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Sept 27, 2020 - KG (Sunday PM)


Hari Om Parents,


Welcome to Week 2 of Balavihar 2020-2021 and the KG Sunday PM session. We had a new student joining our session today for the first time. The children were excited to learn their first Alphabet of our safari, some exciting stories, and fun activities. 

 Weekly Update

Sept 27th 2020 / 12:45 PM

Today's Activities

  1. General Guidelines (repeat)

    1. Try to be on time to the Zoom class session by 12:45 pm every Sunday

    2. From the next session, please ensure your child has a folder, the necessary printed coloring sheet, and a set of coloring pencils / crayons

    3. To avoid breaks during the session

      1. Try your best to ensure that the kids have had a bathroom break prior to joining the zoom. 

      2. Ensure the child has a water bottle nearby

  2. Om Chanting

  3. Guru Stotram

om saha navavatu,

saha nau bhunaktu,

saha víryam karavavahai,

tejasvinavadhítamastu ma 

vidvishvahai.

om shanti shanti shantih

 

  1. As a continuation of our stories and learnings from last week's session we watched a short video how one can see God with a sweet mind, have a helping nature and be kind to others. We watched a video and discussed what the children learnt from the story. 

  2. We played a short game of jumping jacks to get some energy back into the class after our video

  3. The children then learnt the first Alphabet - A. We discussed the story of Drona's school and how his student who wanted to 'aspire' to be the best archer, focused on the bird's eye and ignored everything else to achieve his goal.

  1. We played a short game 'Simon says'. The game is still new to some of the children. Hopefully we will get them all to learn in a week or 2

  2. We followed this with another short sloka

Eka Dantam,Maha Kayam

Lambho Daram Gajananam

Vighna Nasham Karam Devam

Herambam Pranamamyaham

 

  1. The children performed some Likhita japa by coloring their first picture of our session

 

  1. Then we discussed the second Alphabet B - Brotherhood, with a story of the crayons. How a bunch of angry crayons, always fighting, ended up living together in a little girls crayon box, after they saw the beautiful & colorful drawings they were able to create with all their different colors. And just like the crayons, how we should also aspire to understand our differences and strive to live with each other peacefully

  1. Closing prayers: We recited the closing prayers

om sarve bhavantu sukhinah 

sarve santu niramayah

sarve bhadrani pashyantu

Ma kaschid dukhabhagbhavet.

om shanti shanti shantih

  1. And we finally closed with Aarti 

Next Session Agenda

  1. Revise A-Aspiration, B-Brotherhood, and Proceed with our curriculum on Alphabet Safari and start with letter C & D

  2. Practice our Slokas / Prayers

  3. We did not have time for a bhajan today, so we will plan to introduce one in the coming week

  4. Continue with the class drawing / craft activities with stories

  5. Please print and have the following slides from this PDF document ready for next week's session: 

    1. Slide#13, 14 & 15

 


Reminder & Activities for home

  1. Please practice reciting the prayers & slokas

  2. We use this slide deck during class to drive our discussion and stories relevant to the letters we are learning in the class. Some slides contain links to youtube Videos that we have used throughout this year for showing some relevant stories.

 

Pranams

Rajesh Jayakumar

Ulka Powar


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