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| | In the first hour, kids gave the third and final annual test on Conversation. I am currently grading them. I plan to share the results with parents after annual day.
In the second hour, we prepared for our Annual Day. We need to be done with all our display boards this week and then practice on next sunday.
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| | In the first hour, kids gave the second annual test on Vocabulary.
In the second hour, we discussed and prepared for our Annual Day. We need to be done with all our display boards and preparation by next week.
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| | In the first hour, kids gave the first annual test on Language.
In the second hour, we discussed and prepared for our Annual Day.
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| | In the first hour, we discussed all the logistics of Annual Day for class 4B. Thanks to parents and kids to finalizing the detailed plan.
In the second hour, we dicussed each annual exam in detailed and did practice some questions. | | | | |
| | We reviewed most of the material of class 4B as well as some of the material of previous classes. I have asked kids to do lot of practice this week as I am planning to take 3 tests (language, vocabulary and coversation) starting from April 25th. These tests will determine if an individual is ready to move to the next level.
In culture section, we talked about Annual Day which is coming on May 23rd. There are some great ideas floating around (singing 3 Idiod song, couple of boards on culture topics, Hindi Quizz etc) so I would request parents to join for first 30 minutes in next class to do some more brainstorming.
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| | We had competition with class 4C and it was amazing to see that kids in 4B did awesome. Class 4C won by half point although there were controversies whether 4C got too much help on last question. Anyway, it was a nail biting competition. Thanks to teachers (Abha, Anamika and Tanu) and engergetic kids!
In culture section, we had a great introduction to classical music By Chitra Subramanian. Chitra Subramanian was a student of Carnatic music for several years in her hometown in Bombay, India. She has given numerous performances both in Carnatic music as well as popular music, the latter being part of various Bollywood bands. She now lives in Kirkland, Washington and participates in the Northwest Thyagaraaja festivals regularly.
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| | In Hindi section, we read a chapter "Baatuni Kachuwa" from Hindi book ("Aao, Padhe and Seekhe") and discussed the questions from chapter.
In Culture section, we talked about different food of India. | | | | |
| | There were only 8 kids and many had not finished the H.W. So here are the three things we did during Hindi hour.
1. translated some english sentences to hindi.
2. Re-arraged the words to make correct sentence
3. Played hang-man in hindi (they all enjoyed it)
In Culture, we had demo of Bharatnatyam. | | | | |
| | Hindi:
We introduced/reviewed plural (Bahu Bachan) and Opposites (Vilom). We also praticed on Hindi writing.
Culture:
Group exercise/discussion
To understand various differences between living and traveling between US and India, I did this little exercise with kids in which they had to make list of things they would want to carry/buy with them.
The class was divided in two groups. First group worked on things which made sense to buy from US and the other group made list of things to buy from India.
Kids came up with great ideas and enjoyed working in teams and expressing their ideas.
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| | Hindi:
Today we focused on Hindi reading. We made three reading stations where we increased difficulty level of reading. I am now satisfied with the reading level of the class. As practice makes one perfect so I have asked childeren to read minimum one page of Hindi to their parents every week. We need your support so please spend time to listen their reading and correct them as needed.
Culture:
This time we studied about Indian Rupee- The different denomination,its different characters and security features.
We also learned about how differently Rupee can buy same things in India as compare to Dollar in US.
In the class we are going to take this discussion further. So please discuss with your child about what they learned today in the class.
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| | Hindi:
We reviewed Hindi Alphabets and Matras. Then we practiced writing sentences. The results of the evaluation would be available next week.
Culture:
We had culture demo on "Garbha and Dandiya Dance" by Leena Shah. She also talked about folks dances and showed couple of costumes and few pieces of jewellery.
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| | Hindi:
We did revision of all matras through dictation words. Introduced concept of the half consonants.
Completed Page 5 of Vyakaran Abhayas with the class.
Culture:
We talked about "Contributions of India" in the field of Mathematics, Astronomy, Medicine, Music, and Art. We also talked about Yoga and did some postures called Asanas. | | | | |
| | Hindi:
- Read Chapter 7 from Aao Padhen aur seekhen book
- Test on Hindi matras and dictation
Culture:
- Presentation on Influential Women of India | | | | |
| | Hindi:
Revised sanyukt vyanjan and did few dictation sentences.
Revised all matras using one letter.
Spoken:
Continued with the verbs lesson. We did a dinner scenario in 3 different groups in class.
Culture:
The children were given a test on culture topic to find out the areas where they need to work. We quickly realize that childeren weren't comfortable in Indian spices so we reviewed them in the class. Class also spend some time to learn Dandiya for an upcoming Gurukul Diwali event. | | | | |
| | Hindi:
Introduced ree ki matra and did few dictation sentences
Introduced sanyukt vyanjan and did few dictation sentences
Read chapter 5 in three groups, each kid got to read and explain.
Spoken:
Continued with the verbs lesson
Culture:
We saw the video of a DVD series called "Stories of India". This series came on the PBS TV channel and was highly appreciated. It talks about different stages in the history of India. We will continue showing and learning from this series for next 4-6 weeks. | | | | |
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1) Introduced a new matra and did dictation sentences with class.
2) Read Chapter 4 from Aao Paden aur Seekhen. 3) Volunteer read individually with some students in the class, we plan to continue to read with small groups to bring fluency in reading. Spoken Hindi: We had very little time for Spoken Hindi because of the sitar demo, we revised verbs like karta, padta, likhta etc. Culture: We had a demo on Classical instrument - 'Sitar' By Pandit. Debi Prasad Chatterjee. Click the link: www.dpcsitar.com OR www.debiprasadchatterjee.com, to get information on Pandit, Debi Prasad Chatterjee. | | | | |
| | Hindi:
1)We revised questions from Aao Paden aur Seekhen Chapter 3.
2) Introduced a new matra and did dictation sentences with class. This was a very successful exercise.
3) Revised Vyakaran Abhayas Chapter 1 and started Chapter 2
4) Volunteers read individually with some students in the class, we plan to continue this in order to bring fluency in reading.
Spoken Hindi:
We practised verbs like karta, padta, likhta etc.
Culture:
We had more rich discussion about prominent women of India. We also went through the exercise of forming groups to prepare a presentation on one of the women of India. Later, we discussed recent festivals of India and talked about Navratri and Gandhi Jayanthi. | | | | |
| | Reading / Comprehension:
We started the class by reviewing matras. Then we started reading Chapter 3 of Hindi Book (Subah Ho Gayi). We divided the class into 2 parts and read from chapter 3 individually with each student. This was an effort to gauge their reading and comprehension skills so we can tailor the class to their level. This was a very useful exercise since we now know the strengths of each kid.
Spoken Hindi:
During the spoken Hindi session, we divided the class into 3 stations based on skill level. We performed few chain drills / games using mera and meri , aapka and aapki, inka and inki . Please practice sentences with these words with your children at home.
Writing:
We played game with the class using hindi sentences and practiced the differences u and uu, j and jha etc.
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| | We started the class by reviewing matra and then reading chapter 2 of Hindi Book (Meri Paatshaala). We noticed that few students can read but don't understand the meaning. We are constantly putting efforts to ensure that everyone understands meaning as well.
During the spoken Hindi session, we performed few chain drills and practiced new words like "Main(I) and Tum (You)" as well as "Haa (Yes) and Na (No)".Please practice sentences with these words with your children at home.
In the culture session, we talked about "Women of India". We had a good dialog about some of the powerful Indian women we have had in the past and in today's time like Lakshmi Bai of Jhanshi, Sarojini Naidu, Mother Teresa, Indira Gandhi, P.T. Usha, Menaka Gandhi, Sania Mirza etc. We will continue discussion on this topic next week.
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| | We started class with brief introduction of all students and teachers. Then we jumped directly to gauge the Hindi Reading skills and started reading and understanding meaning of first chapter in Hindi Book (Sun le Vinati Hey Bhagavan).
During the spoken Hindi session, we performed a chain drill where each child said 'Namaste, mera naam ... hai' to the other. The two main sentences the children heard today are:
1. Mera naam ... hai.
2. Ye ... hai. E.g. Ye maa hain, ye papa hain, ye chair hai, ye table hai.
Please practice these sentences with your children at home. We will continue to do more in the spoken Hindi sessions in the subsequent classes.
In the culture session, we had a good dialog on understanding the meaning of culture. We talked about different aspects of Indian Culture and started an excercise to understand what is one thing which each of the student like and dislike about Indian and American cutlure.
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