Hari OM Parents,
We were happy to see many of you in class this last Friday. To those who missed please check your child's bag for the Welcome letter that we handed out. We also sent a form that we would appreciate if you would fill up and return with them next week.
First week, we started off with introductions and talking about the Birth of Ganesha. We learnt to sing a Ganesha Bhajan - they were given a printout of the lyrics. But before we could do the activity we had planned, we lost power.
We started discussing about the topic for this year BalaBhagavatam and mentioned about the Dasavatarams - some of them already seemed to know the names of all the 10 Avatars - in fact Sanjana showed us the Mudras for all the 10 Avatars! We will all learn it from her this year!
Second week, we gave them a word search activity which kept them engaged while we were talking to parents. After that we told them the story of who wrote the Bhagavatam and why. We started off with the Parikshit meeting Kali story - and discussed the 4 legs of the Bull - Austerity, Purity, Kindness and Truthfulness. We discussed what all these words meant. We will continue with the story next week.
We had a discussion on what children expected to get out of a Balavihar class - it ranged from learning right from wrong, learning about Gods , listening to stories, to candy, movie night, fun stuff! :-) We then brainstormed how best we can achieve all that - and together we came up with a set of classroom rules to ensure minimum disruption.
We do the daily prayers from page 11 of the My Prayers book. We will learn the Guru Stotram, Dasavatara Stotram and Madhurashtakam too over the course of the year.
We will leave the Balavihar bags in the classroom when we go for Arathi. Please pick up the children only after Arathi.
QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR CHILDREN THIS WEEK
1. Name of the Rishi who wanders with a Tambura in his hand saying Narayana Narayana (Should be easy)
2. What does Austerity mean? (Little bit harder :-)
Thanks & Regards
We were happy to see many of you in class this last Friday. To those who missed please check your child's bag for the Welcome letter that we handed out. We also sent a form that we would appreciate if you would fill up and return with them next week.
First week, we started off with introductions and talking about the Birth of Ganesha. We learnt to sing a Ganesha Bhajan - they were given a printout of the lyrics. But before we could do the activity we had planned, we lost power.
We started discussing about the topic for this year BalaBhagavatam and mentioned about the Dasavatarams - some of them already seemed to know the names of all the 10 Avatars - in fact Sanjana showed us the Mudras for all the 10 Avatars! We will all learn it from her this year!
Second week, we gave them a word search activity which kept them engaged while we were talking to parents. After that we told them the story of who wrote the Bhagavatam and why. We started off with the Parikshit meeting Kali story - and discussed the 4 legs of the Bull - Austerity, Purity, Kindness and Truthfulness. We discussed what all these words meant. We will continue with the story next week.
We had a discussion on what children expected to get out of a Balavihar class - it ranged from learning right from wrong, learning about Gods , listening to stories, to candy, movie night, fun stuff! :-) We then brainstormed how best we can achieve all that - and together we came up with a set of classroom rules to ensure minimum disruption.
We do the daily prayers from page 11 of the My Prayers book. We will learn the Guru Stotram, Dasavatara Stotram and Madhurashtakam too over the course of the year.
We will leave the Balavihar bags in the classroom when we go for Arathi. Please pick up the children only after Arathi.
QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR CHILDREN THIS WEEK
1. Name of the Rishi who wanders with a Tambura in his hand saying Narayana Narayana (Should be easy)
2. What does Austerity mean? (Little bit harder :-)
Thanks & Regards
Jayashree & Suja
