Today we divided the Junior class into 'Basic' and 'Intermediate'. All students who are attending Hindi classes for the first time joined the Basic class and the repeat students from last year were in the intermediate class.
Basic Class -
We reviewed the Diwali song and the meaning of the song. We had all the kids repeat the song and the meaning. Some of the Children are still struggling with it so please review at home.
We learnt that Hindi has 13 vowels and we started with one– अ and learnt five words starting with अ and their meaning : अनानास ,अमीर,अच्छा,अभि,अनार.
We introduced conversing in Hindi :
What is your name and response
Intermediate Class -
We reviewed list of words from letters
अ Anar (pomegranate), Ananus (pineapple), Abhi(now) and आ Aag(fire), Aalu(potato), Aaj(Today), Aatta (flour) etc. We also practiced our lines for the Diwali program. We will have a vowel test at the end of the vowel review.