Chapter 9 — Which Season is it?

Chapter 9 of the Class 2 Maths NCERT textbook (Joyful Mathematics), "Which Season is it?", introduces young learners to India's five seasons, how to read a calendar, tell time on a clock, measure duration, and find directions using right, left, and the four cardinal points East, West, North, and South.

• Five Seasons of India — The chapter opens with a poem describing India's five seasons: spring, summer, monsoon, autumn, and winter. Children learn the special features of each season — such as flowers blooming in spring, rain and peacocks in the monsoon, and cold in winter — and match seasons to festivals like Holi, Dussehra, and Christmas.
• Calendar and Months — A full year calendar is shown and children fill in how many days each month has — 31 days for months like January and March, 28 days for February, and 30 days for April, June, September, and November. Activities ask children to count Sundays, find vacation months, and add the days of two months together.
• How Long Does It Take? (Duration) — Children match everyday activities to the time they take — playing takes minutes, cooking takes hours, growing a seed into a plant takes months, and a change of season takes months. A story of a family's trip from Visakhapatnam to Vijayawada uses real dates and times (24 Nov to 28 Nov) to practise counting hours and days.
• Reading Clock Time — Using a character called Gargi, the chapter shows a full day's activities on clock faces — waking up at 6 o'clock, going to school, taking lunch, and going to sleep. Children read the position of the short hand (hour hand) and long hand (minute hand) to tell time to the hour, and then draw hands on blank clocks for given times.
• Directions: Right, Left, and North–South–East–West — A classroom game guides a blindfolded child using only the words right, left, and straight. The chapter then introduces the four cardinal directions through a poem: face the rising sun to find East, back is West, left thumb points North, and right is South. Children use a compass on a classroom map to answer questions about the positions of desks.

1. 01India has five seasons: spring, summer, monsoon (rainy), autumn, and winter.
2. 02Months like January, March, May, July, August, October, and December have 31 days; February has 28 days; April, June, September, and November have 30 days.
3. 03A week has 7 days.
4. 04The short hand on a clock is the hour hand and the long hand is the minute hand.
5. 05Activities like playing take minutes, cooking takes hours, and growing a seed into a plant takes months.
6. 06Facing the rising sun gives the East direction; back is West, left is North, and right is South.
7. 07A compass is a tool used to find direction.