NCERT Solutions for Class 3 English Chapter 11 Chanda Mama Counts the Stars (PDF) – 2027

The story in short: Chanda Mama tries to count the stars every night. He gets sleepy and forgets his count. He cries. The Sun tells him the stars are as many as the lovely children. Now Chanda Mama is happy.

Here are the three new words with easy meanings.

No, the Moon does not look the same every night.

The story says he is “at times round as a circle and at times different.” Some nights he is round. Some nights he is only a thin curve.

Chanda Mama tried to count the stars in the sky.

He counted 1, 2, 3 … all the way to 999. Then he fell asleep.

He fell asleep because counting so many stars made him tired.

He counted past 890 and gave a big yawn. At 999 he fell asleep.

The Sun helped Chanda Mama.

The Sun saw his tears and smiled. He said, “Don’t worry! Why do you cry? I can tell you how many stars there are in the sky.”

The number of stars in the sky is the same as the number of lovely children.

These are the Sun’s own words on page 111.

In my language, Marathi, I call the Moon Chandoba.

Say the name your family uses at home. Some names used in India:

• Hindi — Chanda Mama
• Marathi — Chandoba
• Tamil — Nila
• Bangla — Chand Mama

I cannot count the hairs on my head, the leaves on a big tree or the grains of sand on a beach. There are too many of them.

At night I can see the Moon and many stars. Some nights I see clouds, the light of an aeroplane, or an owl flying.

They tell us where a thing is.

1. We use here for a thing that is near us.
2. We use there for a thing that is far from us.

Here is your shirt.

There is my bicycle.

The girl is pointing at her bicycle. It is far away, beside the hut.

I went to Chandigarh last year. My brother lives there.

The speaker is not in Chandigarh now. Chandigarh is far away.

This is my bench. I sit here with my friends.

Children in the classroom go in the column Can be counted easily.

A class has about thirty or forty children. You can point at each one and count.

Flowers in a garden go in the column Too many to be counted.

A garden has many plants, and new flowers open every day.

Books in the library go in the column Too many to be counted.

A library has thousands of books on its shelves.

Pencils in your pencil box go in the column Can be counted easily.

Open your box and count. There are only a few pencils.

Fingers on your right hand go in the column Can be counted easily.

Hold up your right hand and count: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. There are five.

Children in your city or town go in the column Too many to be counted.

A town has many streets and many schools. Children are in homes, in parks and on buses.

Pages in your English notebook go in the column Can be counted easily.

Turn the pages one by one and count. Many notebooks also print the number of pages on the cover.

The hairs on your head go in the column Too many to be counted.

There are many thousands of hairs. They are thin and they lie close together.

Dhruv : My grandfather says the full moon looks very beautiful.

Dhruv tells his friends what his grandfather says.

Safura : My mother has a camera for the picture.

Just before this, Ramani says, “Let us take a picture.” Safura answers that her mother has a camera.

Dhruv : Come. Stand here and let’s take a picture.

Govind : The moon is so bright and big.

You need: two cardboard sheets, coloured paper, scissors, a marker, thread and glue.

1. Cut a crescent moon from a cardboard sheet.
2. Draw stars on cardboard. Cut them out with an adult’s help.
3. Decorate a round sun with coloured paper.
4. Hang the moon and stars below the sun with thread and glue.