Lord Mahavir Jain Public School
Holidays Homework
Class-VI
Dear Parents
Its vacation time again! The uphill task of keeping your little
ones fruitfully occupied must be the top most priority in your
mind. Some interesting, innovative and creative project work
has been planned for your children to enable them to widen their
horizon.
Kindly allow them to do the work under your guidance and
supervision.
Do visit museums and monuments with your children to help
them explore and learn about the rich culture and heritage of
India.
Encourage your children to observe the sign boards and note
down the instructions written on them for class discussion.
Health is wealth- Accompany your children to the
neighbourhood park and encourage them for a morning walk
and simple yoga exercises.
Setting up a routine is a must to inculcate good habits. Let your
child plan his/her daily routine for a week.
Wishing all of you a very enjoyable and fun packed summer
break.
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
All the work should be hand-written and done neatly.
Original drawings / illustrations and creative use of material
will be appreciated. Books can be our best friends.
1. Suggested movies to watch:
The jungle book
MARTIAN
BFG
CONG THE SKULL ISLAND
Harry Potter and Sorcers Stone
2. Life skills to be inculcated:
Love for animals.
Developing Empathy.
Differentiating between needs and wants.
Staying motivated.
3. Social skills in your child:
Greeting with the smile when someone come to the
house.
Speaking politely to peer group.
Sharing with the peers.
To look after your grandparents.
4. Using the following magical words:
I am sorry.
Please
Excuse me
Thank you
May I?
Could you?
My pleasure
5. Personal hygiene:
Trimming nails regularly.
Changing clothes daily.
6. To enhance the gross motor skills of your child and
enroll them in following activities:
Aerobics
Skating
Dance
Music
Yoga
Karate
HOLIDAYS HOMEWORK
ENGLISH
Compulsory for All
Read the novel prescribed for your class and write characterization of any
four characters.
1. Attempt any one activity out of the following:
(a) Spend a day with two people in different professions (parents can help
their child in choosing two contrasting professions). Note down their work
patterns (what they do, how many hours they spend a week, activities they
do, clothes they wear, how do they commute). Use A-4 size sheet.
(b) Write 50 words from the newspaper that should include nouns,
adjectives and verbs. Make one sentence for each word.
(c) Prepare your own dictionary by writing 50 words from the newspaper.
Write a sentence using each word.
(d) Make a word book/vocabulary Journal. Make a list of all difficult words
of the chapters/poems read. (Syllabus of 1st term). Write meaning and two
sentences using the word.
2. Read any one book out of the following:-
1. Malgudi Days - R. K Narayan
2. Panchatantra - Vishnu Sharma
3. Charlie and the chocolate factory - Roald Dahl
MATHEMATICS
1. Make a survey on 25 children. Collect the information regarding their
likings for the following activities: (Roll no.-1-7)
S. No Activity No. of children 1 Singing
2 Dancing
3 Painting
4 Swimming Prepare a pictograph taking appropriate scale and draw a bar graph for displaying above information.
2. Prepare a tessellation design using different decorative material. (Roll no.-8-14)
3. Prepare a rangoli design using patterns, shapes etc. and using different creative and decorative material. (Roll no.-15-21)
4. Collect and paste pictures of different objects showing different angles like corresponding, vertically opposite, alternate (interior and exterior) angles etc. (Roll no.-22-28)
5. Make a chart showing measures of different angles using different materials such as matchsticks, ice-cream sticks etc. (Roll no.-29-35)
6. Collect the pictures of mathematical signs and prepare a creative collage. (Roll no.-36-42)
SCIENCE
1. Water is used in many activities. Make a list of activities and write the
amount of water used in each activity per day. Keeping in mind that united
nation has asked to use 50 liters of water per person per day, try to reduce
the amount of water used in each activity so that you consume only 50
liters.
a) In which activity of the day, maximum water consumption is there?
b) How much water is used per day be one person of your family?
c) In which day of the week, maximum water is used by whole family?
S.
No.
Day
&
Date
Name
of the
person
Activities
Brushing Bathing Food
Making
Drinking
of
water
Washing
of
clothes
Others
d) Why United Nations has asked to use 50 liters of water per person per
day.
e) Which substance is used to kill the germs in water?
Make a record of the observations of 10 days:- (Roll no.-1-5)
2. Make turmeric indicator at home. Take some samples of daily routine like
common salt, lemon juice, shampoo, bathing soap, tooth paste, soft drink
etc. Differentiate them as acid, base or salt with the help of turmeric
indicator, onion juice indicator and China rose indicator.
A) What is the reaction of indicator with acids and base?
B) If two solutions are given, how will you recognize which is acid or base,
with the help of turmeric solution.
C) What is universal indicator?
D) If given solution n is neither acidic nor basic, then what is it?
E) List three natural indicators. (Roll no.-6-10)
Make a record of your observations with different indicators:-
S. NO. Name of
sample
Indicator
used
Acidic
(colour in
acid)
Basic
(colour in
base)
3. Collect the data for the vaccines given to new born babies up to the age of
5 years. Differentiate them on the basis of list prescribed by govt. health
department and private hospitals.
Name of child Age Vaccine taken
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Write answer of these questions:- (Roll no.-11-15)
a) How vaccines are prepared?
b) Why vaccines are important for health life?
c) How long vaccination affected?
d) Which vaccines are available in Ambala Cantt civil hospital?
e) Why it is given in younger age?
4. Study electric appliances at your home only. Check its power, voltage, rplm
etc. and make a report on it. Try to find out consumption of electricity in
KWH. (Roll no.-16-20)
a) Which has the maximum power usage appliances?
b) Name the instruments used to calculate voltage?
c) If the cost of 1 KWH is Rs. 4.80 then calculate total amount of electricity
consumed?
5. Draw the structure of plant cell and animal cell taking thermocol as base
with white chart paper. Paste each organelle made from different colour
craft paper and label them. (Roll no.-21-25)
6. Survey your neighborhood to find out. (Roll no.-26-30)
How many people suffered from disease during long term (chronic disease)
and short term (Acute Disease)?
S.
No
.
Name
of
perso
n
Male/Femal
e
Age of
perso
n
Duratio
n of
disease
Name
of
diseas
e
Type
of
diseas
e
Symptom
s
Name of electric appliances Power Voltage
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
7. Take a heavy cricket balls, drop it on a thick wet bed of sand. Drop the ball
on the sand from different height i.e. 15cm, 25cm, 35 cm etc. the ball
creates a depression. Repeat this activity maximum 10 times.
Answer the questions:- (Roll no.-31-35)
Compare their depths.
Which one of them is deepest?
Which one the them is shallowest?
What has caused the ball to make a deeper dent?
Write the conclusion.
8. Make a survey report on five appliances at your home and note down
their voltage, power and current consumption. Calculate their energy
consumption and phenomena on which there are based. (Roll no.-36-40)
S. No. Name of
appliances
Voltage
consumed
Power
consumed
Current
consumed
Duration Energy
1
2
3
4
5
Conclusion:-
9. “ALARMING MAGAZINE” (Roll no.-41-45)
Collect at least five materials like aluminum foil, plastic containers and polythene
you are using in your daily life. Collect the information, pictures and data charts
using internet, magazines and newspapers etc. about their composition, harmful
elements present in it and their adverse effects on the body. Give suggestions to
void it.
S. No. Materials Composition Harmful
elements
Adverse
effects
Suggestions
SOCIAL SCIENCE
1. Take a plastic ball of big size. Mark a few lines of latitudes and longitudes.
Take a wool of two different colour (one for latitude and one for
longitudes) cut them and stick them on lines of latitudes and longitudes.
Your Earth grid is ready. Cut strips of white chart, paste them on ball and do
labelling. Now using a thread, Make it a wall hanging. (Roll no.-1-6)
2. Prepare a soil profile by taking a transparent container, Mark the soil
profile outside the container with a marker. (Roll no.-7-12)
3. Draw different time zone on paper plates. (Roll no.-13-18)
4. Survey on organized (Banks, Post Office) and unorganized (Shops, Factories)
in your neighbourhood and make a detail report on it. (Roll no.-19-24)
5. Make your own magazine from newspaper cuttings. Roll no.-25-30)
6. Create a small colourful interactive notebook showing physical features of
five physiographic division of India. (Roll no.-31-36)
7. Make a travel broucher. Paste photographs of those places you have visited
during summer vacation and write a few lines on them. (Roll no.-37-42)
Revise all work done in class.
Have great holidays and enjoy
yourself to your heart's content