GRADE ONE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVITIES

TERM ONE

OUR HOME

A _________is a place where a family lives (tree, home)

One or many _________will make a home (houses, people)

Our home and what is around us make up our _________ (compound, house)

Every home must have a ________ (car, house)

Our home is in ________ estate

Types of houses

A hut is a _________ house (traditional, modern)

A hut has ___________doors (one, two)

Many huts together make a ___________ (homestead)

A place where we store grains is called a __________ (granary, hut)

A__________ is house for the ____________ and ___________ (manyatta, bus, Luo, Maasai, Samburu)

A manyatta is a _______ house (traditional, bad)

__________are many houses in one tall building (flats, stairs)

Flats are mainly found in ________ (towns, villages)

A flat is a _______ house (traditional, modern)

A block of flats is also called_________ (apartment, semi – apartment)

This houses stay for a _________time (short, long)

A camp has many _______ together (tents, huts)

Semi-permanent houses include

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Makuti houses Mabati houses Timber houses Small huts

Permanent houses

This houses stay for a _________ time (long, short)

It is a _________house (modern, traditional)

Permanent house include

Bungalow

Storied houses

Materials used in building

The roof of a hut is made of ___________

The wall of a hut is made of ___________

The floor of s hut is made of ___________

A manyatta is made of ___________and ____________

_________ are used to make a granary

A mabati house is made of ___________

Another name for mabati is ___________

A timber house is made of __________

The roof of a permanent house is made of ___________

The walls of a permanent house is made of ___________

Parts of a house

A house has different parts called __________ (rooms, toilet)

Name the rooms found in your home

Bedroom


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Kitchen Bedroom Bathroom Store Toilet

The sitting room is also called____________

The _______is also called the washing area

A kitchen is also called the _________area

The bedroom is also called the _______area

Uses of different parts of the house

We ____________and rest in the sitting room

When it is time to sleep we go to ___________ (bedroom, store)

When it is time to eat we go to __________ (dining, store)

Food is cooked in the _____ (kitchen, store)

Farm tools are kept in the __________ (toilet, stores)

Tissue paper is found in the ________ (toilet, store)

People sleep in the ________

We wash our bodies in the ________

Importance of houses

Houses protect us from hot sun, heavy clouds and strong winds

Our house keeps us safe from dangerous _________________ (people, trees)

__________are bad people who steal from our houses (thieves, teachers)

A _______person is a person I do not know (mother, stranger)

Birds stay in a _________ (nest, house)


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A dog lives in a _________ (kennel, nest)

SAFETY IN THE HOME

Things found in the home

Some things are found inside the house and others outside the house

Name of some things found in the house

Lamp Broom Chair Jiko Basin Utensils Beds Cupboards

Some animals kept at home

Dog Cat Chicken Pig Donkey Sheep Camel

Uses of things found in the home

A panga is used for ___________

We use a lamp to ____________ (light) up a house

A __________is used to collect rubbish in the compound (jembe, rake)

Peter wants to cut grass; he will use a ______________ (panga, slasher)

We use a ________ to sweep


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We listen to news from the _________

People use _______________to split firewood

Uses of some animals found at home

Donkeys and camels help us to carry ____________ things (heavy bad)

Name 3 animals that give us milk

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Sheep, rabbits and pigs give us___________ (meat, wool)

Match the animals and the meat

Cow mutton

Goat pork

Hen beef

Sheep goat meat

Pig chicken

A sheep give us_______and________

Dangerous objects at home

Some objects are dangerous they can ____________ us (hurt, love)

Do not play with ___________ (toys, fire)

Fire can ___________us or even our houses (burn, wash)

A hot jiko can __________us (burn,)

A dog can _________us and a cat can ___________us (scratch, bite)

Putting things like sticks into electrical sockets can cause_________ (shock, play)


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Playing with matchsticks can cause __________ (fire, rain)

Medicine should be kept away from ___________ (children, teachers)

Broken bottles can __________us (hurt)

Name four sharp objects

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Keeping our homes clean

We sweep the floor to remove __________ (dirt, soap)

We clean utensils to keep away_________and _____________ (rats, dogs, cockroaches)

We should cut long _________around our home (grass, tree)

_________and__________ are some animals that can hide in long grass

We remove cobwebs to keep away __________ (spiders, cows)

Tools are kept safely in the ___________ (kitchen, store)

We should sleep under the _________ (bed, mosquito net)

A fence keeps away_________ from entering the home (friends, strangers)

Dirty toilets have ________ (flies, flowers)

A _________takes care of our home at night (teacher, watchman)

OUR FAMILY


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MEANING OF A FAMILY

A group of people who are related is called ____________ (group, family)

A family has __________and _________

Father and mother are my _______________ (parents, enemies)

Father is a __________parent (male, female)

A ________ is a female parent (mother, father)

A male child is a _______ and a female child is a _____________

In a family we ________one another (love, hate)

Types of families

Nuclear family

It is made up of father, mother and children

__________is the head of the family (father, mother)

A nuclear family has _________parents (one, two)

A single parent family

It has __________parents (one, two)

It is made up of ___________and _____________

Father and _______make up a single family

An extended family

______are members of an extended family


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My grandparents call me __________ (grandchild, sister)

Uncle, aunts, cousins are my _________ (relatives, friends)

A boy will be called ___by his grandparents (granddaughter, grandson)

How family members are related

My parents calls me a ________ or a ________ (son, daughter)

My mother’s sister is my ____________

My father’s mother is my __________

My brothers and sisters child is my ____________

The child of my aunt is my_________________ (uncle, aunt)

My father’s brother is my _________ (uncle, aunt)

Work done by family members

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Our ________pay our school fees

Her work is to tell us stories, she is my _____________

Children should help their parents by

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When work is shared it becomes _________________ (easier, good)

Sharing work makes us __________ (happy, sad)

Family celebrations

A celebration is a _________ (parade, ceremony)

Name three family celebrations


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The day I was born is my _________

In a birthday party people are __________

We celebrate the birth of a child by giving___________ (gifts, stones)

When two people get __________there is a wedding ceremony (money, married)

Wedding celebrations are _________ ceremonies (sad, happy)

When someone dies we go for _________ (wedding, funeral)

A funeral is a ________ceremony (happy, sad)

Religious celebrations

Muslims worship in a ________

Hindus celebrate __________

Christians worship in a ___________

Iddul –fitr is celebrated by __________

Hindus worship in a _________

Christmas is celebrated by ___________

National celebrations

Match the celebrations

Celebration date

New year 1st may

Labour Day 20th October

Madaraka day 25th December

Jamhuri day 26th December


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Mashujaa day 1st June

Christmas day 12th December

Boxing Day 1st January

TERM 2

OUR FAMILY NEEDS AND CHILD RIGHTS

FOOD

Food gives us __________to work and play

We eat food in order to grow _________

Food makes us look __________

We get food from plants and _______________

After eating food we should drink ___________

Water is ___________

We cover our food to keep away ______________

Match the following

Hen pork

Pig fillet

Cow chicken

Fish mutton

Sheep beef

Draw and name three foods we eat

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(Water, strong, animals, soil, energy, life, fat, healthy, water

Clothes

We wear ___________ to cover our bodies

When it is cold we wear_________clothes

In __________places people wear light clothes

Clothes we wear at school are called ______

We use ___________ on a rainy day

Shoes make us look __________

On a muddy day we wear ______________

Draw clothes we wear

(Heavy, light, umbrella, gumboots, smart, warm, clothes, uniform)

Shelter

People live in a _________

Another name for a house is _________

Houses protect us from _________-animals

Houses provide us with__________

We ___________i n houses at night

Every home must have a __________

Name three types of houses

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(Wild, shelter, domestic, sleep, food, toilet, manyatta, stoned house, hut)


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How to meet family needs

To meet family needs we need to ____________

Our parent’s _________to get money

My mother is a __________

A__________sells fish to get money

A__________grows food

A cow gives us _________and___________

A sheep gives us ________and __________

We buy food from the ___________

A cobbler repairs our ________

Revision: basic needs

Name three basic needs___________________________________

Name three sources of water

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Shelter protect us from

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Name three types of food that we eat

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Name three types of clothes we wear


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A person who makes clothes is a ______________

A carpenter uses_________to make a house

Maintaining a happy family

Good behaviour in the family

Good behaviour means _________manners

We should ____________other people

We should not ___________our parents and friends

We say __________when we do something wrong

We say _________when we wake up in the morning

Children should ________their parents

We say ________when people do good things

We say ________- when asking for something

(Good, bad, abuse, respect, love, sorry, good morning, beat, obey, thank you, please

Child rights

A right is a ________ to do something

Children’s right makes them to be treated ___________

All children have a right to __________life

All children need food to __________

Children should go to school

Child _________is when children work for money


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When sick children should be taken to __________

Parents should__________from bad people

(Freedom, well, badly, good, die, labour, hospitals, protect)

OUR SCHOOL

Name of our school

Our school is called __________

People ________in School

A school is a place where we learn to ____________and _____________

Our school is a ____________school

Boys wear __________-and__________ while girls wear____________and _____________ to school

The pupils in our school are ________

Our school was started by _________

(Learn, fight, read, and write, public, private, shirts, skirts, dresses, blouses, boys and girls, boys alone)

Symbols of the school and their importance

School logo

A _____is a symbol of the school

Our school motto is __________

Name two thing found in the logo of our school

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Draw the school logo

Name two things that you can see on the school logo

(Logo, fearing God wisdom begins)


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The flag

This is a __________

The flag of Kenya has ______colours

We stand at _________-while raising the flag

We rise the flag __________and _______________every week

Name the colours of our flag

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Red on our flag shows ___________

Green on our flag means ___________

_____________raises the flag at our school

The Colour on top of the flag is ___________

Flag, 4, 10, attention, ease, Monday, Friday, black, white, red, green, blood, Colour, natural resources,scouts, black)

National anthem

______anthem is sang when raising the flag

National anthem is a ____________-for our country

Name two languages that we use when we sing national anthem

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There are __________verses in the national anthem

Complete the following sentence of the national anthem


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“Oh God of all ___________”

(Church, National, Prayer, English, Kiswahili, 4, 3, Creation)

Revision

Children should _________their parents

Patents and friends should not be __________by children

Good behaviour means good ___________

We should wash our __________after visiting the toilet

Children should wear___________

Children should live in a _________

Children should go to __________to learn

Good children say_____-when they do something wrong (obey, abused, good, hands, sorry, legs,clothes, school, house)

School compound

Our school compound has ____________and____________

We help ourselves in the _____________

In ___________--we are given story books to read

Our school has __________where we go to play at breaktime

We plant ________and__________in our Shamba

We should keep our school compound _________

Draw and name two things found in the school compound

(Classroom, kitchen, dormitory, stores, library, toilet, bush, playground, maize, potatoes, cabbages,coffee, small, clean)

Our school routine


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We go to school from ___________to ______________

I go to school for ___________days in a week

Assembly is also called________

We go for assembly at ____________o clock in the morning

When the bell rings we change the subject

We go for lunch at ____________

After learning we leave school in the _________

(Monday to Sunday, Monday to Friday, 7, 8, school, circle, parade, 5, 9, 10.00am 12.45pm, everymorning, every afternoon)

People in the school and their roles

Some people in the school community are ____________

We have __________teachers in our school

There are _________pupils in our school

My class teacher is called________

The secretary types___________and______________

The __________guards the school during day and night

A __________drives our school bus

Food is cooked from the ____________

(Teachers, cooks, drivers, gateman, secretary, 2, 10, 60, tests, books, exams, 100, 700, kitchen)

Our classroom

Am in class _____________

We learn in the _________room

Name some things found in your classroom

We sit on ________


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In our classrooms desks are arranged into ____________rows

________sits behind in class

The ___________tells us what to do when the teacher is absent

We keep our books in _________after classes

We use _________to clean the blackboard

Name three things you do to keep the classroom clean

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REVISION: OUR SCHOOL

The special song for our school is called__________

Our school motto says________

Write three needs in your school

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The school __________make we look different from other pupils

We should keep our school ____________

The colours of our school uniform are ________and ___________

The name of our head teacher is ___________

Class rules

__________guides us in class

Pupil’smust________the class rules

Name two rules in the class

We should _________our teachers


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The __________help us keep order in the classroom

We clean our school by____________

We ___________our class everyday

We use __________-for sweeping

Name three things you do to keep your classroom clean

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Taking care of things in our classroom/school

We write using _________in school

All children in school write on ____________

The teacher __________the cupboard so that the books cannot be stolen

Before going home we should ___________the windows

Our__________locks the classroom

Tearing books to make toys is ___________

It is bad to play with chairs and tables

A class timetable shows time and___________that we learn everyday

Safety on the way to and from school

Different ways of travelling to school

I go to school by _________

Kama lives far from school; he goes to school by __________

Some pupils ___________to school because they live near the school

Name three ways that we can use to go to school


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Draw two means of travelling to school

How to use the road safely

Road safety means free from___________on the road

Road_________helps us use the road safely

We should __________road signs

We should walk on the _________side of the road

Before crossing the road, look ____________, look_________look____--again and cross if the road isclear

A__________is a person walking on foot

Another name for zebra crossing is ___________

The colours of a zebra crossing are __________-and _____________

Draw and Colour the road signs for

Bus stop

Stop

Dangers of talking and going with strangers

A ___________is a person I don’t know

We should not talk to _____________

Write two things that strangers might do to you

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Write three things we should not accept from strangers


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Strangers can__________to us

We should walk with the other ____________

Gifts from strangers can be __________

Revision

We should cross the road only when it is _________

It is wrong to __________near the road

People we do not know are ____________

We should not get out of a ______________vehicle

Name two ways of travelling to school

Important features on the way to school

Features seen along the way

We see many things on our way to ___________

Things that we see are called __________features

Name three physical features that you see on your way to school

Many trees growing together make a __________

Animals that live in the forest are called __________animals

Name some of the wild animals

A_________has a lot of water

We buy vegetables and fruits from__________


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Draw some things you see when coming to school

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Christians go to __________and Muslims pray in __________

Importance of the features to the people living near our school

We grow plants in a _________

Plants give us ____________

Wild animals are___________because they attract visitors

We get water and fish from a __________

Trees provide a ________for birds and monkeys

Tourists bring a lot of ___________when they visit us

We get ___________from trees in the forest

Visitors who come to see wild animals are called__________

We cross a river using a ____________


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