The Rainbow — Textbook

[Image Description: A vibrant, seven-coloured rainbow arching across the sky.]

Unit 3: My Colourful World

5. The Rainbow

Pre-reading

Let us sing with action:

[Image Description: White fluffy sheep grazing on a rolling green hill under a blue sky.]

White Sheep, White Sheep,

On a blue hill,

When the winds stops,

You all stand still.

When the winds blow,

You walk away slow.

White Sheep, White Sheep

Where do you go?

[Image Description: A male teacher wearing glasses and holding textbooks, standing beside a note pinned with a paperclip.]

Note to the Teacher:

• Sing the rhyme with action. Students listen and follow.

• Act out the song twice or thrice.

• Ask the following questions to check learners' comprehension:

• Didn't you enjoy singing the song?

• Who are the sheep in the poem?

• Clouds in the sky look like different animals and birds... Do you like them?

• Here is a poem about a bridge in the sky. Let's read and know what it is.

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While-reading

The Text

Let us Recite

[Image Description: Boats and ships sailing on blue water beneath a sky with clouds and a colorful rainbow curving over trees.]

Boats sail on the rivers,

And ships sail on the seas;

But clouds that sail across the sky

Are prettier far than these.

There are bridges on the rivers,

As pretty as you please;

But the bow that bridges heaven,

And overtops the trees,

And builds a road from earth to sky,

Is prettier far than these.

— Christina Rossetti

[Image Description: Illustration of a teacher with an instructional note.]

Note to the Teacher:

• Recite/Read the poem aloud two times, students listen with their books closed.

• Ask a few general questions to check the learner's listening comprehension such as:

• What is the poem about?

• What colour is the rainbow?

• Tell some words you have listened in the poem.

• Read the poem aloud for the third time and the fourth time. Students will listen and follow the poem in their books.

• Allow students to read the poem aloud two times and help them if they need.

• Allow students to read the poem silently and understand.

• Ask comprehension questions after they have completed silent reading.

New Words:

• sail : travel
• overtops : is above
• bow : rainbow
• pretty : attractive, beautiful

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Let us Discuss

1. What sail on rivers?
2. What sail on the seas?
3. What sail across the sky?
4. What are the boats and ships compared to?
5. What are the rivers and seas compared to?
6. Which are prettier — the boats sailing on rivers or the clouds sailing across the sky?
7. Where are the bridges? Do they look pretty?
8. What does 'the bow' in the poem refer to?
9. What builds a road from earth to sky?
10. What is the rainbow compared to?
11. Which is prettier — the bridge on a river or the rainbow across the sky?
12. Which things in the poem are made by nature?
13. Which things in the poem are man-made?
14. Which things are more beautiful — the things made by man or the things made by nature?
15. State whether the following are True or False: (a) Ships sail on the river. (b) Boats sail on the sea. (c) Bridges are built on rivers. (d) A road is built from earth to sky.
16. Choose the correct alternative. Put a tick (✓) against the correct option. Which one is the prettiest of all? [ ] Rainbow [ ] Ship [ ] Cloud [ ] Boat

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Post-reading

VISUAL MEMORY DEVELOPMENT TECHNIQUE (VMDT)

• Whole: on tops of trees, boats, from earth to sky, ships, clouds,
• Part: second stanza: bow, rivers, builds a road, prettier

Let us Listen and Speak:

1. Sit in a circle and listen to the words read aloud by your teacher. Give five rhyming words for each word as indicated:

• ship — chip, trip, ____, ____, ____
• tree —
• rain —
• sun —
• sea —
• sail —
• and —
• sky —
• far —

Note to the Teacher:

• Draw learners' attention to the aspect of sound. The focus should be on the sound and not on the spelling.
• You may select more words according to the level of your learners.

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Recite the poem given below in three ways:

a. In a happy voice

b. In an angry voice

c. In a surprised voice

1. Colours

[Image Description: A set of colorful crayons lying together.]

You have a few crayons,

Red, yellow and blue.

Green, purple and black,

I have some too.

I need the red

and you need the black.

If we share our crayons,

we have a full pack!

[Image Description: A teacher holding a book next to a note.]

Note to the Teacher:

You may recite another poem in 'different' voices to demonstrate different emotions. Ask learners about feelings that the person reciting the poem is trying to convey. Draw their attention towards gestures and expressions. Learners may recite the poems individually or in pairs.

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Let us read

1. Read and enjoy this poem and know how the rainbow was born.

[Image Description: A rainbow appearing from soft clouds with tiny fairy figures.]

The Rainbow Fairies

Two little clouds, one summer's day,

Went flying through the sky,

They went so fast, they bumped their heads,

And both began to cry.

Old father sun looked out and said:

"Oh, never mind, my dears,

I'll send my little fairy folk

To dry your falling tears."

One fairy came in violet,

And one wore indigo,

In blue, green, yellow, orange, red,

They made a pretty row.

They wiped the cloud-tears all away,

And then from out the sky,

Upon a line the sunbeams made,

They hung their gowns to dry.

— L. M. Hadley

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2. Given below are the lines of the second stanza of the poem, 'The Rainbow'. The lines are not in order. Put the serial numbers of the lines in the boxes. One is done for you.

• But the bow that bridges heaven, [ ]
• And overtops the trees, [ ]
• Is Prettier far than these. [ ]
• There are bridges on the rivers, [ 1 ]
• As pretty as you please; [ ]
• And builds a road from earth to sky, [ ]

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Let us Write

1. A word joins a 'friend word' to make a new word, as shown below. Look at the pictures and fill in the blanks with the correct words.

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2. Rearrange the letters to form a meaningful word from the poem. Write them in the space provided.

• (i) Sial — SAIL
• (ii) vierr — ______
• (iii) sae — ______
• (iv) oduscl — ______
• (v) risebgd — ______
• (vi) nhveea — ______
• (vii) eoptvros — ______
• (viii) owb — ______
• (ix) droa — ______

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3. There are seven colours in a rainbow. Complete the colours of the rainbow in this cross-word puzzle with the help of clues given below.

Clues:

1. A mixture of blue and purple colours
2. A mixture of blue and red colours
3. The colour of the sky
4. The colour of a leaf
5. The colour of a ripe mango or banana or lemon
6. The colour of the setting sun. It is also the name of a fruit
7. The colour of blood or fire

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4. Given below is a poem on Rainbow written by a child of your age (You can also write one.) Some words and lines in it are missing. Read the poem and fill in the blanks choosing words or lines provided in the box below.

Rainbow! ______

When and how do you

Come to the ______?

But you live for a short while

And away you fly!

Where from you

Get your ______?

Violet, ______

Red and ______

Yellow, ______ and indigo.

But why don't you live long in the sky?

______?

(Words: colours, orange, blue, rainbow, sky, green. | Line: Why? Why? And why?)

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5. (i) Write the opposites of the following words in the space provided. All your answers must begin with an 'S'.

• a. large × small
• b. weak × s______
• c. fast × s______
• d. rough × s______
• e. dull × s______
• f. curved × s______
• g. finish × s______
• h. addition × s______
• i. complicated × s______
• j. mild × s______
• k. blunt × s______

Now, make sentences using the words that you have written in the blanks. Write them in your notebook.

(ii) In small groups, choose a letter of the English alphabet and create an exercise similar to the one above.

Note to the Teacher:

• Learners may require support with vocabulary, which can be provided during the activity.
• A dictionary may be brought to the class for reference.

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6. (i) Read the following sentences and mark the underlined words:

• Boats sail on rivers.
• You can also see boats in Chilika Lake.
• Chilika is in Puri District.
• Radhanath Ray wrote a wonderful poem on Chilika.

The underlined words are naming words:

• Boat — name of a thing
• Chilika — name of a lake
• Puri — name of a place
• Radhanath Ray — name of a person

These naming words are Nouns. Names of people, places, things, animals, birds, etc. are Nouns.

(ii) Now, read the following passage and underline the 'Nouns' in it:

Cricket is a wonderful game. Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar is a cricket champion. He scored his 100th international century at Mirpur of Bangladesh. He lives in Mumbai. He used powerful bats of a famous company first.

Note to the Teacher:

• Help learners to identify the naming words / Nouns.
• You may help them to identify other nouns like—game, century, bats, company etc.

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7. Write answers to the following questions, each in a sentence or two:

• (i) What sails on rivers?
• (ii) What sails on seas?
• (iii) What sails across the sky?
• (iv) What builds a road from earth to sky?
• (v) Which things in the poem are made by nature?
• (vi) Which things in the poem are man-made?

Mental Talk

God-made things are more beautiful than man-made things.

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Let us Do

1. Do you know these colour combinations? Colour within the outline and write the name of the new colour:

• a. [Red circle] + [Blue circle] = p _ _ _ _ e
• b. [Yellow circle] + [Blue circle] = g _ _ _ _ n
• c. [Red circle] + [Yellow circle] = o _ _ _ _ e
• d. [Red circle] + [White circle] = p _ _ k
• e. [Red circle] + [Black circle] = m _ _ _ _ n
• f. [Red circle] + [Yellow circle] + [Blue circle] = b _ _ _ _ n

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2. The following items, generally found in kitchens, add colour and taste to the food. What colours are they? Write them in the column. What do you call them in your mother tongue?

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Just for Fun

Riddle

I am big, I am small, I am short,

I am tall.

I follow you, but not at night.

Unless you are carrying a light.

Who am I?