Little Drops of Water Class 2 English Mridang Chapter 12

Little Drops of Water Class 2 is the title of Chapter 12 in the NCERT English textbook Mridang. It is a short poem about how many small things — drops of water, grains of sand, words of love and acts of kindness — build something big and beautiful. The official chapter PDF, with the poem and all its activities, is linked on this page.

Download Little Drops of Water Class 2 PDF

Open the official Little Drops of Water Class 2 PDF on the NCERT textbook portal to read the poem on the printed pages, with the original pictures and every exercise in the Let us write section. On the portal, choose Class 2, English, Mridang, and open Chapter 12.

Little Drops of Water Class 2 at a glance

This is a short poem unit, so it moves quickly from singing to speaking, listening, drawing, writing and a kitchen project. The table below lists how much the chapter holds.

What Little Drops of Water Class 2 contains

This is a poem chapter, not a long prose lesson, so most of it is the song and the activities that follow it.

• Let us sing — the poem itself, two short stanzas about nature and about kind actions.
• New words — a box with five words from the poem: mighty, pleasant, kindness, peaceful and ocean.
• Let us speak — say words connected to water, discuss how we use water, and look at pictures to describe what you see.
• Let us listen — follow spoken directions to colour the birds, the leaves and the plant.
• Let us draw — draw one thing that would make the earth more beautiful.
• Let us write — match words to complete phrases, choose the right words to fill blanks, and rearrange words into proper sentences.
• Project work — with an adult’s permission, touch and feel kitchen things such as banana, salt, oil, flour, sugar, rice and wheat, then pick the one that feels grainy and bring it to class.
• Note to the teacher — three short notes that help the adult guiding the activities.

Key ideas in Little Drops of Water Class 2

The poem’s one idea is that tiny things add up. A single drop of water or a single grain of sand is very small, yet every drop together forms the ocean and every grain together forms the land.

The second stanza turns the same idea to people. Tiny words of love, tiny acts of kindness and tiny deeds of warmth spread smiles and happiness around us.

That is why the chapter keeps asking the child to do small actions of their own — say words about water, describe a picture, colour a plant, draw one thing that would make the earth more beautiful. The child does with words and hands what the poem says: small pieces, joined together, become something good.

Picture activities in Little Drops of Water

The pictures in this chapter are part of the activities, not separate figures to study. Three tasks use pictures, and each one practises a different skill.

• Let us speak — observation and describing. Children look at pictures and describe out loud what they notice. This practises looking carefully and putting what you see into words.
• Let us listen — following directions. Children listen to simple instructions, pause between them, and colour each part — the birds, the leaves and the plant — in any colour they like. This practises listening and doing exactly what was heard.
• Let us draw — expressing an idea. Children draw one thing that would make the earth more beautiful, turning the poem’s message into a picture of their own.

New words in Little Drops of Water with meanings

The New words box holds five words from the poem. Here is each word with a meaning a Class 2 child can use, and a short example sentence.

Two more words matter for the exercises even though they are not in the box. Drops are tiny amounts of liquid that fall one at a time, like raindrops. Grains are tiny hard pieces, like grains of sand, rice or salt. Getting these two right is what the circle-the-words task and the grainy project are really checking.

Common mistakes in Little Drops of Water exercises

These are the slips that show up most in this chapter’s written exercises. Each row names the mistake, the rule that fixes it, and a way to check.

Worked example — rearranging words into a sentence. Take a new set of words: car red the is. Rearrange them in meaning order: the car is red. Now add the capital letter and the full stop: The car is red. The capital T starts the sentence and the full stop ends it — both are the marks of a proper sentence.

Memory trick for the four pairs: grains of sand lie on the ground, drops of water fall as rain, deeds are kind, and words carry love.

How Little Drops of Water is used in Class 2 English

This is a poem and activity chapter, so its own exercises are the main practice. Instead of one heavy topic, the chapter builds several small skills at once.

• Vocabulary — the five New words, plus drop, grain, and container words like cup, tube, box, slice and bag.
• Sentence sense — the rearrange-the-words task teaches capital letters and full stops.
• Listening — the colouring task makes children act only on what they hear.
• Observation and speaking — describing pictures and discussing how we use water.

Textbook contents and the examinable syllabus are not always identical — check the current official syllabus for what is examinable.

Quick recap of Little Drops of Water Class 2

The whole chapter in five points.

• The poem has two ideas: small bits of nature (drops of water, grains of sand) build the ocean and the land, and small good actions (words of love, deeds of kindness and warmth) spread smiles.
• The New words box gives five words: mighty, pleasant, kindness, peaceful and ocean.
• The matching exercise has four pairs: grains of sand, drops of water, deeds of kindness, words of love.
• The activities cover speaking, listening, drawing and writing, plus a project where children feel kitchen things to find something grainy.
• The writing tasks practise choosing the right word (cup, slice, tube, box, bag) and building sentences with a capital letter and a full stop.

More Class 2 English resources

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.

Little Drops of Water is one unit in the Mridang book. Open the Class 2 English Mridang book page for the whole book, and the Class 2 NCERT books page for every Class 2 subject this site lists. The book also includes chapters such as The Smart Monkey and Let Us Read, each with its own page.

You can also browse the CBSE notes homepage for other classes.

Sources and data verification

This page describes the NCERT Class 2 English Mridang textbook, Chapter 12, Little Drops of Water, in the official edition on ncert.nic.in. It covers this chapter only, and does not claim to list every Class 2 subject or book. The page is maintained for the NCERT edition currently listed on ncert.nic.in.

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Reference: NCERT Class 2 English Mridang textbook, chapter 12, official edition on ncert.nic.in.

Little Drops of Water Class 2: questions and answers

What is the poem Little Drops of Water about?

It is about small things adding up. The first stanza says drops of water and grains of sand together make the ocean and the land; the second says little words of love and acts of kindness spread smiles and happiness.

What are the new words in Little Drops of Water and their meanings?

The five New words are mighty, pleasant, kindness, peaceful and ocean. Their simple meanings — very big and strong, nice, being good to others, calm and quiet, and the huge sea — are listed with example sentences in the New words section above.

Which words do we use with “drops of” and “grains of”?

Use “drops of” with liquids such as water, milk or oil. Use “grains of” with grainy solids such as sand, salt, sugar or rice. In the poem, drops of water pairs with grains of sand.

What are the matching pairs in the Little Drops of Water exercise?

The four pairs are grains of sand, drops of water, deeds of kindness and words of love. The completed phrases should sound like the poem.

How do we rearrange words to make a sentence in this chapter?

Put the words in meaning order, start with the person or thing, write the first letter as a capital, and end with a full stop. For example, “car red the is” becomes “The car is red.”

Is Little Drops of Water a poem or a story?

It is a poem. It has two short stanzas with a repeated “little… little…” pattern, and the rest of the chapter is activities built around the poem.