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 With
the growing need of a nepali language school for the kids of nepali origin
in Omaha/Bellevue area, NNS along with a group of volunteers successfully
completed the first Balkaryakram on Jan 31st, 2005 and the second on Feb
13th, 2005. The session is going to be held every other Sunday at 4706
North 150th Street until other announcement is made regarding the change
of venue.. The first session was geared towards filling out the registration
form and determining the student's language knowledge level. The students
were grouped into Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced level. With the
overwhelming number of participants, some coming from as far as Lincoln,
the first class was quite energetic which hosted a total of 20 students.
| Sechdule For Bal KaryaKram |
| Date |
Parent |
Faculty |
| 01/22/06 |
Rajesh Pandey |
Resham Thapa |
| 02/05/06 |
Sujata Dhungel |
Anu |
| 02/19/06 |
Sujan Pandey |
Sami Vasistha |
| 03/12/06 |
OPEN |
OPEN |
| 03/26/06 |
OPEN |
OPEN |
| 04/09/06 |
OPEN |
Anu |
| 04/16/06 |
OPEN |
OPEN |
| 04/30/06 |
OPEN |
OPEN |
| 05/14/06 |
OPEN |
Anu |
Curriculum For BalKaryaKram
- Hati Hoina -2 verses -10 mins
- Attendance and Last class revision -10 mins
- New Items/Follw-up from last time- 30 mins
- Snacks and Break -20 - mins
- General Knowledge about Nepal -10 mins
- Story Time -10 mins
 The groups
were divided into two categories for that particular day, intermediate
and advanced. The intermediate group was lead by Netra Pokhrel, Ashruna
Shrestha, Sami Vasistha and a story session time by Resham Thapa. The
advanced group was lead by Anurakta Shrestha. The students started out
with a song "Hami Dherai Sana Chau" lead by Sami Vasistha. After
that the students started to read and write alphabets in their advanced
classes and the intermediate classes were taught the basics of the language
like pronunciation, vocabulary and commonly used words and salutations.
 A meeting of
volunteer teachers was held on Feb 11th that decided to make the classes
more organized and curriculum fine tuned. The second class on Feb 13th
focused on more organized structure of the program and the class consisted
of only one group. The total numbers of participants were 12. The teachers
who lead the session were Anurakta Shrestha (Nepali Flag drawing session),
Rabita Kandel( Alphabet pronunciation), Resham Thapa and Sanjay Shrestha
( Nepali story ). Netra Pokhrel and Ashruna Shrestha were helping out
all the volunteer teachers during all the events specified above.
The students were really excited to draw the national flag, reading and
writing alphabets and were really attentive during story time. Some of
the students even told their own nepali stories to the class which were
quite good and interesting.
For more information on the class and for participation you can call
Anurakta Shrestha at 403-4383 or email balkaryakram@nnsociety.org |
