Chapter 4 of Class 5 English Santoor, The Wise Parrot, is an insightful folk tale about a rich merchant’s beloved talking parrot who longs to fly free in the jungle. When the merchant travels to a forest and delivers a message to the parrot’s wild flock, a wild bird drops from its branch as if … Read more
Chapter 5 of Class 5 English Santoor (Unit 3: Water), The Frog, is a lively poem narrated by a frog who sits in ponds and rain, grew from a tiny swimming tadpole, catches insects with a flick of his sticky tongue, Croaks happily in muddy water, and leaps high while hiding from hungry snakes. What … Read more
Chapter 6 of Class 5 English Santoor, What a Tank!, takes readers on a fascinating journey across India to explore both centuries-old community rainwater harvesting systems — Tamil Nadu’s Ooranis, Wayanad’s Panam Keni palm-stem wells, and Rajasthan’s underground Tankas — and the colourful, sculpted overhead water tanks on rooftops across rural Punjab. What Class 5 … Read more
Chapter 7 of Class 5 English Santoor (Unit 4: Ups and Downs), Gilli Danda, is an energetic poem celebrating one of India’s oldest and most loved traditional outdoor games. With just a long wooden stick (danda) and a tapered wooden peg (gilli), friends gather in the open ground to flick, strike, and send the gilli … Read more
Chapter 8 of Class 5 English Santoor, The Decision of the Panchayat, narrates a classic story of rural justice where a hardworking farmer buys a well from his cunning neighbour, only for the neighbour to demand extra payment for the water inside the well. The village Panchayat resolves the dispute with a brilliant, fair ruling … Read more