DEHRADUN PUBLIC SCHOOL
HOLIDAY HOMEWORK (2024-2025)
CLASS-V
(The summer holiday homework is also available on school website i.e. www.ddps.in)
To be ready for tomorrow’s opportunities, do your homework today.
Learn, refine your skills and focus on your growth.
Dear Students,
Summer has arrived and brought with it your amazing and fun-filled holidays. Summer break is
a well-deserved opportunity to relax and unwind by indulging in various activities. Your Holiday
Homework has been specially designed for you to be creative, innovative and imaginative while
completing your tasks. It will also enable you to recapitulate what was taught in the classrooms.
We hope you will play, learn, research, analyze, experiment, imagine, think, value, appreciate
and above all enjoy during your holidays.
Wishing you happy holidays!
Instructions for the students:
❖ Do your holiday homework in your respective subject notebooks.
❖ Mention date and day when you do your work.
❖ Use your creativity and imagination wherever required.
❖ Submit your holiday homework when the school re-opens.
❖ Use the holidays to thoroughly prepare topics given in July Periodic Test Syllabus.
ENGLISH
READING
Q1. “There is no friend as loyal as a book they give us good company in sad and happy times”. Read
any book of your choice as holidays are the best time to bond with them even more strongly
than before.
“Newspapers are tutors as well as informers. It is a greater treasure for us than uncounted
millions of gold”.
Read an English newspaper daily as there are multitudes of benefits of reading it that help you
become an all-rounder.
WRITING
Q2. Learning how to cook is very essential for us as it can be useful in the future and vacations are
the best time to learn. Learn any recipe of your choice (Sandwich, Maggi, Pasta, Bhelpuri etc.)
and write down your experience of becoming a little chef by describing your overall cooking
philosophy. You can click pictures of the food item that you have prepared and paste them in
your notebook.
Q3. ‘A natural disaster is an event that occurs unexpectedly and causes harm to society’. Write a
paragraph on ‘Natural Disaster’ that occurs frequently in our country or you have seen recently
on TV. Paste a picture also.
Q4. Write 50 sentences based on Declarative (15), Interrogative (15), Imperative (10) and
Exclamatory (10).
(Note-Sentences should be different from grammar book).
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Q5. Solve the word puzzle and write the answers in your notebook.
NEP 2020 PROJECT
Q6. Wild animals often trapped and sold illegally. Monkeys, Snakes or bears are forced to perform in
the streets so that their owners can make money. Make a poster to show that it is wrong to trap
wild animals and it is inhuman to treat them cruelly. Do it in your English notebook.
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MATHEMATICS
Q1. Write any seven symbols of Roman numerals using matchsticks. Also write the ages of your
family members in Roman numerals in notebook.
Q2. Solve Worksheet of Chapter-1 “Place Value”, Chapter-2 “Addition, Subtraction, and Their
Applications and Chapter-8 “Shapes, Patterns and Nets” in your mathematics book.
Q3. During a hurricane, 357 trees fell in a park. After the storm, 149 trees were removed by the park
authorities. Later, 81 new trees were planted in the park. How many trees are there in the park
now?
Q4. Learn and write tables from 2 to 20 in your notebook.
Q5. I am a 5 digit number. My tens digit is 2. My ones and hundreds digit is twice the tens digit. My
thousands digit is one subtracted from the product of the ones and tens digit. My ten thousands
digit is the difference between the thousands and the tens digit. What number am ‘I’?
OR
i. Choose a 3-digit number with the first digit greater than the third digit. 6 7 2
ii. Reverse the digits and subtract. - 2 7 6
iii. Reverse the digits you get as the difference and add. 3 9 6
iv. Now try with these numbers. + 6 9 3
i. 321 ii. 782 iii. 844 iv. 775 1 0 8 9
Q6. Mohit and Rahul both answered the question paper given below. Their answer sheet are shown
here. Check their answer sheet and find out who performed better.
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EVS
Q1. Vitamin, mineral and proteins are essential for our body’s holistic growth and
development.
Find out 5 food items that are rich in vitamin, mineral and proteins, paste picture
of the food items and also write their health benefits.
Q2. Amarnath’s flood (2022) killed at least 16 people and left at least 40 of others
missing.
i. Find out the reason behind this disaster.
ii. List 3 ways to prevent natural disaster risk.
Q3. A herbarium is a collection of preserved plant specimens.
i. Collect different types of flowers.
ii. Keep them preserved in a book for few days to make them dry.
iii.Make a herbarium of these flowers.
Q4. Peace and harmony between nations are important for their growth and
development. Make a colourful poster depicting
One world – one nation – one home
Q5. India is a land of diverse cultures and religion, which leads to a multitude of
festivals celebration.
i. Find out what the weather is usually like on any five festivals celebrated in your
area.
ii. Paste pictures of the festival and write 3 lines for each.
WEEKLY TASKS
❖ Meaningful Monday:
Read the newspaper and find out five new words. Note down these words and their meanings in your
notebook.
❖ Tech Tuesday:
Watch some educational videos on youtube.com/c/DDPSIndia/playlists and write a two-line summary
of what you learned from the video(s). Remember to mention the title of the video(s) that you watched.
❖ Weather Wednesday:
Every Wednesday find out the temperature of your place, note down the minimum and maximum
temperature and next week compare it with the temperature of previous week.
❖ Thoughtful Thursday:
Go through the international news headlines of the day. Note down the news headlines that grabbed
your attention the most. Study a little more about it.
❖ Fun Friday:
Read a book, article or story related to History, Geography or Civics. You may also solve quizzes, play
games related to Social Science.
A moment of mindfulness
These ordinary practices may bring extraordinary results.
❖ Talk to your grandparents/elders at home and ask them what are their core values and
principles in life.
❖ Help your parents in the household work like organizing, cleaning, cooking, laundry etc.
❖ Keep your room and study table neat and tidy. Remove clutter.
❖ Prepare a time table to schedule your activities. Practice a daily routine.
❖ Keep grains and water for birds on the roof/balcony of your house.
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