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Today’s pickClass 4

One cake, eight people, equal pieces

Saniya cuts her birthday cake for eight, including her teacher. Dividing it equally is where fractions begin.

© JHS TIKRI, सहज | SAHAJ · CC BY 4.0 · Original

LearnClasses 1–5

Twenty animals, and the sounds they make

A page of animal flashcards: cow, ox, sheep, goat, camel, rabbit, squirrel, lion. Point at one and ask your child to name it, then ask what sound it makes.

© APEKX, P. MANOHAR NAIDU · CC BY 4.0 · Original

LearnClasses 1–5

A cow eats grass and gives milk

For each animal: what it eats, where it lives, what its young one is called. A cow eats grass, lives in a shed, and its young one is a calf.

© APEKX, P. MANOHAR NAIDU · CC BY 4.0 · Original

LearnClass 1

Inside and outside, told by a camel

An Arab pitches his tent on a cold night and the camel asks to put its neck inside. Inside and outside stop being words and become a story.

© RSK Madhya Pradesh · CC BY 4.0 · Original

LearnClass 3

Cross at the zebra crossing

Children from a Sonahatu school visit Raj Bhawan, and the trip carries the traffic rules with it: cross only at the zebra crossing.

© JCERT · CC BY 4.0 · Original

LearnClasses 1–5

The parts of a plant, named

Root, stem, leaf, flower, fruit, seed — each part labelled on one plant. Ask your child to find the same parts on a plant near your home.

© APEKX, P. MANOHAR NAIDU · CC BY 4.0 · Original

LearnClass 3

Families can be different

Different kinds of families, the relations inside them, and what each member does for the others. Pronouns and opposite genders come along with it.

© Jammu And Kashmir · CC BY 4.0 · Original

LearnClass 3

Who else lives in your house?

Ants, lizards, sparrows, plants — the animals and birds that share a home with a family, and what caring for them means.

© Rajya Siksha Kendra, Madhya Pradesh · CC BY 4.0 · Original

LearnClass 4

April, and the birds are building

A letter written from Balmandir Bhavnagar in April 1936, describing sparrows, doves and sunbirds pairing off to build their nests.

© RSK Madhya Pradesh · CC BY 4.0 · Original

LearnClass 2

Draw your family tree

Grandfather, grandmother, uncle, aunt, cousin — a family tree to fill in, with the Telugu words for each relation beside the English.

© APEKX, P.MANOHAR NAIDU, MPPS VANKIREDDIGARIPALLE · CC BY 4.0 · Original

LearnClass 4

The things in a house, named

Household articles to listen for and repeat, followed by a poem about a clock that winds only once.

© DSERT eContent · CC BY 4.0 · Original

LearnClass 4

From the Brahmaputra to the Barak

Assam's hills, plains, rivers and wetlands, and the two rivers that shape the state. A geography lesson about the place a child lives in.

© SCERT, Assam · CC BY 4.0 · Original