The picture in your book: a rectangular vegetable bed with rows of small plants inside it. A low wall of bricks runs all round the bed. On the far side the bricks are already laid and coloured red; Bhola is kneeling and placing one more. The rest of the wall is drawn in white, with dotted lines that show where each brick will go.
What to colour: only the bricks that make the wall all round the bed — the two long sides and the two short sides. The plants inside are not part of the boundary.
How to count the bricks:
- Start at one corner and go round the bed once, the same way all the time.
- Count the bricks on the first long side, then the second long side.
- Count the bricks on each short side.
- Add the four numbers. Do not count a corner brick twice.
top long side = 9 bricks bottom long side = 9 bricks
left short side = 4 bricks right short side = 4 bricks
9 + 9 + 4 + 4 = 26 bricks
Count the bricks on the picture in your book in exactly the same way. The bed there is drawn in a slanting view, so the far bricks look smaller than the near ones — count one side at a time and mark each brick with your pencil as you count it.