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Lesson Paper Boats
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The World Around Us

Warm Up

• Have you ever made boats, birds, boxes or other things by folding paper?

• Imagine that you make a paper boat that can magically travel long distances.
Where would you like it to travel and why?

About the Poet

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) was a Bengali author and poet. He
contributed greatly to Bengali literature and music. His best-known
works are Gitanjali, Gora and Ghaire Baire. In 1913, he became the
first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Two nations
chose his poems as national anthems: India’s ‘Jana Gana Mana’
and Bangladesh’s ‘Amar Shonar Bangla’.

Let us read a poem about a child who floats paper boats and what he or she thinks as
the boat floats in the water.

I Read What does the

Day by day I float my paper boats one by one ? child in the poem
down the running stream. float down the
running stream?

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