October, 4th 2015 -Tamil Jr. Class

        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.