Sameera helps care for her mother when she falls ill. She takes her mother to the local hospital, gets medicine from the dispensary, writes a letter to her father at the post office, buys food at the market, and gets money from the bank to pay the hospital bills. These places like the hospital, dispensary, post office, market, and bank are examples of important neighborhood services that help the community.

2. A Friendly Neighbourhood
Sameera and Fatima live near each others house. They go to school together in a
van and play together in the nearby park everyday. They celebrate Diwali, Eid and
other festivals together. Thus, Sameera and Fatima are not just friends , they are
neighbours also. People who live near to our house are called neighbours and the
area our house is called neighbourhood.

3. One day Sameera and Fatima were playing in the park in
neighbourhood. When Sameera goes back to home she observes that
her mother is not feeling well. She thinks that what she can do for her
mother and takes her mother to nearby hospital.

4. • In hospital doctors treat her mother and prescribed some
medicines for her mother. She goes to Dispensary and
purchase medicines. Dispensary is a place where we go to
take medicines .

5. Sameera wants to tell about her mother’s health to her father who
works in an another city at a place where phones are not allowed due
to security purpose. So, she writes a letter and goes to post office to
post it.
A post office is a public facility that provides mail services, such as
accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes etc.

6. • While returning to hospital she starts feeling hungry. So, she
goes to nearby market and purchase some eatables for her and
juice for her mother and comes back to hospital.
• A Market is a place from where people can buy things of daily
needs like fruits, vegetables, milk, bread etc.

7. • Next morning, Sameera’s mother feels well and doctor says to her home back.
Before getting discharge from hospital Sameera has to pay hospital bills and she
needs money. So, her mother tells her to go nearby bank to take out the required
money from their savings account.
• Bank is a place where we can keep our money safe and take it out at the time of
need.
• Sameera does the same as her mother said. They pay the hospital bills and
comes back to home. Sameera takes care of her mother very well and they again
start enjoying their life.

9. All these places are called neighbourhood services means the
services which help people living around. There are a lot of other
neighbourhood services like Bus stop, Railway station, Airport,
Police station etc.

11. Neighbourhood services means the services which help
people living around like hospital, school, market, post office,
bank etc.

12. Clean Neighbourhood
We must keep our neighbourhood clean. We can all help by
• Throwing rubbish in dustbin and not on the streets.
• Plant more trees in our neighbourhood.
• Avoid using plastic bags .

13. • Good neighbours help each other in the times of need. They take
care of each other and live like a family. We can all be good
neighbours by helping each other and sharing the joys and sorrows
together.

14. RECAPITULATION :-
• People who live near our house are our neighbours .
• Families living in nearby houses form our neighbourhood.
• Every neighbourhood has some services or facilities.
• These services are a market, hospital or dispensary, police
station etc.
• Good neighbours help each other.
• We must keep our neighbourhood clean .

15. Think -Observe the picture. Read Sameera's tasks and
write the corresponding numbers in the picture.
Sameera's tasks
1. Sameera's mother wants to buy vegetables and fruits.
2. Sameera's father wants to deposit money.
3. Samera wants to go out for dinner with her family.
4. Sameera wants to spend her Sunday reading books.
5. Sameera wants to play with her friends in the evening.
6. Samera wants to send new year's wishes to her uncle.
7. Sameera's mother wants to buy new clothes.
8. Sameera's father takes her to the doctor for a check-up.
9. Sameera studies in 3rd grade.
WORKSHEET

16. Activity:- Identify the pictures and write the name of corresponding neighbourhood
service.
1 4
2 5
3 6

17. HOME ASSIGNMENT
A) Fill in the blanks:-
1. We keep our money safely in a ___________.
2. we should not pluck flowers or plants when we go out to play in a ____________.
3. It is our duty to keep our _____________ clean .
4. Neighbourhood services have made our life _______.
B) Answer the following questions:-
1. What is our neighbourhood?
2. Name the neighbourhood services which help to make our life easy.
3. How can we keep our neighbourhood clean ?