Kannada Play Day Held on 03/19/16

ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ!

We had about nine kids in the Senior section. This time we continued with our quest to understand the meaning of the song 'ಈ ಜನುಮವೇ' from the movie 'ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆ'. Again, we could not complete the second stanza due to lack of time. And of course, the kids were eager to play a game of Jeopardy! We made three teams. There were five categories - 'ವ್ಯಾಕರಣ', 'ವಿರುದ್ಧಾರ್ಥಕ ಪದಗಳು', 'ತರಕಾರಿ/ಹಣ್ಣು', 'ಶಬ್ದಕೋಶ',  and 'Direction'. A few questions were on the difficult side but the kids were able to answer most of them. For example, there was an image of ಹಲಸಿನ ಹಣ್ಣು and the kids had to name the fruit in Kannada. All in all, I think the kids enjoyed the game. Again, I strongly advise the parents to tell their kids the name of vegetables or fruits or for that matter, any item in Kannada, while shopping at grocery stores to increase their vocabulary in Kannada.  

For juniors, we continued with the same lesson plan that was sent during the previous week.

Please note that there will not be any session this coming week (03/26/16) due to Spring Break.

Kannada Play Day - 03/12/2016

During this session, we had only four kids in the Senior section. So, instead of Jeopardy, we read a small story taken from the textbook. The story was stressing on the words like ಕೈ, ನೈ, etc. I have attached the story below. Whoever missed the class, please try to read the story. The second half was devoted to reviewing the song from the movie 'ಒಗ್ಗರಣೆ' written by Jayant Kaikini. It is a beautiful song listing different flavors from different regions of Karnataka. Here is the link to the video on Youtube - 'ಈ ಜನುಮವೇ' We will cover the second stanza in the next session.

For juniors, we played a game of Jeopardy for the first time! Looks like they enjoyed it a lot! The categories were - ಹಣ್ಣುಗಳು, ತರಕಾರಿ, ಅಡಿಗೆಮನೆ, ನಿಸರ್ಗ, ವಾರಗಳು. It was mostly based on guessing the pictures. Please check with your kids and let us know how they felt about it. We would like to do more of these as a revision.

That is all for this week. See you all next week.

ಈ ಜನುಮವೇ  

ಈ ಜನುಮವೇ ಆಹಾ! ದೊರಕಿದೆ ರುಚಿ ಸವಿಯಲು

ಆಹಾ ಈ ಜಗವಿದೆ ನವರಸಗಳಾ ಉಣ ಬಡಿಸಲು

ಬಿಸಿ ಬಿಸಿ ಇದೆ

ಬಿಸಿ ಬಿಸಿ ಇದೆ ನಳಪಾಕ ದಿನ ದಿನ ವಿನೂತನ

ಈ ಬಿಸಿಯು ಆರುವ ಮೊದಲೇ ಎಲ್ಲರ

ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಮೆಲ್ಲುವ ಕಲೆಯ ಜೀವನ

ಜನುಮವೇ ಈ ಜನುಮವೇ

ಆಹಾ ದೊರಕಿದೆ ರುಚಿ ಸವಿಯಲು

ಈ ಜಗವಿದೆ ನವ ರಸಗಳಾ ಉಣಬಡಿಸಲು

ಕುಚ್ಚಲು ಗಂಜಿ ಉಪ್ಪಿನಕಾಯಿ ಹೇಗೆ ಮಾಡಿದೆ ಗೆಳೆತನ?

ತುಪ್ಪಕ್ಕೆ ಬಿದ್ದ ಹೋಳಿಗೆಗೀಗ ಬೇಕು ಮಾವಿನ ರಸಾಯನ

ಹುಬ್ಬಳ್ಳಿ ರೊಟ್ಟಿ ಕಾಳು ತಿಂದೊನೆ ಗಟ್ಟಿ ಆಳು

ಮಂಡ್ಯಾದ ಮುದ್ದೆ ಬಾಡು ಉಂಡು ನೀ ನಿದ್ದೆ ಮಾಡು

ಅಂಕೋಲದ ಕೋಳಿ ಸಾರು ಮೂಗಲ್ಲೂ ನೀರು ಜೋರು

ಕುಂದಾಪುರ ಕಾಣೆ ಮೀನು, ಇನ್ನೆಲ್ಲೂ ಕಾಣೆ ನೀನು

ಹಂಚಿ ಉಂಡರೆ ಅಧಿಕವಾಗುವ ಸರಳ ಸ್ನೇಹದ ವಿರಳ ರುಚಿ ಇದು

ದುಡಿವ  ಜನರು  ಬಿಡುವಿನಲ್ಲಿ  ತೆರೆವ  ಬುತ್ತಿಯೇ  ಬಲು  ರುಚಿ

ಬೆರಳು  ಚೀಪಿ  ಉಂಡ  ಮನಕೆ  ಬದುಕಿನಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಅಭಿರುಚಿ

ಮಾವಿನಕಾಯಿ ಚಿತ್ರಾನ್ನಾನ ಮೈಸೂರಲ್  ತಿನ್ನೋನ್  ಜಾಣ

ಮನೆಗೆ ಎಷ್ಟೇ ನೆಂಟರು ಬರಲಿ, ಮಲೆನಾಡಿನಲ್ಲಿ ತಾಜಾ ತಂಬ್ಳಿ

ದಾವಣಗೆರೆ  ಬೆಣ್ಣೆ  ದೋಸೆ ಈ ಊರಲ್ಲಿ  ತಿನ್ನೋ  ಆಸೆ

ಮೊಟ್ಟೆ ಮತ್ತು ಬಿರಿಯಾನಿಗೆ ಬಾ ಬಾರೋ ಬೆಳಗಾವಿಗೆ

ಒಲೆಯ ಮುಂದೆ ಉರಿವ ಅಮ್ಮನ ಮಮತೆಯಿಂದಲಿ ಕಲಿತ ಫಲವಿದು

By Jayant Kaikini

Kannada Play Day held on 03/05/2016

Hope you had a wonderful weekend.

For this session, we were planning for a game of Jeopardy but due to lack of time in preparation, we could not do it. Hopefully, next week. Anyway, for seniors, we continued with the same story 'ವ್ಯಾಪಾರಿ ಮತ್ತು ಕೋತಿಗಳು' but this time the kids had to narrate the story in Kannada by looking at the pictures and then convert each sentence to ಭೂತ ಕಾಲ. They learnt some new words - ವ್ಯಾಪಾರಿ, ಉಪಾಯ, ಸಂಗ್ರಹಿಸು, ಅನುಸರಿಸು, ಇತ್ಯಾದಿ. We also learnt ನಾನು, ನನ್ನ, ನನ್ನದು, ನನ್ನದಲ್ಲ and then did some exercise with ಅವರ, ಅವರು, etc. by filling the blanks in the following table. Please review this with your kids.

There are some kids (not many) who are still unable to recognize alphabets. Please ensure that they come up to speed. You can print ಅಕ್ಷರಮಾಲೆ and give it to them. They can try reading it while in the car or while having dinner. It is essential that they recognize these before the end of this month.

For juniors, we continued with the previous week's lesson plan as we could not complete during last week's session.

We will see you all next week.