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

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