Sep 7, 2025 - Kindergarten (Sunday AM)

Hari OM Dear Families,

Here is this week's update.

 

Week : 1

7th Sept 2025 / 9:15AM

 

Shlokas-

We all chanted OM 3 times followed by  shloka

"Om Saha Navavatu" (page 8 in My Prayers book) 

We introduced ourselves playing an ice breaker game, passing the squishy and telling our names with our favorite god and a fun fact about the self. 

We started our topic for today "God" with 3 questions. 

Who is God ? - God is He, who can do what no one else can do.

Where is God ? - God is everywhere

What does God do? - God can do anything and everything. 

Our story for today was based on these questions. 

Story time - there was once a king who had three questions: who is God, where is God and what does God do. He asked his minister. The minister was confused at such questions, so the king gave him a week's time to answer. If The minister was not going to answer in a week's time, he would be punished, said the king. The minister went back home. He was so confused and worried. Seeing his state, his cook came to help. He said, "let me help you sir, take me to the king." The king was surprised to see the cook wants to give the answer but more than the surprise he wanted the answers. The cook politely said, the answer for the first question "who is God" he answered he wants to be in the king's throne and the king on the floor. The cook sat on the throne. The god is one who makes the impossible possible. For the second question "where is God" he wanted a candle and a Mitch stick. He made sure the room was dark and just lit the candle where the light fell all over the place, saying god is all over the place. For the third question, he asked for a brown cow, a bundle of green grass and a bucket of milk. He answered the king, that god makes a brown cow eat green grass and give white milk. This is what God is doing now
The king understood his ignorance and thanked the cook for enlightening.
 

After the story time, we made the kids color their name tag and write their names. This needs to be stuck in their balavihar notebook. We had a short welcome meet with the parents where we went over this year's curriculum and other logistics. We then went to the temple hall for arti. 

Next balavihar class is next Sunday 9/14 and the kids can be dropped off in the class directly before 9.15 am. 

Class Rules and requirements:
1. Children should bring their notebook for likhita japa and writing alphabets. Balavihar handbook (we will provide soon) pencils and erasers and crayons. ( Please bring your own items if kids are allergic)
2. Children may bring their own "spill proof water bottles"

NO snacks please. Please give them a good breakfast before coming to Balavihar. Also make sure they use the bathroom before going into the class.
3. Please bring the children to balavihar a few minutes before 9.15. We want to promptly start by 9.15. Please make sure the student is not late and may come latest by 9.20 and not later than that.

Links and Reminders:
Please join the class WhatsApp group if you have not already-

WhatsApp Group Invite 

https://chat.whatsapp.com/FO5VJV6hgyO16cH3k7cq0z?mode=ems_copy_c
 

We will update the class blog for the parents through an email and at the parent portal - Parent Portal 2025-26 (cmnjparentportal25-26.blogspot.com)

Please refer to the Balavihar Handbook-  for the various House contests and Geeta Chanting Yagna information. (Handbooks will be given soon) 

Please reach out to us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Hari OM

Veda Rajamony and Vidhya Aiyer