We had excellent weeks of Balavihar session on September 25th and October 2nd. We started the class with opening prayers, and we encourage children to write likitha japa ' Sri Ram Jaya Ram Jaya Jaya Ram ' once they enter the class. Make sure they do have a notebook and pen/ pencil with them so that they would be able to enjoy this likitha japa.
We discussed two stories 'Empty pot and Akbar Birbal 'from each session. The stories talk about the qualities of Hanumanji -Balam and Buddhi. Encourage children to narrate the stories to you and discuss what was the interesting part they find with that.
Also, thanks to all parents who helped their kids prepare the japa mala and in case if you have done it please do so in the coming days. The instruction video is posted in our what's up group.
From these sessions all the kids are very familiar with Dhyana slokham " Buddhibalam Yasodairyam….." They were excited to chant them individually and we did that during our last sessions. We also watched a video of 'Hanuman Chalisa' which has cartoon depiction of Hanumanji, and his stories and kids loved it very much. Our curriculum requires that we would be able to make sure kids learn Hanuman Chalisa thorough this year. Please encourage them to chant whatever they learnt and help them too.
We played a guessing game with the children which helped them to use their imagination and able to express them in words and questions. That opened all the children to converse and was very interactive.
We concluded the class by playing Arati video and singing along with that and kids lead the Chinmaya pledge. Looking forward for our next session.
