Night: NCERT Class 3 English Poem (Santoor Chapter 10)

etmantra3 Nov 20264 min read

Where does the sun go at night? This quiet poem asks a question many children ask. It is soft and soothing, with easy rhymes, and makes a nice bedtime poem to say together.

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From NCERT’s new English book Santoor for Class 3, unit “The Sky”. Chapter 10.

What your child learns

Rhyming words: bright and night, hill and still
Words about the sky: sun, sunrise, sunset, stars
Making new words with 'sun': sunlight, sunflower
Blends at the start of words: sp, st, sk

What the poem is about

A child wonders where the bright sun goes when the day ends. The child sees it go down behind a faraway hill, and then the whole world becomes dark and quiet.

The child goes to bed and sleeps until morning comes. When the child opens their eyes, the sun is shining again. The poem has a calm, gentle feeling and shows the daily pattern of day and night. The unit opens with a busy street picture to look at and talk about.

New words, with Hindi meanings

shines: gives out bright light (हिंदी: चमकता है)
bright: full of light (हिंदी: चमकीला, तेज़)
wonder: to think about something and want to know (हिंदी: सोचना, जानना चाहना)
sinks: goes down slowly (हिंदी: डूबता है)
distant: far away (हिंदी: दूर का)
still: quiet and not moving (हिंदी: शांत)
peep: to begin to show a little (हिंदी: झाँकना)

Talk about it

Ask these aloud after reading or watching. Let your child answer in English if they can, or mix in their home language. Both help.

What does the child wonder about?
Where does the sun go at night in the poem?
What does the child see in the morning?
What do you see in the sky at night?

Answers for parents

The child wonders where the sun goes at night.
It sinks behind a distant hill.
The child sees the sun shining down again.
For example: I see the moon and many twinkling stars.

Grammar corner: Rhyming words

Rhyming words end with the same sound, like night and bright. Poems often use rhyming words to sound musical and to be easy to remember.

The moon is bright at night.
The sun went down behind the hill, and the birds were still.
I count the stars before I sleep, until the sun begins to peep.

Practice at home

Find the rhyme for 'night' in the poem.
Add 'sun' to make a new word: ___flower, ___light, ___set
Say aloud three words that start with 'st'.

Answers: 1. bright · 2. sunflower, sunlight, sunset · 3. For example: star, stick, stone

Try this

Play 'I spy' as the book suggests, but use the sky. Look out of a window in the day or at night and say 'I spy with my little eye something that is ...' and give a clue, like 'round and white' for the moon. At bedtime, say the poem softly together, lying down and closing your eyes at the line about sleep.

Tip for parents

Ask in Hindi at sunset: 'Suraj kahaan ja raha hai?' Let your child answer in their own words, then say the English together: 'The sun is setting.' Say surya and sun, taare and stars side by side, and praise every English word your child tries.

Questions parents ask

What is the poem Night about?

A child wonders where the sun goes at night, watches it go down behind a hill, sleeps, and wakes to find it shining again.

Which words rhyme in the poem Night?

Bright rhymes with night, hill rhymes with still, and sleep rhymes with peep.

Is the poem Night in the new NCERT book?

It is in NCERT's new Santoor book for Class 3. It is Chapter 10, in Unit 4, The Sky.

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