THE STORY OF FOOD-TEXT

THE STORY OF FOOD

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

CLASS III-CBSE

Food – a fact of life. We all need to eat and drink everyday. To grow, to energy, to be healthy. We need a range of different types of food.

Food we eat- fruits, vegetables, cereals, pluses, nuts, healthy food and junck food. A plant or apart of a plant is used for food is called as vegetables. They provide us a lot of carbohydrates, proteins and vitamin.

Fruit is a part of plant which contain seed. fruits are liked and eaten by many people. Fruit helps to stay strong and healthy.They gives us lot of vitamin.

Cereals are rich in nutrients. they  grown from grass type of plants. They are high carbohydrates, proteins, and minerals.We make idli, dosa, rotis and bread.

Pluses are rich in nutrients. They are grown in climber type plants. They are rich in proteins.We make dal, sambar, curry with them.They help us to grow strong.ex:bean, black grams etc.

Nuts are fruits with hard cover shell. sometimes dried seeds are also called nuts. Nuts give us a lot of energy. They are a healthy snack. ex;  almonds, chesews.

Healthy eating means eating a variety of foods that give you the nutrients you need to maintain your health, feel good, and have energy. These nutrients include protein, carbohydrates, fat, water, vitamins, and mineral.

Junk food always consists of extra fats and calories. It is very hard to digest it  containing high levels of calories from sugar or fat with little protein, vitamins or minerals.

We uses integrate such vegetables, pluses, onions, spices in cooking meals.We get fruits and vegetables from. Our father will buy from market. Because we eat different types of in a day.

We need lots of different foods to eat.We eat bread puris, idllis egg and milk in the morning breakfast.We take rice, dal, curry, curd in lunch time. We take chapattis, fruits and vegetables salads a very light food in dinner time.

All living thing need food to grow, to energy, to healthy.Eating fruit and vegetables can help protect against some diseases including diabetes.

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N.NANDITHA

REFERENCE BOOKS:
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SHARING OUR FEELINGS-TEXT

SHARING OUR FEELINGS

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

CBSE CLASS III

After returning home from school, there are two people with whom I like to share all my news. They enjoy listening to my tales.

The first person is my nani. She is always anxious to listen to me. She waits for me to return from school. She is quite old and often has back pains. She cannot see or hear well.

Everyday in the morning, papa reads the newspaper aloud to her. She

does the rest of her work herself. If someone tries to help her she gets very upset. Though she cannot see properly she is very fond of cutting vegetables. She says – these days children do not know how to cut vegetables properly.

The second person is my Ravi bhaiya. He lives with us. I call him Ravi bhaiya and he calls my parents –bhaiya-bhabhi. I do not our relationship is but he is a very loving brother. He is always ready to answer my questions. He never says – I will tell you later.

Ravi bhaiya teaches in a college. The students of the college respect him a lot. A few of them come home to study from him. Ravi bhaiya is very fond of listening to music and taking part in plays. He enjoys chatting with his friends and going out with them. He has a good sense of humour and makes all of us laugh.

Bhaiya carries a white stick when he goes out. Looking at him, moving around in the house, no one can say that he cannot see. He likes to do all his work himself. If someone tries to help him against his wish he gets angry. Whenever he needs any help, he asks for it.

Some of Bhaiya’s students take books from him and return them after recording them on tapes. Ravi bhaiya listens to these tapes. Bhaiya has many other books too. The pages of these books are thick and have rows of raised points (dots). He reads by running his fingers on the raised dots. To have fun with bhaiya, I sometimes change the place of his stick. He does get upset but never gets angry.

After all, I am his favourite sister – Seema. I had hardly reached the door that bhaiya spoke up – Seema, you seem to be very happy today. Bhaiya  recognises not only me but all the other family members from the sound we make as we move.

He can even tell whether I am happy or sad. Bhaiya ! Finally I am in the football team – I shared my news with him. He patted me and said lovingly – From today, you are my football coach!

Is there any member in your family who cannot see, speak or hear ? How do people help them with their work? Blind children who are blind could recognize the others by touching? Close your eyes and listen. By just smelling can you guess if it is some close to you.

You read in the story that Ravi bhaiya cannot see. But he does all his work on his own. He studies from a different kind of books. To understand how he is able to do his work, close your eyes and play this game.

There is a special way of reading and writing for people who cannot see. It is called Braille. It is written on a thick paper by making a row of raised points (dots) with a pointed tool. Braille is read by running the fingers on the raised dots.

LouisBraille belonged to France. One day, when he was three years old, he was playing with his father’s tools. Suddenly, a pointed tool hurt his eyes. He lost his eyesight.

He had keen interest in studies. He did not give up. He kept thinking of

different ways to read and write. Finally he found a way – reading

by touching and feeling. This way of reading later came to be known as the Braille script.

In this type of a script, a row of raised dots are made on a thick paper. Because these dots are raised they can be read by running the fingers on them. This script is based on six points.

The Braille script has undergone many changes these days. This has made reading and writing simpler. Braille can now also be written using the computer.

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N.NANDITHA

WORK WE DO-TEXT

WORK WE DO

HERE COMES ALETTER

ENVIRONMENTALSTUDIES

Like other days, Balbir reached the tea stall after his breakfast. His brother Satvinder who had come from the village was also with him. The worker at the tea stall gave him a cup of tea and said – Here is today’s newpaper. How do you spend your whole day sitting here? Don't you get

bored – asked Satvinder.

Oh no! One does not realise how the time flies. Look at that group of children. As usual, they are late for school. Everyone is running ! The teacher is also late today. Oh! it seems her sandal has broken. She is going to Jaggu Bhai, to get it repaired.

 It’s good for him, he will get some money early in the morning.

Champa is sitting there with her basket full of flowers. The lady working in the post-office buys flowers from her everyday. The construction work has started again.

The truck is bringing materials. The workers will again be busy the whole day. Look there, the doctor and the nurse are entering the hospital together.

See Ramulu with his fruita – cart. These days he also brings Chinamma with him. Chinamma runs around – delivers fruits and collects money.

Nanu, the barber has laid out his shop – but whom will he shave?

Right in the middle of the crossing stands Iqbal Singh. Throughout the day, he blows his whistle and keeps shouting – move your vehicle from here, whee _ _ ee _ _ ee _ _, Hey, have you not heard me _ _ take the cart away.

Doctor these are doctors they work in hospital. They treat and examine patients.

Policeman: These are policeman they work in police station. They catch theifs.

Teachers: teachers are work in school. We learn many things from our teacher.

Nurses: they work in hospitals. They gave vaccination and ingestions.

Farmers: they work in fields. Grow vegetables and crops.

Barber: barber cut our hair.

Soldiers are army man: They works on the border of our country. Provide security & safety from the enemies of our country.

Post man: he works in post office. He deliver letter, money-orders, and speedposts.

Lawyers: they work in courts. they were black color dress.

Deepali is also one such girl who does not go to school. Let us read about her, Deepali is the eldest child in her family. Her father sells vegetables. He leaves for the mandi very early in the morning. Her mother washes utensils in some houses.

She also leaves for work early in the morning. Deepali cooks food for her brothers and sisters. She cleans the house and also washes the utensils. She is very fond of listening to the radio.

She listens to songs while she works. After finishing the work at home she goes to leave her brother with their father. She then takes her younger sisters, Suman and Sheila to school.

After that Deepali helps her mother in her work. In the afternoon, she brings her brother and sisters back home. In the evening she plays with other children in the neighbourhood.

 Her mother comes back home late in the evening. Deepali helps her mother cook dinner for the family. Her father comes home very late at night.

At night Deepali loves to lie in bed and read her sister's school books. She has studied upto class three. Three years back when her little brother was born she had to stay back home to take care of him. She could not study any more. She feels that reading books helps her to relax. Given a chance, even today, she would like to go back to school.

THANK YOU,

N.NANDITHA

HERE COMES A LETTER-TEXT

HERE COMES ALETTER

ENVIRONMENTALSTUDIES

CBSE CLASS III

I am a letter. A letter written with a pen and paper by Reena to her friend Ahmed. I was put in a letter box. The postman took me out and put me in a big bag.

Taking a ride on the postman’s bicycle, I reached the post office. There, I was taken out of the big bag and stamped hard. The stamp was of Agartala, from where my travel began.

After getting stamped I reached another big bag. This bag had many more letters, all heading for Delhi. The red postal van dropped me at the railway station. There I got into a train going to Delhi.

After a long journey of five to six days I reached Delhi. I was sorted as per the area mentioned in the address written on me. One more stamp was put on me. Finally, the postman dropped me at Ahmed’s house. Drop your letters in the letter-box. Now wait to receive the letter written to you by your friend.

One child will act as a postman. He or she will take out the letters from the letter-box and distribute them to all the children. Did you enjoy reading your friend’s letter?

Just as you wrote a letter to your friend, in the same way, your friends and relatives must also be sending letters to you. Bring some letters from home to school.

See how many different types of letters are there. Examples including appreciation letters, job applicationletters, employee letters, reference letters, thank you letters, and more.  Indian Post Office was established in 1837, Asia's first adhesive stamp, the Scinde Dawk, was introduced in 1852 by Sir Bartle Frere,

A post office is a customer service facility forming part of national postal system. Post offices offer mail-related services such as acceptance of letters and parcels; provision of post office boxes; and sale of postage stamps, packaging, and stationery.

postage stamps are the little pieces of coloured paper that you stick on your letters to show the Post Office you have paid to have them delivered to their destination. What more is to be said about them? Well, a lot more actually so take a moment to think a bit about stamps!

The first ever postage stamp was the famous Penny Black. It was issued in 1840 and showed the head of the monarch of the time, Queen Victoria. The stamp showed that payment had been made for delivering the letter.What is this! What are Razia and her Aapaa saying to each other about letter? Aapaa, do you know – today we learnt about the journey of a letter in the class. I want to write a letter to nani.

You can write a letter! I am going to make a phone call. If you want,

you can also come along. Razia and Aapaa went out to make a phone call from a shop in the village. Aapaa dialled the phone number and both of them talked to nani. They gave money to the shopkeeper and

returned home happily. What is this! What are Razia and her Aapaa saying to each other about letter?

In 1870 telegraph and telephone are both wire-based electrical systems, and Alexander Graham Bell's success with the telephone came as a direct result of his attempts to improve the telegraph.

When Bell began experimenting with electrical signals, the telegraph had been an established means of communication for some 30 years. Goodcommunication is essential to every organization: communication between organizations, and communication between parts of a single organization.

Internet – it is a huge collection of connective network. Internet was established in 1969 where 2 computers are successfully connected between two colleges of California.

E-Mail was first established in 1971 by a computer engineer. His name is Roy Tomlinson. E-mail is a system that allows messages to be sent and received by computers. E-mail is the most common form of electronic communication.

Video-conferencing is a system that allows people to have conversations and meetings with other people in different locations, but without leaving their office.

Avideo-conference involves people sitting in front of a camera and a microphone, whilst watching other people of a screen and listening to them through loudspeakers.

MobileTelephones

Mobile telephones allow people to be away from their workplace, yet still be contactable. This means that people can still work, even when out of the office. Modern smart-phones can perform a wide variety of tasks: Make and receive telephone calls just about anywhere

Send a receive SMS messages.

Send and receive e-mail

Send and receive files such as images, text documents, etc.

Fax is short for ‘facsimile’ which means ‘copy’.
A fax machine is a device that can send a copy of a paper document over the telephone network.The sending fax converts the light/dark areas of the printed document into noises.These noises travel through the phone system and are received by another fax machine.The receiving faxmachine converts the noises into printed marks on a piece of paper - making a copy of the original document.

Instead of using the post-office service and normal telephone network .

People are using other means of communication such as mobile phones, 

e-mail, fax, etc., These are modern ways of good communication.

THANK YOU,

N.NANDITHA