Tamil Class March, 13th 2016

This week, both junior and intermediate class were held together as Sivakumar is unable to come.

Tamil Junior:
   We Practiced writing the vowel letters and then worked on vowel sound words from lesson 1. 
Kids did very well in writing. They are improving well. please practice talking to them in tamil at home too. Ask them to reply to you in tamil atleast for few sentences. This encouragement will help them . 
Homework:
Practice the words from lesson -1. Kids should be able to say the word when looking at the picture or given the english word.


Tamil Intermediate:
   We practiced the past secondary sound letters and started on the next two sound. Kids brought home the test paper and homework for the week is specified on the test paper. Please do sign the paper. Also have the kids finish the homework. Kids also went home with a booklet and wordlist sheet. Read with the children so that they get familiarized with the words. 
They should bring them back to class so that we will practice in class too. 
We will continue this process for the next few weeks. Test, lesson , reading wordlist. 

Mar 6th 2016

Tamil Jr. :

   This week we reviewed the weekdays and started  working on the lesson -7 (Action words). Kids had fun learning this lesson with action. 

Kids were comfortable with the days lesson. 

    Please review them in the house and try to make them use it in their daily conversation whenever possible. 

    Attendance is important to keep up the learning.  Please keep the absenteeism to minimal. 

Homework: 

   Practice writing the vowel sounds. Write the vowel letters 3 times in their notebook. 

  Practice saying words from Lesson - 7

Tamil Intermediate:

  This week, We did a small test on the first two sounds of the secondary letters. Most of the kids did well. The paper has come home for signing. Please review them and have them keep in the practice at home too.  We worked on both writing and reading. 

   In writing, we practiced அ ,ஆ  sound secondary letters. Kids who were comfortable with the first 2 sounds were taught the next 2 (இ ,ஈ ) sound. When they write we have them say the letters while writing. Please do the same while writing at home too. Otherwise, they just writing blindly without understanding the sounds. 

   In reading, Kids took home two sheets of small words and sentences made with the letters learnt so far. We tried our best to read the words by joining the letter sounds. Example: (அ - ம்  - மா  =அம்மா ) . Few kids got it quickly. We will be working on this reading skills in parallel to writing letters. We will continue to send in similar sheets as we learn more letters. This is mainly intended mainly for reading. Writing those words will be optional. 

Homework:

     Write the secondary letters 3 times in their Notebook. write for the (க் + அ =க... ) அ ,ஆ  / இ ,ஈ  sound . Each kid who came today will know which one to write. Kids who did not come today will write the அ ,ஆ sound secondary letters 3 times. 

  Every class will start with a small test of the secondary letters we learnt so far. So please have the children be prepared for it. We will be able to move further only after the kids they got comfortable with the letters.