ENGLISH HOLIDAY HOMEWORK

CLASS V

SESSION – 2016-17

Curiosity and persistence or continuous efforts lead to miracles. All the inventions and discoveries are a result of curiosity, proper questioning and persistence in finding the answers.

Given below are the names of a few inventions and inventors. Find out and write to which country they belong and the year of their inventions.

Invention Inventor Country Year

1. Safety matches Johan Walker

2. Telephone Alexander Graham Bell

3. Aeroplane Orville and Wilbur Wright

4. Car (petrol) Karl Benz

5. Electric Lamp Thomas Alva Edision

6. Refrigerator James Harrison and Alexander Cathin

7. Photography John Carbutt

Have you visited places like tombs, monuments, etc. and found writings on the walls? Yes/No

Did you like it? Yes/No

Write a set of rules that should be put up at these places to preserve their beauty. Draw any monuments or places of interest and write attractive and catchy jingles in the squares given below for the public to preserve them.

Anagrams

An Anagram is a word formed by rearranging the letters in another word. For examples own and now are anagrams of won.

Fill in the blanks with the anagrams formed from the given words:

1. The ship was quite far away from the ________________. HORSE

2. Liver is an important _______________ in the human body. GROAN

3. We will have to cross a _______________ forest. NEEDS

4. Don’t _______________ me if you lose this match. AMBLE

5. Neha gave me a camera as a birthday _______________. SERPENT

6. The Rajput’s were defeated in a well-fought _______________. TABLET

7. Don’t _______________ yourself unnecessarily. TRAINS

8. I felt hurt by the teacher’s _______________ MARKERS

‘OUS’ Words

Complete the words ending with –ous with the help of their meanings.

1. Being worried and nervous about something. ----- ---- X ---- O U S

2.Someone who is interested in learning about things or people. C --- --- --- O U S

3.Extremely angry F ------ ------ ------ O U S

4.Easy to see and understand O---- ----- ----- O U S

5.One who takes care to avoid risks C ---- ----- ---- ----- O U S

6.Extremely large ---- N----- ----- ------ O U S

7.Very polite and respectful C ---- ----- ----- ----- ------ O U S

8.Someone who has a great desire to be very successful in life A ---- ----- -----

----- ---- O U S

Q A list of qualities and emotions is given below in pairs .Separate the pairs and put the appropriate qualities and emotions beside the appropriate face.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Angry /happy Lovable/avoidable Proud/humble Simple/boastful Tense/relaxed

Popular/unpopular Irritable/tolerant Dishonest/ honest insensitive/caring

Friendly /unfriendly sacrificing /self-centered miserly /generous

LEARN THE GIVEN TONGUE TWISTERS AND SAY IT ALOUD WITH YOUR FRIENDS

a) How much wood Would a Wood Chuck Chuck if a Wood Chuck Could Chuck Wood?

b) A tidy tiger tied a tighter tie to tidy her tiny tail.

Write a Book Review of any of the book recently read .

B00K REPORT

TITLE OF THE BOOK : _________________________________________

AUTHOR : ________________________________

CHARACTERS : ___________________________________________

THIS BOOK IS ABOUT:

WRITE THE NAME OF YOUR FAVOURITE CHARACTER FROM THE BOOK. ALSO GIVE THE REASON :

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL, JODHPUR HOLIDAY HOMEWORK (2016-2017)

Class – V Subject – EVS

Note : – Please do all the activities in the scrap book.

Activity 1 Let’s Craft! Let’s Create! We imagine, plan and wish to create a lot of things. Don’t you feel like crafting out some awesome articles or even your own clothes. How exciting it can get if you are given an option of designing and creating new things, using materials of your own choice. You never know! You might just end up discovering something truly amazing and out of this world. But how do we go about it? Let us read a short story about ‘Chester Greenwood’ who designed something very interesting to overcome his problem. ‘Chester Greenwood lived a long time age in Maine. Chester had a problem. His ears got very cold in the winter. He set a goal. He wanted to find a way to keep his ears warm. Chester Greenwood planned to use a heavy wool scarf to stay warm. He tied it around his head. It kept his ears warm. However, the scarf was itchy. He wanted to find a better solution to his problem. He planned again. He made ear flaps to cover his ears. He used different materials and realized wool is the best suitable for earmuffs. Chester made oval loops out of wire. Then he tried to cover the loops with soft materials. This kept his ears warm. With the help of what he had already made, he modified the designed and made a very comfortable band over the ear muffs. a. On the basis of what you just read, let us design something very interesting. You are asked to design a sports uniform for ‘The Sports Day function of your school. What steps would you undertake to make it, you can choose the fabric according to the following criterias • Eco-friendly • Light on the skin • Colourful and Suitable for the weather Give reason as to why you have chosen the particular type of fabric and its advantages. You can present your design in any creative form by giving a different

pattern, making a logo, using bright colour combinations. You can also give a name to the uniform you designed. (Draw it on a A4 size sheet) We shall have a good collection of uniform designs once we are all back to school. We can share our designs, explore the variety and prepare the best one using everyone’s insights.

Activity 2 Read and Understand –

FOOD CHAIN

Things to do :

(a) Collect the pictures and arrange them in any three examples of the Food

Chains.

(b) Find out why every food chain starts with green plants.

Activity 3

Activity 4

Write slogans for the following

(On an A4 size sheet)

roll no.1 to 21—1 and 2

roll no.22 to 42—3 and 4

1. World Wildlife Day - 03 March

2. World Planting Day - 21 March

3. Earth Day - 22 April

4. World Environment Day - 05 June

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DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL, JODHPUR HOLIDAY HOMEWORK (2016-2017)

Class – V Subject – Mathematics

Q 1. Add and Shade :

Q 2. Find the factors of the following numbers:

Q3. What would be the value of , and so the sum of each row and columns sums up to the values shown in the grid below.

Q 4. Decorate the Christmas tree. Colour the multiples of : 3 Yellow, 5 Red and 6 Green

Q 5. Answer the following questions.

1. Which is the smallest even prime number ?

2. Is 3 a factor of 138 ?

3. 𝟖𝟖 𝟕𝟕− 𝟒𝟒

𝟕𝟕 =

4. It takes Julia 𝟑𝟑𝟒𝟒 hour to wash, comb her hair and put on her clothes and 𝟏𝟏

𝟒𝟒

hour to have her breakfast. How much time does it take Julia to get ready for school ?

5. The answer of addition is called _________

6. The predecessor of 7659 is _______________

7. The number one more than the given number is called ______________

8. Dodging Tables : a. 16 X 4 = b. 12 X 8 = c. 15 X 8 = d. 17 X 9 = e. 19 X 9 = f. 18 X 8 = g. 8 X 10 = h. 19 X 0 = i. 20 X 4 = j. 13 X 9 =

9. Solve the following riddles. a. I am more than forty. The sum of digits is eight. My ones’s digit is 1. What am I ?

b. The total of my digits is 19. Both my hundreds and tens digit are multiples of five. My ones digit is 4 + 3 + 2. Who am I ? c. I am an even number. I am less than 90. I am 614 – 542. What am I ?

Q 6. Find the area and perimeter of your maths notebook, maths textbook and dining table.

Q 7. Write and learn tables from 12 to 20.

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

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