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Today I reached school at 7.15 am exactly. I had heard that the B.E.O. and the
deputy B.E.O were in the vicinity, so we were expecting them to visit the school
today. Usually we begin classes at 8.30 am but today we finished prayers by 8 am.
Even though all the children had not reached school in time for the prayers, by the
time classes began, most of them were there. Today, 45 out of 63 children were present.
However if we considered the children without enrolment and those from the Vidya
Kendra, there were a total of 58 children present.
Today we divided the children of classes 4 and 5 into two groups for Hindi. Group
one comprised of children who could read correctly, or could read words but found
it difficult to read sentences and/or lacked fluency. In the group two were children
who could read only small words. Out of 20 children in both the classes, 10 were
identified for group 1 and 10 for group 2.
The second lesson from the Hindi textbook of class 4 was taken up with the first
group. First, I got the children to repeat the lesson after me. Then I wrote the difficult
words of the first four sections on the blackboard and asked the children to write
them in their notebooks.
The second group was asked to read the list of 130 words prepared as T.L.M quietly.
Only this was done in classes 4 and 5 in Hindi in the first period.
The second period was Mathematics for class 3. The children were divided into two
groups yet again. In the first group were those who could recognise numbers up to
hear