Our Community
Living together
Say what a community shares and who keeps it running, work out who offered what to mend a park, and place three customs of working together in the states they come from.
Chandan's village was getting ready for Van Mahotsav. John wanted to clean the park near the school and plant trees around it. Mallika thought of her grandmother, who walks there with her friends each morning: a clean park with young trees would make those walks nicer and the air better to breathe. Then the grown-ups joined in, and the plan grew.
What a community is
A community is people and places together. Some places belong to no one house — a school, a market, a playground, a road — and the people who live around them share the use of them. On special occasions those same people come together to clean and decorate them, and the chapter says it is those shared days that bring a neighbourhood closer.
Have a play
The park on the morning after, with the three things the neighbours mended.
Tap any part of the picture.
Worked example
A road is not a building and nobody lives in it. Is a road really part of what a community shares?
Ask what the road does for the people around it.
The chapter's table asks this of each thing in a locality — not what it looks like, but what it gives.
Try it together
Now let us look at two communities that are not human, together.
The chapter puts a small box beside the story of the village feast, about creatures that also live in communities.
1.In an ant colony some ants go out and collect food. Others stay behind to take care of the young ones. What word does the box use for those young ones?
Have a go
Your turn. At the Van Mahotsav celebration, how did Mallika make her announcements to the crowd?
Ready to practise?
Eight questions on what you have just read. Nothing is timed, and you can play as many times as you like.