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Hariom and welcome to Krishna class. We will have a fun filled year learning many prayers, shlokas and Balavihar Alphabets
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Krishna class Sevaks (Sudha aunty, Jayshree Aunty, Radhika aunty )
Class updates
6/21/2020
Am sure you all enjoyed the graduation video done beautifully by one of our graduates from 2018. We are happy to see that they continue to support us, are part of the family. Thank you Uthra :)
We had a shortened class after the graduation felicitations. Started with opening prayers as usual. Everyone will be getting attendance certificates once we are able to meet. Special mention to Vibha who missed only 2 classes and Avyaan who missed 4. Others also did great. Thank you parents and hope the children learnt and will continue to learn about our traditions and culture. Please practice the invocation and daily prayers and talk about the stories and values they learnt during the summer.
We celebrated Father's Day with the children telling about their dads from th questionnaire we sent. They were excited to do so.
Balavihar Birthday song was sung for all celebrating birthdays in June, July and August. All blessings best wishes to the children.
We ended with closing prayers .
Registration for 2020-2021 will open soon and please register.
Have a safe and fun summer and see you all when we open.
6/14/2020
We started with invocation prayers. They are a challenge for the children. Please practice with them.
Letter U for Unity was our topic for the class. We played a game of "Krishna says" to bring out the Unity in our body with the various parts working together. The story of the four cows and lion was narrated again to show why it is important to be united. Other Balavihar words with U told by children are Universe , Understand. United we stand and Divided we fall. Talked about Team work. We think children got the idea of "Unity" . We watched a movie on Unity is strength. This is attached below also to watch again.
Qualities of Hanumanji "I admire" were shared by children and teachers. Many talked about his strength and so we talked about physical and inner strength of character. The shloka on hanuman "Bhudir Balam " has all qualities listed. Please go thru them.
Parents please make copies of the home work , puzzles , coloring completed by the children and send to Radhika aunty. Will give back to chidren with correction and stickers, when we meet in person.
Next week will be short class as we will watch a Graduation video of Mukunda class, from 10-10.30 AM on another Zoom call. Details will be sent.
As it is fathers day, sending a coloring material and an interview with dad document to talk about in class. This is the last day of class till Sept. Hope all of you have registered your child for E-Balavihar, today being the first day of class.
6/7/2020
We started our class with the prayers. Children dod well with the daily prayers . Had some trouble with the invocation prayers. Please do this with them every day. Children were excited to share, about the pooja
they do at home , morning /evening or both. Asked them to do these at the time of family prayers.
Letter T for TRUTH was talked about. Children answered various statements re truth and lie. Why do we lie? And why it is important to tell the truth? Story of the young boy who cried "Wolf" was narrated and children learned the lesson why one should not lie even for fun.
We learnt to speak the Truth and also with story of Hanuman learnt about his quality of "Vak Patutavam". This means Eloquence in speaking and speaking the right way depending on the situation.
Hanuman spoke to mother Sita, Ravana, Vibheeshana, and Sri Rama in different tone and different ways.
A story of Socrates the Greek Philosopher and student was narrated. The philosopher asked, double the fess from a student who was very talkative, to teach him to be quiet and how to speak
Lesson SPEAK THE TRUTH AND SPEAK SWEETLY AND APPROPRIATELY.
For home work
Children should think about the quality of Hanuman they like and want to follow(emulate). Many qualities are in the prayer"Bhudir Balam" Also see attached picture.
Also attached a picture to color T for Truth .
Practice the prayers
5/17/2020
In class we chanted the invocation prayers and daily prayers , Children did them in groups.
We did the letter S and told about the value of S for Smile with the story of girl named Lisa and her beautiful smile.
Next we did an activity with Balavihar words with S and children had fun. Anvi said a poem with S for Smile.
Story of two brothers and their Sacrifice and Service was narrated. Ask your child to recollect this with the praying hands
Attaching the document with Balavihar S words , Photo of the Praying hands to go over.
Hope all completed the home work from 10th Word search and puzzle.
Please register for Balvihar Summer camp
Next class is on the June 7th.
5/10/2020
Happy Mothers day to all of you.
In class we chanted the Daily prayers and children participated well in groups.
We talked about mothers day and what children did for their mothers. They showed the various ways they showed their love , cards , wand, pictures.
We then talked about Swami Chinmayananda and his life story, as we celebrated his birthday on May 8th . A small part of it was, how he meditated on Lord Shivs during family prayers. Children also did a little meditation on their favorite God and shared what they saw in the mind.
After this we talked about Vishnu and what he has in his four hands and their purpose. Anvi gave us a nice symbolic description
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We had fun with a power point on Hanuman's adventures and children put them in order as per story.
Congratulation to Lakshya for participation in Geeta chanting competition. Hope to see more children take part next year
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Attached is home work assignment word search, puzzle and Power point on Hanuman. Please show this to children and help them do the home work
4/26/2020
In class we chanted the invocation prayers and daily prayers together, asking children to lead if they can. Many raised their hands and led well. Love their enthusiasm. Keep practicing these at home with them.
We decided to talk about Hanuman and Sudha aunty narrated his travel to Lanka to find Sita ma. The qualities of Hanumanji indicated was his concentration and determination on the work to be done (not resting on the mountain Mainaka) and his intelligence in outwitting Surasa who wanted to eat him. After that children watched a small movie on Hanumanji's adventures in Lanka. We think they enjoyed it. Other qualities of Hanumanji was seen in it,
Please recall the story told and watched as movie.
Next class we will do Letter S. children were asked to list what makes them SMILE?
See you all on May 10th
4/19/2020
We had a nice session and children did well with the chanting of invocation prayers and daily prayers. Please continue helping them. In the voice recording the closing prayers are also there and they can practice.
We talked about the meaning of the shloka " Kayena Vacha" and talked about Lord Narayana and what he had in his 4 hands. As home work please ask them why he has those things in his hand. We will go over them next Sunday
We did the Alphabet chant and children enjoyed it. They were quite attentive for the most part.
Letter R for Righteousness (doing the right thing) and Responsibilty was discussed and with this the story of the king and a little boy was narrated. Children seem to enjoy stories.
They also came up with other words like respect, and other not good words with R.
Home work they should write the words with R in the Alphabet safari book and color it
4/12/2020
Did mostly Shlokas and revised alphabets till Letter Q
3/29/2020
Hope Hope everyone enjoyed the class .
We started with Invocation and Daily prayers. We talked about " Why we say OM and Shanti 3 times " Children said say Om loud to wake GOD up
. But does HE/SHE needs to be woken up. We talked about vibrations sent out with OM and the silence between. Shanti three times for peace in the universe (forces beyond our control like rain, storm , now the virus) Peace in man made situations of war etc and last Peace said quietly for peace in our own self and mind. Please go over these with your children.
We went on to Alphabet Safari and Letter Q for Quiet. Being Quiet not just physically but in our mind too, so we can focus. Story of Turtle and the Swans in the lake was narrated in this context . There is another story to for "Don't Quit". Will narrate next week
We have made a list with prayers for each child. Please get them to learn the assigned ones. We will rotate the prayers, so at the end of the year every child will know all the prayers.
We did not do annual day bhajans and will try next week.
As you know we will plan annual day moving forward and as situation unfolds.
Closing prayers we do together and if possible and time permits will do Aarati and pledge
Please see the attached list and rules for the class
Love and prayers
Krishna class sevaks
3/22/2020
Thank you for logging in on Sunday for the class. We were glad that we could connect with your children on zoom. We think they were amazing. Considering the age of the kids they participated well. It is a new way of learning for the kids and teaching for us too, but we will get through it together. Your patience is much appreciated at these times. Some of the things we request you help your child follow while learning from home are-
1. Choose a place where they can focus on reciting shlokas. Preferably on the floor as we noticed some of them swiveling on their chairs. Doing so they might lose their concentration.
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Have their shloka books, handouts ready in front of them
3. Please let them not eat while chanting shlokas
4. Be available to help them mute/unmute or with any technical issues they may face.
On Sunday we started with opening prayers, shlokas from My Prayers and reviewed alphabets.
We are sure we will get better at it as we do it. We have attached a document of alphabet so when we are reviewing it is easier for the kids to follow through. We want to keep the momentum of learning going. Thank you, parents, for your understanding and support. We are sure we can make this remote learning a meaningful experience for all of us.
Hope everyone looked up and saved the attachment sent with email
3/8/2020
After invocation and daily prayers (Achyuta class joined us for this), we revisited N for Narayana, Nobility and Nasty
We did O for Om . We talked about why we say Om with all prayers. God is Omnipresent , Omnipotent and Omnicient. Present everywhere, powerful (maintaining the world) and all knowledgeable . We did the story of the teacher asking the students to go home and eat the candy given, in a place where non one can see. Ask your child about it. O is for Obedience and we stressed its importance. Who we should obey? Should we obey the wrong advice by a friend? There was no bad word with O
We went on to letter P for Prayer . We talked about P for Prahalada, his prayer of Om namo Narayanaya, Story of Holika as Holi was on the 9th March.
Other words with P is patience and we talked about this virtue.
The bad word is Pride and we did the story of the stag and his pride about his antlers(which got him into trouble) and how his not so pretty, skinny legs( he was ashamed of) saved him from the hunter.
We chanted hanuman chalissa ( please go through this with your child and there is a photo in the book about each verse)
We did not get time for bhajans)
For home work color up to letter P in the Alphabet book and write Balvihar words with each letter.
2/23/2020
Class started with Invocation and Daily prayers.
Letter M for mother was recapped. Children remembered the various forms of mother we talked about.
We did Letter N for Narayana and Nobility . Narayana (Vishnu) with four hands and what he carries in each hand was shown and talked about. Please review with them and show them Narayana deity in the temple. Below is what we talked about
"He has 4 hands and in each hand he is holding one of the following.
shankha – conch
chakra - disk
gadha – mace/ stick
padma – lotus flower
Let’s see what he uses these 4 things for
With the conch he calls us to live a good, noble, loving life. If you go to the temples in India they blow the conch before they do Arti so that everyone knows that Arti is starting and they can all come to the temple. The conch is to call us to go to God. Before Shri Krishna taught the Bhagavat Geeta he blew the conch to get the attention of people to listen to this teaching.
When we do not listen to the conch and we do not want to be noble then he uses his gadha to tap us on our shoulder to say ‘hello, what are you doing?’ When we get caught doing something naughty Vishnu will use his gadha to stop you from doing naughty things.
If you still do not listen and go on doing all the things you are not supposed to do then He uses the chakra.
With All this he tells us to be good and pure like the Lotus "
We did N for Nobilty and talked about Gurudev (Swami Chinmayananda) and Gandhiji
Bad words are Nasty , Naughty and Negative
We played a game to illustrate Good and Bad behaviors , being Nasty and Nice etc . Children enjoyed and were good at recognizing these behaviors .
We chanted Hanuman Challisa.
Please make sure children have done the coloring of Alphabet safari book unto letter N . They can write if can the words we used for each letter. Home work given is to color picture of Narayana.
The class ended after practicing Bhajans for annual day.
See you all on 3/8/2020
2/16/2020
We started our class with invocation . First children who were assigned prayers chanted them individually. Most did well. Some need help. Attendance was taking while children were chanting.
We went through their alphabet work book and gave out stickers for those who colored the alphabets as well as Hanumanji picture. Some did not have their homework with them.
We recapped letter L for love and went on to M for Mother. We talked about our own mother , mother earth, mother Tulasi, Mother cow, Mother Ganga and mother Shruti, They talked about how their mother is special. Some children knew about Tulasi and we eat as medicine
. We did the story of Rudra and how his mother taught him a lesson. We did not tell the story of Ganga and why she is sacred. Shruti and Smriti are called mother as they are our sacred books and we should respect them, We do not touch our books with our feet and we ask for forgiveness if we do. Mother Earth and Mother Cow are special as they provide us food and milk for the body. Please talk to your child about all this.
We then did Hanuman challisa and children were made to sight read and follow from the book. They did well. Each page in the book has a nice picture related to the verse.
Please make sure your children have
The Alphabet safari book
Hanuman the superman book
My prayers
Invocation prayer hand out
All coloring material given out in class
Bhajans hand out
Reminder Shivaratri celebrations at temple this Fri 21st and our Swaranjali children will sing bhajans at 8 PM. Please participate and we will be sending out the Bhajans in another email
2/9/2020
We did invocation prayers (till "Om Thrayambakam) and daily prayers till prayer for forgiveness"Kayena Vacha" Children know most of them and we are working with the rest. Please practice with them at home. When asked children admitted they don't in their innocent honesty.
We went through the good words with the alphabets up to K. They came up with some very deep thoughts. Then we did letter L for Love and talked a bit of various kinds of Love (unconditional) Love for parents friends, nature etc. Story of Hanuman and his Love for Rama and Sita was narrated by Sudha. Please ask them about it.
We sang and acted out the song "If you are happy and you know it" Children enjoyed this.
We planned our annual day and Krishna class is doing Bhajans while Achyuta class will dress up as different Gods. We will send the list and lyrics once finalized.
We did not check home work of coloring and writing the words in the Alphabet book. Please make sure they have it next class
In the assembly Sudha announced about Tardiness. Please have your children in class at 10 AM sharp. We start with prayers and it is important they are there for it.
Our Swaranjali children are singing Bhajans on Shivarathri at 8 PM on 21st Friday. please come and join. "We Stand as one family"
1/19/2020
Today we wrote one word each for the "don't" (bad qualities) for letters A-F in our book.
We competed to see how they could harmoniously say OM 3 times and be louder than the parents in class. The children won!
Children asked to repeat a couple of prayers due to pronunciation. So we did "Brahmarpanam" and "Shubam Karoti". All other prayers, they joined to chant.
We learnt about "K" for Kindness. Children explained what Kindness meant to them.
Being nice, helpful, friendly, doing the right thing.
Kindness is to show "love for others through our thoughts words and actions". We should show kindness to all creatures - humans, birds and animals.
We heard 2 stories (Androcles & the lion as well as Prince Siddharth).
We also talked about Hanuman's kindness to the creatures on Mount Sanjeevani.
We should build "kinship" (brotherhood) with all around us.
I challenged/dared the students with some actions (both bad and good).
picking up things that someone dropped
listening when someone is speaking
pushing somebody
sharing their pencil in class
throwing their books around or stepping on them
They were able to identify what they would do and refused all the bad actions as being unkind or wrong.
We talked about Hanuman and how he could grow big or small at will.
Large to cross the ocean
Small when he approached Sita so as not to frighten her
How he grows in size and then shrinks to be really small to escape Surasa when crossing the ocean
Large when he battled the asuras
How he grew a long tail and set fire to Lanka
We learnt upto the sixth chowpai in Hanuman Chalisa. In between we talked about the meanings of some works so that children could associate and recollect.
Parents names - Anjana and Kesari
Son of Wind God - Pavan kumar
Avatar of Lord Shiva - Shankara Suvan
Holds a mace and flag in his hands - Vajra aur Dwaja
Wears "kundal" (earrings) - Kaanan Kundala
Has Locks of curly hair - Kunchitha Kesha
He is the first one to sit down to hear about Ramayan, every time, and he is never tired of hearing about Rama.
He always wants to do work (seva) for Lord Rama
He holds Rama, Lakshmana, Sita in his heart.
Rama called him his brother, like Bharatha, when he helped to save Lakshmana
Many have not completed the coloring homework on the extra sheets given and in the ABC book. I have asked them to complete. We will be checking the children's books this Sunday. Can you please work with them to make sure they are learning and you are reiterating what they have learnt in class? We appreciate your cooperation in this process.
Next class is upcoming Sunday, 26 Jan 2020.
12/22/19
We started with invocation prayers . We are doing up to "Om Trayambakam" . Children were happy to chant individually the ones they know. Got more confident as time went on. Please practice with them during the break
We revised H for Happiness, Harmony and bad words of Hate and Harm . (Happy to say children are listening and do recall and narrate)
Letter I for intelligence with stories of Ganesha, his brother Karthikeya, and Hanuman were narrated. Using your Intelligence wisely was talked about. Lord Ganesha with his big ears , head and elephant trunk and what they mean for us. Please ask your children about this. Also Hanuman story of how he used his intelligence.
Bad word with I is Injury . We talked about physical injury and mental injury (hurting someone with your words and actions)
For Home work
1 Write other names of Lord Shiva, Goddess Parvathi, Ganesh , Karthikeya and Hanumanji
2 Color the photo of Hanumanji
3 Learn Hanuman Challisa up to 4th Chaupai
4 Learn invocation and daily prayers (individual assignments will be sent by separate email)
Wishing you all Happy Holidays and a beautiful, blessed new year
Next class is on Jan 12th .
12/15/19
Next Sunday is our last class for the year.
Hope all of you enjoyed the movie "On a quest". Children were amazing and sat through the movie with no distractions. Not sure how much they understood. We did ask them at Pizza time and one of them said "was scary". Talk to them about it. They all know who Swami Chinmayananda is.
Please practice the invocation and daily prayers with them. Some of them chanted for us before the movie as we took attendance. Below is the assignments for the children. If your child's name is not there , it is because they were absent on the 8th. Pick up one of the prayers and teach them
See you all on the 22nd
12/8/10
We started the class with invocation and daily prayers with meaning. Children are learning well. For next week we assigned each child, one prayer to memorize . The assignment is as follows
Lakshya & Aadya - Sahanavavathu
Vibha - Vakrathunda
Reyansh - Saraswathi
Anvi - Sadashiva
Sai- Samastha jana
Ananya - Bhavani
Sonika - Vasudeva
Krishna - Ramaya
Avyaan - Buddhir
Ambika - Om Trayambakam
Please help your child learn
We reviewed Alphabet G for God, Guru and Greedy
Alphabet H we talked about Happiness , Harmony , Hate, Hurry and Horrible
We narrated the story of Yash and how he realized he can be Happy no matter what. Ask your children about the story
Harmony we practiced the song Khate be Ram Kaho after each child sang nursery rhymes on their own with no Harmony and did not sound good. Singing together and working together is Harmony.
We did Hanuman Challisa up to fifth Chaupai ( Please review with them , It is in the My prayers book under Hanuman Bhajans)
We had Japa and Quiet time at the end.
11/17/19
We started with three OM and invocation prayers. Our aim is to learn all by end of the year. We did up to "Om tryambakam"
Please help children learn this. Chanting every evening after lighting the lamps at home is a good way.
In Daily prayers we learnt , when we wake up, when we step on mother earth and when we take a bath, remembering the seven holy rivers. Ask your child about them. Please see below Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda' message to parents.
We re visited letter F , Friendship, Forgive , festivals and fight. Children shared and we narrated, the story of friendship of Krishna and Sudhama. With Krishna as your friend you will get what all you need not what you want. We talked about NEED vs WANT.
Letter G is for God, Guru , Grace, Gratitude .
We made a list of names of God but emphasized one GOD many forms. We talked about Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva , with Ma Saraswati, Ma Lakshmi and Ma Parvati makes/keeps, our world well and happy. We talked about "Why we do namaste" as bowing to God in all of Us. Like father and mother having various roles, (at work, in their profession as son and daughter to their parents , friends) many names of God are their various roles.
Guru is teacher , We should have Gratitude to God , Guru and our parents as it is because of their Grace we are who we are and have what we have to keep us Happy
The bad word with G is Greedy. We narrated the story of King Midas, his daughter Marigold and how King Midas learnt the lesson about Greed. Ask the children about the story.
Story of Hanuman and his various names were revised and we chanted two verses of Hanuman Chalissa. We did not cover much in this as we did not have time
Please ask your children in the Alphabet book to color the letter and write or write for them, as they recollect the various words we have done so far up to letter G.
We will see you all next class on Dec 8th. Please email us or talk to us, if you have any questions re the class lessons.
Have the children talk about being thankful and Gratitude
Happy Thanks giving.
11/10/19
We started with chanting Sree Ram Jaya Ram Jaya Jaya Ram while we waited for all our class to join.
Invocation prayers were chanted and many children knew them . Please continue to practice these with your child. The hand out, given has them in order.
Why Balavihar ? We talked about a boy and a flute his uncle gave him. He said he liked it because, his mother gave him two dollars for not playing it during the day and his father gave him two dollars for not playing at night. He used it in the wrong way. How could he have become a musician? He has to go music teacher (Punctuality). Practice and then he becomes perfect. Similarly , punctuality, practice and perfection will become part of you as you come to balavihar regularly
We went through Letter E for Enthusiasm , Earth and Ego.
F is for Friendship ,Festivals, Forgive and Fight. The story of the Deer, Mouse, Crow and Turtle excited the children, ask them about it. Children gave their ideas of friends and what they do. Words they came up with are good, help, nice, share, play , kind and care. As home work children have to ask parents to narrate the story of Krishna and his friend Sudhama. Please share this with them.
After singing the Bhajan "Khate chi ram kaho" we did the first two verses of Hanuman chalissa and talked about story of hanuman and how he got all his powers. We also talked about nursery rhymes and and two verses and four verses ones.
"Krishna says" game the children enjoyed and then got stickers for coloring and doing the work book Alphabet safari. Please recollect with them the various words we did in Alphabet safari. They should write them next to each letter in the book.
11/3/19
In class we did the invocation prayers. Please help your child to learn them.
We reviewed Letter D for Daddy Diwali and Dirty
We did E for Enthusiasm . Story of a squirrel named Gitu and her enthusiasm that saved a village was narrated. After that she got 3 stripes as honor from a saintly man. Adapted from Squirrel story in Ramayana. Ask and talk to your child about this.
We also learnt the Bhajan "Khate be Ram Kaho" Will send this to you next week. We think the children enjoyed saying Ram Ram Ram with Enthusiasm
E for Earth. Children shared all what earth provides for us and we learnt a prayer to be respectful of mother earth in the morning and bow to her, when we get out of bed while stepping on her. " Samudra vasane Devi" This is one of daily prayers in the book. Talked about recycling and protecting the earth.
E is also for Excellent. We have to Excell in our work and do our very best without (bad word) EGO . We talked about Boast again here and how not to show off.
Along with Achyuta class we watched a movie called Sanjay's super Team and children shared their understanding of the Super Team fighting the bad person.
Here is a link for the theme and plot . Watch if you can with your child.. Available on you tube, iTunes ...
10/27/19
After invocation prayers we reviewed Letter C for Courage , Cleanliness and Cheat.
We did letter D for Daddy, Diwali, Devotion and negative Dirty.
Children had fun talking about daddy and why we respect him One child said because he was Big
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Pitru Devo bhava we repeated a few times and talked about why Daddy(Father) and mother are like God and we need to listen and respect them . Matru Devo bhava, Pitru Devo Bhava, Acharya Devo bhava. Help them say and learn this.
Diwali we talked about how we celebrate by lighting lamps. We chanted the daily prayer "Shubham Karoti Kalyanam " It is in the my prayers book and please help them learn this along with invocation prayers. We talked about Lord Rama , defeat of Ravana and coming back to Ayodhya with wife Mata Sita and his brother Lakshmana. People of Ayodhya celebrated by lighting lamps. Lamp signifies removal of Darkness and gaining Knowledge.
Devotion we narrated the story of Shravana and his devotion to his parents. He carried them on his shoulders to various pilgrimage places. We also spoke of (Rama's father) King Dasaratha's mistake and curse he got.
Dirty we talked about cleanliness again and why we remove our shoes before entering our homes. Also if we step on books or elders or anybody we touch them and put our hands to our head. This is respect and also books and elders give us knowledge.
Children had fun coloring Diyas and Rangoli .
10/20/19
In class on 20th we started with invocation prayers. We chanted up to "Vasudev sutam" We also did "Bhudir balam" later as Sudha aunty, talked about Hanuman. Please have your children practice these at home. Our aim is to finish all invocation prayers by Dec and move on in Jan to guru Stotram or hanuman Chalissa. Find children distracted as we chant. If they know it we can have them lead and they will enjoy that. We also can do shloka games.
Alphabet Safari we revised letter B and went on to letter C
C Courage, Cleanliness and Cheat. Added Calm too.
Courage. We talked about our super Heroes and Hanuman. Children were excited to call out who their super heroes were.
They went from Swami Chinmayananda , ME, supergirl, Mommy/Daddy, Swift, Brother sister, Wonder women, Hanuman. The teachers also said about their heroes . As to why they thought they were the heroes children , gave very nice and interesting answers. They were , being strong, could fly, drive, cook, clean, tie shoe laces , help etc etc Many children brought the photos and masks of their super Heroes
Cleanliness We talk about keeping our body clean , prayer making our minds clean
Cheat as some thing, bad that we talked and children participated.
We did Likhita japa of Rama name . Children did well and concentrated on doing it. Attached some photos of the children showing it.
We plan to get some coloring material next week. and continue with Alphabet D
Please sign up for the Diwali lunch and also bring canned and boxed food for Seva Diwali.
Have sent a separate email re Swaranjali. Please reply if interested
Class 10/13/19
We chanted invocation prayers up to Samaste jana kalayane for guru. Please practice with your children these.
We did not do guru stotram and will do next week
As stated before our aim is to learn well these by year end with simple meaning. Children will learn more as they go higher grades
We did Alphabet B for brotherhood. Started with family to grandparents, cousins , neighbors state, country and world. World is one Family . Vasidaiva Kutumbakam . Children were excited to participate , tell where their parents grandparents are from.
The other words we covered with B were Balavihar ( where children enjoy started by Swami Chinmayananda) , Blessing ( talked about God's blessing, parents , guru's blessing), Belief (who do we believe in , Parents, God ) and finally about a negative B of Boast. With regard to where God is Uma said was in our heart and hence we talked about "Why we do namaste"
We ended with chanting "Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya" 11 times ending it with being very quiet.
For next class all children should bring a mask or printed photo of their favorite Super Hero (man /woman) as we will talk about Halloween next week
Please have a blank folder for your child as we plan to give some coloring material
Please look at the work book the children have and help them write the words we talked about
Class 9/15/19
Today we did two invocation prayers "Om Sahnavavtu and Vakrathunda mahakaya"
We talked a bit about invocation of ourselves to be ready for class and then Ganesha to remove all obstacles.
We did first two shlokas of Guru strotram and talked a bit about Guru and Balavihar started by Swami Chinmayananda
Guru strotram is in the my prayers book which every child should have
In alphabet safari we were able to do "A" for Aarati . Ambition and anger . We also during the talked about other words with A like Aspiration, Achieve.
We talked about Aarati and why we do it, how we do it. We did Aarati to "Gurudev Swami Chinmayananda" . When we do Aarati we ask for blessings from God hence we put our hands to our eyes and head. We talked about the five senses. Children were very vocal about them.
We did the story of the little fish and how if we are the feet (respect) of the God, elders, Guru we will be without fear and be happy.
For Ambition and Aspiration we did the story of Arjuna the great Archer( Parents please go over the stories with your child)
There was a nice story about Anger and how we should not act in anger but we were not able to cover this. Children got a bit distracted by then.
Children did breathing exercise and played a game of "Krishna says"
Hope all of you got the books required.
9/8/19
We had an icebreaker session with coming to know each other and your children. We did ask the children the shlokas, they knew and many of them chanted for us.
We talked a bit about Ganesha and Hanuman.
Our classes are based on curriculum given to us by Chinmaya mission. Our class this year will be on a book called Alphabet safari which teaches values through the alphabets .
We will also be talking about Hanuman as super Hero.
We hope to do all invocation prayers this year , with daily prayers and a few verses of Guru strotram ( these are in my prayers book as well as we will be giving out as hand outs)
All Krishna class students will need to have the books listed below. We will advise when the books are ready for purchase.
1) My Prayers or My Prayers with CD
2) Why do we? - Book on Hindu culture, one per family recommended
3) Bala Vihar Alphabets(Alphabet safari)
4) Superman Hanuman
Total cost approx $35.00 maximum.
Book bag with pencil, eraser, one ruled notebook, 1/2 inch binder.
We will start sharp at 10 AM and finish at 11.15 when children will go to the auditorium for assembly. Please come at 9.30 AM and join our Swaranjali team and learn Bhajans. We do perform at some temple events.
We encourage, all to participate in Chinmaya Mission and Hindu samaj activities
Looking forward to a great year
Krishna Class Sevaks
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