To Educate to Rebuild

The New Horizon School W.L.L Summer Vacation Activities 2018-‘19

CLASS: GRADE VI _______________

NAME: _________________________ ADMN NO:________________

Dear Parents,

As summer break is round the corner, we have planned some fun

activities for your child to enhance his/her learning skills. Kindly guide

the child to do these fun activities in this summer holidays under your

guidance.

Note: Submit the given homework in a folder with name, class and

section mentioned. It would be wonderful if the children themselves

decorate the folders with their tiny hands.

General Instructions:

1. The homework for all subjects must be compiled in one folder only.

Separate the homework of each subject with a plain sheet

mentioning the subject on it.

2. Kindly train your child to become independent in his/her daily

chores.

Use your creativity and imagination to make your homework look

attractive and presentable.

ENGLISH:

Task 1 : “Reading makes a man”. There are no boundaries or limits to what you can achieve

through reading. During this vacation, let’s recapture the charm of reading a book! Prepare

Book Reviews of the books that you read during the vacation. Prizes will be given to the

students who have read the maximum number of books. Your Book Review should have

the following points:

a) Design a cover page with an appropriate illustration. Give the title of the book and the

author’s name in capital letters

b) Summary- Narrate in about 100 words, what the story is about. Copying and Pasting and

extract from sources will not be permitted.

c) What you liked most about the book.

d) Vocabulary: Find and write 10 new words from each book that you have read. Look up a

dictionary and write down the meaning from the dictionary.

Suggested Books: ( You can read an e-book or a real one )

1. Treasure Island by Robert Stevenson

2. Long Way Home by Michael Morpurgo

3. The Secret Garden by Sophie Dahl

4. The Family from One End Street by Eve Garnett

5. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

6. The Story of Dr. Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

7. Feluda and other stories by Satyajith Ray

8. Malgudi Days by R.K.Narayan

9. Wise and otherwise by Sudha Murthy

10. Ruskin Bond Collection

Task 2 : Prepare a travelogue with best evidences to support your travel experience.

Mention the places you visited, the climate, landscape, the food, culture and special things

about the place.

Or

Make a video clip of 5 places that you visited. Give your voice over.

Students who are not travelling, can make your presentation based on sites in Bahrain.

Task 3: Visit the following websites under the supervision of your parents and play the

grammar games.

http://www.funenglishgames.com/grammargames.html

https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-practice

Task 4: Here’s a chance to win a cash award for the winner of the ‘ Cursive Writing Contest’

in the first week of September. Now you know what you have to do. Prepare yourself!

Remember your handwriting is the index to your personality.

a) Here are some quotations. Choose any one of them and write it down in calligraphic

script . Use a single colour- black, blue, green, red or purple.

1. “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more

places you'll go.”

― Dr. Seuss

2. “I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any

thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an

excellent library.”

― Jane Austen

3. “ Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today” - Tim Fargo

4. “When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."

–Theodore Roosevelt

Task 6 : Learn to sing an English song and recite a poem of 14 to 20 lines for the Recitation

Competition. Body language is a must.

Task 7: Watch on You-Tube, the speeches of famous personalities like Malala Yousafasi,

Barack Obama, Martin Luther King, John.F.Kennedy and Jawaharlal Nehru. Imitate their

voice effect. Learn one of the speeches for a declamation competition.

Task 8: Prepare for the Spelling Bee Competition in the first week of September. Refer to

http://www.nhsbahrain.com/Files/Students/NHS/spelling%20bee%202018-19.pdf

MATHEMATICS:

Prepare a Mathematics Journal covering the following contents

1. Cover page and Back page depicting Topics related to Mathematics

2. Photo of any Mathematician with a short explanation of his contribution to

Mathematics.

3. Some interesting facts in Mathematics.

4. Any crossword puzzle with topics known to you.(topics on Numbers and

Numeration)

5. Individual photo of your family members and their height.

6. Prepare a table of few articles you buy in Kilogram,Litres,metres

7. Stick pictures of school stationery you buy and label the cost of each article in your

National Currency.

8. Prepare a table which includes the months where the seasons of

summer,winter,autumn,spring ,rainy falls into and the types of dress and articles

used during these seasons.

9. Information about any one trip or outing done during vacation

a. Distance covered

b. different modes of transport

c. Time taken

d. approximate expense per person,

e. a few pictures of Historical places visited.

f. Identify the shapes of solids found in those monuments.

10. Final pages on addition facts ,subtraction facts, multiplication tables (1-10)

SST

TOPIC: THE VEDIC AGE

SKILL: Interpretation of the Vedic Age with reference to Aryan Settlement

Prepare a hand written project on ‘The Vedic Age ‘in A4 size lined sheets.

Source – Textbook and internet

SCIENCE:

1.Make a Power point presentation on the contribution of any 5 Scientists ( 10 mins)

2.Make a herbarium on the plants of different habitat.

3.Visit a beach and click the photos of any of the plastic pollutants and write a paragraph about

what can be done to avoid plastic pollution in the beach.

4.Make a working model.

HINDI:

1. ( Prepare a project on )

ARABIC:

االبتدائي السادس للصفّ الصيفي الواجب

ا واحًدا موضوًعا الطالب يختارّ ستقلة ورقة في وي عده .. يلي ِمم :م

.)بالوالدين البر عن خمسة عن يقل ال بما نبوية أحاديث اجمعّ ( النبوية السنة ِرحاب في .1

.)الصباح سعاد الشاعرة للدكتورة الذاتية السيرة عن ابحثّ ( نسائية أقالمّ .2

.البحث ورقة إعداد عند بها االلتزام يجب عناصر **

العنوان كتابة.

ناسبة الصور اختيار ِجد إن للموضوع الم . و

اللُّغة وسالمة اإلمالء بصحة االهتمام.

التنسيق وجمال والترتيب بالنظافة البحث ورقة تمي ز.

اإللكتروني الرابط نسخ الكتاب، اسم ( المصدر ذكر(

الجعفر زهرة .أ

NIRMALA JOSE

PRINCIPAL