Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Tamil Intermediate class- 9/18/2016

Tamil Intermediate Class

Today is the first full fledge day of learning.
We started with kids introducing themselves in Tamil.
We will be continuing to do so in future classes too. We will be insisting on kids speaking in tamil class to us.

Speaking:
     Kids learned to introduce themselves. We will working on speaking skills for the first 10 min in the class.

Reading:
  Kids identified all the vowel sounds. We started learning to say the Consonant sounds.Class repeated for couple of times and then each students tried to say each letter sounds written on the board

Writing:
     Kids wrote all the vowel sounds by themselves. We also did a missing letter activity with the vowel sound. We started learning the consonant sound. We repeated saying all the 18 letters. We learnt to write the first 4 letters.

Songs:
    We did the kuvakuva vaaththu song (குவா குவா வாத்து). Please have them practice in the house come for the next class. Here is the you tube link for reference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pQjjtxWU2Q

Homework:
    Write the 4 consonant letters 3 times. 
    Practice  vowel sounds. Test next class.
    Practice the song and come for next class. 




Sunday, September 11, 2016

Tamil Junior and Intermediate - Welcome to New school year

Hari om,
  Welcome to BBNJ Tamil class for the school year 2016-17. It was nice meeting every one today.
We have lots of new families joining us today. Since today was the open house, We introduced our self and talked about the curriculum for the class.
We will start the regular curriculum from the next class.  We have shared the back to balavihar packet from google drive. Please have it as a reference.
Make sure to get all required supplies. The list is given in the packet.  If you have not received any email with google drive share, please contact us . We might have a wrong email address or missed your email in the list.

Our mode of teaching will be
  books, songs, games.

Next class:
  Next class will be a assessment class. We will analyze the kids and filter them between Junior and Intermediate.

Happy to teach your kids this year. Good luck to all the kids.
See you all next class.