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General
Solid Steps
Solid Steps
This General Awareness Course Book will introduce young learners to the world around
them, ignite their curiosity, and lay the foundation of a lifelong journey of learning and
understanding relationships between people, and that of the people with their surroundings.
Help Jai and Sia find their way to school. School plays an
Get Rolling: A warm-up
activity to tap on the
prior knowledge of the
learners, ignite curiosity
and set the stage for the
chapter
I Explore: The main
text of the chapter that
follows a story-based
approach; the main
characters Mini and
Robi take the learners
on journey filled with
new experiences
I Wonder: Thoughts or
questions that spark natural
curiosity in the learners
Awareness
I Practise: End-of-chapter Now I Know: Recap of
main points
questions in multiple
I Practise formats that help
A. Write ‘L’ for living things and ‘NL’ for non-living things.
sum-up the concepts
covered through Now I Know
the story • People living in the neighbourhood are our neighbours.
• The area around our house is called the neighbourhood.
• A neighbourhood can have banks, schools, hospitals, a post office, a fire
station and a police station.
What to Know: An overview • We should keep our neighbourhood clean.
of the theme or the main My New Words
Let’s Go to School
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idea of the chapter : a person who lives next door, or close by to your
house
My New Words: mela : a celebration in which people come together to
enjoy rides, eat and enjoy
Get Rolling What to Know Things Around Us
What to Know
Glossary of new words neighbourhood : the area that surrounds your house
our lives. We need to 145 in the text with their fair : an event in which people gather to visit stalls to
important role in
know why we should
look at and buy goods
go to school and
what it is that we Learning Objectives: contextual meanings ambulance : a vehicle
learn from school.
restaurant
Measurable statements Let Me Take You Around contest : a place where people pay to sit and eat food
: competition
Learning that outline what learners 88 litter : throwing waste such as paper and bottles in the
Objectives
to analyse why going to open
school is important
to recognise different are expected to learn by I Connect: Fosters interdisciplinary
helpers in school
to correlate different learning and provides learners
places in school with the end of the chapter
different activities
to identify what
amounts to bullying with opportunities to integrate
to devise ways in which
bullying can be handled
to discuss safety rules
to be followed in knowledge and skills from different
classroom and school Fun Time: Hands-on, project-based
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subjects, helping learners see tasks — from completing information
connections between seemingly in an Identity Card to art-integrated
unrelated topics; promotes a activities — culminate the learning
Factopedia: Interesting holistic understanding of both process and help retain topics better
snippets of information the content and its real-world
I Explore
Robi marks 5 March on the calendar. ‘Two Factopedia offering learners a place applications
days to go for Holi!’ he says. Holi is his
Just like Lohri,
Onam is also a
favourite festival. Robi and I help his father
make safe, dry colours from flowers. We will harvest festival. It is to access reliable facts
play with colours and pichkaris. My mother celebrated in Kerala. Safe Circle
will make sweet gujiya. On the evening before Snake boat races Fun When we feel sad, we must talk about it to the people
Holi, we will set up a bonfire and pray that are held during this about a variety of topics Time we love and feel safe with.
festival.
Holi brings us good luck.
Robi’s grandfather is here for Holi.
‘I’ll make the bonfire with old wood,’ he I Connect Take a chart paper. With the help from your parents/
teacher, paste the pictures of the people whom you
says. This reminds me of Lohri, which is Happy Days love and can talk to about anything. This is your safe
circle. Display it in the class.
celebrated on 13 January every year. 109 Take a string and measure yourself from the top of your head to your feet. You can make your safe circle like the one shown below.
Take help from your elders to do this activity. Cut the string making sure it is
We make a bonfire on Lohri and sing
songs around it. We eat peanuts and the same height as you and write your responses.
My Safe Circle
sweets made of sesame and jaggery. 1. Write the names of any three
things in your classroom that are
shorter than your string.
a. ____________________________
b. ____________________________
c. ____________________________
2. Write the names of any three
things in your classroom that are
My best friend is Robi Roy. His parents named him Robi. longer than your string. Let’s Make a Doughman
Their family name is Roy. a. ____________________________
Robi has brown hair.
His favourite word is ‘Please’. Ask Me: While reading b. ____________________________
When Robi says ‘please’ and smiles, he gets what 25
he asks for politely. questions to develop c. ____________________________
His parents feel he is the best I Am Unique 3. Is your string longer or shorter than the string of your best friend?
boy in the world.
Ask Me critical thinking and 10
Look at everyone in your class. Write one thing My string is ____________________ than the string of my best friend.
I wonder what about yourself that is similar to that of the other forge a real-life connect
students in your class.
our world
would be like if _______________________________________________________
we were all
_______________________________________________________
the same! Write one thing that makes you special.
_______________________________________________________
Robi likes to play Snakes and Ladders 1 . I like to play Ludo 1 . We can never
decide which one to play. So, let’s open a gateway to exploration, discovery and the joy of learning!
I Am Unique
2
Snakes and Ladders and Ludo are names of popular board games that are played by two to four players
1.
using dice and game pieces.