UNIT 1:Family property
9.1. Needs of a family
Look at the following pictures.
What are basic needs?
These things are called basic needs.
a) Food
The following pictures show examples of food.
Name the following examples of food.
b) Clothes
We put on clothes in order to protect us against wind and cold. Clothes
make us smart. These pictures show us some of the types of clothes that people can put on.
What type of clothes have they put on?
c) Home
A home is a place where people live.A house is a shelter we live in.
Ways of caring for basic needs
We should not waste food.
We should serve ourselves food we can finish.
We should iron our clothes.We must always wash our clothes.
We must clean our home every day.
Activity 9.1
Name three ways we can get our basic needs
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9.2. Money
The following pictures show some of the notes and coins that are used in Rwanda.
Are there any other types of notes and coins that you know?
(yes or no)
Sources of money
Ask your friend how his or her parent gets of money.
We get money from the following sources:
(a) Saving
(b) Domestic animals.
(c) Trade (selling things).(d) Getting a loan from bank.
(e) Salary or wages from temporary jobs.
(e) Digging
Make a box (saving tool box) in which you will be saving coins.
Expenditures at home
Activity 9.2
(a) Choose any three items that you can buy if you have 1000 Rwandan francs.
(b) Explain the reason why you have chosen these ones.(d) Mention ways how we use money at home.
We use money when we buy the following things:
(a) Home materials.
Activity 9.3
1. Draw the following items and shade them:
(a) A table
(b) A radio
2. What are the colors of the following chairs?
3. Name and colour the following items:
Proper management of moneyWe spend money on many things.
We have to use our money properly.
Show the ways we use our money.
We must use our money properly:(a) By saving.
(b) Without overspending
9.3. Proper management of pupil’s personal and family properties
Different types of pupil’s personal propertyThese are Kariza and Mugisha.
Which color of shorts is Mugisha putting on?
Which color of the dress is Kariza putting on?
Mugisha is putting on the following clothes:
(a) Shoes
(b) Short
(c) Shirt
(d) He has also a school bag in which there are school materials.
All these things and a bicycle are the personal property of Mugisha.
Kariza is putting on the following clothes:
(a) Shoes
(b) Dress
(c) Socks and a tie
(d) She has also a school bag in which there are school materials
The things that Mugisha has are his own property that he has been given.
What Kariza has is also her own property.
Even in their school bags they have their own properties.
All the above materials are the personal properties of Kariza and Mugisha.
Exercise 14
1. List three school items(a) ________. (b) ________. (c) ________.
Types of family property
Which type of family property do you have at home?
The family property is made up of the following:
Exercise 15
1. State three family property:(a) ________. (b) ________. (c) ________.
Manage the personal property well
Tell your fellow classmate your personal property.
We should manage them properly.(a) We must clean our shoes every day.
(b) Our clothes should always be clean.
(c) We should cover our books properly.
(d) We should properly take care for our pens, rubber and rulers. We
need them for studying well..We should take care for household materials.
Activity 9.4
State how you take care for the family property.
List of words
Read these words aloud
(a) Money
(b) Family house
(c) Putting on clothes
(d) Food
(e) Personal property