Tamil Jr. Class - 9/21/2014

We had few new members to our class this week.With more diverse range of age groups in the class, we will be little slow for next couple of weeks.I am still in the process of understanding each kid's ability to read, write, and speak the language. Here is what we did in our class.

•    Today we worked on our vowel sounds and family member words in Tamil. Most of the students were given opportunity to come forward and read the vowels. We will continue this next week. 
•   We did a worksheet on "what comes before" each alphabet for the bigger kids (2nd grade and above). This worksheet is mainly to see if the kids can learn writing the alphabet by copying from the list of letters or by tracing the letter. We will be working on this next week. 
•    Smaller kids (Pre-k to grade 1) did "trace and count " worksheet. they traced all the  "அ " on the page and counted how many are there. 
•     Under vocabulary, we learnt family member names. All students are asked to say who live in their house.Some kids were able to say their family relation names (uncle, aunt, grandparents...) who live in India too. We encourage all kids to speak in tamil as much as possible in class.
•     We translated the rhyme "Jony Jony Yes papa" into tamil. 
•     Today kids would have come home with their names written in tamil. Please save that or help the kid write their name in their tamil notebook so that they do not loose this sheet. This is mainly for them to be able to identify their names in tamil by the end of this year. We will be using this on every class to identify their name.

     Kids need to bring back the worksheets. We will be working on them again next week.

 I thank the parents and Grandparents who stayed with the kids in the class. They were great help while doing the worksheet in the class.

 Next week, we will be working on the vowels sound more, color words,  and numbers if time permit.

Please make sure the kids have the following for their  Tamil class.

• A Notebook
• Pencil, eraser
• Color pencil or crayon (No markers please)
• Folder to keep the printouts.

 

Tamil Jr Sept 14 Class

Hari om  everyone,

I am very excited to teach Tamil Jr. this year at Balavihar. Our first day Tamil class went on fine. The first class is used to understand the kid’s knowledge level in Tamil. Kids tried to use as much Tamil words as possible to introduce themselves. Kids are introduced to vowels. They traced their name in Tamil and the first alphabet. Some kids are very comfortable writing them on their own and identifying the vowels. Few younger kids have little difficulty. That is perfectly fine. I will be working with them. We end the class with a story time. We hear the story and tried to comprehend them.

The real learning starts from next week. We have kids with various levels of knowledge and ages.  From next class, I will split the class into two groups based on age. I will be bringing in two types of worksheets so that kids can learn in their comfort level. 

Also each child has to bring a notebook, pencil, color pencil(or crayon. no markers please) for the class.

Thank you,

Sowmya