What is Long? What is Round?: Class 1 Maths · Chapter 2

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Printable worksheet: What is Long? What is Round?

9 exercises (circling, matching, tracing, drawing) to print on A4 in black and white, with the answer key on the last page. Do them after the lesson.

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Lesson text (for parents and teachers)

Every scene's words in order, as Tara reads them after Start: for reading along, or for a child who cannot hear the narration.

Hello, Arjun!
This is Arjun. He lives in Kerala.
Let us look for long and round things!
Tara: Hello! I am Tara. Come on a shape hunt with me!
Long things
The boat is long.
The coconut tree is long and tall.
Tara: Long things stretch out, from one end to the other.
Activity: Now draw a long line. Trace the dots below with your finger.
Round things
The ball is round.
The clock is round too.
Tara: Round things have no corners at all.
Activity: Now draw something round. Trace the dots below with your finger.
Long or round?
Arjun tidies up his things.
Activity: Is it long or round? Put each one in its basket.
Amma's belan
Amma's belan is long.
Now look at its end!
Tara: Look from the side. Then look from the end.
Activity: Look at the end of the belan. What shape is it? Tap it.
Shape twins
A ball and an orange have the same shape.
A book and a box have the same shape too.
Tara: Same shape, but not the same thing!
Find the twins
Each thing has a shape twin.
Activity: Join each thing to its shape twin.
More shape twins
A tumbler and a tin have the same shape.
An ice-cream cone and a funnel do too.
Tara: Shape twins are all around us!
Which shape?
Activity: Which shape is like the tumbler and the tin? Tap it.
Let us build!
Arjun makes an elephant from old boxes and tins.
Its legs are four tins. Its trunk is long!
Tara: What a clever elephant!
The elephant's body
Activity: What shape is the elephant's body? Tap it.
A tall tower
Boxes have flat sides. They make a tall tower.
Balls roll off. They will not stay up.
Tara: Which shapes make a good tower?
Up, up, up!
Arjun wants his tower to be taller.
Activity: What can go on top? It must not roll off.
Down the slope
Thud! A coconut falls from the tree.
Down the slope it rolls, faster and faster!
Tara: Round things roll. Down a slope, they roll fast!
Roll or slide?
The ball turns over and over. It rolls.
The box does not turn. It slides.
Tara: Rolling things turn over. Sliding things do not turn.
Test the slope
Arjun tries more things on his slope.
Activity: Does it roll or slide? Put each one in its basket.
Roll and slide
Lying down, the tin rolls.
Standing up, it slides!
Tara: A tin can roll and slide!
Activity: Which shape can roll and slide, just like the tin?
Bye-bye!
You found long things and round things.
You know what rolls and what slides!
Tara: Super shape hunt! Bye-bye, see you soon!

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Chapter 2: What is Long? What is Round?
Chapter 3: Mango Treat
Chapter 4: Making 10
Chapter 5: How Many?
Chapter 6: Vegetable Farm
Chapter 7: Lina’s Family
Chapter 8: Fun with Numbers
Chapter 9: Utsav
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Chapter 11: How Many Times?
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