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Oct 4, 2020 - KG (Sunday PM)


Hari Om Parents,


Welcome to Week 3 of Balavihar 2020-2021 and the KG Sunday PM session. Wonderful to meet the enthusiastic children online and proceed to learn & discuss the new alphabets & stories.

 Weekly Update

Oct 4th 2020 / 12:45 PM

Today's Activities

  1. Om Chanting

  2. Guru Stotram

om saha navavatu,

saha nau bhunaktu,

saha víryam karavavahai,

tejasvinavadhítamastu ma 

vidvishvahai.

om shanti shanti shantih

 

  1. Revision of the Alphabets that we learnt thus far

    1. A - Aspiration 

    2. B - Brotherhood

  2. We discussed the importance of Cleanliness at home and outside. How the kids feel when their rooms, dress, plates, tables in restaurants where they eat, etc are dirty and what they feel about it. How important it is to be clean generally. We discussed the children's views on these pictures

  1. We watched this short story on Cleanliness and what the children from this story. Even if one is not the reason for a place not being dirty it is good to take effort to keep it clean. 

  2. We also discussed the story of the Royal Horse who only wanted to take bath in a clean stream, river or lake but tried to run away from dirty & filthy ponds

  1. 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 the C for Cleanliness coloring sheet. As part of this exercise we also discussed what these Monkey's represent - Hear no Evil, See No Evil & Say no evil

 

 

  1. We closed out the alphabet C, by performing the experiment of adding sweet sugar to clean water Vs adding mud to water. And how similarly we need to only let sweet thoughts stay in our mind & keep bad thoughts out of our minds and thus be clean from inside.

  2. We started the discussion on our next alphabet D-Dad, by each child telling us what their Dad does for each one of them, protecting them, keeping them safe, gets them gifts & chocolates, gets food, takes them to school, etc. Just like how they expect God to protect them from all evil and keep them safe & healthy. And this why we should treat and place Dad in the same position as God

  3. We followed the Geeta Chanting Introduction Video of some basic pronunciation. 

  4. 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 alphabets covered in previous sessions

  2. We will discuss the Daddy Interview Sheet the children are going to complete at home this week

  3. Proceed with our curriculum on Alphabet Safari and start with letter E & F

  4. Practice our Slokas / Prayers

  5. Play some Simon Says games 

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

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

    1. Slide# 16

 


Reminder & Activities for home

  1. Please practice reciting the prayers & slokas

  2. Please complete the D - Dady Interview at home and bring it to class next week

  3. 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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