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 (11/2/14)

      We started with relationships in the family in Tamil. The children were asked to note them down in their notebook. Parents, please send in a notebook with them every class. Thanks. Most kids did note down, a few without notebooks couldn't do so. We went through a couple of times the relationship. Children participated very well in telling.
    We then saw numbers in Tamil "ondru irandu.." up to "pathu" for little children. The rest did a remarkable job up to 40! good job everyone. Proud of all of you!
     Lastly, the children were asked to write their names in tamil on the chalkboard. It was a nice session.

 Next Balavihar on 16th November.  We have 2 weeks to practice all the vocabulary words we learned so far(refer to all the printout/document emailed so far). In the next class , there will be quiz to all the kids. Winning kid(s) will get a small prize!!! Kids will also be asked to write the vowel letters. 

 Thanks.

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. class

This week we practiced numbers, colors writing vowels. Most of the kids were able to write by themselves. Every one need to have a practice at least once a week.
We also learnt body parts. We read and sang the song " head shoulders knees" in Tamil. It was funny and kids had fun doing it.
Next week we will be learning more vocabulary. We will not be doing much writing.  I will send the word list Thursday night.
We will have more stories and song this week.

Happy diwali
Deepaavali nalvaazhthukkal

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.

Tamil Jr. Class - 9/21/2014

We had few new members to our class this week.With more diverse range of age groups in the class, we will be little slow for next couple of weeks.I am still in the process of understanding each kid's ability to read, write, and speak the language. Here is what we did in our class.

•    Today we worked on our vowel sounds and family member words in Tamil. Most of the students were given opportunity to come forward and read the vowels. We will continue this next week. 
•   We did a worksheet on "what comes before" each alphabet for the bigger kids (2nd grade and above). This worksheet is mainly to see if the kids can learn writing the alphabet by copying from the list of letters or by tracing the letter. We will be working on this next week. 
•    Smaller kids (Pre-k to grade 1) did "trace and count " worksheet. they traced all the  "அ " on the page and counted how many are there. 
•     Under vocabulary, we learnt family member names. All students are asked to say who live in their house.Some kids were able to say their family relation names (uncle, aunt, grandparents...) who live in India too. We encourage all kids to speak in tamil as much as possible in class.
•     We translated the rhyme "Jony Jony Yes papa" into tamil. 
•     Today kids would have come home with their names written in tamil. Please save that or help the kid write their name in their tamil notebook so that they do not loose this sheet. This is mainly for them to be able to identify their names in tamil by the end of this year. We will be using this on every class to identify their name.

     Kids need to bring back the worksheets. We will be working on them again next week.

 I thank the parents and Grandparents who stayed with the kids in the class. They were great help while doing the worksheet in the class.

 Next week, we will be working on the vowels sound more, color words,  and numbers if time permit.

Please make sure the kids have the following for their  Tamil class.

• A Notebook
• Pencil, eraser
• Color pencil or crayon (No markers please)
• Folder to keep the printouts.