September

September 21

Hari Om. We started the class with chanting of 3 Aums. We did a quick review of the topics covered last week- the Gods of creation, maintenance and destruction. The textbooks were distributed today. Please remember to send the textbook with the kids every week. We do follow the book.We covered A for Ahimsa- non violence. We saw that we can hurt others in 3 ways physically, verbally- by words and mentally by bad thoughts. Bhagavan lives in all of us. So when we hurt others- we hurt Bhagavan. We saw a story of how Ganesha hurting a cat caused scratch marks on Ma Parvati's face. We then covered A for Avatara. We saw how Bhagavan Vishnu took many avatars like Rama, Krishna, Narasimha and Buddha. Many kids knew the names of the Rakshas who were destroyed by Vishnu in his Avataras. We finished A with A for Atma- The Atma inside one is what makes a person alive. We had a separate discussion of if water has life. Please ask your kids about how this discussion went. We had a quick game of hangman. We finished the class with a video story of Ganesha/Kaartikey and the special fruit.

 The homework for the week

The kids should find the meaning of their names and the names of the parents and siblings if any.

The other homework is for the kids to match the names to the pictures of the Avataras of Vishnu on page 7. Please use a pencil, so that we can reuse the books

September 14

Hari Om. We started the class with chanting of 3 Aums. We started the class with a short introduction. We covered the first word for A. Aum. We saw how Aum represents the many names of God. We talked about the main deities - Brahma God of creation, Vishnu God of maintenance and Shiva God of destruction. We learnt a cool fact about each of them. Please ask your kids about these facts. We saw a story of Neelkant- video. Please ask the kids what they learnt from this story. We finished the class with a game of hangman. There is no homework this week. We hope to get the textbooks next week.

September 7

Hari Om. Welcome to Dharma 2. I was very happy to meet all the students and the parents today morning. A brief summary of what was discussed - 1. Dharma 2 curriculum introduces the basic concepts of Hinduism- deities, shlokas etc through age appropriate stories. 2. The text books will be distributed in the next 2-3 weeks. 3. The class updates and homework will be shared through this WA group. This is also updated on the HATS site. 4. The parents are expected to be aware of what is being taught in the class through these messages , remind the kids of the homework and also have general discussions about these topics with the kids. 5 Please feel free to contact me or any of the other teacher/teenage volunteer for any questions or concerns. Looking forward to seeing all the kids for the regular classes from next Sunday 🙏

Here is the link to the Dharma 2 textbook. Dharma 2