Hari Om Parents,
We started our class by opening prayers (Sahana vavatu).
We recapped on what taught last class, i.e.
What are the three things
1. Who is God?
2. Where is God?
3. What does God do?
Letter 'A' – is for Aspiration- What and how focused Arjuna was and to achieve what we want to do is Aspiration.
We also learnt our house bhajan "Hey Murali Sridhara " Our house slogan is – Sri Krishna bhagavan ki jai.
We have given children cutouts for coloring. Please put them in a folder. We continued exploring the Aspiration word.
Dronacharya, who was the guru of Kauravas and Pandavas, one day decided to test them. He took them to a place and asked them to shoot the birds eye which was sitting on the tree.
Everyone Dhuryodhana,yudistira bima came one by one and when Dronacharya asked them if they could see their brothers, tree ,sky all of them answered affirmatively. And then Dronaacharya said that they could keep the bow and leave , not proceed further to release the arrow. When it was Arjuna's turn he asked the same questions and Arjuna replied with negation. He asked what he was able to see then Arjuna said he could only see birds eye, when he said to go ahead and release the arrow , it went straight and hit the birds eye. The moral is that we need to be much more focused to achieve our goals. We placed a Bulls-eye on the board and all kids were given three chances to hit the bulls' eye with a Ping-Pong ball. Few of them were very close to getting in their third try. We went back to realize what was required to reach our goal i.e focus. This game of bulls eye created little fun and more energy in kids hence to bring them back to our class, we did a few yoga poses. Standing on one leg and standing without moving or wobbling.
We went back to our places and went on to learn about the letter 'B'- B is for brotherhood.
We asked kids what are a few words that begin with B, few said Ball, Boy, Big, Bat and Balloon.
We moved on and asked them who all were living in their home. Everyone mentioned who stays in their home. What do parents do, every one said mom takes care of us, gives us food, takes us to classes, makes sure we eat healthy and dad gives Gifts. It was so much fun to hear from everyone how they feel about their parents. We asked what about grandparents, cousins' uncles and aunts? How are they related? Are they family? Yea they are our family and so everyone who is related is part of our family. Where we live with family is called home, groups of home make a town/city. Cities make countries and all countries make the world which is our big HOME.
Vasudhaika Kutumbam- World is our family.
Kutumbam means family, vasudha is mother earth.
What is HOME? So where there is happiness ever that we call HOME, H, Om, E.
H- Happy
OM-Paramatma(Lord/God)
E- Ever
We shared a picture printout and asked everyone to color. Before we started coloring, we were hearing a story and colored while listening to the story.
There was a crayon box and every color in the box disliked the other color, red said I don't like yellow. Yellow said I don't like blue, blue said I don't like green, and so on.
Viyaan offered to volunteer to share his crayons with everyone. So we said lets separate them out and kept all reds together and greens together etc.
We took our coloring paper and went coloring one picture at a time, clouds were grey, mountains were brown, tree leaves were green, stems were brown, sky was blue, water was blue, sand castle was red etc.
Everyone did a wonderful job of coloring their pictures beautifully. We asked kids if the colors were beautiful together or individually, it was beautiful together. So we put all the crayons back in one bag and thanked Viyaan for sharing.
Brotherhood means caring for each other and being together.
It was time for our Gita Chanting and we learnt chapter 15th 1,2,3,4 and continued with Verses 5,6 and it was time for Aarthi and pledge and went into our Prayer hall.
The curriculum for Kindergarten is Alphabet Safari, Please purchase the book from book store, kindly collect the handbook as well since we will be learning Bhagavad Gita Chapter 15 (1-20 shlokas) and Bhagavad Gita Chapter 12 (1-20 shlokas) is available in the 2025-26 year handbook.
Few important notes and points.
1. We request everyone to make sure children are present in the class a few mins before 7pm.
2. Please send a folder to class to keep the handed out items.
3. Please send crayons, pencils, and erasers in a box.
4. Make sure children use the bathroom before coming to class so that we don't take bathroom breaks unless there is an emergency.
5. Please join our Whats app group and communicate with teachers in case your child is unable to come to class.
6. Kindly check our messages and emails which are being shared so that important information is not missed out.
Please make sure to send the below to every Balavihar class.
1. An empty notebook to write Likhitha jaapa.
2. Two sharpened pencils.
3. Crayons
4. Folder to keep the papers and coloring stuff.
5. Daily Prayers book.
6. Balavihar Handbook.
Please join the class WhatsApp group by sending us an email with your phone number in case you are not already part of it. The WhatsApp group will be our primary medium of communication. Please feel free to reach us on our phones/ via WhatsApp or you can reply to this email as well
With Pranams
Kavitha & Anuradha
