Namaste Parents,
Updates from this Sunday;
This is probably my last formal review for the class. I had fun teaching your kids. All of them are unique in their own way. Not sure if I would be teaching anyone of them again next year (since not sure what class I would get to teach), although I sure hope to get level 3. I do hope that you and your kids also enjoyed being in the class and hope I was able to make them learn some level of Hindi :).
IMPORTANT:
- Next week is Evaluation. Please do make sure that the kids come to Gurukul as there is no other day for taking the test for them to progress to next level.
- If there are any questions and concerns regarding the course, please do let me know. I do hope all my kids would do well. I have tried to cover as much material as I could but please do review the material with them at home.
Class Site: Class 2D
Session Review:
Morning Routine: Om”, “Tumhi Ho Maata” prayer led by kids .
Hindi:
- Review, review and review.
- I asked the kids to write hindi letters in series and also to come up with one word containing that letter. This is important since some of the sounds of hindi letters are difficult for the kids to pronounce. Most kids were in good spirit and were able to either complete or mostly complete all 36 letters we learnt (yes kids are superb in learning so many letters). Please do make them write letters atleast once if not more without prompting or making them look in their binders for them to be ready to read and write letters and words.
- I wrote some simple words in hindi and asked each kid to recognize the word. All of them did great.
- I then reviewed page 112 (emotions) and page 113 (numbers from 1-30 in hindi).
- I also told them how to count in 10s from 10-1000 and how to write numbers in hindi. Kids were very surprised to hear that there is a different way of writing numbers in hindi as well.
Culture:
We practiced for Annual day. It was really nice to see that all the kids had their Gandhi script prepared. Please do have them read it and make them really comfortable in speaking. Do explain to them what they are saying. We had sent poster boards with kids on which they can paste pictures and their script if they want to show the topic and life of Gandhiji. Please do make it as colorful as possible and also easy for the kids to tell what they have on their poster boards.
Bharati then practiced the song "Humko mann ki shakti dena" with kids. Kids are doing a wonderful job in singing. Please do make sure that they are able to remember the song without looking at their pages.
Volunteers:
Thanks to Rajesh, Varun and Vishnu's dad for helping us out today. Next week volunteer are parents of Vani. I would need one more parent volunteer for next week to practice Annual day while me and Bharati are taking spoken hindi test. I would send a separate email to ask you guys to volunteer.
Attendance: 2 absent (Final evaluation is next week, so please make sure that all the kids are present).
Dhanyawad!!
Priyanka and Bharati