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Today we had a dictation like last week. We asked 3 kids to come in front of the class one by one and dictate few lines of a poem in Hindi. Rest of the class wrote down these lines in their notebook. We finished dictating the poem that we had started last week. At the end, Harishji explained the meanining of this poem which was about Mor (peacock).
Culture
We had a demo of classical dance - Bharatanatyam - based on story from Ramayana by Vidya Guhan's group. The group perfromed really well.
| | | | | | | Hindi
Today we had a dictation. We asked 3 kids to come in front of the class one by one and dictate few lines of poem in Hindi and rest of the class wrote down these lines in their notebook. We will continue this in next few classes so everybody gets a chance to read it loudly to the class. Today, the kids wrote 5 lines of a poem in Hindi.
Spoken Hindi
1) We talked about yahaan (here) and vahaan (there) e.g.Table yahaan hai, White board vahaan hai.
2) We also talked about mai (in) e.g. Paani bottle mai hai, Chamach plate mai hai.
Culture
In cultural hour, we talked about "Music, Musical Instruments of India". We showed them clips of performances of many instruments in order for them to get an idea about every musical instrument.
Types of Indian classical music:
a) The Hindustani music
b) The Carnatic music
Musical Instruments
A) Non Membranous Instrument:- Manjira, Ghungharu, Ghatam
B) Membranous Instrument:- Tabla, Dholak, Mridangam etc
C) Blown Air Instrument:- Bansuri, Shehnai
D) Plucked Stringed Instruments:- Sitar, Sarod, Tambura
E) Bowed Stringed Instruments:- Sarangi
| | | | | | | Hindi
We revised whatever we have learnt so far.
1) All matras :- a, aa, e, ee, u, oo, ai, aai, o ,ou, aha
2) All nasal sounds e.g. Bandar
3) Chandra bindu e.g.Chandrama, Pauw (Leg) etc
4) Half letter words, how to write half 'r', concept of writing pre and post 'r' e.g. Pravar, Sparsh
5) Ri e.g. vrishabh
6) How to read and write Numbers in Hindi by rules not just like memorizing it.
Culture
In cultural hour, we talked about ' Dances of India". We described them all of the following Dances and where are these dances from. We also showed them clips of each dance from You tube so they got an idea about every dance.
Types of Dances of India
A) Classical Dances:- 1) Bharatanatyam ( From Tamil Nadu)
2) Kathak (From North India)
3) Kathakali (From Kerala)
4) Manipuri ( From manipur)
5) Kuchipudi (From Andhra Pradesh)
6) Odissi ( From Orissa)
B) Folk Dances:- 1) Bhangra ( From Panjab)
2) Lavani ( From Maharashtra)
3) Dandiya and Garbha ( From Gujrath)
4) Ghoomer ( From Rajastan)
5) Bihu (From Assam)...etc.
| | | | | | | Hindi
We learnt new matras
1) Chandra bindu e.g. Kuwaa (Well), Pauw (Leg) etc
2) Aha e.g. namha
3) Ri e.g. vriksha (Tree)
Culture
In cultural hour, we had a Demo on “Garbha / Dandiya Dance” By Leena Shah.
Leenaji talked about Gujarat and folk dances of Gujarat. She explained significance of Garbha, where and why do we do it and also about other types of dances from Gujarat. She showed couple of costumes and taught few steps of Garbha that kids also performed.
| | | | | | | We completed parent teacher conference for rest of the kids.
Hindi
Kids have written few sentences in hindi.
Culture
In cultural hour we have started doing Taj Mahal 3D project. We did most of the paper cutting in the class and distributed instruction sheet to everyone in the class.
So every kid can complete the Taj Mahal project with the help of their parents.
| | | | | | | Hindi
We revised words using nasal sounds in Hindi. e.g Bandar, Ankur etc. Today we also had a dictation. We asked 3 kids to come in front of the class one by one and dictate few lines in Hindi and rest of the class wrote down these lines in their notebook. Next time we will call other 3/4 kids to dictate and we will continue this in next few classes so everybody gets a chance to read it loudly to the class. Today, the kids wrote 5 lines in Hindi.
Culture
In cultural hour we covered "Monuments of India":
1) Gateway of India
2) Mysore Palace
3) Hawa Palace
4) Madurai Temple
5) Konark Temple
6) Taj Mahal
7) Charminar etc
Note
Special thanks to Aneesha's Papa Rameshji for conducting the cultural class (Monuments of India) while we were busy with the Parent-Teacher conference.
He helps us out in every class and we truly appreciate it.
We are looking for parent volunteers on Jan 24 to help the children in making 3D Taj mahal Project during PTC meetings.
Reminder
We completed Parent -Teacher conference for 6 kids today. Next Sunday's (Jan 24) Parent-Teacher conference schedule is as follows:
Jan 24, 2010
10:45 AM - Raghav
11:00 AM - Mehek
11:15 AM - Ananya
11:30 AM - Spursh
11:45 AM - Arav
12:00 Noon - Avi
1:15 PM - Aman
| | | | | | | Hindi
We learnt nasal sound 'ann' and practiced writing few words using these matras. e.g Rang, Shankh, Pankh, Bandar, Ghanti.....etc.
Harishji explained properly how to write words using nasal sounds in pure Hindi.
Culture
In cultural hour we revised all the topics learnt so far.
1) What are India's different names?( Bharat, Hindustan), Because of which River India got the name? (Indus)
2) Festivals of Aug-Sept month ( Ganesh Chaturthi, raksha bandhan, Onam, Janmasthmi)
Festivals of Sep-Oct month ( Durga Puja and Navratri, Eid, Dussehra, Gandhi Jayanti, Diwali)
Festival of Dec month (Christmas)
Festvals of Jan month( Makar Sankranthi, Pongal, Lohri, Republic Day)
3) Symbols of India (India's Flag, National Emblem, National bird, fruit, animal, tree...)
4) Kings, Invaders
Note
We are going to have Parent-Teacher conference on Jan 17 and Jan 24. Harishji will send you sign up sheet soon. Please take a look at that and sign up for available time slot.
| | | | | | | Hindi
We learnt numbers in Hindi. How to read numbers in Hindi like 10's , 100's, 1000's ..............etc series
and practiced asking few numbers e.g 440 ( charso chalis), 2010 (do hazaar dus)........etc.
Culture
In cultural hour we talked about festivals of the month(January).
1) Makar Sankranthi (Jan 14)
2) Pongal (Jan 13 to Jan 16)
3) Lohri ( Jan 13)
4) Republic Day ( Jan 26)
| | | | | | | Hindi
We learnt two new matras o and au and practiced writing few words using these matras. e.g. Tota, Mor, Samosa, Kauwa, Tauliya, Gauri, Gobhi etc.
Spoken Hindi
In spoken Hindi, we talked about clock in Hindi. Discussed Subhah, Dophar, Sham, and Raat (Morning, Afternoon, Evening and Night). Chits with timings from 8 AM to 9 PM were handed to kids and they were asked to come up with a sentence on their own about that particular time: e.g. For 8AM: मैं आठ बजे school जाता हूँ. Or मैं आठ बजे सोता हूँ etc.
Culture
In cultural hour we talked about festival of the month. We talked about Christmas. How Christmas is celebrated differently in Nort East and South West part of India.
| | | | | | | Hindi
We revised two matras ae and aai and practiced writing few words using these matras. e.g. kela, tairana, jalebi etc.
We revised and practiced writing half letter words also e.g. uttar, pashchim, arpit, prakash etc.
Spoken Hindi
We did remaining spoken Hindi evaluations for kids who were absent during the last class and have given them their papers back. Please check out their scores. We expected a minimum score of 18 out of 25 during this evaluation.
If your child scored higher than 18, then he/she is absorbing the material well or already knew basic Hindi conversation from home. For some children who may have found the test trivial, we will likely test further with slightly more advanced test in January.
If your child scored lower than 18, we will request you to practice the lesson plans repeatedly at home to build the child's confidence.
Our goal is to bring all children to a minimal level and encourage children who already have a Hindi background to step up further.
Culture
In culture hour, we talked about Symbols of India
1) National Flag
2) National Emblem
3) National Bird - Peacock
4) National Flower - Lotus
5) National Fruit - Mango
6) National Animal - Tiger
7) National Tree - Banyan Tree
8) National Song - Vande Maataram
9) National Anthem - Jana Gana Mana
| | | | | | | Hindi
We learnt two new matras ae and aai and learnt how to write words using these matras. Kids practiced few words using these matras.
We also had an evaluation for spoken Hindi this week. We will hand over evaluation papers during next class i.e. Dec 6 and will email you the details.
Culture
In culture hour, we had a demo on Tanjore Painting by Shelly Krishnamurthy. The artiste, Indu Krishnamurthy, is Shelly Kirshnamurthy's mother-in-law. Shelly Krishnamurthy did a demonstration of her mother-in-law's work. This was Gurukul's introduction to Visual arts!
| | | | | | | Hindi
We learnt two new matras u and uo and learnt how to right words using these matras , kids did splendid job to get to the bottom of understanding these matras. For each set of matras (In Hindi usually matras goes in a set of two), one of the page of the workbook has a poem which is a very good poem to read to the kids as a bed-time poem. After sometime kids can read the same poem to the parents as kids are getting good in reading/writing big words.
Culture
In culture we had Dandiya practice. This week is Gurukul Diwali function so don’t forget to come.
| | | | | | | Hindi
We revised 2 matras ei and ee, we also revised how to read/write words and small sentences with matras. e.g deepavali, mithai, titalee, sitar, daadee, naanee, shanivaar, aam peela tha, papeeta peela tha
In spoken hindi, we practised how to read simple clock in hindi. For example " Kitane baje hai?" "Ek baja hai" "Chaar baje hai" etc. We talked about " Subah, Dopahar, Shyaam, Raat" and asked questions like "Aap kab uthate hai?" Kids answered "Mein subah uthata/uthati hoo." After that we learnt what is "Aaj, Kal, Paraso" and "Aaj Ravivaar hai" etc.
Culture
In culture we talked about following festivals that fall in Sept-oct :
1. Durga Puja and Navrathiri
2. Eid-ul-Fitr
3. Dussehra
4. Gandhi Jayanthi
5. Diwali
We did candle decorating and rangoli drawing activity for diwali. Kids enjoyed to decorate the glass candle holder with colorful stones
| | | | | | | Hindi
We revised Aaa matra, and learnt 2 new matras ei and ee, we also learnt how to read/write words with these new matras.
Culture
In culture hour we had a demo on classical instrument Sitar by Pandit Debi Prasad Chatterjee and his accompanist on the tabla. Pandit Debi Prasad Chatterjee played “Happy Birthday”, “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”, and some other classical pieces. The children enjoyed it and asked some questions to both the artists.
| | | | | | | Hindi
We revised Aaa matra and recognized more words which uses Aaa matra or no matra.
Culture
In culture we learnt about ancient kings of India.
Northern kings:- Chandragupta Maurya, Ashoka etc
Southern kings:- Pullakesin II and Raja raja chola
We also talked about Southern kingdoms of Pallavas, Pandyas and Cholas.
The children enjoyed activity of making king's crown.
| | | | | | | Hindi
We revised all the alphabets and discussed how the different sounds are associated with a different symbol which makes the Hindi alphabets. We also learnt Aaa matra and recognized some words which uses Aaa matra
Culture
In culture we spoke about the Indus valley civilization, Harappa and Mohenjodaro in particular. The children made necklaces and bracelets from pasta and beads for their craft activity.
| | | | | | | Hindi
We revised all the alphabets and discussed how all the Hindi alphabets are grouped together which uses throat, tongue and lips when pronounced. We asked kids to recognize some alphabets and some simple and small words without Matras
e.g. Matar, Fal, Namak, Sharbat, Shahad etc.
Culture
We talked about meaning of festival and discussed different types of festivals of India. We learnt Roman calendar and Hindu calendar.
We also talked about following festivals that fall in Aug-Sept (Bhadrapad):
1. Ganesh Chaturthi
2. Raksha Bandhan
3. Onam
4. Janmasthami
Kids enjoyed festivals of the month and explained whatever they knew about the festivals.
| | | | | | | We mostly spent time to get to know each other and revise some alphabets with fun game.
In the culture hour we learnt What are different names of India and how did India name evolved. We also had a story about Dushyant, Shakuntala and Bharat.
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