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HERITAGE SOCIAL STUDIES

GRADE THREE (3)

WORK BOOK

TERM 1

WEEK 5 TO 6

NAME …………………………………………………

CLASS ………………………………………………..
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Week 5
Topic: Cultural Heritage

 Every society has a cultural heritage

 These are ways of living of the society that are inherited from the past
 They are passed down from one generation to the next
 How we interact with our family and friends comes from our cultural heritage

Friendship
What is friendship?

 A type of voluntary relationship between people who care about each other
 A friend is a person who you play, share ideas and help each other
 Friends are there when you need them
 Friends for different occasions or situations / purposes
We need friends when: helping people in need
 Playing games
 Making toys
 Doing our school work
 We are I problems

Qualities of a good friend

 When looking for a friend you must not expect to find someone who is perfect
 Everyone has different talents and ideas
 It is normal that friends have arguments or disagreements  Friends should
tell each other how they feel  A good friend is someone who is:
• Loving
• Helpful
• Honest
• Caring
• Kind
• Loyal

Family relations
 Families are made up of different people
 People from your family are called family relations
 You are connected to these people by birth, marriage or adoption
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Family tree showing family relations

My family
Father, mother, brother and sisters

Paternal grandfather and grandmother Maternal grandfather and grandmother

These are my father’s parents These are my mother’s parents

Paternal uncles Maternal uncles

These are my father’s brothers These are my mother’s brothers

Paternal aunts Maternal aunts

These are my father’s sisters These are my mother’s sisters

Nephews Nieces
These are sons of my brothers and These are daughters of my brothers and
sisters sister

Cousins
These are children of all aunts and uncles
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Family ceremonies and rituals

 Families hold ceremonies

 Ceremonies are events held to celebrate a particular occasion
 Families celebrates events like birth, marriage and death
 Families also observe certain rituals
 Rituals are sacred customary ways of celebrating culture or religion  Different
communities have different ritual practices

Birth

 When a child is born ululating is done to show joy and happiness

 It is also a sign of welcoming the new born baby
 The bay stays indoors for a least a week
 This is done to protect the child from diseases and direct sunlight
 Some people bury umbilical code (rukuvhute/imbeleko) at the child’s place of
origin
 After a month a welcoming feast is done
 The person who names the baby pay a token for the name to be accepted
 The mother to inform elders of each stage of development the child gets to
 These stages include sitting, crawling, teething, standing and walking

Funerals

 In some area’s money is paid it the headman telling him about death in the
family
 If a woman dies the husband or relatives also give money to her relatives (
Kusuma in Shona)
 The body of the adult lies in the house for one night before burial
 If the body is kept for more than a night, a fine is paid to the headman
 Rituals are done to hand over the spirit of the dead person to ancestors
 In some areas, the body comes through a hole drilled in the wall
 When taking the body for burial site, relatives sweep the path and rest the body
 A reed mat (bonde/icansi) is placed in the grave by close relatives
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Marriages

 When a man and woman want to marry, they go to an aunt or an uncle and
exchange love tokens (nhumbi)
 They take each other to their close relatives for introductions
 Money and cattle are used in the payment of lobola (bride prize) by the man
 The mother and aunt of the bride (mwenge/umtshakazi) prepare kitchen utensils
and bedroom items which are taken but the bride to her husband
 The aunts and sisters accompany the bride to the husband’s home
Children’ s games
 Children play games
 Some of the games are good while others are bad
 Good games teach cultural norms and values

Indigenous games and the values they teach

Games Norms and values, it teaches

Playing house -living and working together
(mahumbwe/amadlwane) -leadership skills
-respect
-responsibilities
Tsoro/intsoro -honesty
-working together
-faithfulness
Dudu muduri -remembering
-listening
-teamwork
-alertness
Riddles (zvirahwe/ amalibho) -problem solving
-team work
Nhodo/ igwini -working hard
-team work
-obedience
-faithfulness
Forgiveness
-honesty
Modern games and the values they teach
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Games Norms and values, they teach

Soccer, volleyball and netball -cooperation
-sportsmanship
-competition
-working hard
River bank -listening
-following instructions
-alertness
Chess -problem solving
-counting
-honesty
-working hard
-alertness

Remember
 Everyone must have friends
 In family relations we have grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews
and nieces
 They play important and different roles in the family, marriages, funerals,
family guidance and other rituals
 There are indigenous and modern children’s games that teach cultural
values

Questions
1.A good friend is

2.Being lonely can be caused by not having_

3.Relatives from your mother’s side are

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4. People ululate at a wedding and when a child is born to show

5. Name two indigenous games

6.What do you call your sister’s daughter?

7. When playing games is expected

8.What do most cultures lay in the grave before lowering the body?

9.Playinh house is a game which teaches us

10.My paternal uncle is my_ brother

11. and_ are used in the payment of lobola

12.Which values do riddles teach?

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13The
spirit of the deceased is handed over to

14.Name two games which you can play with your friends

15.Give two characteristics of a good friend