Chanda Mama Counts the Stars — NCERT Solutions

Sample Answer: There are many things that are too many to count. For example:

• The hairs on our head
• The grains of sand on a beach
• The leaves on a big tree
• The flowers in a large garden
• The drops of water in the ocean

These things are so many that it is impossible to count them all.

Sample Answer: In the night sky, we can see:

• The Moon (Chanda Mama)
• Countless twinkling stars
• Sometimes, planets like Venus or Mars
• The Milky Way on a clear night
• Shooting stars (meteors) sometimes

The night sky is very beautiful and full of wonderful things to see.

Concept: We use 'here' for things/places that are near the speaker. We use 'there' for things/places that are far from the speaker.

Answers:

1. The students are playing kabaddi there. (The playground is far from the speaker.)

2. Here is your shirt. (The shirt is near the speaker, being handed over.)

3. Here is my bicycle. (The bicycle is near the speaker.)

4. I went to Chandigarh last year. My brother lives there. (Chandigarh is far from the speaker.)

5. This is my bench. I sit here with my friends. (The bench is near/where the speaker is sitting.)

Concept: Some things are few in number and can be counted easily. Other things are so many that they cannot be counted easily.

Note: Books in the library and pages in the notebook can vary — students may place them based on their own experience. The key idea is to understand the concept of countable vs. uncountable quantities.

Given: A conversation about a full moon night. We need to fill in the blanks using the words from the Help Box.

Completed Conversation:

Govind: Wow, look!

Safura: The moon looks so big and bright.

Sukanya: Isn't it?

Dhruv: My grandfather says the full moon looks very beautiful.

Ramani: Let us take a picture.

Safura: My mother has a camera for the picture.

Dhruv: Come. Stand here and let's take a picture.

Govind: The moon is so bright and big.

This is a hands-on project activity.

Materials Required:

1. Two cardboard sheets
2. Coloured paper
3. A pair of child-friendly scissors (to be used under adult supervision)
4. Marker
5. Thread
6. Glue

Steps to follow:

Step 1: Take a cardboard sheet. Draw and cut a crescent-shaped moon from it.

Step 2: Draw stars on the cardboard using a marker and cut them out carefully.

Step 3: Use coloured paper to decorate the moon and the stars to make them look bright and beautiful.

Step 4: Attach all the shapes (moon and stars) together using thread and glue, as shown in the picture, to make the Wind Chimes.

Result: Our beautiful Wind Chimes with moon and star shapes are ready! We can hang them near a window so they move gently in the breeze.

Learning: This activity helps us understand the different shapes of the Moon (crescent, full moon) that we read about in the story of Chanda Mama.