Anandi’s Rainbow: Class 1 English · Chapter 9

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Printable worksheet: Anandi’s Rainbow

10 exercises (tracing, matching, circling, 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, Inaya!
This is Inaya. She lives by the Dal Lake in Kashmir.
It rained all morning. Now the sun is out!
Tara: Hello! I am Tara. Let us go on a colour hunt!
A rainbow!
Nana takes Inaya and Faiz out in his boat.
Look! A rainbow over the hills!
Tara: Sunshine and raindrops make a rainbow!
How many colours?
Inaya counts the stripes of the rainbow.
Tara: Tell a grown-up about a rainbow you saw. Where were you?
Activity: How many colours does the rainbow have? Count the stripes, then tap the number.
Red
Red is the colour at the top of the rainbow.
A boat full of red apples comes by!
Activity: Red starts with r. Trace the letter r. r, r, red!
Orange
Next comes orange.
The big chinar tree has orange leaves.
Tara: Red, then orange. Say them with me!
Yellow
After orange comes yellow.
Faiz splashes in his yellow raincoat and boots!
Activity: Yellow starts with y. Trace the letter y. y, y, yellow!
What comes next?
Red, orange, yellow… which colour comes next?
Activity: Red apple, orange carrot, yellow banana. What comes next in the rainbow? Tap it.
Green
Then comes green.
A green frog sits on a lotus leaf.
Tara: The frog and the leaves are all green!
Blue
Next is blue. Nana's boat is blue.
A little blue bird sits on its roof!
Activity: Blue starts with b. Which one starts with b too? Tap it.
Colour words
Can you read these colour words?
Activity: Read each word: red, yellow, green. Join it to a thing of that colour.
Indigo
Indigo comes after blue. It is a deep, dark blue.
Nana's warm pheran is indigo.
Tara: The boat is blue. The pheran is darker. That is indigo!
Violet
The last colour is violet. It is a kind of purple.
Ammi brings a basket of violet flowers.
Tara: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet!
Blue or yellow?
Inaya sorts some things by their colour.
Activity: Put the blue things with the blue boat. Put the yellow things with the yellow sun.
Colours of the sky
At sunrise and sunset, the sky glows orange and red.
In the day it is blue. At night it is dark.
Tara: What colour is the sky now? Go and look!
Cloud shapes
Inaya and Faiz look up at the clouds.
One cloud looks like an animal!
Tara: Clouds make all kinds of shapes. Look up and find one!
Activity: Which animal does the big cloud look like? Tap it.
The flag of India
On the way home, they pass Inaya's school.
Our flag is saffron, white and green, with a blue wheel.
Tara: Saffron is at the top. Green is at the bottom.
All about me
Inaya says, “My name is Inaya. I am six.”
“My favourite colour is green!”
Tara: Now you! Say your name and your favourite colour.
Activity: Green starts with g. Trace the letter g. g, g, green!
Bye-bye!
You found all seven colours of the rainbow!
Look for them all around you.
Tara: What a colourful day! Bye-bye, see you soon!

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Ch 9: Anandi’s Rainbow

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Published 10 Oct 2026 · Updated 10 Oct 2026 · All chapters of Mridang · Official NCERT chapter PDF ↗

Chapters in Mridang

Chapter 1: Two Little Hands
Chapter 2: Greetings
Chapter 3: Picture Time
Chapter 4: The Cap-seller and the Monkeys
Chapter 5: A Farm
Chapter 6: Fun with Pictures
Chapter 7: The Food we Eat
Chapter 8: The Four Seasons
Chapter 9: Anandi’s Rainbow

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