Class 2 English Mridang Chapter 8, A Show of Clouds (Unit 4: Life Around Us), is a wonder-filled poem where a child lies on their back gazing up at the sky and spots fluffy clouds shaped like a white bear, a sailing ship, and an elephant waving its trunk.
What Class 2 English Chapter 8 Covers
Poem Summary — ‘A Show of Clouds’: Lying on the grass and looking up at the blue sky, the speaker imagines clouds turning into a big white bear, a ship sailing across a sea, and an elephant waving its trunk.
Sky Observation & Creative Imagination: Looking at real clouds or inkblots to describe the animals and objects they resemble, and comparing daytime vs night-time skies.
Rhyming Words & Colouring Activity: Finding rhyming pairs from the poem (back/black, bear/there, sea/me, fun/sun) and creating cotton-wool cloud art.
Exercises in Chapter 8
- Let us Speak (Pages 61–62): Tell what shapes the child saw in the clouds and what you see in the sky during the day and at night.
- Let us Write & Do (Pages 63–65): Match cloud pictures with animal names and fill in rhyming words.
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FAQ
Which three shapes does the child see in the clouds in ‘A Show of Clouds’?
The child sees a big white bear, a ship sailing on a sea, and an elephant waving its trunk.
What makes the clouds look like a ‘show’?
As the wind blows, the moving white clouds keep changing shapes across the blue sky like characters in a stage show.