Tamil Class Feb_21_2016

We meet after the two weeks break.
Kids came to class with enthusiasm.

Tamil Junior:
   Junior group had very little attendance this week. Since Vidya will be away in India for a while, Sivakumar will be handling the class. This week Junior class, we reviewed the past lessons and  started learning the days of the weeks.
Homework:
      Review and practice saying the days of the week in tamil. Kids will be asked to say the tamil day for the corresponding English days of the week.

Tamil Intermediate:
    Intermediate kids came well prepared for the test.
         Good Job Kids.
     Most of the kids did very well and they all moved on to learn the secondary letter sounds. We learned the அ , ஆ  sound formation of secondary letters. Next class we will learn the next two and also be working on simple words formed with letter learned so far( vowels, consonants, secondary letters with அ ,ஆ sound). Here are some words for review. If you can send in more words , it would be great too.

1. அம்மா
2. அப்பா
3. அண்ணா
4. அக்கா
5. வா
6. தா
7. பல்
8. கல்
9. பார்
10. கண்
11. பால்
12. பாழ்
13. பாடம்
14. சட்டம்
15. சத்தம்
16. மரம்
17. பலம்
18. பழம்
19. மாம்மா
20. பட்டம்
21. பதட்டம்
22. படம் 
23. வலம் 
24. இடம் 
25. மான் 
26. ஒட்டகம் 
27. ஓடம் 
28. கப்பல் 
29. காகம் 
30. மஞ்சள் 
31. ஊதா 
32. ஊதல் 
33. உரல் 
34. மணல் 
35. இதழ் 
36. கால் 
37. நகம் 
38. ஓனான் 
39. ஏமாற்றம் 
40. பாடல் 

Homework: 

     Practice the Secondary letters learnt in the class. Kids who had little tough time in the test will have another opportunity to do the test again next week. Come prepared. 

Tamil Class Jan 31st

Tamil Class did their Assembly Presentation. Thank you for all the parents who helped the kids to  practice the song  and also bring them early in the morning for the practice.
Kids did a wonderful job in the assembly.
Every one appreciated their presentation. Children from Junior Tamil Sang a Vowel song and the kids from intermediate  sang consonant song.  Visvam and Megana said few words about Pongal as this will be pongal celebration.

Great Work kids!!! Keep it up. 

Tamil Jr:
   In  the Class, We practiced all the letters, Numbers, Colors. This week we started learning the week day names. Kids also did a worksheet on the Letter e.
Homework:
  Please review the letters writing and other vocabulary done so far. There another 2 weeks break. It will be easy for the kids to forget if the lessons are not practiced in home. 
Kids can practice by playing this simple games
http://www.baasha.net/Games/Letter_Sequence_Game.html


Tamil Intermediate:
  In the class, we completed the Consonant sounds. Some kids started the secondary letters with அ  and ஆ sounds. All kids will have to write the consonant sounds with out seeing in the next class. Please practice them in the house. 
  As a homework from previous class, kids were supposed to prepare couple of sentence to answer the following questions:
   who they are thankful in life and why?. 
They are did a good job in telling their answers. 
   Then we had a story time where, I said a simple story about "Little Monster - Muthu" in tamil and kids translated it into English. Next class, this will be vise versa. I will say a story in English and kids will translate it into tamil. We will be working on this next  few classes. 
Home work: 
     Practice the consonant letters for writing test in the next class.Kids who started working on the secondary letters will be writing the secondary letters too. 
Here are few links to practice as game and also worksheet printable.
 http://www.baasha.net/Games/Letter_Sequence_Game2.html
http://www.baasha.net/Worksheets/Level-1/Level_1_Uyir_mei_tracing.html

There will not be language class next week as we have a field trip. Our next class will be  Feb,21st.