Sunday, February 22, 2009

Status | Feb 21, 2009 | SMK Private School

Attendees: Shashank, Prakash, Deepesh

6th Standard

1. Revision for last class
2. Tenses - Overview of all. Simple Present in detail
3. Geometry - practical significance
4. Trick for calculating squares
5. Aristotle's three principles/filters
6. Exercise on the use of so/because
7. GK Topic - Internet
8. Rules for identifying divisibility - 2,3,4,5
9. Quiz - on all the topics covered in the class

7th standard

1. English grammar - introduction to tenses, use of yesterday/today/tomorrow
2. Preposition exercises
3. Differences between bought and brought, tense and tenses
4. Impromptu speaking and reading exercises
5. GK Topic - Construction of a building
6. Revision for last week

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Status | Feb 14, 2009 | SMK Private School

Attendees: Shashank, Sravish, Deepesh

1. Revision for last class
2. Exercise on identifying tenses (future vs past)
3. Brief overview of percentages
4. Geometry - angles
5. GK Topic - India's Defence setup and India's neighboring countries
6. Conducted quiz - mainly on sentence completion
7. Speeches by students in English (4 in all) - We plan to make this a major part moving forward.

We also plan to take up another class starting now (7th standard) with Shashank and Sravish leading the effort!

Status | Feb 7, 2009 | SMK Private School

Attendees: Sravish, Prakash, Deepesh

Things Discussed:
1. Parts of Speech - Nouns/Pronouns/Verbs with exercises for identifying them in a sentence.
2. Creating sentences from jumbled words
3. GK Topic - Computers
4. Maths - Number Systems (Indian[lakh, crore] and International [millions/billions])
5. Some other fill in the blanks exercises (to identify the correct tense)
6. Revision of the things discussed

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