The chapter “From Home to Market” is Chapter 17 taken from the Class 4 Environmental Studies textbook Let’s Look Around and Learn for students of JKBOSE. This particular post will detail you about From Home to Market Class 4 Question Answers. In the last post, you have already read about Question Answers of Chapter 16 Chuskit Goes to School. Let’s get started:
From Home to Market Class 4 Question Answers
Introduction
The chapter “From Home to Market” is the story of a family of a girl named Vaishali. Her father is a vegetable seller. The chapter describes how the whole family help him in his work. It describes the routine work of their family.
Day at Night
Page No. 136
- Does anyone in your house have to get up very early? What time does he or she get up? Why do they need to get up so early?
Ans. My mother and my brother get up early in the mother. They get up early at 4:30 a.m. They have to get up so early because my mother had to prepare breakfast for my father who has to leave for work early morning and my brother has to study because he is preparing for exams.
In the Bazaar
Let us talk Page No. 138
- Babuji sells the previous day’s vegetables first. Why do you think he does this?
Ans. Babuji does so because the vegetable is a perishable item and it can get spoilt if not sold for a long time. To prevent these from getting spoilt Babuji sells them first.
- Have you seen dried or spoilt vegetables? Where?
Ans. Yes, I have seen dried and spoilt vegetables. I have seen them in the market and also in the kitchen at my home.
- How did you know that the vegetables were spoilt?
Ans. The vegetables after getting spoilt become overripe and give a foul smell.
- Look at the clocks given below. Write what you do, and what Vaishali does, at the time which the clock is showing.
| Name | Merge | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 o’clock morning | 6 o’clock morning | 10 o’ clock | |
| Vaishali | Takes out vegetables of the bag | Putting vegetables on the gunny bags and sprinkle water over them | Sleeps |
| Me | Sleep | Starts getting ready for school | Going to bed |
- From where do you get vegetables for your home? Who brings the vegetables?
Ans. We get vegetables from the market. My father brings vegetables from the market.
Some Fun with Vegetables
Page No. 139
- The next time you get lady’s finger vegetables at home look at them carefully: Are all of them the same size?
Ans. No, all of them are not of the same size.
- Find the longest and shortest one. Measure them?
Ans. The longest one is 10 cm while the shortest one is 2.5 cm.
- Do all the Okra (Bhindi) have the same thickness and colour? Cut two okra (Bhindi) lengthwise. Do both of them have the same number of seeds? Draw them in your notebook.
Ans. No, all the okra (Bhindi) do not have the same thickness but they have the same colour. No, both of them do not have the same number of seeds in them.
- Seema’s mother has brought some fruits and vegetables from the market. Can you find them in this picture? Colour them and write their names in your notebook.
Ans. I found lady finger, tomato, spinach, potato, bottle gourd and carrot in the picture.
Find Out
- Given here is a list of vegetables and fruits. Which of these will spoil earlier, and which will stay for some days? Write the names in the correct column. You can add more names to the list.
Spinach Potato Banana Tomato Pear Chikoo Pineapple Gourd Onion Cabbage Cucumber Grapes Ginger.
| Fruits and vegetables which spoil quickly | Fruits and vegetables that can stay for some days |
|---|---|
Ans.
| Fruits and vegetables which spoil quickly | Fruits and vegetables that can stay for some days |
| Tomato | Potato |
| Banana | Chikoo |
| Pear | Pineapple |
| Spinach | Gourd |
| Cabbage | Onion |
| Cauliflower | Cucumber |
| Grapes | Ginger |
- Some of these fruits and vegetables are smooth to touch while some are rough.
From the list above, put the names in the correct column.
| Fruits and vegetables that are smooth to touch | Fruits and vegetables that are rough to touch |
|---|---|
Ans.
| Fruits and vegetables which spoil quickly | Fruits and vegetables that can stay for some days |
| Tomato | Banana |
| Potato | Chikoo |
| Pear | Pineapple |
| Spinach | Grapes |
| Cabbage | Onion |
| Cauliflower | Cucumber |
| Gourd | Ginger |
- Which is vegetable that you find the heaviest to carry? Write its name and draw its picture.
Ans. Pumpkin is the heaviest vegetable to carry.
- Which is the lightest fruit or vegetable that you have eaten? Write its name and draw the picture in your notebook.
Ans. Ladyfinger is the lightest vegetable that I have eaten.
- Write the names of three vegetables which do not have seeds.
Ans. Potato, cabbage, cauliflower, banana, spinach.
- Fill in the table given below. You can add three more names and fill in the table.
| Colour | Length | Weight | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple | ½ Kilo | |||
| Banana | 1 Dozen | |||
| Potato | ½ Kilo | |||
Ans.
| Colour | Length | Weight | Price | |
| Apple | Red | 6 cm | ½ Kilo | 50 |
| Banana | Light yellow | 15-18 cm | 1 Dozen | 80 |
| Potato | Grey | 5 cm | ½ Kilo | 10 |
| Cucumber | Green | 20 cm | 1 Kilo | 40 |
| Cabbage | Green | 22 cm | I Kilo | 40 |
| Ladyfinger | Green | 12 cm | 1 Kilo | 60 |
- Talk with a vegetable seller in your area. Ask the following questions and make a brief report in the notebook.
(a) What is his or her name?
Ans. His name is Ravinder Kumar.
(b) How many people are there in his or her house?
Ans. There are seven people in his house.
(c) How many children are there at home?
Ans. There are three children in the house.
(d) What are the names of the children? How old are they?
Ans. Sanju -13 years old, Sunil – is 8 years old, and Shweta – is 4 years old.
(e) Who all helps in the work of selling vegetables?
Ans. His wife and son help him in the work of selling vegetables.
(f) Who all stays with the vegetable cart or sits in the shop?
Ans. He and his elder son mainly stay at the vegetable cart or in the shop.
(g) What vegetables do they sell?
Ans. They sell all types of vegetables.
(h) What time do they start work?
Ans. They start their work at 4 o’clock early in the morning.
(i) For how many hours in a day do they work?
Ans. They work for 14 hours
(j) Ask them about any three vegetables that they sell.
| Vegetable 1 | Vegetable 2 | Vegetable 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Name of the vegetable | |||
| The price of the vegetable | |||
| Where does it come from? | |||
| How many vegetables do they buy at one time? | |||
| In which months do this vegetable usually come? |
Ans.
| Vegetable 1 | Vegetable 2 | Vegetable 3 | |
| Name of the vegetable | Onion | Cabbage | Potato |
| The price of the vegetable | Rs. 30 per kg | Rs. 40 per kg | Rs. 20 per kg |
| Where does it come from? | Sabzi Mandi | Sabzi Mandi | Sabzi Mandi |
| How many vegetables do they buy at one time? | 6 kg | 5 kg | 5 kg |
| In which months do this vegetable usually come? | Throughout the year | Throughout the year | Throughout the year |
From Home to Market Class 4 Notes
It is a story of a family of a girl named Vaishali whose father is a vegetable seller. The chapter describes the daily routine of the Vaishali’s family.
Day at Night
- Vaishali’s father is a vegetable seller.
- All the family members including Amma, Bhaiya, Chhotu and Vaishali helped him in his work.
- The family starts their work as early as 3’o clock in the morning.
- The family’s day begins with Babuji, Amma, Bhaiya and Vaishali taking out the previous day’s vegetable storage bags and baskets. This is to prepare for bringing the fresh vegetables from the mandi.
- After doing this they take tea and, in the meantime, Vaishali’s father, Bhaiya, Chachu and some other people from their street leave for mandi.
Preparing for the Day
- When Vaishali’s father remains away in the mandi Amma, Chhotu and Vaishali put the previous day’s vegetables on the gunny bags and sprinkle water on them.
- Vaishali’s father came back from mandi at about 6:30 a.m. with baskets and bags full of fresh vegetables.
- At that time, Vaishali’s home looks like a small vegetable market as there are all kinds of vegetables all around.
- Everybody helps in arranging the vegetables on the cart and vegetables which are not fully ripe and ready to sell are kept aside.
- By 7 a.m. Babuji arranges all the vegetables on the cart and leaves for the market because if he gets late his regular customers will buy vegetables from other sellers.
- As Vaishali’s father leaves for the market she quickly gets ready because she has to reach school by 7:30 a.m.
In the Bazaar
- Chhotu attends school in the afternoon.
- He goes to the bazaar with food for Babuji and Bhaiya.
- He stays with them at the vegetable cart, until it is time for him to go to school.
- After school, he goes back to the bazaar to help his father.
- Vaishali’s father tries to sell the previous day’s vegetables first.
- After the previous day’s vegetables are sold Vaishali’s Bhaiya takes out fresh vegetables from the bags and put them in the cart. He also keeps sprinkling water on the vegetables so that they do not dry up.
- Vaishali’s father and her father return home after a long day at around 10 o’clock.
- Everyone else in Vaishali’s family sleeps around 11 and 11:30 p.m.
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