Class 1 English Mridang Chapter 3, Picture Time (Unit 2: Life Around Us), opens with a forest scene of animals and birds — lion, elephant, monkey, snakes, deer, and peacock — and features two classic counting rhymes: Once I Caught a Fish Alive (1 to 10) and Five Little Monkeys.
What Class 1 English Chapter 3 Covers
Forest Picture Talk — Animals & Birds: Observing and naming animals in the jungle picture (monkey swinging on a branch, two snakes, lion, elephant, squirrel, birds) in English and home languages.
Rhyme 1 — ‘Fun with Numbers’ (Once I Caught a Fish Alive): Counting from ‘One, two, three, four, five, Once I caught a fish alive, Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Then I let it go again’.
Rhyme 2 — ‘Five Little Monkeys’: Reciting the rhythmic rhyme of five little monkeys jumping on a tree and joining A-to-Z dots to draw and colour a bird.
Exercises in Chapter 3
- Let us Speak & Sing (Pages 47–51): Answer the 8 picture-reading questions and sing the two counting rhymes.
- Let us Draw & Do (Pages 50–53): Join letters A to Z in alphabetical order and match rhyming words (tree–knee, alive–five, ten–again).
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- Previous: Chapter 2: Greetings
- Next: Chapter 4: The Cap-seller and the Monkeys
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FAQ
Which counting rhyme from 1 to 10 is included in Chapter 3 Picture Time?
‘One, two, three, four, five, Once I caught a fish alive, Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Then I let it go again.’
What are the monkeys doing in the rhyme ‘Five Little Monkeys’?
Five little monkeys are jumping on a tree when one falls down and bumps his knee.