Tami Jr. November 15, 2015

   This week , We started with singing our vowel song. Then reviewed the number words in Tamil. Then continued to the  group activity. Good job to all kids who finished their homework. Remember, kids who does their homework gets extra sticker!!! to their sticker pager. There are few kids who achieved their 5 sticker mark and will get to pick a price from the treasure box next class. 
      Soon we will be possibly splitting into two class with Vidya Leading the vowel group and Sowmya leading the consonant group. We will be needing another teacher volunteer to assist us in the class. If any of you are interested let us know or contact the co-ordinators Kalpana tamu and Anu Raguraman

Vowel group:
Learned the numbers in the class. Each child is made to come to the board and say the numbers 1 to 10. Practice numbers 1 to 10 with them. They should be able to tell the Tamil word for each number next week. 

Consonant group:
   Kids are made to write the number words. Its a guided writing. They are learning the secondary letters with this process. We will continue to read the consonant sounds and write words simultaneously.  
   Home work will be practice writing numbers 1-6. There will be a test next class on those.

Student of the week: 
  Every class starting next, one student from each group will  be made student of the week. Student of the week will  talk in Tamil in the class (couple of sentence for uyir group and 2-3 min for mei group) about their favorite thing. They can also bring a toy or book or any stuff from their home and talk about it. The order will be email to the parents. If any of you did not receive any email from us, please let us know.

Homework:
   Homework is vital in language learning.It is one way to reinforce the lessons in the house too. If the students do not keep up with the homework, it is difficult for us to go further as they will keep forgetting the lessons and we will have to repeat the same thing again and again. We will not be able to go any further.  Please have your child work on their homework in the house. We promise not to give too many homework. 

• Practice Vowel Song.                       http://www.baasha.net/Rhymes/TamilRhyme_vowelsounds_2015_10_11_18_24_02.wav
• Each child have to talk to their family and/or friends in Tamil for atleast 5 min a day. 
• uyir group: Practice saying numbers in tamil 1-10. writing vowel sounds அ - ஏ.
• mei group: Practice writing 1- 6 in tamil words. Practice say and identify consonant sounds (all 18).

Our next class will be November 22nd.