English: Class 3 — Chapter 6: Paper Boats

Meena goes to a stream near a bamboo bridge and floats her paper boats. She is delighted to see them sail swiftly. A boy starts overturning her boats for fun, which makes Meena angry. When the boy expresses a desire to play but admits he does not know how to fold paper, Meena kindly offers to teach him. Using colored paper of different sizes, she shows him how to fold and re-fold. Soon, they both happily float their boats together in the stream.

• Meena: Creative, sensitive, but quick to forgive and share her skills and paper with others.
• The Boy: Mischievous at first, but open to learning, polite when asking for help, and cooperative.

• Conflict Resolution: Instead of continuing to fight, Meena and the boy find a constructive way to play together.
• Sharing and Kindness: Sharing resources (paper) and knowledge (folding boats) turns an adversary into a friend.

• delighted: Extremely pleased or happy.
• several: More than two but not many; some.
• overturning: Turning over; upsetting or flipping something upside down.
• stream: A small, narrow river.
• watched: Looked at attentively over a period of time.

Pronouns are words used in place of nouns to avoid repetition.

• Use she for girls/women (e.g., "Meena walked... She bent a little...").
• Use he for boys/men (e.g., "The boy jumped... He gave it to Meena.").

Prepositions show the position or location of objects.

• On: The bat is on the bed.
• In: The ball is in the box.
• Under: The car is under the table.

Answer the following:

1. What was Meena playing with? Meena was playing with paper boats.
2. Meena was angry. Why? She was angry because a naughty boy was overturning her paper boats in the stream.
3. How did Meena help the boy? She shared her colored paper and taught him how to fold and make paper boats.

• The boy thought it was fun to overturn paper boats. (True)
• Meena ran home to complain about the boy. (False)
• The boy did not know how to make paper boats. (True)
• Meena had only white paper. (False)

• Across: 2. Top, 3. Bat, 4. Marbles
• Down: 1. Football, 3. Ball, 5. Swing