Genesis of our family in Hindi: first week of Daily Activities (Post #2)

     Here's a quick rundown of what I did this week with my kids, N and M. I'm choosing to do it day by day so you can see what Language Mama Planner looks like in a nice orderly execution. Hopefully this is helpful for you to see what it could be like implemented in your own home, or perhaps daily homeschooling routine.

Here's Lesson 1A from my hard copy planner (we have a few hard copies left that are wire bound. If you really want one, we can ship it to you! Paypal $15+shipping. Send us a note on the contact page.) I have it filled out just going off the recommended book, song, and script list from the Planner's recommended content, rather than choosing my own.

SUNDAY -  Prep Day. 
     I gathered my Go Dog Go book, some assorted toys, and my fully charged iPad mini. I asked Christine to help me film some videos for the week. She obliged. It took 20 minutes to film myself doing the Family script, Curtesy Script, and reading the book aloud in Hindi. The videos as you will see are unedited and were made in a single take. I'm doing it this way so you can make your own new mistakes and not the same ones I made! I used iMovie on my iPad to add titles to the movies for your reference. But the videos were so simple they definitely don't need any fancy titles.
I also had images to go with Go Dog Go and quickly made those into a coloring sheet on my laptop, then printed off a few copies. 

MONDAY - Daily Activity: Song
     Using this cheesily animated video directly off YouTube, I set a timer for our 10 min of Hindi and played the video. The song repeats several times during the video including specific references to just "head, head" and "shoulders, shoulders" etc. 
N and M laughed at the ridiculous animations (its like kid eye candy: dancing icecream cones? Under any other circumstances I would write off videos like this for their spastic flashiness). 

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