Today we had a good class. Kids were focused and energetic. We thank Mr. Sivakumar for volunteering to help us in the class.
Group A:
Kids reviewed the words page 2 and 3 in Tamil Book. Then, we had a quiz on the words. kids were able say the Tamil words for most of the words. Then we practiced writing the first 6 consonant sounds.
Homework: Practice the words in Lesson -1 and 2 in the text book, write the first 6 consonant sounds. Printout is given to the student. If the kids missed, Print it and have them finish the printout.
Group B:
We practiced the Vowel sounds. Most of the kids came to the board and read the vowel letters aloud. Most of the kids got it. Only couple of them have trouble. With little bit more practice, all the kids can identify the letters. Please continue to practice them at home too. Then we learnt to write the next two Vowel letters. Kids did a good job in writing them.
Home work: Practice the vowel sounds . Use the following link for reference if needed.
http://www.baasha.net/lessons/Level-1/b_Uyir_lessons.html
Practice writing the first 4 vowel sounds. Next class, we want the kids to identify all the vowel sounds and write the first 4 on their own.
Talking Log:
All the kids (both groups) should maintain a talking log in their notebooks. Each day kids need to speak minimum 5 minutes in Tamil with their family and/or friends. Parents please sign the log so that we know.
Rhyme:
Also practice the vowel sound Rhyme. We want all the kids to have it memorized before going to next song.
Here is the link to that song recording. Let us know if you are unable to access it.
http://www.baasha.net/Rhymes/TamilRhyme_vowelsounds_2015_10_11_18_24_02.wav
Story:
Kids can see the following Tamil cartoon(Panchatantra tale) with their parent's permission. We can discuss the story in the next class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi_HcG76aQk
Our next class is on November 1st.
Today we had a short class due to Back to Balavihar for Language classes we did not get much done. Thanks for all the parents who came in today. For those who missed it, do not worry, we have already sent you the information through our welcome letter. If you have any questions we will be happy to answer you in the next class or you can always email us.
As per the class today, We practiced the alphabet song as a class. Then went ahead with the group activity.
Group A:
We reviewed our home work. Many of them had done the homework. Good job for all those who made an effect. We learn the consonant sounds today and quickly reviewed the colors and number words by playing the tossing the cube game. Each child tossed the color cube to one another . They have to say a sentence with the color the cube landed in. The same way we played with number dice too.
All the children did a good job.
Homework for this group is learn page 2,3 and 19 in their textbook. They will have a quiz next class. Winners get to pick a prize from the prize box!!!. We will also start writing the consonant sounds in the next class
Group B:
We continued the family words . We also did worksheets to practice writing the alphabets அ , ஆ and alphabet sequence. We will work on writing the at least 2 letters in each class. We will request parents to have the kids practice writing those letters in the house too. If you want to get tracing, you can get more printable from http://www.baasha.net/baasha_workout.html for practicing.
Home work for next week is practice writing letters அ , ஆ . Saying the vowel sounds in the right order. kids who could say the vowel sounds in the right order and also identify the given vowel sound will get pick a prize from the prize box. If time permits, we will play letter bingo game.
Talking Log:
All the kids (both groups) should maintain a talking log in their notebooks. Each day kids need to speak minimum 5 minutes in Tamil with their family and/or friends. Parents please sign the log so that we know.
Also practice the vowel sound Rhyme. We want all the kids to have it memorized before going to next song.
Here is the link to that song recording. Let us know if you are unable to access it.
http://www.baasha.net/Rhymes/TamilRhyme_vowelsounds_2015_10_11_18_24_02.wav
Our next class is on October 25th.
Kids can see the following Tamil cartoon(Panchatantra tale) with their parent's permission. We can discuss the story in the next class.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi_HcG76aQk
This week, We split the class into two groups. Group A handled by Sowmya and Group B by Vidya Aiyer. After individual group activities, We practiced the alphabet Song as a whole class. We will be learning this song for the next couple of weeks. our kids will sing this as one of the performances in the assembly sometimes during January. Our class will be working on two group system for rest of the year. Our goal is to graduate the group A kids to Senior in the following year (if the kids cooperate this year).
Group A (Kids who are done with vowel sounds):
We reviewed the vowel sounds. kids wrote the alphabets in their notebooks on their own. We also worked on words with vowel beginning sounds. We started making the vocabulary list section in the Tamil notebook. I asked the kids to start from the back of the notebook. Each page is assigned a letter and words beginning with that sound will be written in that page. We will continue to add the more words to the collections through out the year. By the end of the year, kids will be amazed at how many words they have learnt in Tamil. In the next class, We will review the homework word list , Lesson -2 in the text book. Then, we will start on consonant sounds.
Group B(New kids / Kids who do not know vowel sounds or any basics of Tamil):
We started vowel sounds. Kids worked on learning the vowel sounds and tried to trace them. We made kids repeat the vowel sounds for couple of times.We started Lesson-2. We read the books on relations. We will be working on Lesson -1 along with other lessons until each child is comfortable either saying and identifying them or Writing them. Next class we will have activities to practice letter sounds and Letter sequences. We will be continue to learn the Lesson -2 (My Family).
Home work:
Group A:
Group A kids will have to write the words that begins with vowels sounds in their vocabulary list sections. We are going to see who could bring in lots of words. Kids can write the Tamil words in English and we will eventually write them in Tamil. Here are some sample shots. Also use the Textbook and their last year printouts as reference for words. 
Group B:
Practice Vowel sounds. They should be able to identify the letters and/ or put them in the correct order when asked to in the next class. Please print the following and have it in their folder for the next class.
- https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4zzJ3Rgj-K-c29aUFMxcWxMU28
- Pages 6,10,11 from this Link https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4zzJ3Rgj-K-S3BpQWJoLWFHd0E/view?usp=sharing
Other Information:
Our welcome letter is in the following google doc. Please make sure that the child has his/ her class supply in their bags.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MeFeJ5BBedK8ssaT872Te5EWa_f_NQBmBtMFCbW0dtU/edit?usp=sharing
Most Kids know which group they are in. We emailed the parents about which group your kids will be. If any of the parent do not get our email. Please let us know.
