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Dec 13, 2020 - KG (Sunday PM)

Hari Om Parents,


Welcome to Week 9 of Balavihar 2020-2021 and the KG Sunday PM session. The children had fun trying out a new online learning game, which we now hope to continue in coming weeks as well.

 Weekly Update

Dec 13th 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. 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

  1. Today we first started off with our first art project. The children did a wonderful job of putting together the house. Please feel free to access and play again during the week. 

https://wordwall.net/play/8479/097/704 

  1. 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 - DaWe ddy

    5. E - Enthusiasm

    6. F - Friendship

    7. G - God

    8. H - Happiness

    9. I - Intelligence

    10. J - Japa

    11. K - Kind

  2. We revised the L-Love alphabet and the story of Mahatma Gandhiji and how he showed his love also to someone who was caught trying to steal in his ashram by giving him food. 

Then we also discussed the story of Johnny and his gift of love and respect to his teacher. The main message from this story was how his teacher found the gift from Johnny who was poor and could not afford a proper gift, the best amongst all other gifts from her students.

  1. We followed this up with learning a Rama J-Japa bhajan by slightly changing the words. 

Eating bhí rama kaho,

Drinking bhí rama kaho

Bolo Rama Rama bolo 

Rama Rama Rama - Hey !!

Studying bhí rama kaho,

Writing bhí rama kaho.

Bolo Rama Rama bolo 

RamaStanding bhí rama kaho,

Sitting bhí rama kaho.

Bolo Rama Rama bolo 

Rama Rama Rama - Hey !!

Laughing bhí rama kaho,

Crying bhí rama kaho,

Bolo Rama Rama bolo 

Rama Rama Rama - Hey !!

 Rama Rama - Hey !!

 

 

  1. We followed by learning a new alphabet M - Matrdevo Bhava. We discussed how all the kids experience the love from their mother, all that she does for them each and every day. We first shared the story of Chiku the Panda, whose mother kissed his palm, which made him feel that she was always with him wherever he felt lonely. Chiku who was afraid of going to school, was now able to do so, as now he could feel his Mom's love with him all the time.

We also discussed another story of Rudra, the young boy who tried to extract an allowance from his mother for all the help he was providing at home. But when his mother shared with him the list of all the tasks that she has been doing for everyone at home, every day for so many years, without anyone offering her any money, but just out of love, he was very embarrassed. He learnt the value of his Mother and the selfless work and love that she has been showering on him. From that day, he started doing his chores diligently and without any complaints.

 

  1. We spent some time on Geeta chanting and again revised our first, second & third verses of Geeta chanting activity. We continue 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..

  2. And finally we closed with closing prayer followed by Aarthi

om sarve bhavantu sukhinah 

sarve santu niramayah

sarve bhadrani pashyantu

Ma kaschid dukhabhagbhavet.

om shanti shanti shantih

 

Next Session Agenda

  1. Revise alphabets, slokas and bhajan covered in previous sessions.

  2. Alphabets: We will process the N & O.

  3. For the nest class, please print and have the following slides from this PDF document ready for next week's session: 

    1. Slide# 33


Reminder & Activities for home

  1. Please practice reciting the prayers & slokas

  2. Please Practice Geeta Chanting using the video links shared earlier (Geeta Chanting Introduction Video, Verse #1, 2 & 3).

  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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