

or chipped, In ketchup dipped. What am I?

_________________________________________

Made from the flour of rye or wheat or even oats I

am good to eat My crust is brown and I am found

on the outsides of a sandwich. What am I?

I can carry someone on my back or pull a cart

along a track. I love to eat grass and hay and oats

and I'd rather run with cows than goats. What am

I?

_______________________________________

Understanding Newspaper Ads

Directions: Use the following newspaper ad to answer the questions

Colourful Flowering Trees

Flowering Crab Apple Trees Sizes upto 10 ft. Beautiful Coloured Spring FlowersDark Green Foliage

Red, Pink, White Blossoms

25 % OFF

Reg. Rs 29 to Rs 149

NOW Rs 22 to Rs 112

House of Plants 6280 River Road 29539

• How Big are the biggest flowering crab apple trees for sale?

_______________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________

• What are the regular prices? _________________________________

• What are the sale prices? _______________________________

Worksheet 1

Understanding Newspaper Ads

Directions: Use the following newspaper ad to answer the questions

House of Plants

Colourful Flowering Trees

Flowering Crab Apple Trees

Coloured Spring Flowers

Red, Pink, White Blossoms

Reg. Rs 29 to Rs 149

NOW Rs 22 to Rs 112

House of Plants

6280 River Road 29539

How Big are the biggest flowering crab apple trees for sale?

_______________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________

What are the regular prices? _________________________________

What are the sale prices? _______________________________

Directions: Use the following newspaper ad to answer the questions

How Big are the biggest flowering crab apple trees for sale?

_______________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________

What are the regular prices? _________________________________

What are the sale prices? ____________________________________

Worksheets 2

Planning Paragraphs

Each paragraph should have one main idea. If you have a lot of ideas, you need to

write several paragraphs. Directions: Read the ideas below and number them:

1. If the idea tells about Jill herself 2. If the idea tells what she did 3. If the idea tells why she did it

_____ found a bird caught in a kite string

_____ in grade four at Center School

_____ untangled the bird

_____ wouldn’t want to live in a cage

_____ plays outside a lot

_____ knew the bird was wild

_____ likes pets

_____ gave the bird its freedom

Now use the ideas to write three paragraphs. Use your own paper if

necessary. Write paragraph 1 about Jill. Write paragraph 2 about what she did.

Write paragraph 3 about why she did it. ______________________________________________________________________

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Worksheet 3

Worksheet 3-A

A

Worksheet 3-

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Worksheet 3

Worksheet 3-C

Mathematics

1. To revise F.A. – 1 syllabus

2. Activity – Survey the market. Select any 10 grocery items, find their price and make a bill of

all items. First make a list of items and write their price before them and then make their bill.

3. Project – To note down maximum temperature of 15 days and then plot it in the form of bar

graph. Use three sheets-(Bring the project in beautifully decorated handmade folder)

Sheet – 1 Write the title (Project on temperature comparison), in the corner your name and

teacher’s name

Sheet – 2 Make a table and in one side write days with date and in another side write

maximum temperature of that day in degree Celsius.

Sheet – 3 Plot the data in a bar graph-

TEMPERATURE

Days

TITLE

Submitted to- Submitted by-

Mathematics

1. Collect information about any two Mathematicians. Write about their contribution to

the subject and also paste their pictures in a scrap file.

Q2) Look at the figure given above and answer the following questions:

a) What is the total of the numbers in the circle but not in any other shape? ________

b) What is the total of the numbers in both the triangle and the circle and not in

any other shape? ___________

c) What is the total of the numbers in the rectangle but not in any other shape?_______

d) What is the total of all the numbers in the circle, triangle and square, but not in any

other shape?_______

Q3) By using every number between 1 and 16 try and complete this number square so that

every line, up and down, left to right and diagonal adds up to 34.

13

15

3

11 16

Q4. Count and write down the number of triangles in the figure given below.____________

Q.5 Complete the other side of the following pictures so that they are symmetrical:

Q.6 Traffic lights are arranged with red on top, yellow in the middle and green at the bottom.

How many other ways could these three colours be arranged? Draw and show.

Science

1. To revise F.A.- 1 syllabus

2. Activity – Based on their habitat paste at least two pictures of plants, mention their habitat

and write the characteristics of plants in a particular habitat. Do it in a tabular form by making

three columns.

3. Project - Collect Monocotyledonous and Dicotyledonous seeds 5 each , pack them in small

plastic packets and paste on an A3 sheet under their respective heading and draw a well labeled

diagram of a dicotyledonous seed on the same sheet

Mono cotyladonousseeds Di cotyladonous seeds

Paste seeds here

Paste seeds here

DIAGRAM

SCIENCE

Activity 1: Is water required for growing plants?

Activity 2: Is sunlight necessary for growing plants

A. Activity 1

1. Buy some healthy seeds from a gardening store or a nursery. You can even take some from

your kitchen.

2. Take two small-flat pots. Put a layer of healthy soil (soil with manure) in the pot and place the

seed in both. Cover it with another layer of soil.

3. Label the first pot as “With water” and the other pot as “Without water”.

4. Water the first pot (the one that says- “With water”). Do not water the other one.

5. Observe the pot daily for 5 days.

6. Record your observations on a daily basis in the table given below. Draw the table in A-4 Size

sheet.

� Date of sowing: ________________________________

� Depth of sowing the seed: ________________________________

� Position of the seed while sowing: __________________________

Day Water No Water

Day1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Observation table

1- What did you conclude?

__________________________________________________________________________

2-What might happen if you watered the “No water” pot?

_______________________________________________________________

3-What would happen if seeds were sown at:

a. Different depths:

___________________________________________________________

b. Different positions:

__________________________________________________________

B. Activity 2

Let us try the second activity now.

1. Again take 2 pots and label the first one as “in the sunlight” and the second one as “ in the shade”.

2. Water both the pots, but keep one of them in the sunlight and the other one in shade. Record your

observations on a dali basis and note the data in the table below.

Do you think the plant in the sunlight will grow faster than the one in shade? Predict your answer and

then see the results yourself after 5 days.

Day In the sunlight In the shade

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

Prediction : __________________________________________________

Actual : ___________________________________________________

Observe both the plants after 5 days. What was the colour of :

a. the plant “In the sunlight”:

________________________________________________________________

b. the plant “In the shade”:

________________________________________________________________

What will happen if we now keep the second potted plant kept “in the shade” out in the sunlight after 5

days?

Prediction: ___________________________________________________________________

Actual : _________________________________________________________________________

Do you notice any change in :

a- Growth

_______________________________________________________________________

b- Colour

_______________________________________________________________________

What do you infer from this?

_______________________________________________________________________

SOCIAL SCIENCE

� ACTIVITY: Day by day the fresh air of the environment is getting polluted because of

the mixing of particulates, biological molecules, and other harmful materials. Such

polluted air causing health problems and diseases, So to prevent harmed from pollution:

Create a Pollution Prevention “Mask”, keeping in mind the 3Rs i.e.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

� PROJECT:- A disaster is a serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a

society involving widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses and

impacts, which exceeds the ability of the affected community or society to cope using its

own resources.

Prepare a project file on

� Natural Disaster:- Earthquake

• Make a collage of pictures related to recent Earthquake in Nepal

• Causes of Earthquake

• Precautions to be taken

� Do the APPLICATION BASED QUESTIONS as on the pages from our book:- Pg No.

63,68,73,74 on a file.

Awareness Time!

Best Friend Day (08th

June, 2015)

• Make a list of ten good friends of yours. Describe about the qualities you admire in your best

friend.

Father's Day (16th

June, 2015)

World Environment Day (05th

June, 2015)

Note: - Revise the syllabus taught in the month April and May.

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French

Make a map of France and paste the coloured hand made image of Eiffel Tower on it.

a. How are you? b. Fine, thank you!

c. Good evening! d. What is your name?

e. See you tomorrow! f. Good Morning.

g. Thank You! h. Good night.