Nov 22, 2020 - KG (Sunday PM)

Hari Om Parents,

Welcome to Week 7 of Balavihar 2020-2021 and the KG Sunday PM session. Hope you and your loved ones had a wonderful Diwali festival last weekend. May the year ahead bring you all good health, peace and prosperity. We had a fun class today revising our alphabet safari with crossword games, Geeta chanting, new bhajans and alphabets.

 Weekly Update

Nov 22nd 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

 

3. We revised the following Slokas for Goddess Lakshmi & Ganesha

KaraAgre Vasate Lakshmi, 

Kara-Madhye Saraswati

Kara-Moole Sthitaa Gowri, 

Mangalam Kara-Darshanam

 

Eka Dantam,Maha Kayam

Lambho Daram Gajananam

Vighna Nasham Karam Devam

Herambam Pranamamyaham

4. We revised all the alphabets today again in the form of a crossword puzzle. The kids had a wonderful time answering the questions and solving the crossword 

 

5. Each child then took turns to revise all the Alphabets that we learnt thus far along with the actions and descriptions for each alphabet.

1. A - Aspiration 

2. B - Brotherhood

3. C - Cleanliness

4. D - Daddy

5. E - Enthusiasm

6. F - Friendship

7. G - God

8. H - Happiness

9. I - Intelligence

6. To spend more time on Geeta chanting we started this activity early this afternoon. We first revised our first & second verses of Geeta chanting activity. We attempted to take a word by word approach and the children are slowly picking up the pronunciations. We recommend extra practice at home using the links in the document shared above.

7. We followed this with an activity break in the form of coloring the H - Happiness Train from the previous session's alphabet

8. We then moved onto our next Alphabets J & K 

J - Japa,  Rama Rama bolo Rama Rama Rama

K - Kind, God is Kind

    We first started by learning what Japa is. How we start every session with the Om Chanting is also a form of Japa. This help is calming our mind and focusing on the work. We started by learning the first two verses of the Bhajan:

khate bhí rama kaho,

pite bhí rama kaho.

rama rama bolo rama rama,

rama rama bolo rama rama rama,

padhate bhí rama kaho,

likhate bhí rama kaho.

rama rama bolo rama rama,

rama rama bolo rama rama rama.

 

We started our discussion on the alphabet K with a short movie. The kids enjoyed the movie and discussed how the dog demonstrated kindness and in return the crane returned the gesture. We also briefly explored the importance of upcoming thanksgiving weekend how we should be kind and share our food with people who need it.

9. And finally we closed with Aarthi

Next Session Agenda

1. Revise alphabets & slokas covered in previous sessions

2. Like today's session we plan to put extra focus on the Geeta chanting.

3. We will continue the J-Japa alphabet and finish the remaining two verses of Rama bolo bhajan and K-Kind alphabet with the story of androcles and Lion.

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

1. Slide# 27 & 28

 

Reminder & Activities for home

1. Please complete the I-Intelligence coloring picture as home (slide #26 from PDF document)

2. Please practice reciting the prayers & slokas

3. Please Practice Geeta Chanting using the video links shared earlier (Geeta Chanting Introduction Video, Verse #1).

4. 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