Week 11

Hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving!

Last Sunday we went over 4 new concepts:

In Front (aage)
Behind (peeche)
Up (Oopar)
Down (Neeche)

We practiced sentences using the above concepts.

For homework, please ask your child to try to speak the following sentences in Hindi:

1) The white elephant is in front
2)  I am behind
3) The black bird is up
4) You are down

We also played a game of pictionary. A student would draw something on the board, and the children had to guess the drawing in Hindi.

We sang the Aaj Mangalvaar Hai song, and watched a new song: "Aha tamaaTar baRaa hai mazedaar": (Starts at 6:56)

Next week we will learn the next maatra

Week 10

 Today we reviewed the बड़ी  ई  की मात्रा words from last week. We also learned the following new words:

कहानी 
मीठा 
गाड़ी 
तीन 
हाथी 

The students practiced making sentences with the above words. We emphasized trying to make sentences using the concepts of यह, वो , कहाँ , यहाँ , वहॉं , and क्या .

Examples:
मीठा फल कहाँ है?
मीठा फल यहां है
यह गुलाबी हाथी अजीब है

We played a game involving a pig and a crocodile. Team मगरमछ was the winner today.

Next the kids did Page 17 in their language workbook. Finally, we watched the आज मंगलवार है video (see previous week's post for the link).

For homework: 1) Please have your child do page 17b in the workbook
2) Have your kid watch the aaj mangalvaar video, and start to learn the words.
3) Quiz your child on the ई मात्रा words from this week and last week (definition, word recognition, and possibly spelling)

Here are the lyrics to the song:

Aaj mangalvaar hai
Choohe ko bukhaar hai
Aaj mangalvaar hai
Choohe ko bukhaar hai
Choohaa gayaa doctor ke paas
Doctor ne lagayii sooyii
chooha bola "Ooyii, ooyii, ooyii!"

Weeks 8 & 9

   Last week the students did Pages 11 & 12 in their workbooks. If your child was away, please have them do those pages at home. The children also played games involving writing small Hindi words on the board and translating English words into Hindi. Finally they practiced speaking Hindi sentences in the format "I like ....." and "I don't like... "

Please note: At this point in the year, your child should be relatively comfortable recognizing and eventually writing most Hindi consonants. Please test them by asking them to read you the following letters:

क 
ग 
प 
न 
ल 
त 

If your child is unable to recognize at least 4 out of the 6 above letters, please work with them on letter recognition. Also please let me know so Suneetha ji  and I can spend extra time with them.

 This week we learned the words क्या , कहाँ , वहाँ , यह , and   वो  We practiced saying several sentences with these words. These are tricky concepts, but practice will make perfect. We will continue to practice next week. In the meantime, ask your child to try to speak the following sentences in Hindi:

1) What is this? यह क्या है?
2) This is a pink pig. यह गुलाबी सूअर है
3) What is that? वह क्या है?
4) That is a yellow bus. वह पीला बस है
5) Where is the big house? बड़ा घर कहाँ है?
6) The big house is here. बड़ा घर यहां है
7) Where is the beautiful queen? सुन्दर रानी कहाँ है?
8) The beautiful queen is there. सुन्दर रानी यहां है

 Next we moved on to ई की मात्रा
The students learned the following words:
घड़ी
पानी
रानी
दही
  Quiz your child by saying the above words in English and asking them to translate into Hindi. Ask your child to practice writing the words.

Finally we watched the video आज मंगलवार है , which was quite funny. You can find this at 3:16 in the video below. This will be one of the songs we will be performing on Language Day later in the spring, so encourage your child to watch the video at their leisure.