VIDYA BHARATI SCHOOL (VACATION ENRICHMENT …

1 VIDYA BHARATI SCHOOL ( vacation ENRICHMENT programme ) Dear children, we are sure that all of you must be enjoying your holidays. You must have started making plans to visit your grandparents, relatives and friends, watching television during the day. We wish that you enjoy every minute of this break with your family and friends. It will be great if you are able to find time to visit museums and monuments, learn new things, explore new areas near your house, play indoor and outdoor games , read as many story books as you can ,help your parents and grandparents. We are giving you a variety of fun-filled activities and worksheets which you can do during the break.

2 Do them neatly and submit the homework to your teachers after the vacation . I wish you all a very enjoyable and fun-packed winter break. See you on 11th January 2016 _____ (Meenakshi Zarabi) (PRINCIPAL) VIDYA BHARATI SCHOOL HOLIDAYS HOMEWORK CLASS II Guidelines for Holiday Homework x Holiday Homework should be submitted on the first day of the SCHOOL after vacation . x Use the space provided to write answers. In case the space is not given, use ruled A4 sheet (thick one) to write your answers. x Label your Holiday Homework and submit it in a folder.

3 ENGLISH COURSE BOOK Read Lesson 8 (A Good Citizen) & Lesson -9 (Abu Ali Counts His Donkeys) thoroughly. x Find out ten difficult words from these lessons. x Arrange these words in alphabetical order and then write their meanings and make sentences. ACTIVITY How many small words can you make out of one big word? For example, Elephant 1. Delighted _____ _____ _____ _____ 2. Crater _____ _____ _____ 3. Brain _____ _____ _____ 4. Caterpillar _____ _____ _____ _____ 5. Butterfly _____ _____ _____ _____ 6. Postman _____ _____ _____ _____ NOUNS s Complete the nouns in the square using the clues given below: 1 T 2 T 3 T 4 T 5 T 6 T 7 T 1.

4 A monkey has a long _____ 2. I saw him at the bus _____ 3. :KDW LV WKH BBBBBBBBBB WRGD\" th 4. Birds build this _____ 5. The boy is flying a _____ 6. A _____ twinkles in the sky in the night. 7. Parrot is sitting on the _____ s Complete this story by filling in the blanks with the suitable nouns: Alice was a young _____. One day she had a dream. In the dream, a white _____ came running to her. He was wearing a _____ and carrying_____. He passed by Alice and went into his_____. and went back home. s Look at the picture and write at least five lines on the Peacock with the help of the box given below on a ruled A4 sheet.

5 National bird of India fly short distances eats grains and seeds short, hard, horny beak dances in the rain beautiful feathers EVS s Look near your house and find out about different types of plants growing there (tree, shrub, herb, climber, creeper, desert plant and water plants). Draw or paste pictures of any one of the following on an A3 Size sheet: a) Parts of the Plant b) Types of plants c) Plants are useful s Find out the type of houses people make in Japan and why do they make such houses? _____ _____ _____ 'UDZ D FROODJH RQ DQ $ 6 KHHW VKRZLQJ GLIIHUHQW W\SHV RI KRXVHV s Look in your neighbourhood, what are the different neighborhood services available there.

6 Give two example. 1. _____ 2. _____ 3 DVW D SLFWXUH RI \RXU V XVLQJ DQ\ RI WKH QHLJKERXUKRRG Vervices. Paste the picture of your doing neighbourhood services. IN THE GIVEN BOX s Look in your vicinity and find different road signs. Draw two road signs. s Activity:- Making Music with Water Have you ever tried making music with glasses or bottles filled with water? Experiment with your own special sounds by turning glasses of water into instruments, make some cool music and find out how it works. What you'll need: 5 or more drinking glasses or glass bottles Water Wooden stick such as a pencil Instructions: 1.

7 Line the glasses up next to each other and fill them with different amounts of water. The first should have just a little water while the last should almost full, the ones in between should have slightly more than the last. 2. Hit the glass with the least amount of water and observe the sound, then hit the glass with the most water, which makes the higher sound? 3. Hit the other glasses and see what noise they make, see if you can get a tune going by hitting the glasses in a certain order. How did you like the activity? _____ MATHS s Sort the following numbers into 2 boxes. Put even numbers in Box A and odd numbers in Box B. 125 203 808 445 667 264 312 555 788 450 Box A (even) Box B (odd) s Please fill in the squares so the sums are correct on the right side and on the bottom.

8 The first one has been done for you. s Recapitulating Number Names Write the age (in figures) and Number names of all the family members in your home. Family member Age (figures) Number Name Mother Father Brother Sister Grandmother Grandfather Maternal Grandmother Maternal Grandfather s Use calendar and answer these questions. (a) How many days are there in February 2012 _____? (b) A leap year has _____ days. (c) Which day follows Tuesday _____ ? (d) What is the date one week after February 10th _____? (e) Which month follows February _____ ?

9 (f) How many Wednesdays are there in February 2012 _____? s Activity /HW V OHDUQ DERXW VKDSHV Materials Required : A rectangular eraser, an empty match box, a coin, a chalk, a small tumbler, a dice and a bar of chocolate. Instructions : Trace each of the shapes on a coloured A4 Size sheet and name these shapes. Mental Math x Do Page 64 to 74 ) in the book.