We offer 75-minute Saturday classes for grades 1 through 6, supported by a dedicated team of senior teachers, substitutes, and management staff under a structured leadership framework. Our program takes pride in its custom-developed high school curriculum and textbooks, created by Kannada language experts to ensure academic excellence and cultural relevance.
Grade 1
Learning Content:
- Creating phonemic awareness of different sounds, emerging from words in rhymes and audio clips.
- Tracing the curves as preliminary to writing phonemic Kannada letters.
- Listening to stories and simple rhymes with expression.
- Framing simple words with 2 and more phonemic Kannada letters.
- Recitation of rhymes for numbers familiarization
- Identification of objects of daily life and naming them through visual aids like charts.
- Answering in one or two words in response to questions asked in Kannada.
- Introduction to words representing nouns and pronouns.
- Familiarization of Kannada festivals.
Objectives
Learner
- Recognizes the 49 phonemic Kannada letters (15 vowels and 34 consonants) and their sounds in 10 groupings with basic phonetics and pronunciation rules.
- Identifies words and sentences with phonemic letters: learning simple words (2, 3, and 4 lettered), learning simple sentences (2, 3, and 4 worded)
- Understands Kannada grammatical concepts like Nouns and pronouns
- Develops a Kannada speaking habit by listening to rhymes, stories, and songs.
Skills
- Identifying family members.
- Recognising parts of the body.
- Naming the colors.
- Identifying Shapes
- Recognizing Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers, Animals, Birds, Clothing.
- Introducing self and family members.
- Counting 1-20.
- Name the Days of the week.
- Habits development.
- Expresses Greetings and farewells.
- Exhibits Likes and dislikes.
Activities
- Curve tracing practice to help with writing phonemic letters.
- Coloring activities with letter distinct colors for identification of letters.
- Tracing of phonemic letters and coloring activities.
- Practicing writing words and fill in the blanks activities for recognizing simple words with the help of pictures.
- Use of simple rhyming words and practicing them.
- Crossword puzzles for framing simple alphabet based words with the help of pictures
- Pronunciation practice with the help of action based picture.
- Reciting rhymes and singing songs
- Vocabulary Charts reading to enrich the vocabulary through visual aids.
- Describing the given picture.
- Drawing and labeling family members
- Familiarizing the festivals of Karnataka in English.
Grade 2
Learning Content:
- Tracing the curves as preliminary to writing diacritic Kannada letters.
- Listening to rhymes, stories, and audio clips with expression.
- Framing simple words with two or more diacritic Kannada letters.
- Counting numbers in Kannada up to hundred.
- Identification of objects of daily life and beyond by naming them through visual aids like charts.
- Responding in one or two words for questions asked in Kannada.
- Familiarization of earliest Kannada kingdoms.
- Enhancement of pronunciation and listening comprehension.
- Introduction to basic sentence structures.
Objectives
Learner
- Writes simple 480 diacritic Kannada letters with basic phonetics and pronunciation rules.
- Identifies Diacritic letters-based words (2, 3, and 4 lettered), diacritic letters based sentences (2, 3, and 4 worded) with basic phonetics and pronunciation rules.
- Understands Kannada grammatical concepts like Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs.
- Develops Kannada-speaking habit through rhymes,stories, and songs.
- Read phonemic and diacritic letters-based stories.
- Describes weather conditions, Days of the week.
- Describes objects and people using adjectives.
Skills
- Identifying extended family members
- Expanding vocabulary related to daily life activities.
- Ability to describe beyond the self like Automobiles, Furniture, Appliances, and Buildings.
- Describes landforms, weather and seasons.
- Describes transportation, professions and work.
- Identifies directions
- Able to express Feelings
- Able to read simple essays with phonemic and diacritic letters.
- Understands Karnataka state’s food and customs.
- Understands cultural and historical figures, places and events of Karnataka state.
- Recalls numbers twenty - hundred, days, dates, months, time.
- Expands vocabulary related to everyday topics.
Activities
- Curve tracing to help with writing diacritic letters
- Diacritic letter tracing, and Coloring activities.
- Practicing writing words and sentences using diacritic letters.
- Activities of filling in the blanks, rhyming words, and Crossword puzzles to enrich the vocabulary.
- Pronunciation practice, reciting rhymes and singing songs.
- Visual learning through Vocabulary Charts.
- Describing a picture.
- Group projects.
- Reading on Kingdoms of Karnataka.
- Role-playing in Kannada.
- Describe daily activities with hours, minutes and seconds, Calendar activities with days of the week.
- Reading weather charts and forecasts.
Grade 3
Learning Content:
- Practicing double consonant Kannada letters.
- Framing simple words with two or more double consonant Kannada letters.
- Counting numbers in Kannada beyond hundred.
- Responding in phrases for questions asked in Kannada.
- Enhancement of pronunciation and listening comprehension.
- Formation of simple sentence structures.
- Application of idiomatic expressions
- use of compound words and phrases
- Vocabulary related to Science, environment, and social matters
- Engaging in brief discussions and expressing opinions
- Presenting short essays for reading and comprehension.
- Introduction to advanced grammar
- Introducing Kannada authors
Objectives
Learner
- Read aloud with appropriate pronunciation and pause.
- Reads small texts in Kannada with comprehension i.e., identifies main idea, details and sequence and draws conclusions in Kannada.
- Expresses orally her/his opinion/understanding about the story and characters in the story.
- Understands and expresses feelings and emotions in Kannada
- Performs in different events with peer group in Kannada
- Writes dictations/words/phrases/sentences.
- Distinguishes past, present and future tenses.
- Writes a few sentences on their own with the help of verbal or visual clues.
- Identifies and uses punctuations appropriately.
- Identifies and reads numbers in Kannada
- Uses vocabulary related to subjects senses and sense organs in Kannada.
- Constructs sentences with the use of higher Kannada grammar
Skills
- Understanding longer dialogues and narratives
- Identifies, states, and understands feelings and emotions.
- Understands spoken language when the message is deliberately and carefully conveyed by a speaker
- Participating in discussions and public performances on various topics
- comprehend the given text and seeks clarification wherever needed
- Express and understands opinions
- Narrate and understand narration in the present, past, and future
- Use strings of related sentences when speaking
- Reading short stories, articles, and essays
- Able to understand and retain most key ideas and some supporting details while reading and listening.
- Acquire knowledge and new information from comprehensive, authentic texts when reading.
- Creates simple paragraphs when writing
- Writing short essays, letters, and short stories
- Reading printed scripts on the posters, charts etc.
Activities
- Practice of writing double consonants.
- Identification of words with consonants using visual charts
- Word puzzle for completing the double consonant words.
- Practicing the words with the help of visual aids.
- Creating own sentences with jumbled words to learn sentence structuring.
- Word completing activity by choosing appropriate double consonants.
- Practicing Kannada transliteration using Standard English keyboard.
- Familiarizing with geographical areas of Karnataka state.
- Familiarizing with seasons and months in Kannada.
- Comprehending short essays in Kannada.
- Exploring Kannada literature and poetry along with the introduction of Kannada authors.
- Appreciates multiple facets of Karnataka
- Interaction with native Kannada speakers (in person and virtual)
Grade 4
Learning Content:
- Counting numbers in Kannada beyond thousand
- Responding in sentences for questions asked in Kannada.
- Enhancement continuation of pronunciation and listening comprehension.
- Use of compound words and phrases
- Engaging in discussions and expressing opinions
- reading and comprehending short essays
- Introduction to advanced grammar
- Nuances of Kannada grammar
- Creative and descriptive writing
- Technical vocabulary for various fields (science, business, arts)
- Advanced dialogues and professional communication
- Public performance and presentations
- Introduction to limericks
Objectives
Learner
- Understands spoken Kannada in various contexts
- Responds to simple instructions, announcements in Kannada made in class or outside of class.
- Responds orally or in writing in Kannada to questions asked over an article, story or poem heard or read.
- Describes orally or in writing about events, places or personal experiences in Kannada.
- Reads aloud with intonations & pauses such as question mark, comma, and full stop.
- Uses punctuation marks appropriately while writing.
- Constructs compound sentences with proper structure.
- Speaks briefly on any familiar issue.
- Translates English texts to Kannada
Skills
- Understanding complex spoken Kannada in various contexts
- Fluent conversations and public speaking
- Involving in conversations using a wide range of appropriate vocabulary.
- Give and understand advice and suggestions.
- Initiate, engage in, and can give conclusion to a conversation.
- Involving in discussion and support an opinion.
- Reading novels, newspapers, and academic texts
- Ability to understand and report most key ideas and some supporting detail when reading and listening.
- Acquire knowledge and new information from comprehensive, authentic texts when reading.
Activities
- Grouping of Kannada letters into different categories and solving the questions related to this
- Fill in the blanks activities for choosing right consonants and double consonants
- Flow chart representation for understanding grammar related to division of words.
- Fill in the blanks and match the following activities for understanding grammar.
- Reading a lesson and identifying difficult words to find out their meanings.
- Completing the essay by filling up the appropriate words.
- Constructing a story based on the given pictures
- Gaining understanding of prehistoric Karnataka
- Translation of English text to Kannada
- Reading and understanding poems in Kannada
Grade 5
Learning Content:
- Enhancement of reading and writing proficiency
- Exposure to advanced grammar like compound words, parts of speech, and proverbs.
- Introduction to evolution of Kannada literature
- Introduction to Kannada poetic styles
- Familiarization of heroic women of Karnataka
- Knowing the Jnanpith awardees of karnataka
- Introduction to Kannada proverbs
- Writing short essays
- Writing letters and small paragraphs
- Reporting about events
- Introduction to light literature
- Introduction to comparative reading
- Lessons on multidisciplinary topics like Travel, Environment, and Mindfulness
Objectives
Learner
- Answers coherently in written or oral form in Kannada
- Reads Kannada story books independently
- Makes meaning out of given proverb in Kannada
- Makes an effort to write a poem by self
- Translates English text to Kannada
- Writes letters to friends and relatives
- Speaks and writes on a given topic
- Appreciates verbally or in writing heroes and achievers of Karnataka.
Skills
- Participating in activities like role play, stage performances in Kannada language.
- Delivering speech on a given topic
- Learning to participate in debate
- Writing synonyms
- Talk about holiday travel,destinations and events.
- Discussing healthy habits and nutrition.
- Shopping vocabulary and phrases.
- Using simple past tense to narrate events.
Activities
- Finding out meaning to the difficult words extracted from dialogic kind of lesson
- Writing short answers to questions
- Imagining themselves to be quiz master and framing questions for expected answers
- Making a powerpoint presentation on Jnanpith awardees of Karnataka.
- Translating Kannada proverbs to English and writing their meanings
- Watching Kannada movies in grade level lessons.
- Poem writing
- Letter writing
- Writing a short essay with the help of pictures given
- Practicing yoga and asanas to excel in academic performance
Grade 6
Learning Content:
- Enhancement of reading and writing proficiency
- Exposure to advanced grammar
- Different types of nouns
- Reading story books
- Introduction to Kannada riddles (ogatu)
- Introduction to different folk/traditional dance forms of Karnataka
- Reporting of events
- Writing essays on selected topics with preparation
Objectives
Learner
- Reads a variety of texts in Kannada and identifies main ideas, characters, sequence of ideas and events and relates with their personal experiences.
- Writes words / phrases / simple sentences and short paragraphs as dictated by the teacher.
- Uses meaningful sentences to describe / narrate factual / imaginary scenarios in speech and writing.
- Reads a book in Kannada and gives oral and written feedbacks
- Differentiates Kannada idioms, proverbs, and riddles (nudigattu, gadegalu and ogatugalu)
- Appreciates the variety of dance forms of Karnataka
Skills
- Ability to present a narration in either of present, past, and/or future tenses
- Writing synonyms
- Participating in activities like role play, stage performances in Kannada language.
- Delivering speech on a given topic
- Learning to participate in debate
Activities
- Writing essay on a given picture
- Associates different dance forms to their respective regions of Karnataka
- Make your own sentences using the words given
- Separate the idioms, proverbs and riddles from the given text.
