# Little Drops of Water

## Overview
The poem "Little Drops of Water" teaches children how small things—like drops of water or grains of sand—can combine to form something mighty, like an ocean or land. It also highlights the importance of kind words and good deeds, suggesting they spread joy and happiness. The chapter uses this theme to explore language skills, drawing, listening, and sensory activities.

## Key Topics Covered

### 1. Let Us Sing (Poem Reading)
- **Poem Lines**:
- *Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.*
- *Little words of love, little acts of kindness, little deeds of warmth spread smiles and happiness.*
- **Message**: Small, positive actions can lead to big results. Encourages values like love, kindness, and cooperation.

### 2. Let Us Speak
- **Word Association Activity**: Students say words that come to mind when they hear “water.”
- **Discussion Task**: Class discussion about different uses of water in daily life.
- **Visual Observation**: Describing day and night based on given pictures.

### 3. New Words Introduced
- **Vocabulary**: mighty, pleasant, kindness, peaceful, ocean.
- **Usage**: Words are introduced through the poem and reinforced through activities.

### 4. Let Us Listen
- **Instruction-Based Colouring**:
- Colour the birds.
- Colour the leaves.
- Colour the plant.
- **Skill Focus**: Listening comprehension and following instructions.

### 5. Let Us Draw
- **Creative Task**: Draw something that would make the Earth more beautiful.
- **Objective**: Encourage imagination and environmental consciousness.

### 6. Let Us Write
- **Matching Activity**:
- Match Column A phrases (e.g., “drops of”) with Column B (e.g., “water”) based on the poem.
- **Usage of “drops of”**: Identifying correct words to pair with "drops" (e.g., oil, milk, water).
- **Fill-in-the-Blanks with Collective Nouns**:
- A cup of milk, a slice of bread, a tube of toothpaste, etc.
- **Sentence Rearrangement**:
- Rearranging jumbled words into proper sentences.
- Examples:
- “Ramona went to school.”
- “They are both wearing black shoes.”

### 7. Let Us Do (Project Work)
- **Sensory Activity**: Touch and identify items in the kitchen with a grainy texture.
- Options include: flour, sugar, rice, salt, wheat.
- **Objective**: Develop sensory vocabulary and experience-based learning.

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## New Words and Simple Definitions

| Word | Simple Definition |
|-----------|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| mighty | Very powerful or strong |
| pleasant | Nice or enjoyable |
| kindness | Being nice and helpful to others |
| peaceful | Calm and quiet |
| ocean | A very large area of salt water covering much of the Earth |

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## Practice Questions

### Easy (3)
1. **What makes the ocean in the poem?**
*Answer*: Little drops of water.
*Explanation*: The poem says small things together make big things.

2. **What spreads happiness according to the poem?**
*Answer*: Little deeds of warmth.
*Explanation*: Small acts of care can make people happy.

3. **Which word in the poem means “very strong”?**
*Answer*: Mighty
*Explanation*: "Mighty" means powerful or big.

### Medium (2)
4. **Rearrange: went / to / school / Ramona**
*Answer*: Ramona went to school.
*Explanation*: The correct sentence starts with the name and follows subject-verb-object order.

5. **What is the opposite of 'peaceful'?**
*Answer*: Noisy or chaotic
*Explanation*: Peaceful means calm; its opposite is loud or disorderly.

### Difficult (3)
6. **Why do you think the poet compares little acts of kindness to drops of water?**
*Answer*: Because just like drops make oceans, small acts of kindness can make the world better.
*Explanation*: The poet uses a metaphor to show how little actions have big impact.

7. **Fill in the blank: A __________ of toothpaste**
*Answer*: tube
*Explanation*: Toothpaste is stored in a tube.

8. **Which of the following can be described using 'drops of'? a) rice b) oil c) bread**
*Answer*: oil
*Explanation*: "Drops" are used for liquids like oil or water.

### Very Difficult (2)
9. **Create a sentence using the word 'kindness'.**
*Answer*: Her kindness to the animals made everyone smile.
*Explanation*: Shows use of the word in a meaningful context.

10. **Imagine you are a drop of water. Write one sentence about what you do.**
*Answer*: I join with other drops to make a stream that flows to the ocean.
*Explanation*: Encourages imagination and applies poem concept.

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