January 26, 2020

What did we cover in the class?

Core Activity

Homework reveiw
For those kids who completed the home work, we reviewed it, understood different ways of using the words, took a few errors and discussed on how to fix them.

Telugu writing practice
We continued the work with vattulu in reading & writing. We learnt a few new words and their usage while writing the words and learning associated vattulu

Map for telugu tithulu

I distributed a map for understanding telugu (Indian) tithulu. This starts with rutuvulu and ends at the actual tithi. We used this today to list a few festivals (Ugadi, Srirama navami, Guru Purnima, Vijaya Dasami and Deepavali). Next week we will discuss a few more.

Gajendra moksham story telling

One student narrated the story of Gajendra Moksham. Next 2 weeks, we will have one student each narrating the story.

Plan for next week

Next week onwards we will start practicing 15 minutes every week for the performance on Graduation day in April/May (To be decided). The padyams are assigned as follows.

Uddeern - ఎవ్వనిచే జనించు (evvariche janinchu) - refer to earlier posts in blog for full poem

Anvita - శ్రీ రఘురామ చారు తులసీదళధామ (SrI raghuraama chaaru tulasidaLadhaama) - refer to earlier posts in blog for full poem

Abhiram - (raajulmattulu)
రాజుల్మత్తులు, వారి సేవ నరకప్రాయంబు, వారిచ్చు సం
భోజాక్షీ చతురంత యాన తురగీ భూషాదులాత్మ వ్యధా
బీజంబుల్, తదపేక్ష చాలుఁ, పరితృప్తింబొందితిన్, జ్ఞానల

క్ష్మీ జాగ్రత్పరిణామ మిమ్ము, దయతో శ్రీకాళహస్తీశ్వరా! 

Gajendra moksham story telling
Srirama navami & Ugadi - Reading (by students) & discussion
Different festivals and their tithis

Homework

1. The students are expected to write the words, from the printout, that we learnt in the class (by reading aloud) two more times.

2. Write your own (student's own) sentence for each of those words 

3. Learn Gajendramoksham story to explain in class

4. Learn the tithis for the following festivals and present - Holi, Maha Sivaratri, Sravana poornima

Please note:

Please bring the books (తెలుగు వాచకం 1వ తరగతి, తెలుగు వాచకం 2వ తరగతి) to class for discussions

Please maintain a note book and a binder for Telugu class. Encourage the students to speak only in Telugu at home