2nd Class General Knowledge My Family Notes - Meet Me and My Family

Meet Me and My Family

Interesting Facts

•           Family members play a huge role in shaping one?s personality.
•           Families give you have a healthy sense of competition.

Meet my grandparents

My father's parents are my Paternal Grandparents.

My mother's parents are my Maternal Grandparents.

What do you call your grandparents?

I call my father's parents dadoji and dadiji. I call my mother's parents nanaji and naniji.

My paternal grandparents live with my uncle's family.

My uncle is my father's brother. I call him chachaji.

His wife is my aunt. I call her chachiji. I am their niece.

My brother Rahul is their nephew. My uncle's son is my cousin. My uncle's family is a big family. It is called a joint family. My mother's brother is also my uncle. He is my maternal uncle. I call him mamaji. His wife is my aunt and

I call her mamiji. Their son is also my cousin.

Do You Known?

•          Family tree is a chart showing relationship between the people of a family.

MY SURNAME

The last name of a person is his surname. Your name has two parts- first part is your name and second part is your surname. All the members of a family have a common surname.

WE LEARN FROM OUR FAMILY

Our family gives us love and care. We learn many things from our family.

•           We learn honesty and kindness from our elders.
•           We learn hard work from our father.
•          Our mother teaches us the family customs.
•           Some of the things that we learn from our family are:
•             sharing with all
•            caring for younger ones
•             respecting our elders
•             good habits
•             customs and traditions
•             Our family teaches us what is right or wrong.

FUN WITH FAMILY

During our summer vacations, we go to meet our grandparents/ uncles, aunts and our cousins. Meeting our family members is fun. We all enjoy many activities together.

•             We go to holy places with our family.
•            We go out for picnics together.
•            We may also go for shopping together.
•            We go out for dinner with our family.
•            We celebrate festivals together.