# This is My Town

## Overview
In this chapter, students explore their surroundings by learning to describe the layout of their town, street, house, and room using simple and repetitive sentence structures. The focus is on vocabulary development, spatial understanding, and creative engagement through drawing, writing, and listening exercises.

## Key Topics Covered

### 1. Let Us Read
- The main text presents a cascading description starting from a town down to a flower basket.
- **Structure**:
- Town → Street → House → Room → Bed → Basket → Flowers
- **Purpose**: To help children understand spatial hierarchy and use the preposition "in" accurately.

### 2. Sight Words Introduced
- Focus on frequently used words:
- *in*, *this*, *that*, *there*, *my*
- **Objective**: To increase familiarity with high-frequency English words.

### 3. Vocabulary Building
- New words introduced:
- *train*, *town*, *street*, *house*, *flower*, *basket*
- **Activity**: Children form words from letter sets and frame sentences using them.

### 4. Writing Activity
- **Task**: Students write their own home address including:
- Name/House Number
- Street
- Area
- Town
- State
- Country
- **Objective**: To encourage self-awareness and personal identity in written expression.

### 5. Listening Activity
- Children listen to words spoken by the teacher and identify the correct words from each row.
- **Examples**:
- fan vs fin
- wall vs well
- house vs mouse
- lane vs line
- skin vs swim
- **Purpose**: Improve auditory discrimination and vocabulary understanding.

### 6. Fun with Letters
- Letter frequency activity:
- Count how many times certain letters appear in the poem (*e*, *u*).
- **Objective**: Reinforce letter recognition and counting skills.

### 7. Observation Skill Activity
- Spot the differences between two images.
- **Objective**: Enhance attention to detail and visual discrimination.

### 8. Creative Drawing
- Children are encouraged to complete an incomplete image using their imagination.
- **Objective**: Stimulate creativity and spatial understanding.

### 9. Speaking and Pronunciation
- Listening to words like *shirt*, *shell*, *shoe* and pointing to correct objects.
- Writing activity focuses on the blend “sh”:
- shining, shorts, shirt, shawl, shoes
- **Objective**: Reinforce phonics and pronunciation with familiar objects.

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## New Terms and Their Meanings

| Term | Simple Definition |
|----------|--------------------------------------------------------|
| town | A place where people live and work, bigger than a village |
| street | A road in a town or city |
| house | A building where people live |
| room | A part of a house like a bedroom or kitchen |
| basket | A container used to hold or carry things |
| flower | A colorful part of a plant, often with a nice smell |

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## Practice Questions

### Easy (3)

1. **Fill in the blank**: There is a ___ in the basket.
*Answer*: flower
*Explanation*: The story says “There are some flowers in the basket.”

2. **Circle the sight word**: this, blue, run
*Answer*: this
*Explanation*: "this" is one of the sight words taught in the lesson.

3. **Choose the correct word**: A ___ is in the room. (bed/bus)
*Answer*: bed
*Explanation*: The poem mentions a bed in the room.

### Medium (2)

4. **Write a sentence using the word ‘town’**.
*Answer*: This is my town.
*Explanation*: This sentence is from the story, helping children use the word contextually.

5. **Find and write two words that have ‘sh’ sound from the story.**
*Answer*: shirt, shoes
*Explanation*: These were part of the phonics practice in the story.

### Difficult (3)

6. **Rearrange to form a correct sentence**: bed / on / is / the / basket / the
*Answer*: The basket is on the bed.
*Explanation*: Rearranging helps children understand sentence structure.

7. **Write the full address of your home.**
*Answer*: [Personal response varies]
*Explanation*: Encourages children to think about and express their own identity in writing.

8. **Write 3 sentences with ‘in’, ‘on’, and ‘under’.**
*Answer*:
- The flowers are in the basket.
- The basket is on the bed.
- The cat is under the chair.
*Explanation*: This checks understanding of prepositions.

### Very Difficult (2)

9. **Imagine and draw what could be around the house in your street. Then write three sentences about your drawing.**
*Answer*: [Student's own drawing and sentences]
*Explanation*: Integrates art with language learning and spatial awareness.

10. **Listen to these words: fan, fin, wall, well. Write the pairs of similar sounding words.**
*Answer*: fan–fin, wall–well
*Explanation*: Enhances auditory discrimination and phonetic understanding.

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