January 28, 2018

What did we cover in the class?

Core Activity

Padyam 
A Sumati Satakam padyam was introduced.

laavu galavaani kanTenu
bhaavimpaga nItiparuDu balavantuDau
graavambanta gajambunu
mavaTi vaaDekkinaTlu mahilo sumatI!

లావు గలవాని కంటెను
భావింపగ నీతిపరుడు బలవంతుడౌ
గ్రావంబంత గజంబును
మావటి వాడెక్కినట్లు మహిలో సుమతీ!

Day to day vocabulary 
The following words were discussed with their English meanings.

Each of these words and a combination of these words was used by the students to form their own sentences in Telugu. We will continue this towards empowering the students to build their own sentences with much ease.

అర     మర/యంత్రము   మంట
పనస  వధువు /వరుడు    దండ

Vattulu training continued. Students were provided a printout of Vattulu practice sheet and క ఖ గ ఘ vattulu were discussed along with the words.
*Parents*, please ensure that the students get the worksheet to the class in every class for the next 6 classes.

Fun Quiz
A fun quiz was conducted with some Telugu movie names. Students were asked to recognize the movie names

Homework

మన తెలుగు శిశు UKG
Students need to write all the words in page 32. 
Parents, please work with the students while they are writing to ensure that they learn it right the first time.
For those who do not have the book, the words are given below
మొగ్గ          సర్గ            సిగ్గు        దగ్గు
పగ్గము      మగ్గము     వర్గము    ఖడ్గము
మార్గము  స్వర్గము    దుర్గము   ముద్గము
సద్గురువు ఫాల్గుణము గుగ్గిలము షడ్గుణము

Plan for next class

Padyam revision

Day to day Vocabulary continued

Learn basics of vattulu & practice - from Vattulu practice sheet

Note:
Parents, please ensure to send the vattulu practice sheet with the kids to every class 
Please send a note book and pen/pencil with the kids to every class

Jan 21, 2018

What did we cover in the class?

Core Activity

Day to day vocabulary would be discussed from now onward for the next 3-4 classes to build the needed vocabulary to talk fluently in Telugu. The following words were discussed with their English meanings. Parents, please observe carefully - we are moving from a "think English and then translate to Telugu" process to "think in Telugu and translate to English". We hope that this gives them more nativity in Telugu.

Each of these words and a combination of these words was used by the students to form their own sentences in Telugu. We will continue this towards empowering the students to build their own sentences with much ease.

తల    వల  
జడ    అల
పలక  పడవ
జడ    అల  
ఈగ    ఉడత   
ఎలక  కడవ/కుండ  
ఊయల

The concept of vattulu was introduced. A few of simple vattulu were discussed and how they form the association and how they are represented in writing.

Homework

A vattulu & gunintalu reference sheet was provided in the class a few weeks ago. The students lost those sheets. Here is a soft copy of the sheet that parents can download, please take a printout and get a copy to the students.

Vattulu practice sheet - Please take a print out and let students practice as much as possible

మన తెలుగు శిశు UKG
Students need to write all the words in page 30. 
Parents, please work with the students while they are writing to ensure that they learn it right the first time.
For those who do not have the book, the words are given below
అక్క      ఉక్కు     చెక్క     చుక్క       గూర్ఖా
ఉల్క    ప్రక్క       ఋక్కు మొక్క     జార్ఖండు
ఒక్కటి  చక్కని    చెక్కిలి  అర్కుడు ఖార్ఖానా
టక్కరి  ఎక్కము రొక్కము తర్కము మూర్ఖుడు
ముక్కెర స్కందుడు తోడ్కొని ఎక్కువ

Plan for next class

Padyam

Day to day Vocabulary continued

Learn basics of vattulu & practice

January 7, 2018

ఆంగ్ల నూతన సంవత్సర శుభాకాంక్షలు!
Happy new year to the students and parents! Welcome back!

What did we cover in the class?

Core Activity

Students talked about their holiday experiences

Warm up and Recap of writing gunintalu in Telugu

Dictation of simple words

Revision of poem and vocabulary about vegetables

Homework

It appears that not many students worked on their home work during holidays. Parents, you can have the students practice reading and writing with gunintalu.

Gunintalu practice sheet
Take a printout of the sheet and let the students write the words. You can refer to the text book to give examples of those gunintams.

Gunintalu dictation
Take a printout of the sheet and let the students read & write the words. Explain the meaning of these words while they do so

Plan for next class

Some more practice with dictation

Get started with basics of vattulu