Chapter 3 — It is Fun

Chapter 3 of the Class 2 English NCERT textbook (Mridang), "It is Fun", presents a cheerful poem in which a child imagines acting like different animals — leaping like a lamb, climbing like a cat, hopping like a frog, swimming like a fish, trotting like a horse, and flying like a bird — and includes speaking, writing, and thinking activities that build action words, animal vocabulary, and the use of the pronoun "I".

• The Poem: Moving Like Animals — The poem "It is Fun" describes a child who finds joy in pretending to move like different animals. Each line pairs an action word with an animal — leap like a lamb, climb like a cat, hop like a frog, swim like a fish, trot like a horse, and fly like a bird.
• Action Words (Verbs) — The chapter introduces key action words: fun, climb, leap, swim, trot, and fly. Children practise using these words in sentences, with an example given — "Monkeys climb trees." — and are asked to make their own sentences.
• Sight Words — A set of sight words is highlighted for reading practice: this, that, like, to, them, all, and none. These high-frequency words appear in the poem and help early readers build fluency.
• Speaking and Listening Activities — Children listen to animal sounds (frog croaking, hen cackling, duck quacking, sheep bleating) and guess the animals. They also take part in imaginative conversations — for example, saying what they would do if they were a cat or if they met an elephant.
• The Letter I and the Pronoun I — The chapter includes a short song called "Song of I" that helps children understand that the letter I is also a word (the pronoun for oneself). Children clap along and learn to use I instead of their own name when speaking about themselves.

1. 01The poem says it is fun to leap like a lamb, climb like a cat, hop like a frog, swim like a fish, trot like a horse, and fly like a bird.
2. 02The child in the poem says "I can act just like them all" — meaning the child can imitate all these animals.
3. 03New vocabulary words in this chapter are: fun, climb, leap, swim, trot, and fly.
4. 04Sight words to learn are: this, that, like, to, them, all, none.
5. 05A matching activity links animals to their actions — the horse trots, the lamb leaps, the snake crawls, the squirrel runs, and the monkey swings.
6. 06The "Song of I" teaches children that I is both a letter and a pronoun (the word for oneself).
7. 07Children practise picture reading by looking at a picture and writing a few sentences about what they see.