THE KINDERGARTEN STARTERS, DUBAI Grade 3 Topic Holiday Homework Assignment English

1. Make a scrap book for learning spellings. Every day, read newspaper or a story book and write down at least three new words you come across in your scrap book date wise. Refer dictionary for the meaning and learn the spelling. Also frame sentences using those words. By the end of your vacations you should have learnt spellings of at least 180 new words. Give your scrap book an attractive name like The Spell Bee/Sentence Spring/Three words a day etc. You can also decorate your scrap book. 2. With your parents help learn about blogging. Research on what blogging is and create your own account. Try and make friends with the students from different nationalities within and outside U.A.E and share your viewpoints with them on topics like a. My home country. b. My favourite hobby. c. My favourite sport. d. Benefits of learning without textbooks. e. Endangered animals. f. U.A.E Our Second Home 3. Every Sunday sit with your sibling or any friend and browse through tumble books. Choose and read any story you like and make a note of the characters you came across in the story and write one adjective which best suits the character beside the characters name. If you read one story every Sunday then by the end of the vacation you should have a list of characters from at least 8 stories you read. Compare and contrast any two characters of your choice using a Venn Diagram. Do a character sketch for any 5 characters. Also write about your favourite character, who would you like to be and why? Do this on half of A4 size paper and file it.

Rubrics for the character sketch Criteria

Description of the Character Vocabulary

Described the character independently without help. Used five new words

Described the character Independently with some help. Used three new words to describe the character. Well framed sentences with few spellings and grammatical mistakes

Needed help to describe the character. Used at least two new words to describe the character. Sentences not framed properly with lots of spellings and grammatical mistakes

Sentence Construction

Well framed sentences with no spelling and grammatical mistakes

Math Holiday HW
a) Research on some tessellations found in nature (Bee hive, salmon scales, spider web, cracked dried mud.)

Recognize tessellation as a pattern of shapes that fit perfectly together so that there are no gaps or overlaps. Identify the different tessellations present in nature and draw them on an A4 size paper. Create designs using tessellations. b) Solve the problems using logical reasoning. 1. Malavikas grandfather is 68 years old. Malavika is 17 years old now. What was grandfathers age when Malavika was 5 years old? 2. When Nathan was born, his father was 27 years old. Now Nathan is 10 years old. Nathans mother is 5 years younger to his father. How old is his mother now? 3. The difference of two numbers is 4, and their sum is 28. What are the two numbers? 4. Complete the number pattern a) 420, 421, 423, 426, _________, _________, ___________ b) 3000, 3002, 3005, 3007, 3010, 3012, 3015,_______, _______, ______

5. In the grid below, the sum of the numbers when added horizontally and vertically are the same. Find the values of . 7 12

EVS
Students to make a Herbarium File containing about 5 pages with a beautiful covering page to it. The covering page to have students name, grade, section, school and HERBARIUM FILE written on it. The file should have pages with the following. Pictures of types of plants(medicinal, herbs, aquatic, coastal, desert etc) Dried leaves of different shapes and sizes Types of different seeds(put in small polythene bags) Pictures of types of fruits available around the globe

NOTE: each item should be well labelled. One page to be allotted for each category. Criteria Contents in the file

File includes pages with pictures of types of plants,dried leaves and types of seeds Some pages in the file are well labelled Work presented in a somewhat organized manner

File includes pages with pictures of types of plants and dried leaves

File includes pages with pictures of types of plants,dried leaves,types of seeds and fruits Labelling All the pages in the file are well labelled Organization and Work presented in a presentation of the very neat and work organized manner

Few pages in the file are well labelled Work presented in a very unorganized manner

S.A.V.E
As part of our program S.A.V.E. ( Start a Valuable Endeavour) ask every student to reach out to 5 people anywhere in the world- preferably in different countries like UK, USA, China, New Zealand, Egypt, Lebanon, Russia, Malaysia, Australia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, India etc. Students must spread awareness of the need to conserve water and electricity. They can talk about what they are doing in their homes or school to reduce water and electricity consumption. We will provide data from DEWA which could be attached to the e mails they can send their friends. In turn the friends can share what they do at their end in their own countries and help to spread the message. Conserving water and electricity: Students to get their water and electricity bills for May and June to show the reductions in electricity bills. Spread the message of need for conserving plant life and HAWKSBILL TURTLE on earth( to 5 people across the world) Send them pictures and slogans showing importance of plant life on earth. Flier attached in a separate file. DIGITAL E-PORTFOLIO Please find below the link for steps to the e-portfolio and the sample e-portfolio uploaded in GLG. Click here
An electronic portfolio, also known as an e-portfolio or digital portfolio, is a collection of electronic evidence assembled and managed by students, usually on the Web. Such electronic evidence may include text, files, images, multimedia, blog entries and hyperlinks. E-portfolios are both demonstrations of the student's abilities and platforms for selfexpression and they can maintain dynamically over time. E-portfolio permits varying degrees of audience access, so the same portfolio might be used for multiple purposes.

Hindi Holiday Home

Do Pg No 10,11,13,16,17,24,25,26 from Hindi Grammar Text