Tamil class Dec 6,2015

 Tamil Junior:
We started with learning colors. We saw the names of the colors in Tamil and English, we did this a couple times.
We then learned to write the letter O and Oo.

The preschool children traced the vowels and others are able to write A Aa till O Oo.
The star child- Anusri had thirukkural to tell, but couldn't get to it due to time constraint. She will present her Thirukkural next class.

Homework- Please make the children practice the colors in Tamil.
Practice writing A Aa till O Oo 2 times in your NOTEBOOK


Tamil Intermediate:
   We worked the full class in writing the consonant sounds. All kids are recommended to say the letter and write. Kids can see the letters and write or write all the letters without seeing in an order. If they are asked to write one specific letter, they have trouble identifying it. We worked very hard. We will be working more in the next class. 
Next class we will have dictation on the consonant sounds. Practice all the consonant sounds. We will be working on writing the Body parts in the next class. We will also be practicing for the Assembly presentation in January.

Homework:

• Practice all the consonant sounds. 
• Practice the song. Refer to the November 15th Blogspot for the link in youtube and the video is also attached if you could not access youtube.
• Printouts for additional practice (optional): http://www.baasha.net/Worksheets/Level-1/Level_1_Uyir_mei_tracing.html

Tamil Jr. (3/22/15)

This  week we practiced the Consonant sounds and weather Words. We read a book on it and we did a worksheet to practice the words. 
Then One group worked with Ms. Vidya in writing Vowels while the others worked with Ms. Sowmya to write first 6 consonant letters. Kids all did a good job. We informed the students about the test in our next class. Please have the kids prepare for it. We have given the details in the last week blog. It is also added here too. 

      This week , kids earned their Third star!!! towards cupcake party at the end of the year. They were all very attentive and followed directions well in the class. 
Homework:
Practice for test.Use this link to see how to write the letters and also practice letter. Also refer to the level -1 worksheet in this site, Kids may get one from the letter sequence activity.
http://www.baasha.net/lessons/Level-1/b_Uyir_lessons.html

  All kids have to continue  recording minutes of speaking tamil in their house. Encourage them to use one or two words in between sentences at least. 

Test Next Class:
  Kids are going to have their Letters test on 4/12/15 class. It will help us know the level of kids and assess their future activity. Since we have kids at various levels in our class, the test content will vary for each kid. Please refer to the list below. We are letting you ahead of time, so that kids have enough time to practice.
  Here are the testing details.

• Ambika, Visvam - Writing Consonants without seeing in right order. Letter sequence Activity
• Adharsh, Aaryan, Vibhu, Navneeth- Identify all the vowel sounds, put them in the right order and write few letters if possible. 
• All others- Write vowels without seeing in right order. Letter sequence Activity.

    If kids has any difficulties in any of the letter, the website links above also have small images that shows how to write the letters. 

Note: 
    Our google drive is updated with all the vocabulary and worksheet lists we have used in the class so far. We have shared to drive with all the parents. If any one is missed, please email us and let us know the email to be shared with . 

Tamil Jr. class (3/15/15)

This  week we practiced the days of the week with flash card. Each kid had a packet of weekdays . they have to put the names in the right order. We also asked what comes after , where they have to pick the right day and show. 
 Then we had the kids paste them in their notebook in the correct order. 
  We also had the kids pasted the Weather related words. We will be working on it in the next class. 
      This week , kids earned their second star!!! towards cupcake party at the end of the year. They were all very attentive and followed directions well in the class. 
Home work: Each kid went home with a consonant tracing activity pasted in their notebooks. Many kids finished it in the class itself. Please have them practice it at home. Use the following link to refer to the consonant sounds. This link has a youtube video. Have the kids listen to it couple of times so that they get familiarized with the letter sounds.
http://www.baasha.net/lessons/Level-1/b_Mei_lessons.html
    Newly joined kids will have to practice Vowel sounds in the same way. Here is the link for that
http://www.baasha.net/lessons/Level-1/b_Uyir_lessons.html

  All kids have to continue  recording minutes of speaking tamil in their house. Encourage them to use one or two words in between sentences at least. 
Next class:
   We will be working on weather words and consonant sounds. We will try to work on writing the first 4-6 letters on their own. 
  Newly joined kids will work on the vowel sounds. 
If time permits we will read small sentence in English and try to translate them to Tamil.
Upcoming Test:
 Kids are going to have their Letters test on 4/12/15 class. It will help us know the level of kids and assess their future activity. Since we have kids at various levels in our class, the test content will vary for each kid. Please refer to the list below. We are letting you ahead of time, so that kids have enough time to practice.
  Here are the testing details.

• Ambika, Visvam - Writing Consonants without seeing in right order.
• Adharsh, Aaryan, Vibhu, Navneeth- Identify all the vowel sounds and write few letters if possible. 
• All other- Write vowels without seeing in right order.

    If kids has any difficulties in any of the letter, let us know in the next class and we could work on it. The website links above also have small images that shows how to write the letters. 

Note: 
    Our google drive is updated with all the vocabulary and worksheet lists we have used in the class so far. We have shared to drive with all the parents. If any one is missed, please email us and let us know the email to be shared with . 

Tamil Jr. Class (3/8/2015)

     Today we practiced Weekdays vocabulary and one letter words. All kids had the one letter word list pasted in their notebook. We will be reviewing the one letter words in the next class. Many kids are still not confident about the week days. Please review it with them every day. 
     We also learnt how to say all consonant sounds. We will be starting to practice writing them from the next class. Newly joined kids learnt Vowel sound with Ms. Vidya while others were working in the consonant sounds. 
  Today all kids did very well in being good listeners. Everyone followed directions and did a good job with consonant sounds. Hence everyone got a gift from the treasure box.  This also means  that the class got its "First Star " . Nine more stars and they will have a cup cake party to celebrate it. 
     Keep it up kids....!!!  Hope to see the same spirit in all the future class too.
    The week kids who won an extra prize for best effort in speaking tamil are Keerthana, Logathithya, Visvam. Good job guys. We need more kids to join them in coming weeks. Every sincere efforts will be appriciated.

Homework for next week:
  Speak atleast 1 to 5 min with family /friends everyday. Get it acknowledged and signed by the parents.
  Practice vowel/consonant sounds.(Which ever learnt today)
  Practice Week days
  Practice one letter words. 

Parents: 
   Please review the Google drive and make sure kids have all the printouts listed in there. We will be going back and reviewing our vocabulary every now and then in the class. Those print outs will be very helpful for them.
  The best way to save them is print two pages in one paper and paste them in their Tamil notebook like the week days and one letter words that went in their notebook today. 

Next class: 
   We will be reviewing our past words list. We will be starting to trace the consonant letters. 

Tamil Jr. Class (3/1/15)

 This week we had three new faces to the tamil class.  We revised and worked on the week days . We wrote the names on the board and asked the kids to find the names of the weeks . Most of them did ok. They all  need more practice. 

   We also started learning consonants. From this week,only kids who followed directions and who did the best effort to speak in tamil during the class are allowed to pick a prize from the price box. 

   This week's winner for best effort in speaking Tamil is "Keerthana". She tried her best to communicate in tamil as much as possible. Keep it up Keerthana. We will be looking forward for more kids to get the prize too. Harish, Omkar, Visvam got to pick a prize too for following directions. They were attentive in class and tried to do their best in all activities. 

   Our homework for the next week is that they have to speak at least 1 to 5 minutes each day in Tamil with their family / friends. They have to record the minutes and get signature from their parents. Have the kids practice "Days of the week" words. It is attached in the notebook to all those who have a Tamil notebook. 

Parents: Please do not insist on pure language speaking skills for now. Encourage them to speak .A Tamil words in their English sentences is good too.

Eg: "Amma, I want to play. Naan Poeganum?"  

" I am hungry. Saappidanum".

     Also, We will not be allocating separate snack time. But kids are allowed have the snack while doing their activities. So please send in a mess free snack (like cracker/fruit snacks) for the kids. 

For New kids :

   All Tamil Jr. kids needs to have a notebook ,pencil, crayon/color pencil, Glue stick, folder to keep the printouts. We have all the printout for the class in the BBNJTamil google drive and shared only with the class parents. Please make sure, you have all the printouts. If you did not get any access to it, email us (bbnjtamil@gmail.com) and we will share the link with you. 

Next class:

   We will be learning season words and One letter words. We will continue on Consonants sounds. 

 New Kids will be learning vowel sounds. 

Our Next class is 3/8/14

Tamil Jr. Class (2/8/15) -

      This week each kid had an assessment activity. Most of them did well and we are happy about their progress. We already have couple of kids who have already started Consonants. All the kids are able to identify the Vowel sounds. 
   Then we all learnt the Days of the week. Please have them practice 7 days of the week, today, yesterday, tomorrow in Tamil. They will have quiz/ activity on it in the next class. 
    Each kid took home a printout of various action pictures. Kids will have to make a small sentence about each picture and say it in the next class. All kids who had notebooks with them have the weekdays printout, pasted in their notebook.  I have attached them here too .
        This week we started the Star chart for the class. Every week, the class will receive a star based on their class performance (paying attention, using listening ears, follow instructions, Not disturbing the class or neighboring kids while teaching in progress). If the class reaches 10 stars , We will have a cupcake party on our last class (6/14/15).We sadly did not gain it on our beginning week. 
  
     Next class we will start consonants letters. All kids will learn to identify and say the consonant sounds.  All kids who have mastered Vowel writing will start writing Consonants.  If we have time, we will be working on more Days and time related words. 

   Starting next week, not all kids will get a gift from the treasure box. We will have Tamil speaking challenge in the class. Every class we will pick  2 Stars of that week. 

1. Good listener (Pays attention , being good listener, follow directions properly)
2. Tamil Speaker (kid who tries his/her best  in class to communicate in Tamil)

        Please encourage them at home also on speaking in Tamil.               Eventually we are planning to have "Talking minute challenge" -  where, kids record minutes of talking in Tamil every day. We will need parent's input on that. 

Important Dates: 
     5/31/15 - Writing test - Vowels and Consonants
     6/7/15 - Oral Test - Open topic. Each kid will have  to speak completely in Tamil on any topics for 2 minutes.

    These two tests will be their final assessments. Good luck with preparation to all the kids
    

    

Tamil Jr. Class (1/4/15)

       This week we started tracing names. Kids have to find their name on the table and then traced their name and also tried to write first 3 or 4 vowels. They all did a very great job. We will continue to do this in future classes. Please send in a whiteboard marker or an easel marker along with their stationary.
      Then all the kids took turns and talked about what they did during their winter break. Kudos to all the kids. Thanks to all the parents for preparing the kids for that. 
      Then we practiced our action and house related words with flash cards.  We will be running a quiz on that next week.
  There is a homework for the next class. 

• Kids have write first 6 vowels in their notebook. Parents: - If the kids have difficulties in writing on their own, please write and have trace it or print the trace activity and have them trace it. 
• Kids have to say couple of sentences about Pongal or Sankaranthi, if they celebrate.

    We have shared the Google drive folder with all the parents. It has all the past attachments. We will keep uploading our future attachments also.If you have not received the email on that ,please email us BBNJtamil@gmail.com. We will share it again.

  Our next class will be 1/18/15

Tamil Jr. Class (12/21/14)

This week , the class had moderate strength. We worked on creating a poster in Tamil for the New Year wishes. Kids were give a print out where they could trace the wish in Tamil and draw the appropriate image.

Before designing the poster we quickly revised uyir ezhuthukkal and sang kulla kulla vaathu a couple times.

 We also learnt 5 action words(picture given).  we will be working on more action words in the next class.  Please review these words in the house. Kids can learn the words more often if they could practice them in their day to day life at home. 

Our next class will be 1/4/15

Happy New Year to all 

Tamil Jr. class (12/7/14)

     Today we revised the vowel sound. Most of the kids forgot the letters. So we re-did the vowel sound and worked on it with various small interactive activities to remember all the vowel sounds. All the kids did a good job. 
   Then we worked on animal names. Kids are made to write the english and tamil word( in english) in their notebook. We also heard a rhyme "kulla kulla vaaththu".
The homework for the next week is they need to practice their letters, animals and try to practice the song. its a small rhyme. please have them hear this song and try to sing. 
Here is the youtube link to this song. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCSZxrHMvQk
    
 our next class will be 12/14/14

Tami Jr. Class 11/16/14

The class was split into two groups. 
     Group -1  was kids in Preschool thru kindergarten. Vidya iyer had the kids put the vowel letter stickers in order. It will in their  folder or their notebook. Use that to practice the e vowel sounds and letter sequence. By next class they should have learned to identify all the letters. 
  Group - 2 (The older kids) are made to write the vowel letters in their notebook. Most of the kids are able to do it. I have informed the respective parents for the kids who have little trouble. Please do practice the tracing of letters at home (like once a week..). 

  Both group are very well understanding of color and number. Each kid put the flash card image under each right color column. Then we counted how many images are there under each color. Every did an excellent job. 
   Then we split the class in to  4 groups under color names and did a vocabulary quiz. We asked the tamil word for all the vocabulary we did so far in class. Everyone (including the little ones) did a great job. It was a very narrow win for the "Manjal" team.  
     Awesome kids. Everybody needs a pat on their back. 
     We will be moving on to consonant for kids who got through writing  vowel on their own. Others will work on vowel for one more week. 
    Next class we will be working on more animal words.Then learn week days and words related to  day and time of day.
 Our next class will be 12/07/14.
Until then their home work will  be speak  at least one word a day with their family in Tamil.

 Happy Thanksgiving.
   

Tamil Jr. Class (10/26/14)

Today we learned animal words and words related to house. We practiced name identification and counting numbers. All kids should know colors, number (1-10), Animal Names, Vowel letters.
 Today we talked about diwali celebrations. Each kid were asked to say what they did on diwali day in tamil. They all managed to say 2 or more sentences in tamil. Great work every one.  We also saw a small video song on Diwali.  Here is the link to that song.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS7BsmxTaXg

 We also read a book called "Big Fish" and converted to tamil.

  Next week kids will have a quiz on all the vocabulary words they have learnt so far.   Also they will be made to write their alphabet.  Preschool and kindergarden kids will be asked to identify the letters instead.
Please have the kids prepared for that.
   I have shared the google drive of all the lessons done so far. If any parent did not get it let me know.

Tamil Jr. (10/12/2014)

This week we had a fun class. kids were very enthusiastic and enjoyed the color game. We missed few friends this week. Here is what we did this week.

• Practice Vowel letters sound.
• Trace Last 6 vowels. Practice writing them in the notebook. Except for few younger friends , all others were able to write the vowel on their own. When you get time please have them practice writing by doing tracing activity from the weekly packet. You can print more from www.baasha.net/baasha_workout.html
• Practiced color words and finished the color activity. We also played the color game. Kids liked it. They are asked to find the color in their dress.
• Game: Kids are made to stand in a big circle. We call out a color. kids wearing that color dress step up. We start slow and then say the color names quickly.   
• We learned Numbers 1-10. We also did the number counting activity from the packet to practice. We will be working on numbers again next week.
• Homework: Finish the "join the dots " activity. 

Next week we will be practicing Numbers again and learn body parts. For kids who can write vowels will do a sequence activity and the younger ones will do the tracing activity. Kids need to bring their last 2 week's packet. We will try to finished some of the unfinished activities. Also , start story time. We will start with very small picture books or watching a short story video depend on the how it goes on that day. 
Added here are 2 worksheets needed for next week. I will also send an email soon.

 

Tamil Jr class 10-05-2014

Today we focused on writing letters அ - ஊ , Words with beginning sounds - அ ,ஆ,  and colors in Tamil. We had few new members to the class. New members are young and we will working with them to identify the vowel letters alone. Thanks to Vidya iyer for stepping up to help me in the class. Here are what we did in the class.

• Whole class is given a sheet to trace the 6 vowels. Vidhya helped them in writing.  Once done tracing, kids are asked to try writing the letters in their notebook. They all did a great job.
• While the kids are writing, I went around the class grouping 3 kids and worked on vocabulary. 
• We reviewed "my family" words. 
• We learned words with the beginning sound "அ ","ஆ ".  We will be reviewing the names again next week. 
• We practiced Primary and few secondary colors.  Smaller kids are made to roll a dice with color sides and asked to say the color names. 
• We will be working on these words as a whole class next week. 
• Finally we played "Letter Bingo". kids had fun with it. we had lots of  BINGO. 

   From next week, I will be emailing the parents with the coming week's lesson plan pdf file by friday night. Please print them  and have them in the kids folders.This package will have lessons that will be covered in that week's class, class activity sheet and homework sheet.  I will be emailing today's class packet. Few would have received it on Saturday night.  We did the page 1,3-6 in the class. Home work will be pages 7-10. We will work on numbers next week.

   For the next week, please have the kids dressed in any solid  primary  or secondary color . We will be playing a color game with that. In the next week's package there will be few flash cards that we will  be using in the class. 

If your kid is coming to tamil jr. class and not received  any email from me yet, please email me and update. Except for the new kids, who came today, I hope, I have the correct email for the whole class. Feel free to email me if you have any questions.