Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Homework for Feb 21, 2016

Please check the Telugu Literature page on the blog for extra resources which kids can refer at home. I have added 2 YouTube links which will help kids recognizing and pronouncing the Vowel and Consonants.
I am also adding the Links which will help learn new vocabulary and speaking basic sentences in Telugu.  

NOTE: Refer to the Short Sentences Part 1 link to learn  vocab and sentences.

Prathamika

Writing: 
  • Practice all the alphabets we worked on in the class. ( Refer to the note book)  ** Parents, please ask your child to say the alphabet as they write it.
    Learn the next 5 alphabets.
  • Write the date and all the alphabets learned so far in the notebooks. (Show this to the teacher in next class).
Vocab: 
  • Review body parts, vegetables, fruits, weekdays.
  • Learn words with alphabets క,ఖ,గ,ఘ,చ,ఛ,జ,ఝ
  • Review all the vocabulary words which kids already learned - Parents - Please ask the kids the words in English and ask them to say it in telugu. 
Poem/Story:
  • Watch and Listen to the following story  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn4QN-kvWvg&sns=em  (*Please watch it multiple times to understand the vocabulary and story). 
  •  We will be discussing about the story in next class. 
  •  We will ask simple question about the story
Speaking:

  • Please refer to the Short sentences Part 1 link from Telugu Literature Page to listen and learn simple telugu sentences. Ask kids to note down all the vocabulary words which comes in sentences in their Composition books. - Every week we expect kids to learn few sentences and vocab words from these links. 

Quiz:
  • Writing and identifying alphabets at random - This is very important. Most of the kids write the letters in order but they stumble when they have to write or identify the random letters. We want the parents to work with the kids on this.
  • All the vocabulary words

NOTE :
  • Parents, please check your kids' notebooks for this. 
    ** Home work need to be dated and timed and written legibly on a fresh page in the notebook.

Madhyama 1 (A - Class with More kids, B - Class with 6 kids)
  • Review all the letters especially recognizing and writing randomly. (A &B)
  • Practice writing and recognizing guninthalu for the letters which touches the body.  Identify variations in few of the guninthams (A).
  • Practice writing and recognizing guninthalu for the consonants which do not touch the base (ఘ ప ఫ ష స) - (B)
  • Practice writing words with and without Guninthalu - write and show at least 5 words each  - (A & B)  - write the meaning in English.
  • Review all the Prayers and Padyams which are learned this calander year. (A & B)
  • Practice reading all the sentences from page 130 and 131 (B)
  • Speaking:
    • Please refer to the Short sentences Part 1 link from Telugu Literature Page to listen and learn simple telugu sentences. Ask kids to note down all the vocabulary words which comes in sentences in their Composition books. - Every week we expect kids to learn 5 to 10 sentences and vocab words from these links. 
      NOTE: Parents: Work with your kids and make sure they finish their homework. Please write the date in the book.

Madhyama 2 & Utterna
  • మా తెలుగు తల్లికి  - Whole song Madyama 2 and Utterna
  • Learn meanings for శ్రీరాముని దయ ... and తల్లి నిన్ను దలంచి ..  (Madyama 2)
  • Learn meanings for అమ్మలగన్నయమ్మ ... and తల్లి నిన్ను దలంచి ..  (Utterna )
  • Speaking:
    • Please refer to the Short sentences Part 1 link from Telugu Literature Page to listen and learn simple telugu sentences. Ask kids to note down all the vocabulary words which comes in sentences in their Composition books. - Every week we expect kids to learn 10 sentences and vocab words from these links. 

Classwork on Feb 14, 2016

Prathamika 
  • Checked the home work
  • Revised all the alphabets for last year kids - అ - ఱ
  • Practiced అ -అః, క-ణ ( Grade 2 and above) and 
  • అ-అః (below grade 2)
  • Practiced pronouncing the letters properly -ALL
  • Reviewed the vocabulary - ALL
  • Learned naalugu thokala eluka from Text book (Page No 69) - ALL
Madhyama 1 (A - Class with More kids, B - Class with 6 kids)
  • Checked the home work (A&B)
  • Learned 10 new words with meaning (A)
  • Reading the 2 and 3 letter words without guninthalu.(A)
  • Review of 3 padyams ( ఎలుక తోలు తెచ్చి, నిక్కమైన మంచి, తల్లి నిన్ను దలంచి  ) - A
  • Test on vocabulary  (A) - show it parents and get it signed
  • Reading and writing the 2 and 3 letter words with guninthalu (A&B)
  • Reviewed some common vocabulary words. (A & B sections).
  • Practiced writing Words with Guninthalu and did the corrections - (B) 
  • Practiced saying sentences in Telugu  (B)
  • Reviewed the a story (ఉరికే తమాషాలు చేయరాదు) from the Book and discussed the vocabulary - Pg 121 (B)
  • Reading the sentences from the book - Pg - 130 - (B)
Madhyama 2 & Utterna
  • Checked homework
  • Learnt meaning of శ్రీరాముని దయ
  • Practiced మా తెలుగు తల్లికి
  • Discussed some of the vocabulary and their variations.