Week 8

 Today we moved on to the next maatraa: उ  

Unlike the previous maatraas, this one goes underneath the letter.

So:  क + उ = कु

Here are the words we learned today:

खुश (khush) (happy) चुप (chup) (quiet) गुलाबी (gulaabee) (pink) तुम (tum) (you)

 For our oral lesson, we learned how to say sentences that start with the word "tum". Remember, if the sentence starts with "I" ("main") then it ends with "hoon"

If the sentence starts with he or she ("voh") then it ends with "hai"

If the sentence starts with you ("tum") then it ends with "ho"

Week 7

 We wrote the words:

दिवाली

दीपावली 

पीला   (peelaa) (yellow)

 

हीरा   (heeraa) (diamond)

 

लड़की  (laRkee) (girl)

 

नीला (neelaa)  (blue)

 

दही (dahii)  (yogurt)

 

कहानी (kahaanee) (story)

Week 6

 This week we learned the ई maatraa. Please make sure your child can distinguish the difference between the sounds of इ and ई:

इ makes a short "i" sound, like what you hear in the following English words: "hit" "pill" ई makes a long "ee" sound, like in the words: "feel" "cheer" When the ई maatraa is in the middle or end of a word, it is written as follows: क + ई + ल = कील (pronounced: keeeel) ग + ल + ई = गली (compare this to the इ maatra , which goes to the left) क + इ + ल = किल (pronounced: kill)

Here are the words we learned today:

1) Grandmother: नानी (naanee) (mother's mother), दादी (daadee) (father's mother)

2) मीठा (meeThaa) (sweet)

3) गाड़ी (gaaRee) (car) 4) तीन (teen) (three) 5) हाथी (haathee) (elephant) 6) घड़ी (ghaRee) (watch/clock) 7) पानी (paanee) (water) 8) रानी (raanee) (queen)

Week 5

 1) Today we practiced our reading skills.

2) We learned the Hindi word for "animal"  जानवर ("jaanvar")

3)  For our oral lesson, we learned the Hindi words for:

a) Where (kahaan)

b) Here (yahaan)

v) There (vahaan)

 Please remind your child that the "n" sound at the end is a nasal "n" and not a "hard n".

Sentence: Where is the king?

In Hindi the words are re-arranged to: King where is?

Raajaa kahaan hai?

The king is here -> Raajaa yahaan hai

The king is there -> Raajaa vahaan hai

Week 4

1) ORAL

 Last week we learned the word for "That" in Hindi: "Voh"

Today we learned that this same word  ("voh") is also used for He and She.

He is clean = voh saaf hai

She is clean = voh saaf hai

We also learned the following new words:

1) Close ("paas")

2) Far ("door")

3) Very / A Lot ("bahut")

4) Good ("achchaa")

2) WRITTEN

For the written part, we went to the next maatraa: इ maatraa. When a word starts with इ , you write the letter as you normally would (just as you would if a word starts with अ or आ ). However if इ is in the middle or at the end of the word, then it becomes the "ChhoTii i kii maatra"

क + इ = कि ब + इ = बि Please emphasize to your child the pronunciation of "इ ". It is the short "i" sound, like in the English words "bill" or "hit" Please make sure your child doesn't say the longer "ee" sound that is in words like "key" and "bee"

Also please remind your child that this maatraa is written TO THE LEFT of the consonant.

The words we learned today were:

दिन (din)  (day)
दिल (dil)   (heart)
किताब (kitaab) (book)
पिता (pitaa)  (father)
गिलास (gilaas) (glass)
चिड़िया (chiRiyaa)  (bird)

Week 3

 We started this week with an oral lesson. Today we learned the words for:

1) This ("yeh")

2) That ("voh")

 As a reminder, here are the adjectives we learned in the first two weeks: clean, dirty, small, big, sweet, yellow, red, blue

This week we learned two new adjectives:

Hot = "garam"

Cold = "ThanDaa"

 We practiced saying sentences like: "This bus is yellow" ("yeh bas peelaa hai"),  "That hand is not dirty" ("voh haath gandaa nahii hai"

  Next we learned a few more words with the "aa" maatraa:

1) King = raajaa राजा

2) Song = gaanaa गाना

3) Mango = aam  आम

4) Carrot = gaajar   गाजर

5) Grandfather (father's side) = daadaa  दादा

6) Grandfather (mother's side) = naanaa  नाना

7) Throat/Neck = galaa गला

Week 2

PART 1: ORAL

For our oral lesson today we learned two new adjectives:

saaf (clean) (we also learned how to read and write this word)

gandaa (dirty)

Last week we had learned how to say sentences such as "The bus is red"

Today we learned how to say sentences such as "The bus is not red"

In Hindi, the words would be re-arranged as follows:

The bus is not red --> bus red not is  (bus laaal nahiin hai)

We also learned how to say words in the format "I am ___". The word for "am" is "hoon"

I am red ---> I red am  (main laal hoon)

For an adjective that ends in "aa" such as "gandaa", a girl would say "main gandii hoon" whereas a boy would say "main gandaa hoon"

PART 2: WRITTEN

 This week we learned our first maatraa: आ   When a word starts with आ then you simply write the whole letter. So, आ  + ग  = आग

    However, if the sound is in the middle or at the end of the word then you write it as a "maatraa". The आ  maatraa is simply a vertical line.

So,  ल   + आ +  ल    =  लाल 

Today we learned the following words:

Fire = aag आग Hand = haath हाथ Nose = naak नाक Ear = kaan कान Four = chaar चार

Clean = saaf साफ़

Red = laal लाल 

Black = kaalaa काला 

Today = aaj आज