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In Our Neighbourhood for Grade 1 | EVS [4 Neighbourhood Games, 4 Drawing Worksheets]

The neighbourhood is a special place where we live, play, and learn together. This lesson plan will help teachers to help children explore what makes up their neighbourhood, like houses, parks, schools, and stores. The activities included will help children learn about their community while having lots of fun!

For parents, there are 4 drawing worksheets and 4 neighbourhood games for their kids.
In the drawing worksheets, kids can color the pictures of their neighbourhood places, showing and the most common spots. To make learning even more fun, there are neighbourhood games like find my way.

The learning outcomes are as follows:
  • Define what is neighbourhood.
  • Enlist some common places in the neighbourhood like:
    • School
    • Playground
    • Bus stop
    • Railway station


What Is Neighbourhood?

  • The neighbourhood consists of the areas around our house and the people living there. People and places in our neighbourhood help make life comfortable by providing services and facilities.
  • Neighbours are the people who live near our homes.
Image of a neighbourhood and neighbours


Places in Our Neighbourhood: 

1. Playground and Park: Our Neighbourhood Place

  • A park is an open ground with many trees, small ponds, and tracks for running and walking.
  • Playgrounds are separate areas for playing sports like cricket, tennis, and football.
  • These also have several rides like see-saws, swings, and slides.
Image of a playground and a park

Try Yourself! - What are the things that you see in a park? (Hint: see-saw)
 

2. School: Our Neighbourhood Place

  • We go to school to read, learn and write.
  • Our teachers teach us different subjects.
  • We share our tiffin and play with our friends at school.
  • Our teachers make us do activities like reading, shape hunting, story reading, collage making, etc.
Image of a school
 
Try Yourself! - Do you have friends in school? What are their names?
 

3. Police Station: Our Neighbourhood Place

  • People go to police stations to complain about theft, robbery, and accidents.
  • Police officers work day and night to maintain the safety of the neighbourhood.
Image of a police station

Try Yourself! - Who keeps our neighbourhood safe?
 

4. Hospital: Our Neighbourhood Place

  • We go to the hospitals for health check-ups and consult doctors when we fall ill.
  • After accidents, patients are taken to the hospitals for treatments.
  • People get their surgeries done in the hospital.
Image of a hospital

Try Yourself! - Whom do we visit when we fall sick?
 

5. Market: Our Neighbourhood Place

  • A market has many shops selling different things.
  • We go to the market to buy our daily needs like groceries, medicines, fish, vegetables, shoes, dresses, etc.
Image of a market

Try Yourself! - Have you ever gone to a market for shopping? What is your favourite fruit?
 

6.Bus Stop: Our Neighbourhood Place

  • It is a place where the buses stop to pick up and drop passengers.
Image of a bus stop

Try Yourself! - Do you know from where we catch the school bus or any bus to go to a place?
 

7. Bank: Our Neighbourhood Place

  • We keep our money in the bank.
  • We can also safely put our valuable things like jewellery and important documents in the bank.
  • One can also take loans from a bank.
Image of a bank

Try Yourself! - What do we keep in a bank?
 

8. Post Office: Our Neighbourhood Place

  • One can buy postcards, envelopes, and stamps from a post office.
  • We post letters in a post box; the postman collects them and delivers them to the correct addresses.
  • We also send our parcels through a post office.
Image of a post office and a post box

Try Yourself! - Have you seen a letter-box like the one in the image? Do you know what is kept inside of them?
 

9. Railway Station: Our Neighbourhood Place

  • We board trains from the railway stations.
  • They have many platforms.
  • We can see many tea stalls, snacks shops, books and newspaper stalls in a railway station.
  • We buy train tickets from the ticket counters in the stations.
Image of a railway station

Try Yourself! - Have you travelled by a train? What is the sound made by it? 
 

10. Restaurant: Our Neighbourhood Place

  • We go to the restaurant to eat delicious food.
  • The chefs cook various dishes for us, and the servers serve them.
Image of a restaurant

Try Yourself! - What is your favourite food?
 

11. School Library: Our Neighbourhood Place

  • We go to the library to read and borrow books and magazines.
Image of a library

Try Yourself! - What we should not do when we are in a library? (Hint: Shhh....)
 

12. Fire Station: Our Neighbourhood Place

  • In a fire station, there are firefighters, fire engines, and other necessary equipment required to put out a fire.
Image of a fire station

Try Yourself! - Is water used in stopping a fire?
 

13. Place of Worship: Our Neighbourhood Place

  • People go to these places to worship and pray.
Image of a place of worship
 
Try Yourself! - Have you ever visited to a mosque or a temple or a church with your family?


New Words. It's fun to learn!


Robbery: The crime of stealing someone's belongings forcefully.

Groceries: Food and household supplies.

Loan: A sum of money that a person borrows from a bank.


Try it yourself! -

1. Who protects us from robbery?
2. Where do we buy food and household supplies?
3. Is it only a bank that can give loan to a person?


Did You Know?
  • We can withdraw or deposit money through ATM machines in our neighbourhood.
Image of an ATM

  • Every neighbourhood has litter bins or dustbins where all garbages are thrown. We should always use those.
Image of litter bins

  • Try it yourself! - Look at the image shown below. Who is saying "USE ME"? Why it is telling to "USE ME"?

Poster of a dustbin

  • Is it neighbourhood or neighbourhood?

    In American English, it is neighbourhood, while in British English it is neighbourhood.
  • Google Maps help us to move around our neighbourhood.


Fill in the blanks!


1. My neighbourhood has a ____________ where children can play. (park/school)
 
2. The ____________ helps to keep our neighbourhood safe. (police officer/shopkeeper)
 
3. We buy fruits and vegetables from the ____________. (market/playground)
 
4. The ____________ is a place where we can read books. (library/playground)
 
5. We should keep our neighbourhood ____________ by not littering. (clean/messy)


Practice Worksheets


Find My Way - A Neighbourhood Game



Drawing Worksheets - Colour your neighbourhood places!


What we have learnt from this lesson?

  • Our neighbourhood is a place where we all live together. It has homes, parks, schools, and shops.
  • Neighbours help each other and make our community feel like one big family.
  • We play in the park, visit the local store, or go to school, we are part of this happy neighbourhood. It is a fun place to be in!



 

 
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