Chapter 7 — Lina’s Family

Lina lives in a village with her grandparents, parents, and her brother Shanbor. Her uncles, aunts, and cousins also live nearby.

Children learn to identify and circle the tallest family member in a picture and draw a cap on the shortest one. They also answer questions about who is taller than Lina's mother but shorter than Lina's father.

The chapter mentions that the Statue of Unity, a statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel located in Gujarat, India, is the tallest statue in the world.

A handspan is the width of an open hand from the thumb to the little finger. Chitra uses her handspan to measure the length of a stick, table, pencil, and notebook.

Fingers are used for smaller objects that are shorter than a handspan, such as a spoon or a key.

A footspan is the length of one foot placed on the ground. Children use it to measure longer distances like the distance from their seat to the classroom door or the length of one side of the classroom.

Children tick the longest and shortest objects from pairs of pictures, and also tick the thickest and thinnest objects. They also draw a stick longer than a given line and a rope shorter than a given line.

Children look at a village picture showing Lina's house, a shop, a school, and a school bus, then circle whether each place is nearest to or farthest from another landmark.

Children tick the heavier object or lighter object from pairs of pictures, and colour the heavier or lighter object in a set of four pictures. They also discuss how to find out who is heavier between themselves and a friend.

Children count how many jugs, glasses, or bowls of water fill a bucket, and compare how many cups fill their water bottle versus a friend's bottle, learning which bottle holds more water.

The Project Work section asks children to discuss why using a bucket for bathing saves more water than a shower or running tap, and talks about reusing water, closing taps when not in use, and giving leftover drinking water to plants.

Children tear and paste colourful paper strips to make one portion short and another longer, creating strips of different sizes to see short and long comparisons.

The chapter does not give a fixed number — children fill in the blank themselves after measuring their own table with their handspan, so the answer will vary for each child.

The main topic is measurement — comparing heights, lengths, distances, weights, and the capacity of containers using simple, hands-on activities and body measures like handspan and footspan.