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I.P. EXTN. PATPARGANJ, DELHI – 92.

HOLIDAY HOMEWORK (2017 – 18)

CLASS – V

Dear Students,

Summer vacation is a much-awaited holiday for the students for their enjoyment

and all round development. For a good and laborious student, this is the time to

relax, enjoy, travel, and visit relatives, parks, shopping complexes and religious

places. To be a well-developed student, one should help oneself in preparing

meals, tidying of rooms, and watering plants. With a view to inculcate a habit

for regular study, holiday homework is given to the students. This assignment

will help making up the intellectual, physical and mental aptitude and ability of

students.

HAVE A JOYFUL TIME. HAPPY HOLIDAYS. INSTRUCTIONS:

1. All the work should be done neatly.

2. Charts should be bright and colourful with bold headings and borders

around.

3. While doing activities collect pictures from old books, magazines,

newspapers or internet.

4. Due importance should be given to Holiday Homework as well as activities

as they will be graded.

Date of submission of Holiday Homework:

DATE DAY SUBJECT

03/7/17 MONDAY HINDI

04/7/17 TUESDAY ENGLISH

05/7/17 WEDNESDAY SCIENCE

06/7/17 THURSDAY MATHEMATICS

07/7/17 FRIDAY SOCIAL STUDIES

The school will remain closed from 15/5/17 (Monday) to 30/6/17 (Friday) and

will reopen on 01/7/17 (Saturday)

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ENGLISH

1. Read lots of books, magazines, newspapers and watch only educational

programmes on television.

2. Do one page writing for ten days in a separate thin book.

3. Make a colourful chart with related pictures on the following topics

according to your Roll No’s:

ROLL NO. TOPIC

1 To 10 Famous Proverbs and Quotations

11 To 20 Indian Writers and their Books

21 To 30 Short Moral Story

31 onwards Poem based on Nature

4. NEWSPAPER READING

You must read a newspaper daily. It will broaden your outlook and develop

your language.

a. Create a graphic vocabulary journal or a Pictionary with twenty new

words from the Newspaper you have read. Prepare the journal using A4

coloured sheets. Then, write each new word in it and draw or paste a

picture of it. Also write one synonym and antonym (if any) against it.

You can take the help of thesaurus for this.

(Do the following work in your MCB notebooks)

5. BOOK READING

a) Read any one book from the following list:

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Indian Folktales by Anupa Lal

b) Describe your favourite character along with the qualities it possesses in

75 words. Use rich vocabulary from the book you have read.

6. PARAGRAPH WRITING

Write a paragraph in 80 words on the following topics. Illustrate with

pictures.

1- A school of my dreams.

2 - Life in a big city.

7. Do Pg. No.13, 22, 39, 45, 76 in your workbook.

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8. Complete the spell drill and paste it in your notebook. Memorize these words.

Strolled __________________ ____________________

Burdened __________________ ____________________

Stature __________________ ____________________

Saucer __________________ ____________________

Squeezed __________________ ____________________

Explanation __________________ ____________________

Extraordinary __________________ ____________________

Jugglery __________________ ____________________

Pouncing __________________ ____________________

Haunches __________________ ____________________

Mysterious __________________ ____________________

Pampered __________________ ____________________

Swallowed __________________ ____________________

Nervousness __________________ ____________________

Rickshaw __________________ ____________________

Passengers __________________ ____________________

Kidnapper ___________________ ____________________

Preferred ___________________ ____________________

Invincible ___________________ ____________________

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MATHEMATICS

Note:

Presentation of work carries marks.

A. Learning activity:-

Learn tables from 2-20. Make an attractive handy table book of your own.

B. Activities:-

Make models and charts according to your Roll Numbers:

(a) Paste picture and write information of a Mathematician on a chart paper.

(Roll no. 1 to 10)

(b) Make a model using 3-D shapes. (Roll no. 11 to 20)

(c) Write any 5 Mathematical facts on A-3 size sheet (Roll no. 21 to 30)

(d) Prepare a collage on Basic Geometrical Concept.

(From Roll No. 31 onwards)

C. WORKBOOK

Do worksheet number 5, 6 and 7 in your Maths workbook.

D. Practice work:

Do practice of Ch- 1: Place Value and Ch – 2 The four operations for Unit Test

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E – LETS Do IT .

Do the following questions in Maths Notebook.

1. Heena had a packet of sweets. She ate 5 and gave the rest of the sweets to

8 Girls. The 1st girl took 1 sweet, the 2

nd girl took 3 sweets, the 3

rd girl

took 5 sweets, and so on. How many sweets were there in the packet?

2. A million is thousand thousands. How many watches worth 50,000 can

You buy for a million rupee?

3. 2,53,820 mobile phones were packed equally in 245 cartons. How many

mobile phones were packed in each carton? What are the harmful effects

of mobile phones?

4. Sonika has 7 vases of flowers. Some vases have 5 roses and the other

vases have 10 pink carnations. There are 50 flowers in all in the vases.

How many vases of each type of flower does Sonika have?

5. A haunted house ride runs 3 times a day. It opens 4 days a week. It has 6

cars, each of which can hold 2 people. How many people can ride the

Haunted house ride in one week?

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SCIENCE

Note:

Presentation of work carries marks.

A - SCRAP BOOK:

(Roll No – 1 to 20):- Collect the wrappers of any 8 packaged food items, paste

them in scrapbook and mention the components and nutritive value of that food

item.

(Roll No – 21 onwards):- Visit a Zoo and make individual cards of five

animals living in different habitats, describing their special features that help

them to adapt to their environment.

B - Make CHARTS according to your Roll Numbers:

Any 8 Scientific Facts (Roll no 1 to 10)

Human Eye (Roll no 11 to 20)

Human Skeletal System (Roll no 21 to 30)

Any 1 Scientist and his Inventions (Roll no 31 onwards)

C - VISUAL DICTIONARY

Find any 15 Scientific words, write about them and also paste related

pictures.

D - SITUATION BASED QUESTIONS:

Do the following questions in your notebook.

1. Identify and Paste the picture of an amphibian, green in colour and write

its adaptive feature that help it to survive in water as well as on land.

2. Kritika was playing in the playground, suddenly she fell down and was

taken to Doctor. Doctor advised her to include more fruits and vegetables

in her diet. Why?

3. Imagine if your backbone was a single long bone, instead of a series of

small bones. What would happen?

E - Learning Work Learn L-1 Growing Plants, L – 2 Food and Health

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F – Worksheet Time

WORKSHEET - 1

Look at the following pictures of animals found in the Jim Corbett National

Park, and answer the questions.

1. There is one animal, however, that is wrong. Can you spot it? Why is this

animal wrong for this place?

______________________________________________________________

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2. Group the above shown animals into these groups?

a. Mammals:________________________________________________

b. Reptiles:_________________________________________________

c. Amphibians:______________________________________________

3. Wild animals in India are under grave threat of extinction, due to human

interferences. Name any five such human activities that have endangered

wildlife.

______________________________________________________________

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WORKSHEET – 2

Q1. Define the following terms:

(1) Force____________________________________________________

________________________________________________________

(2) Gravity__________________________________________________

________________________________________________________

(3) Friction__________________________________________________

________________________________________________________

Q2. Write the name of three types of Lever along with two examples of

each.

1. __________________ :____________________,_________________

2. __________________:____________________,_________________

3. __________________:____________________,_________________

Q3. A huge rock has blocked a road after a landslide. What could be done

to move the rock from the road easily.

Ans._____________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________

Q4. Make a list of 10 Simple Machines around you. Categorize them into

different types as shown in the table given below and paste their

pictures also.

Pulley Lever Inclined

Plane

Wheel

and Axle

Screw Wedge

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SOCIAL STUDIES

1. Make an advertisement on A3 size sheet on any one of the following:

a. Save fuel (Petrol/Diesel/LPG)

b. Global Warming

c. Blood Donation

2. Make your own Aadhar card including all the necessary information.

Note: Do the following work in Social Studies notebook

Read the Ch-10 ‘Environmental Pollution’, Ch – 11’Caring for the

Environment’ and Ch-13 ‘Prominent Dynasties of India’ and prepare a

list of ten words each.

On the basis of above chapters, answer the following questions-

Define the following:

a) Seismograph

b) Dynasty

c) Richter Scale

d) Iceberg

e) Smog

Let us explore:

a) Why the Yamuna and the Ganga rivers of India have become heavily

polluted?

b) Mention the diseases arise due to water pollution.

Find and write:

Why is Gupta dynasty called the golden age of India?

Who were known as ‘Navratnas’ in Akbar’s reign?

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Make a colourful chart on the given topic according to your Roll No.-

ROLL NOS TOPICS

1 to 7 Parallels of Latitudes

8 to 14 Major landforms of India

15 to 21 Rotation & Revolution of Earth

22 to 28 Hot & Cold Deserts of the world

29 to 34 Natural Disasters

35 Onwards Freedom Fighters

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