Chapter 3
A Day With Nandu
1) If you were Nandu, and you lived in a herd, what kind of things would you do?
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2) In the elephant herd, the oldest female elephant decides everything. Who takes decisions in your family?
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3) Make a collage of a herd of elephants in your notebook. For this, collect as many pictures of elephants that you can. Cut out the elephants and stick them in the notebook.
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4) Nandu did things that he liked to do. If you could spend a whole day with your friends, what all would you do?
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5) Find out and write, which other animals live in herds.
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6) Do you also live in a group? Do you like to live together like that? Why would you like or not like to live in a group?
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7) How do elephants feel when they kept in chains? Discuss and share your feelings.
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8) Have you ever taken a ride on an elephant? How did it feel?
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9) Which animals have you sat on? Write their names
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10) You must have seen many animals around you – in books, in movies. Some may be alone, some in groups. Find out more about any one of these animals and write about it.
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Think a Think and Write
11) Why do you think the egret is sitting on the buffalo?
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12) Have you seen any animal riding on another animal? Write its name.
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13) The animal which is riding.
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14) The animal which gives the ride.
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15) Which animals do we use for carrying loads?
Make Your Own Elephant
16) Copy the drawing of the elephant given on the next page in a bigger size on a thick sheet of paper.
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17) Make small cuts where it says “cut” (✄)in the picture. Be careful not to cut off the part.
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18) Fold the part with [////////] pattern and push them underneath.
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17) Cut out the tail and stick it on. Your elephant is ready.
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18) Colour and decorate it
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19) Put up an exhibition in class of all the paper-elephants that you have made.
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What do They Say?
20) Look at these pictures and read what these animals are sharing with their friends. Discuss these narratives sensitively in the class.
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21) You have read what these animals say. Why do you think that some of them are sad?
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22) How do you think they are different – the monkeys that dance to entertain people and the monkeys that are free?
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