Jan 24, 2021 - KG (Sunday PM)

Hari Om Parents,

Hope you and your loved ones enjoyed the Pongal / Sankranti / Lohri break last weekend. Welcome to week 12 of Balavihar 2020-2021 KG Sunday PM session. Appreciate you taking the effort to ensure the children are able to join the balavihar sessions on time every weekend. It would be great if you could kindly discuss the topics we covered below with the children during the week, it will help the children retain the knowledge.

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 Weekly Update

Jan 24th 2021 / 12:45 PM

Today's Activities

1. Om Chanting

2. Guru Stotram (Lead by Kanisha)

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. And we introduced three new slokas on Saraswati (Goddess of Knowledge), Krishna & Rama. We will continue to practice all the slokas in our future sessions. 

(Lead by Vanya)

KaraAgre Vasate Lakshmi, 

Kara-Madhye Saraswati

Kara-Moole Sthitaa Gowri, 

Mangalam Kara-Darshanam

(Lead by Abhinav)

Eka Dantam,Maha Kayam

Lambho Daram Gajananam

Vighna Nasham Karam Devam

Herambam Pranamamyaham

 

Saraswati Namastubhyam

Varade Kaama Roopini

Vidyaarambham Karishyami

Siddhir-bhavatu me sadaa

 

Mukam Karoti Vacalam

Pangum Langhayate Girim,

Yat-Kripa tam-aham vande

Paramananda-madhavam

 

Ramaya Ramabhadraya

Ramachandraya Vedhase

Raghunathaya Nathaya

Sitayah Pataye Namah

 

 

4. The kids then took turns to revise all the Alphabets and their description with actions from A thru O. We then proceeded to learn the next alphabet R - Right. The kids took turns to discuss what is Right Vs Wrong for many examples that we posed in the class. Please refer to slide#27 of this deck for the examples we discussed. 

5. We then took a game break. The kids enjoyed playing this online game. This was a fun way to revise all the alphabets that we covered in the class. 

6. Once the game was done, we returned to the Alphabet R and discussed the story of "The Rock On the Road". Please follow up with children and ask them what the small boy did with the Rock on the road even when nobody was watching him. How the boy helped the old man and how the King who was hiding behind the bushes rewarded the boy for doing the right thing.

7. We followed this with a coloring exercise. The kids did a wonderful job

8. We spent the last 10-15 min revising and learning the first four verses of the Geeta chanting chapter 2. This time Vanya & Sreekar who volunteered to lead us in on the first & second verses. We hope the children will practice it home using these links,

Next Session Agenda

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

2. We will revise 4 verses of Geeta chanting and proceed to verse 5&6. We are planning to offer additional 1-1 classes during the week if their children want to spend extra time learning the Geeta Chanting verses

3. Alphabets: We will proceed to S & T.

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

1. Slide# 37

Reminder & Activities for home

1. Please practice reciting the prayers & slokas

2. Please also let the children play these online games to further reinforce the lessons learnt in the class: 

1. https://wordwall.net/resource/9872171 (This is the same type of game that we played in class today, but the layout is slightly different)

2. https://wordwall.net/resource/9872904 (we played this the class today)

 

3. Please Practice Geeta Chanting using the video links shared earlier (Geeta Chanting Introduction Video, Verse #1, 2, 3 & 4).

4. We used this slide deck during class today to drive our discussion and stories.

 

Pranams

Rajesh Jayakumar

Ulka Powar