Hari Om Parents,
Welcome to Week 8 of Balavihar 2020-2021 and the KG Sunday PM session. Hope you and your loved ones had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend break.
Weekly Update
Dec 6th 2020 / 12:45 PM
Today's Activities
Om Chanting
Guru Stotram
om saha navavatu,
saha nau bhunaktu,
saha víryam karavavahai,
tejasvinavadhítamastu ma
vidvishvahai.
om shanti shanti shantih
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
Each child then took turns to revise all the Alphabets that we learnt thus far along with the actions and descriptions for each alphabet.
A - Aspiration
B - Brotherhood
C - Cleanliness
D - Daddy
E - Enthusiasm
F - Friendship
G - God
H - Happiness
I - Intelligence
J - Japa
K - Kind
We revisited the meaning of Kindness by learning about the story of Androcles and the Lion.
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 !!
We followed by taking a coloring break and the children did some wonderful coloring of the Androcles & the Lion story:
To spend more time on Geeta chanting we started this activity early this afternoon. We revised our first, second & third verses of Geeta chanting activity. We once again 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.
We started our discussion on the alphabet L with discussing if we can live without various things like air, water, food, smell without nose, see without eyes etc . The kids enjoyed this discussion as we further extended it to how a child loves their parents and vice versa, and how God loves everyone. We learnt about Mahatma Gandhiji's love for all the citizens of India and how they in turn loved him as the father of the nation. How his love for everyone, including a thief helped turn him into a good
person and stop stealing.
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
Revise alphabets, slokas and bhajan covered in previous sessions
Like today's session we plan to put extra focus on the Geeta chanting.
Alphabets: We will continue the L - Love alphabet and also complete M.
For the nest class, please print and have the following slides from this PDF document ready for next week's session:
Slide# 30
Also please provide your child 6-7 popsicle sticks and a good glue. If you don't have popsicle sticks, just use a cardboard and cut it into small popsicle like sticks to match the length of the pillars shown on slide#30 of the PDF document above
Reminder & Activities for home
Please practice reciting the prayers & slokas
Please Practice Geeta Chanting using the video links shared earlier (Geeta Chanting Introduction Video, Verse #1, 2 & 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
