Notes - Education committee meeting 01/25/2015

Present:  Rajdeep Singh, Amardeep Singh, Amarpreet Singh, Jaspal Singh

Absent: Satiandra Singh

 

·         Successful Basketball event reviewed

·         Need consider furnishing new classrooms

·         New classroom Blinds – check with board

·         Cabinets requeseted

·         Instruments need storage

·         Boards – to write on 

·         Television – 60” versus Projector being requested for new classroom

·         Gurmat school would like to request permission from board to do above, but funds from parents/School

·         Bookshelves with Locks

·         Move storage items (cups, plates) away from Classroom

·         Locks on New Classrooms  needed

·         Calendar rest of Year

o   Feb 21^st

o   March 8^th – Maryland

o   March 22^nd – picnic scheduled

o   March 25^th Jewish kids having a class in the evening

o   Parent-Teacher Meeting – Feb 8^th

o   April 25^th – Vaisakhi Melaa and Evening Program

 

Just some notes.  Good meeting.

Fateh,

Jaspal

Punjabi School updates for 2014-15 session

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa,
Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!

Punjabi School will be starting next Sunday with assembly at 9:15AM. Since there will be Akhand Sahib Path, assembly will be downstairs in the Langar hall.

Thank you all who have volnteered to help lead the different functions of the school. Education committee will be working closely with them. As a quick update about these different activities and volunteers based on our last meeting:
1) Registration and upkeeep of financial spreadsheet - Raminder Kaur
PLEASE, PLEASE give your regisgtration forms with appropriate bheta (suggested $50/child) to her as soon as possible. She will have the hard copies of the forms available on Sunday morning. The registration forms were also mailed earlier by Jaspal veerji through the gurdwara email group.

2) IT issues: Amardeep Singh and Dharmender Sethi - Yahoo group, Whats app group, Blog Website and integration with gurdwara website
Please make sure you get emails through the above punjabi school group. Amardeep veerji, will be there on Sunday with his computer to help out those who are still having problems.
Also, Sethi veerji will be helping in making Whatsapp group if you have a smart phone and willing to accept text messages. It will help in communicating last minute things such as cancellation of classes and some important announcements will be sent on email and text. Please write your mobile number and email on the registration form for these things or give it directly to them.

3) Communications about the school: Jaspal Singh

4) Saturday Program: Pawanjit Singh
We will try to acheive 6-7 Saturday evening programs through the school year. Pawanjit veerji is going to be working on the calendar, including assigning activities to the kids. He will be sending it out to the group soon. It will also be posted on

5) Volunteer activities: Suneet Kaur. She is going to work with our youth representatives, Harneet Kaur and Chanpreet Singh
More to come on this.

6) Social Activities: Inderjot Kaur

Please let me know if I missed anything.

Also, I am attaching the Punjabi Boli curriculum outline developed for the different levels. It will be posted on the blog website also.

Gur fateh,

Rajdeep

Gatka class today?

Are there enough folks coming to Gatka class today at 2:30?  If not we will cancel
Please rsvp

Shabads for January 4th

WJKK WJKF.!

Please refer to Rajdeep veerji's email about the schedule for the children's January 4th Gurpurab program. Please contact Bhai Sahib if your child is to prepare a shabad and play tabla.  Bhai Sahib is aware and has been trying to match the kids' shabads with the theme and the skill levels.

Gurfateh,

Jaspal (on behalf of the education committee)

Here is the Test from 9-29-2013.  We covered Guru Nanak's Life, the reasons we need a Guru, and why we want to be Sikhs in the month of September.  In October we will cover Guru Angad's and Guru Amar Das's lives and contributions.  The Quiz below is worth a 100 points (4 points each question then 20 points for the essay).

Number	Question
1	What city was Guru Nanak born in?
2	In what country today is Gurudwara Janam Asthan?
3	What is the name of Guru Nanak's sister?
4	What job did Guru Nanak do when he was 16 years old?
5	What city did Guru Nanak help create?
6	What was the name of Guru Angad before he became Guru?
7	What does the name "Angad" mean?
8	Who said "No koi Hindu, na koi Musalman" after he came out of the river?
9	Name at least 2 languages that Guru Nanak studied
10	Which Guru questioned the pandit about why he had to wear a sacred thread?
11	What was the name of Guru Nanak's companion?
12	Who wrote Japji Sahib?
13	What was the name of the Hindu group that Guru Nanak met in the mountains?
14	What was the name of the Hindu social system that Sikhs think is not fair?
15	What is the name of Guru Nanak's older son?
19	From whom did Guru Amar Das learn about Guru Nanak and Guru Angad ?
20	What were the names of Guru Nanak's parents?
20 points	Why are you a Sikh?

5 Takhts

1) Sri Akal Takht Sahib (Amritsar- 1609)
2) Takht Sri Harmander Sahib (Patna-1666)
3) Takht Sri Kes Garh Sahib(Anandpur- 1699)
4) Takht Sri Hazoor Sahib(Nander- 1708)
5) Takht Sri Damdama Sahib(Talwandi- 1966)

Minutes from Sept 2nd meeting

Waheguru ji ka Khalsa, Waheguru ji ki Fateh!

Minutes (roughly) from September 2, 2013:

Present:  Ajay S, Amardeep S, Ranjit K, Amarpreet S, Sonia K,Sukhchain S, Jaspal S, Rajdeep S, Jasmeen K

Absent: Suneet K, Satiandra S, Harpreet K, Aman S,Dharminder S, Rimmi K, Savinaypal S, Gureet K,

.

Class material discussion

b.

Virsa

i.

Focus for levels 3 will still be the Guru Periodbut more in depth

ii.

More focus on Gurbani

iii.

Jaspal S, Savinay S, and Amarpreet S will be teaching Virsa

iv.

More efforts by parents to educate those kids that are having challenges

v.

We need to cite our references/sources for some topics and share resources with each other and with the parents if possible.

vi.

Level 4 to be figured out by Ajay and Rajdeep

1.

Maharaja Ranjeet Singh to pre-independence era

2.

Gurudwara Reform, Singh Sabhamovement.

3.

Some Gurmat Concepts

c.

Jasmeen K will be taking a course and not available until Mid-October

i.

Gureet K or alternative teacher will need to fill in

 

.

Classes start September 8th

a.

Akhand Paath planned this Sept 8thmeans assembly will be downstairs

b.

New Format starts at 9:15 am promptly

c.

Hukamnama board needed for the foyer/main entry to the Gurudwara

i.

Rahao tuk should be placed on the board

d.

Until Board decides on structure for Sept 8th Rajdeep S will be the administrator of the school for the day

 

.

Administrative structure

a.

Sunday September 15th board meeting

b.

Proposal to have Amardeep S and Rajdeep S as 2 administrative sevadaars

c.

We still need to be inclusive with other parents as much as possible

d.

Parents are allowed and encouraged to attend school meetings

e.

Amarpreet reviewed the reasons for an Education committee

i.

Sense that kids are being hand-picked for educational activities and others not feeling included

ii.

Need and concern for more kids to be included in the school has been recognized for some time, but this is counter-balanced by other issues:

1.

Competitive issues for space – if we get many more kids wewill have even a harder time than already exists in finding classroom space.

2.

Concern that some kids/parents don’t maintain involvement unless trulyinterested.  Most of the parents that are interested already are coming; not sure it’s worth pushing others to come more than has already been done.

f.

Reinforced that a lot of great ideas came from the Educational Meeting and strong desire for Education committee members to stay involved and that the meeting 2 weeks ago was simply to make sure we are all in agreement regarding the best ways to move forward.

i.

Vaisakhi mela

ii.

Newsletter

 

.

Panjabi lessons

a.

Will be posted on the Blog site

b.

Main focusing

i.

Reading

ii.

Vocabulary

iii.

Writing

c.

Emphasize practice at home

d.

Level 4 wants to help write full sentences.

 

.

Attendance

a.

Ajay proposed an attendance log

b.

Prize for those students that have accumulated a certain number of points

 

.

Supplies

a.

White board on Easel

b.

Meaning comes from Professor Sahib Singh

c.

More markers (dry erase)

d.

Looseleaf papers needed

e.

3 hole punch

f.

Spiral Notebooks preferred

g.

Parents

h.

Pocket folders for Level I

 

.

Sharing of Information

a.

Updated information is kept at:http://cltpunjabischool.blogspot.com/.

i.

Maintains the correct current email distribution list in this manner

ii.

Free, low maintenance, easy to get onto Ipad,iphone etc.