New Era Junior School

NEW ERA JUNIOR SCHOOL

HOLIDAY HOME-WORK

SESSION 2013 – 2014

Dear Parents,

Summer Vacation is a welcome break… It’s time to enjoy and relax but it is also the time when the child needs to spend a lot of time indoors. For keeping the children busy and at the same time helping them to improve their concentration, build their confidence and promote independent learning, we have planned activities which will keep the children positively engaged. Please help, guide and motivate your child to do work himself/ herself. We hope the home work and the activities will be interesting for the kids.

We wish you a wonderful time ahead!

Good Manners are lifelong assets and must be practiced until they become a habit.

Four magic words that are basics of good manners are – Please, Thank you, Excuse me and Sorry. Make these four words a habit for your child and see the difference.

MANNERS

At home:

·  Encourage him/her to be polite.

·  Help him/her to become responsible.

At the dining table:

·  Give your child small helpings and refills and help him/her finish the food in his/her plate.

·  Encourage him/her to take small bites, eat slowly without spilling with his/her mouth closed.

·  Make your child help you to clear the table and clean up.

Good Habits

·  Teach your child to brush his/her teeth twice a day.

·  Do trim his/her nails as often as required.

·  Teach him/her not to waste water and electricity.

·  Help your child to keep the surroundings and environment clean. It is a bad habit to throw things out of the window, car or a balcony.

Please ensure that the child:

·  Draws and colours pictures often to develop motor skills.

·  Helps in small household jobs like watering plants, laying the dining table, making the bed, arranging books etc.

·  Is allowed to socialize with family, friends and relatives.

·  Watches T.V only for limited hours and limited channels ( e.g. Discovery , Animal Planet )

·  Sits for his / her studies regularly and completes the Holiday Home Work.

·  Plays some outdoor games, goes for morning / evening walk and exercises.

·  Participates actively in doing the craft activities given during the summer vacations.

·  Watches movies such as The Croods (3D), Home Alone.

·  Visits places such as Rail Museum, Bal Bhawan and 76Traffic Training Park.

·  Reads/ listens to stories from

1.  Bubble Series

2.  Pepper series

3.  Lady Bird Series –Level 1

We share this world with everybody who lives on this planet. Every small act of ours has an effect on this world. We must learn to take care of our world and make it a better place.

Headmistress

Holiday Homework- Class Prep

Theme- Ice-cream

Observe and feel

Place a frozen ice cream scoop of your favourite flavour in a bowl and click its photograph. Leave the bowl out for about half an hour. Observe the changes in it. Click the photograph of the melted ice cream. Paste both the photos on a sheet of paper. Put a smiley under the photo of the ice cream you would like to eat.

Yummy….. It’s Yummy

·  Lick Lolly

Mix a little squash of any flavour of your choice in water. Freeze it in an ice lolly mould in the freezer. Enjoy your lick lolly with your family.

OR

·  Fruit cream

Take some chopped fruits and add them to half a bowl of ice cream. Serve it to all the family members.

Crafty hands

1. Designer cups

Use coloured paper to cover ice-cream cups. Use decorative material to make your own designer cups.

2. Dilley Dolly

Take 3 ice cream cups and decorate them. Place them upside down one on top of another. Make a face on the upper part of an ice cream spoon. Make a slit in the base and insert it through the slit to make the body.

3. Table Mat

Take a thick sheet of paper of the size of a regular table mat. Draw/ paste colourful pictures of 12 different types of ice-creams on it. Laminate it to create your own colourful table mat.

4. Summer Ice Cream Cone Paper Plate Craft

Paint the bottoms of three paper plates in the ice cream, flavours of your choice. Allow them to dry. Cut a large, narrow triangle from cardboard. Create criss cross pattern on the triangle to make your ice cream cone. Cut the paper plates as shown above in ice cream scoop shapes. Glue one scoop on to another and finally, on top of the cone. Add a cherry on the top.

Write any 3 letter words ending with ‘at’ on them.

Make 2 more such cones to write any 3 letter words ending with ‘an’ and ‘ap’ on them.

Help the duck find it’s babies.

Note-Please give 3 different maze assignment sheets in addition to the one given on top to the children to improve their observation & thinking skills.

Reading List

Please give reading practice of the following words to your child every day.

3-letter words

Cat mat fat bat sat rat hat pat that

can man pan fan ran van tan

cap map tap nap gap lap

bad lad pad sad had dad

bag tag rag wag

jam ram dam

Sight Words

a I is in on so am

the see and was yes too who

likes with then they come says purr

Names of colors

red blue black

green white yellow