Seasons is Chapter 8 of NCERT’s Class 1 English book Mridang — a short, picture-led chapter that teaches the four seasons through a song, story pictures, a word hunt, a paper-hat craft and two rain poems.
The official Seasons Class 1 NCERT English chapter 8 PDF is published on the NCERT portal and linked below. After the link you will find a walkthrough of every part of the chapter, so you know what is inside before you open it.
Download the Seasons Class 1 NCERT English chapter PDF
NCERT hosts the current editions of its textbooks on the official portal at ncert.nic.in. Mridang, the Class 1 English book that contains this chapter, is one of the books published there — open the portal, choose Class 1, and select the English book Mridang to reach the chapter files.
You can download the Seasons Class 1 NCERT English chapter 8 PDF straight from that official NCERT textbook portal.
What is inside the Seasons chapter at a glance
The table below is the chapter at a glance — what is inside and how much of each. The sections after it walk through every block in order.
| What the chapter holds | Count | Where it is used |
|---|---|---|
| Printed pages | 9 | |
| Figures with NCERT captions | 1 | |
| Tables | 1 | |
| Activities | 1 | |
| Official NCERT PDF | Download the chapter PDF | the chapter exactly as NCERT publishes it |
Inside that structure, the chapter moves through five named activity blocks in this order: Let us sing, Let us speak, Let us read, Let us do and Let us write. Let us speak appears twice — once for the opening season questions and once for the clothes words.
What the Seasons chapter covers: songs, pictures, craft and writing
Here is what each part of the chapter actually asks a child to do, in the order it appears.
- Let us sing opens the chapter with a four-verse song called The Four Seasons — one verse for spring, one for summer, one for monsoon and one for winter.
- Let us speak follows with three questions: what you wear in summer, what you wear in winter, and which season you like most and why.
- The same speaking page shows four numbered pictures, and the child uses them to tell a story in their own words.
- Summer: Brinda and her family are visiting Hyderabad, where her grandparents live. It is hot there, and she is wearing a cotton frock. The question asks what each family member is wearing.
- Winter: Prithvi has gone to Shimla. It is cold there, and the child says what Prithvi is wearing and what things appear in the picture.
- Monsoon: a word hunt. A ring of words sits around the picture, and the child circles the ones they can see in the drawing.
- Let us speak again, this time for clothes words: sari, dhoti-kurta, shirt, cap, frock, pants, salwar suit, t-shirt and lungi-angavastram.
- Let us do is the paper-hat craft, shown in six pictures labelled a to f.
- Let us sing returns with two short rain poems, Pitter Patter and Rain, for rhyme and weather words.
- Let us write closes the chapter with word columns — a few words are already given for summer, winter, spring and monsoon, and the child adds their own.
Spring, summer, monsoon and winter: the seasons this chapter teaches
The chapter teaches four seasons: spring, summer, monsoon and winter. The opening song does two jobs at once — it names each season and links it to a feeling a small child already knows.
| Season | What the song links it to |
|---|---|
| Spring | Children play; flowers bloom every day |
| Summer | Hot weather; everyone wants a dip in the pool |
| Monsoon | Clouds filled with rain that make you feel cool again |
| Winter | Cold; on sunny days people enjoy the sun’s rays |
The teacher’s note on the opening page asks adults to explain the cycle of seasons — the idea that the four seasons return in the same order every year.
So the chapter treats the seasons as a repeating cycle to understand, not just four names to memorise: spring, summer, monsoon, winter, then spring again.
Season words and clothes words the chapter teaches
Three pages of the chapter carry the words a child should take away. This reference table groups them so a parent or teacher can practise them without the book open.
| Word set | Where it appears | Words to practise |
|---|---|---|
| Season words | Let us write, the closing page | Summer: hot, holidays · Winter: cold, woolen cap · Spring: new leaves, colourful · Monsoon: umbrella, clouds |
| Monsoon picture words | The Monsoon word circle | puddle, raindrops, umbrella, boat, mud, pot, house, roses, cat, mat, sun |
| Clothes words | Let us speak, the clothes page | sari, dhoti-kurta, shirt, cap, frock, pants, salwar suit, t-shirt, lungi-angavastram |
The word circle keeps each word tied to a picture, and the clothes list is meant to be read aloud — say the name of each garment as its picture is pointed to.
Picture reading: Hyderabad, Shimla and the monsoon word hunt
The pictures in this chapter are not decoration — they are the task. The picture pages carry no captions; the drawing itself is the source of the answer.
Summer: Brinda and her family are visiting Hyderabad, where her grandparents live, and it is hot. The only clothing answer printed on the page is Brinda’s cotton frock.
The question then asks what her mother, father, grandfather, grandmother and brother are wearing — and the rest of the answers are in the drawing, not in print.
Winter: Prithvi has gone to Shimla, and it is cold there. The child says what Prithvi is wearing and what things appear in the picture — again, the drawing carries the answer.
Monsoon is a word hunt. Words sit around the picture, and the child circles only the words whose objects appear in the drawing — puddle, raindrops, umbrella, boat, mud and the rest.
The four numbered pictures on the story page work the same way: the child looks at the sequence and tells a story in their own words.
Make the paper hat: the Let us do activity, step by step
The Let us do block turns the chapter into a craft. With one A4 sheet and six folds — shown in pictures labelled a to f — a child makes a paper hat.
- Take one A4 sheet of paper.
- Fold it along the long side (lengthwise).
- Fold it again.
- Open the sheet and bring the corners to the centre.
- Fold one lower flap upward.
- Repeat the fold with the other lower flap on the opposite side.
The hat is now complete, and the activity ends with the child putting it on. Following the pictures in order trains a child to read instructions step by step, and the folding itself practises fine motor control.
Where children usually get stuck in the Seasons chapter
The chapter’s own teacher notes point to the habits that most often go wrong — one-word answers and a missing sense of the seasons as a cycle. Two more traps hide inside the picture pages.
| What happens | What to say instead | How to check |
|---|---|---|
| The child answers a speaking question with one word, such as “shirt”. | Answer in a full sentence: “In summer I wear a shirt.” | Read the answer aloud — it should make sense on its own. |
| The child knows the four season names but not that they repeat. | Seasons run in a cycle: spring, summer, monsoon, winter — then spring again. | Ask which season comes after summer, and after that one. |
| On the Summer or Winter page the child looks for a printed answer. | Read the picture — the answer is in the drawing. | Point to the person in the drawing and name what they are wearing. |
| On the Monsoon page the child circles words at random. | Circle a word only if its object appears in the picture. | Point to the object first, then circle its word. |
How schools use the Seasons chapter in Class 1
Class 1 English work for this chapter is oral and activity based. In a typical classroom a child is expected to:
- answer the three Let us speak questions in complete sentences;
- describe the Hyderabad and Shimla pictures and say what the people are wearing;
- finish the Monsoon word circle;
- fold the paper hat by following pictures a to f;
- write the season words on the closing page.
The textbook itself attaches no marks to any of this. Textbook contents and the examinable syllabus are not always identical, so the school and the current official curriculum decide what is assessed — in Class 1, it is the doing that matters.
Quick recall: the Seasons chapter in five lines
The whole chapter, in five lines:
- The song names four seasons: spring, summer, monsoon and winter.
- Summer and winter are taught through picture questions — Brinda in Hyderabad, Prithvi in Shimla.
- Monsoon is a word hunt with picture words.
- Clothes words, a six-step paper hat and two rain poems (Pitter Patter, Rain) round out the chapter.
- The writing page fixes the season words: hot, holidays, cold, woolen cap, new leaves, colourful, umbrella, clouds.
Related NCERT Class 1 English pages
More Class 1 English material from this site:
- Mridang Class 1 English book page — the full book and its chapters
- The Food We Eat — a Class 1 English chapter page
- Anandi’s Rainbow — another Class 1 English chapter page
- Class 1 hub — the other Class 1 subjects
- CBSE notes home — every class and subject on this site
Sources and data verification
This listing is maintained for the 2026-27 academic session using the NCERT textbook information available to us. NCERT remains the authority for confirming the latest edition.
- This page describes Chapter 8, Seasons, of the NCERT Class 1 English textbook Mridang, as published by NCERT.
- It covers only this chapter, not the whole CBSE scheme of subjects.
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Seasons Class 1: common questions
Which NCERT book and class has the Seasons chapter?
Seasons is Chapter 8 of Mridang, the NCERT English textbook for Class 1.
What activities are in the Seasons chapter?
A four-season song, speaking questions, four story pictures, picture-reading pages for Hyderabad and Shimla, a Monsoon word hunt, clothes words, a paper-hat craft, two rain poems and a writing page.
What are the four seasons in the Seasons chapter?
Spring, summer, monsoon and winter. The teacher’s note adds that they run in a cycle and return in the same order every year.
What should a child be able to do after the Seasons chapter?
Answer the speaking questions in full sentences, describe the two picture pages, circle the Monsoon picture words, fold the paper hat from the six picture steps, and write the season words on the closing page.
How do I get the official Seasons Class 1 PDF?
Open the official NCERT textbook portal at ncert.nic.in, choose Class 1 and the English book Mridang — the chapter files are published there. The Seasons Class 1 NCERT English chapter 8 PDF link at the top of this page goes straight to that portal.
Reference: NCERT Class 1 English textbook, chapter 8, official edition on ncert.nic.in.
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