Chapter 3 — Picture Time

Chapter 3 of the Class 1 English NCERT textbook (Mridang), "Picture Time", invites children to look at a picture of animals, sing two number rhymes, and practise rhyming words, animal names, and alphabetical order through simple activities.

• Picture Talk — Animals Around Us — Children look at a picture showing animals such as a monkey, snakes, and birds, and answer questions about what they see. They practise naming the animals in English and talk about where they have seen them.
• Fun with Numbers — Counting Rhyme — The rhyme counts from one to ten and tells the story of catching a fish alive and letting it go again. Children sing and recall number words from one to ten through this playful verse.
• Five Little Monkeys — Action Poem — Five little monkeys jump on a tree one by one; each falls and bumps its knee until no monkeys are left jumping. The poem counts down from five to zero and lets children act out the movements.
• Rhyming Words and Sight Words — Children identify rhyming pairs such as five-alive and tree-knee from the two songs. They also learn sight words — each, is, and — and number vocabulary such as little, fell, bumped, and holding.
• Language Activities — Activities include circling the word 'little' in the poem, making rhyming words for 'ten' using letters h, p, m, d, matching animal pictures to their English names, and joining letters in alphabetical order to complete a drawing.

1. 01The chapter is part of Unit 2, 'Life Around Us', in the Class 1 Mridang English textbook.
2. 02Children look at a picture and answer questions about animals, birds, and snakes they can spot.
3. 03The rhyme 'Fun with Numbers' counts from one to ten using a fish-catching story.
4. 04The poem 'Five Little Monkeys' counts down from five to one as each monkey falls from a tree.
5. 05Sight words taught are: each, is, and; new vocabulary includes little, fell, bumped, and holding.
6. 06Rhyming pairs from the songs are five-alive and tree-knee.
7. 07Activities include making rhyming words for 'ten', matching animals to names, and joining letters in alphabetical order.