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 (1/25/15)

In today's class, all kids worked on Letters "இ , ஈ ".  Most of the kids got it. Kids in Kindergarten and younger age have to work little more on it. We have sent the practice sheet with them in the file protector. Have them trace the letter couple of times  on the sheet using easel/whiteboard marker. 
  We will be using the file cover as easel to trace Tamil letters and future writing activity. 
  Please remember to bring them back to next class.We will need them on every class. 

  After writing, kids came forward one by one and talked about pongal/sankranthi celebrations. They all did a good job. They did their best to talk in Tamil. We will be working more on talking every class. We will have some simple topics for each class for the kids to talk. Kids can improve their vocabulary only by speaking. For now we will not be expecting correct grammar. Our first goal is to get them to speak the language. 

 For next class: 

• Kids who did not take the tracing sheet will have to work on letters "ஒ ,ஓ ". 
•  We will be working on writing on letters "இ ,ஈ " or "ஒ ,ஓ "  based on each kid's ability.
• We  will be learning Days of week.
• Topic to speak : "My favorite things ". Here are sample lines. kids need to speak atleast 3 to 4 sentences. 

              வணக்கம் 

       என் பெயர் -----------.

      என்னுடைய வயது ---------.

      எனக்கு பிடித்த நிறம் ----------.

      எனக்கு பிடித்த உணவு ----------.

      எனக்கு பிடித்த விலங்கு --------.

      என் வீட்டில் , எனக்கு பிடித்த இடம் ---------.(can say the room name in english).

      எனக்கு பிடித்த விளையாட்டு  ---------( can say the sports name in english).

      எனக்கு பிடித்த திரைப்படம் (படம்) ----------.

Our next class will be 2/1/15

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 (12/14/14)

This week we practiced the "Kulla Kulla Vaththu " rhyme. kids liked it. For them to practice, Vidya and I wrote the song in their notebook. We had the kids hear the song multiple times. 
    For the kids who got the new notebook, please   write the Vowels or cut and paste the flash card printout that was sent in the past . If the kid do not have , we have the attachment in the 
http://bbnjtamil.blogspot.com/2014/10/tamil-jr-10122014.html

 We also worked on more animals names. Had the kids write them in their notebook. 
Here are the list of animals names they have learnt so far. 

Cow
Dog
Cat
Mouse
Donkey
Goat
Horse
Pig
Monkey
Camel
Squirrel

  we will be having a small quiz in the next class  with animal names. 
Have them revise the names. Also we are going to see who could sing the rhyme next week !!!

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