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| | Kids did additional reserach in class for their tri-folds. We finalised the layouts and paragraphs. | | | | |
| | We had the final Hindi test during the first hour.
Later the kids did additional research for their annual day projects. | | | | |
| | 1) We had reading test which will be used for the final grading
2) We did 3 pages of Vyakaran Abhayas
3) We talked about Surajkund craft fair and showed the students some pictures and clips from the 2010 fair. | | | | |
| | Hindi:
1) We did dictation with English sentences which the kids converted to Hindi with some help.
2) We did page 24 and 25 from Vyakaran Abhayas
3) Kids presented their third summaries and did an amazing job.
Culture
Anamikaji talked about the fairs of India and shared a presentation. | | | | |
| | Hindi:
We did couple of pages from Vyakaran Abhayas
We had quiz competition/ dumb charades with class 4B (which was also our class till a few months ago). The kids from both classes did really well. Congrats!
Culture:
We had a demonstration in Carnatic Music by Chitra Subramaniam. She spoke about the similarities and differences in the Carnatic and Hindustani Music styles and walked us through a very interesting presentation.
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| | Hindi
1) Dictation of sentences which was a mix of multiple concepts learnt in the last few weeks.
2) Did page 18 from vyakaran abhayas.
Culture
Kids watched the Story of India video | | | | |
| | 1) Dictation of sentences which was a mix of multiple concepts learnt in the last few weeks. The sentences were in English and kids had to ranslate and write in their own words.
2) Did page 16 from vyakaran abhayas - introduced kriya or verb.
3) Read chapter 17 from Aao padhen aur seekhen
4) Kids shared their second story summary with the class.
5) Divided class into 2 parts and perfomed a game quiz with a variety of questions | | | | |
| | 1) Dictation of sentences which was a mix of multiple concepts learnt in the last few weeks.
2) Did page 14 from vyakaran abhayas - introduced visheshen
3) Read chapter 16 from Aao padhen aur seekhen
4) Divided class into 2 parts and perfomed a game quiz with a variety of questions | | | | |
| | 1) Read chapter 15 from aao padhen aur seekhen.
2) Few kids shared their stories.
3) In vyakaran abahayas we did sarvanam (pronouns) and the exercise of that chapter and brief dictation
Culture: We had a Bharatnatyam demo | | | | |
| | Hindi:
1) We made dictation more challenging by giving 5 English sentences that the kids had to write in Hindi.
2) Read Chapter 14 of Aao Padhen aur seekhen
3) Revised Striling/ puling and bahuvachan during these 2 exercises
Spoken Hindi: Most kids shared their story with the class in Hindi. They did great joib considering its their first such experience for Hindi
Culture
This week we talked more about the Hindu calendar system. We talked about Panchang, Tithi, Paksha (two fortnights of a lunar month: shukla and krishna) , Yug and learned how to calculate our birthdays according to Indian calendar. | | | | |
| | Hindi:
1) Dictation of multiple sentences.
2) Divided the class into 2 stations and read Chapter 13 of Aao Padhen aur Seekhen
3) Introduced striling puling and bahuvachan for the class. We then did page 10 from Vyakaran Abhayas
4) We started the story summary sharing with the class,
Culture
We introduced the Hindu calendar system and talked about the difference between Gregorian calendar and Hindu calendar. We learned the names of the months in Indian calendar and figured out our birthday months. We also talked about the video we watched in the previous class "The story of India", e.g. where did our ancestors first walk out from, which state in India was found the sounds of beginning of human talk, in which state was discovered the gene from one of our first ancestors, Harappa civilization, Sanskrit the root of languages etc. | | | | |
| | Hindi
1) Did dictation sentences to sharpen our writing skills.
2) Read Chapter 12 as a class. Every kid got to read a couple of paragraphs.
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. | | | | |
| | 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. | | | | |
| | Hindi:
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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