This chapter teaches us about different healthy foods, colourful fruits, fresh vegetables, and pretty flowers. It begins with a picture of a traditional Odia meal called Pakhala. We learn that our state celebrates Pakhala Divas every year on the twentieth of March.
Next, the chapter presents a lovely song about sharing fruits. In the song, a tree has five fruits, such as sweet mangoes or bright apples. The tree shares its fruits with a tired traveller resting in its cool shade, a little bird resting or nesting on its branch, a quick squirrel running up the trunk, a rabbit living below, and a dear friend. This teaches us how kind nature is and why we should always share our things with others.
Then, we read a story about a little girl named Mini and her father. Her father is a hardworking farmer who grows vegetables on his farm. Every Sunday, Mini goes to the market with him. In the busy market, people buy many things like vegetables, fruits, flowers, and toys. Her father helps her identify different flowers such as roses, marigolds, and sweet-smelling jasmine. He also teaches her the names of fruits like large pineapples, juicy oranges, and big green watermelons. At the end of their visit, Mini holds a basket of flowers and her father carries a bag of fruits to take home.
Finally, the chapter helps us practise naming foods like tomatoes, potatoes, brinjals, cabbages, carrots, radishes, cauliflowers, and peas. We learn to describe them using colours, such as green guavas and purple brinjals. The lesson reminds us that eating vegetables and fruits every day keeps us strong and healthy. It also encourages children to bring fresh fruits to school, prepare a delicious fruit chaat together with their teacher, share it with classmates, and never waste food.