Tamil Junior: We worked on vowel sounds. kids were made to write all the vowel letters.
We did a joined the dots activity to review the vowel letter sequence.
In conversation, we learnt on greeting words. Please have them speak atleast 5 minutes every day in tamil at home, so that they will become comfortable with speaking. Homework: Test in writing all the vowel letters without looking in the book.
Tamil Intermediate:
In Tamil intermediate class, kids were asked to write the vowel sounds and the first 8 consonant sound with out looking in the book. Some of the kids can do it and some needed help.Please be sure that by next class they should come well prepared for the class with letters so that we can move further easily. We also did a oral practice of the full consonant sounds.
We also did the first 8 lines of Aaththichoodi.
Here is the reference link:
Printable for the poem: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Jzh_U-uSoSGWz4m3YzEL6xByskLhR4XvlgIZhNEOrE/pub
We discussed kids about their celebration of diwali. Here are what the class said:
தீபாவளி அன்று ------------
விடியற்காலையில் எழுந்தோம் .
எண்ணெய் தேய்த்து குளித்தோம் .
பூஜை செய்தொம் .
பட்டாசு வெடித்தோம் .
புத்தி ஆடை அணிந்தோம் .
வடை, பாயசம் ,இனிப்பு சாப்பிட்டோம்.
நண்பர்களுடன் கொண்டாடினோம்.
உறவினர் வீட்டிற்கு சென்றோம்.
அன்று சிவாத்மிகாவின் பிறந்தநாள் .
We also worked on conversation. Whole class took turns asking the questions and answering each other.
என் பெயர் _______.
உன்னுடைய பெயர் என்ன?
எனக்கு பிடித்த நிறம் -----------------.
உனக்கு பிடித்த நிறம் என்ன?
எனக்கு பிடித்த உணவு -------------.
உனக்கு எந்த உணவு பிடிக்கும்?
Homework:
Kids should come well practiced in saying the full vowel and consonant letters.
Kids should be able to write 12 vowels and first 8 consonant sounds.
Sing the first 8 line of Aaththichoodi.
Come prepared with four sentence to talk about themself. (Their name, class, their favorite color, food,sport...., their parents/friends/sibling names....)
Practice the page 18 sight words. They will be making sentences with them in the next class.
In Tamil junior class, We reviewed the vowels. Did a couple of worksheets on vowels. Went through the first and second page of textbook. Review the text book first 2 pages in the textbook. Homework: second page of yellow book
Tamil Intermediate Class: This week we reviewed and practiced the weekdays and numbers. Students are ok with numbers one to ten . But need a little more practice in Weekdays. Please have them practice at home too. In writing, We practiced writing the first 8 consonant sounds (க் ,ங் ,ச் ,ஞ் ,ட் ,ண் ,த் ,ந் ). Have the kids write them 5 times in their notebook and come for next class. In song, we started learning Aaththichchoodi - (ஆத்திச்குடி). Kids will be performing this in assembly. Tamil class assembly presentation will be in Feb tentatively.We did the first four lines in the song. Practice them at Home. Here is the picture of what we covered in the class. Please review them with kids at home.
Printable for the poem: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Jzh_U-uSoSGWz4m3YzEL6xByskLhR4XvlgIZhNEOrE/pub Homework:
Kids should come prepared with 4 sentences about diwali/diwali celebration in their home.
We finished writing all vowels(அ - ஃ) and started the first page of our book. Homework: Review the first page of the book. Be ready to identify any letters and related objects on that page.
Tamil Intermediate:
We worked on the writing the next 4 letters in the consonant sound. Students were made to work on the tracing worksheet and then work on the writing , க் ,ங் ,ச் ,ஞ் ,ட் ,ண் ,த் ,ந் in their notebooks. Many kids did not have notebooks. Please remember to send in a notebook for tamil class separately. Students are made to write உயிரெழுத்து . We will continue to make them write some of past lessons once in every class so that they do not forget. So please keep revising in the house. We also reviewed on Number words, Weekdays. Home work for the next class - Please practice the first 8 consonant sounds , Number and weekdays. We will have a quiz on the numbers and weekdays. Winners get a price.
Today is the first full fledge day of learning.
We started with kids introducing themselves in Tamil.
We will be continuing to do so in future classes too. We will be insisting on kids speaking in tamil class to us.
Speaking: Kids learned to introduce themselves. We will working on speaking skills for the first 10 min in the class.
Reading:
Kids identified all the vowel sounds. We started learning to say the Consonant sounds.Class repeated for couple of times and then each students tried to say each letter sounds written on the board
Writing:
Kids wrote all the vowel sounds by themselves. We also did a missing letter activity with the vowel sound. We started learning the consonant sound. We repeated saying all the 18 letters. We learnt to write the first 4 letters.
Songs:
We did the kuvakuva vaaththu song (குவா குவா வாத்து). Please have them practice in the house come for the next class. Here is the you tube link for reference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pQjjtxWU2Q Homework: Write the 4 consonant letters 3 times. Practice vowel sounds. Test next class. Practice the song and come for next class.
Hari om,
Welcome to BBNJ Tamil class for the school year 2016-17. It was nice meeting every one today.
We have lots of new families joining us today. Since today was the open house, We introduced our self and talked about the curriculum for the class.
We will start the regular curriculum from the next class. We have shared the back to balavihar packet from google drive. Please have it as a reference. Make sure to get all required supplies. The list is given in the packet. If you have not received any email with google drive share, please contact us . We might have a wrong email address or missed your email in the list.
Our mode of teaching will be
books, songs, games.
Next class:
Next class will be a assessment class. We will analyze the kids and filter them between Junior and Intermediate.
Happy to teach your kids this year. Good luck to all the kids.
See you all next class.
