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

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.