Oct 23rd Tamil junior

In Tamil junior class, We reviewed the vowels.
 Did a couple of worksheets on vowels.
 Went through the first and second page of textbook.
Review the text book first 2 pages in the textbook.
Homework: 
      second page of yellow book

Oct-23-2016

Tamil Intermediate Class:
   This week we reviewed and practiced the weekdays and numbers. Students are ok with numbers one to ten . But need a little more practice in Weekdays. Please have them practice at home too. 
 In writing, We practiced writing the first 8 consonant sounds (க் ,ங் ,ச் ,ஞ் ,ட் ,ண் ,த் ,ந் ). Have the kids write them 5 times in their notebook and come for next class. 
 In song, we started learning Aaththichchoodi - (ஆத்திச்குடி ). Kids will be performing this in assembly. Tamil class assembly presentation will be in Feb tentatively.We did the first four lines in the song. Practice them at Home.
Here is  the picture of what we covered in the class. Please review them with kids at home. 

Printable for the poem: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Jzh_U-uSoSGWz4m3YzEL6xByskLhR4XvlgIZhNEOrE/pub
Homework:

• Kids should come prepared with 4 sentences about diwali/diwali celebration in their home.
• Write the alphabets 5 times in their homework. 
• aaththichchoodi 4 lines practice and come.

Tamil class - oct,9 2016

Tamil Junior:

    We finished writing all vowels(அ - ஃ)  and started the first page of our book. 
Homework: Review the first page of the book. Be ready to identify any letters and related objects on that page.

Tamil Intermediate:

We worked on the writing the next 4 letters in the consonant sound.
Students were made to work on the tracing worksheet and then work on the writing , க் ,ங் ,ச் ,ஞ் ,ட் ,ண் ,த் ,ந்  in their notebooks. Many kids did not have notebooks. Please remember to send in a notebook for tamil class separately.

Students are made to write உயிரெழுத்து . We will continue to make them write some of past lessons once in every class so that they do not forget. So please keep revising in the house.
We also reviewed on Number words, Weekdays.

Home work for the next class -
Please practice the first 8 consonant sounds , Number and weekdays.
We will have a quiz on the numbers and weekdays. Winners get a price.

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. 

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.

Tamil Class - April 17th 2016

Tamil Junior:

    Tamil junior class worked on the consonant sounds. We reviewed the past lessons and worked on the consonant sounds. They are very familiar with all the letters. kids should be able to say them in right order and also identify the letters when 

Homework: Have the kids practice the consonant sounds. Practice them saying the letters in right order. Also randomly show a letter and ask them to identify. 

     Kids who can say all the consonant sounds and identify the letters shown in the next class will get to pick a prize from the treasure box.

Tamil Intermediate:

 In intermediate class, we practiced the secondary letters in உ  sound, and we also learnt ஊ sound. We practiced writing the letters. 

Homework: Practice both the letter sounds. Have them write 3 times in their notebook so that they are comfortable with the letters. 

   They will have their routine secondary letters tests for letters up to ஊ sound. Kids who can get all the letters correct get to pick a prize from the treasure box. 

 

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.