Word Games - Level 2

[Neelam Joshi]

 Good Morning!

Wish you a Very Happy New Year!!

I hope you had a wonderful vacation during the holidays minus the usual cough / cold / flu!!

One of our Creative Group members - Swathi Sreenivasji suggested some ideas (below) and I had forwarded it to our Level 2 teachers. They are all in favor of it. 

I am forwarding these to you and wanted to know who would like to do what part of it. I would appreciate your feedback / suggestion / comment, etc.

Also, if you are working on something right now for the Gurukul classes kindly let me know so I can keep tab of it and can let the respective teachers know about the progress.

Awaiting your prompt response.

Regards,

Neelam

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In-class activities   Word scramble games - Make flash cards for svar and vyanjan. (One card per letter).    1. Pass out the flash cards among the kids. Teacher picks a word ( example: kalam ) and the kids try to sound it out.. the kids who have the letters ka, la and ma come stand in front of the class to make the word.   2. Pass out the flash cards among the kids. Now make the svar and vyanjan sequences by making kids with the appropriate cards come and stand in front of class in order. ( Teacher calls out the letters in sequence (from a to aha  or  ka, kha,, ga and  gha) and the kid with that letter comes to the front of the class.)   3. Make two teams with  5 kids each.- Pass out vyanjan flash cards among the teams. One team gets ka, kha etc.. the other team gets ta, tha etc.  The team that can put the vyanjans in the right order first is the winner.   Word hunt -    1. Teacher writes a word on the board, tells the kids what it means.. kids look for the object inside the classroom  (darwaaza, kursi, kitaab etc)   2. Use post-it notes and write one word on every note.  Give one post-it note to every kid and make them stick it on the right object around the class room. You can also do this for parts of the body, colors etc. End of the class, you can review all the words and their meanings together.   Songs - Teaching them little 4 line poems in class, explain the meaning and make them act it out.. this way they get introduced to a lot of new words. We can also do fill in the blanks, students should be able to complete the word. We can do match picture with words. While doing a word hunt games we can write words  with matras in English  for e.g. we can write kursi with कुर्सी as students may know that kursi is chair but may not be able to read words with matras.     Homework:   The teacher sends an email to the parents after every class with a brief description of what was done in class and the homework for the week.   Homework suggestions: Bring two pictures that begin with the svar or vyanjan they learnt that week in class.  In class, each kid could make their own collage book with the pictures they bring from home.   Write down 5 things around your house that are in the color ____ ( whatever color they learnt in class that week).   Write 5 vyanjans or svars they have learnt 10 times each. ( make it a little fun by letting them write in 10 different colors or something.. )

[swathi sreenivas]

Neelam ji, I can make the svar and vyanjan letters flash cards. For the activities that we discussed below, that's primarily what we'll need.   I'd like to quickly talk to you to confirm how we want this done before I start working on it. I'll be at the temple this coming Sunday morning (9th) between 10 and 12.30. Let me know if you'll be there too.. if not we can talk over the phone.   Here's my number: 614-599-0299.   Thanks! Swathi --- On Tue, 1/4/11, Neelam Joshi <neela...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

[Sushma]

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[Sushma]

It is called Mango languages tool. this link may be more easy:

 

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[Neelam Joshi]

Dear Swathiji,

Thank you so much for the initiative. I shall be at the Temple tomorrow. In case any other Creative Group member would like to join in to help out, please feel free.

Regards,

Neelam

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From: swathi sreenivas <swathis...@yahoo.com>
To: guruk...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Thu, January 6, 2011 12:55:46 PM
Subject: Re: Word Games - Level 2

[salan...@yahoo.com]

Nilamji,

Just a couple of suggestions.

May be teachers can try the following couple of things based on what suits them.

1. I guess most of the students are familiar with the 'Show and tell/talk' they do at school. May be we can give this a shot at gurukul too. This will help the students to show off their favorite toy or something similar and say a few words/ sentences in the language they are not so familiar.

2. Teachers can probably send email to individual parents (or else send a note written in notebook and ask the student to get parent signature). This might proactively keep the parent informed of things to improve or need focus, instead of waiting till parent- teacher conference to let the parent know that kid need to taken off the roaster. This way at least parents won't be surprised of what so ever decision.

Thanks,

Srinivas

[Vaishali Vaidya]

Sushmaji, 

 

As discussed during our first meeting, I would appreciate if you could prepare Gujarati flash cards in following categories.

 

Fruits
Vegetables
Animals(wild)
Animals(domestic)

 

If you have any question pl. let me know.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Vaishali

[Sushma]

Vaishaliji,

 

I have been waiting for the details for the flash cards since the meeting. As I had mentioned, I had more time during the holidays.

I will try to get some done as soon as I can. Also can you give me the details like...how many in each category and do you want me to keep them short...like the gujju word for apple is long...I don't know how advanced your class is...If you can provide the names in each category that would be great. You can call me at the below numbers if that is easy.

Thanks.

[Latika Dixit]

Sushmaji,

 

Since we need these cards for both Gujrathi & Hindi (and then probably in other languages too), it will be good if the cards can be created in such a way that the native language text can be easily changed to another Language. That way we can use same flash cards for multiple languages. 

 

For your reference ( if it helps) I am attaching a template we used for Hindi flash cards earlier that can be used to create the flash cards you are working on.

 

Thanks a lot.

 

Latika

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