Name the flowering plants. Which Akhila and Salima saw.
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Both saw different flowering plants and plucked some flowers.
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Name the flowering plants seen by Akhila and Salima.
Which flowers would they have plucked?
Write down the names of some other flowering plants you know.
What might Akhila and Salima have done with the flowers?
When and for what purpose do we use flowers?
Not only flowering plants but also vegetables and fruits are grown at Salima's
house. Look at the picture and observe them.
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Know the details of the plants that are grown in the houses of your friends.
Fill in the table with the particulars.
Name of the friend Names of the plants that are grown
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Which plants are grown in most of the houses?
Which plants are grown in least of the houses?
Generally, different plants are grown in the open court yard of the house.
Some people don't have open space in front of their houses. How do such people
grow plants? What plants do they grow?
Akhila and Salima went outside to play. All the children were playing under the
banyan tree. The trees like tamarind, neem are also there along with the
banyan tree. Akhila and Salima play there along with the children.
What are the uses of trees? Think…….
Do all trees look alike?
Akhila and Salima observed the leaves, branches
and stems of various plants in the garden. Some are
big in size and some are small. Some plants have smaller leaves and
others have longer and broader leaves. Which trees will have smaller leaves
and which will have bigger leaves? Name the trees that are large and give us
shade. Akhila saw a tall palm tree outside their house and exclaimed, "How
tall the tree is!"
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Different types of plants and trees grow around us. Are they all of the
same height? Some of these grow less than your height. Some grow
up to your height. And some grow more than your height. Identify
such plants and trees and write in the table.
Plants that grow less Plants that grow Plants that grow more
than your height about your height than your height
The trees such as, banyan, tamarind, neem, mango, etc., are big in size with
many branches. They give us shade. That is why these are grown along the side of
the roads. The leaves, flowers and fruits of these trees are useful to us. We get wood
from the trees. Many things are made with wood. Palm tree grows tall without branches.
The leaves of the palm trees are used as the roofs of the huts.
Think and tell your friends the uses of different trees.
Why should we grow trees?
There is a mango tree in Akhila's garden.
Do you know the uses of a mango tree? Pickles
are prepared with mangoes. We eat
mango fruits. People
decorate their houses
with the leaves of
mango tree during
festivals. They tie
the swing to the
mango tree and
enjoy swinging.
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You have learnt the uses of the mango tree. What are the uses of the
trees given below? Discuss in groups and write.
Coconut Tree Neem Tree
The trees that do not grow around us:
We eat different fruits. Some of these trees grow in our area, whereas the
other fruit bearing trees may not grow in our area. Akhila likes to eat apples. But she
has never seen the apple tree. Write down the names of the fruit trees you have
never seen.
APPLE
TREE
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Water plants, desert plants :
Salima and Akhila went along with their friends to the farm. They saw lotus
flowers in the pond nearby. Fisherman, Somaiah plucked the lotus flower and gave it
to them. On the way home, Akhila stopped by a plant. She said,"Look at this plant,
how funny it looks! It has no leaves and there are so many thorns. Which plant is
this?” What Salima might have replied? Guess :
Observe the pictures given below :
Water - Lilly Lotus
Aloevera Plant (Kalabanda) Cactus (Brahmajemudu)
The plants like water-lily and lotus grow in water. They are called water plants.
cactus and aloevera grow in sandy soils and places with less water. These are called
desert plants.
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Banyan tree Palm tree
Height
Leaves
Branches
Key words
1. Uses of trees 2. Adoption of plants 3. Plants grown at houses
4. Plants grown outside5. water plants 6. Desert plants
What have we learnt?
Different plants grow in our localities.
The plants around us are different. Some grow very tall. Some are
very short. Some are small in size.
Trees like neem grow bigger with branches. Trees like palm grow
taller without branches.
There are many uses of trees. We get flowers, fruits and wood
from trees.
Some trees do not grow in our surroundings. But we use the flowers,
fruits and wood of these trees.
The plants like cactus, aloevera grow in sandy soils. These are
called desert plants.
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