Book 1
Let us play
Sorting Activity: To recognize Shapes
Group Size: 4 Students on each table.
Material Required: 4 paper mats divided in to 4 Squares of same size.
A large bowl, number of snacks of solid shapes viz Cubes, Spheres, and Cones
(May be cheese dry grapes & biscuits of different shapes)
Instructions to be given
1. Take your seats.
2 .Put the scattered snacks in the bowl.
3. Who can find two snacks? 
of same shape?
4. Who can find two
Snacks of different shape?
5. Place the like shapes in
one part of your mat. Snacks
of different shape in the other
Parts of your mat.
6. Encourage the children to repeat
the activity till all the snacks are
Exhausted.
Winners: Group which will take least time to complete
the round correctly will be given FIRST PRIZE ART WORK: 4 children
In each group, the child having maximum snacks around a table having
in his mat will be declared FIRST in his Group. Bowl, skater snacks & 4 mats
ACTIVITY 2
Venue: Play Ground Objective: Sorting
Group Size: Whole Class.
Material required: Number of circles, rectangles & triangles drawn on the ground with sufficient gaps& proper size with lime powder.
ART WORK
Musical Instrument with music to play.
Instructions to be given: Children stand any where you like but not very far off so that you may listen to me & the music
Which will be played shortly.
Start dancing when music is on & go to the block of the shape, which will be announced by the musical instrument before it announces STOP.
Child failing to occupy the proper place will be out.
The activity will be repeated after crossing one or two blocks.
Last three children will be declared First, Second & Third.
Class II Topic: Time (Clock) Unit: 13
Objective: To make children the concept of time.
Group size: Whole Class divided in to groups of 4 to 5 children.
Material required: Glass Cylinder, Paper Cone, Fine clean sand, electric bell with automaticrigig device to make the bell ring after equal intervals regularly, other similar timers, chart papers, markers & empty boxes etc.
Preplanning: Keep the sand timer ready by keeping the paper cone with a mall whole at the bottom closed with a rubber band, fitted in the glass cylinder& filling the paper cone with fine clean sand.
Start: Interact with children by asking the questions of the type:
Can we see time? Expected answer: yes.
How can we know the time? Expected answer: Using
Watches/Clocks.
What we would do to know the time if we do not have a watch/clock? Expected answer: By different events at home e.g. Chanting of birds early in the morning, ringing of call bell by the milk man, Voice coming from nearby religious places of worship, Radio /TV programes etc.
OR
Different events of the School e.g. Ringing of the bell for morning assembly or different periods etc.
OR
Natural events such as rising of sun/ setting of the sun etc.
(Encourage the children to give as many alternate answers as they can.)
Start the game: Set different timers ready to start the game.
Help the children making time estimates by asking the questions of the type:
How many times you can jump before the sand in the time sander run out?
Record children estimates recorded on the chart papers.
Start the timer & ask the children start jumping simultaneously. Art Work: jumping children teacher children, teacher,
Chart etc
.
Ask some children to start recording the number of jumps taken by the children in schedule time.
This activity should be performed in groups of 4 to 5 children.
| S.No | Name | Estimated number of jumps | Actual number of jumps |
| 1 | Sandeep | 10 | 7 |
| 2 | Noor jahan | 12 | 10 |
| 3 | Gagan Deep | 8 | 9 |
| 4 | Victor | 13 | 10 |
Help children to understand that timers can be used to measure time taken in completing an activity.
Ask the groups of children to choose a timer & measure how long it takes them to build a tower with blocks, paint a picture, sing a song etc.
(Children may be encouraged to answer the time taken to perform the above activities as: 3 bells time rounds of sand timer etc.)
Now ask the questions of the type:
(a) Which activities of your daily routine take maximum time?
(b) Which activity of your daily routine takes minimum time?
(c) List some activities in decreasing? Increasing order.
(d) What would have happened if there were two wholes in the sand timer?
(e) What people might have been doing when they did not have watches?
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