BBNJ Amruthem -- Jan 31 st class

Hari Om parents

Thank you for your commitment to BalVihar for bringing your children on regular basis. Children that attend regularly and participates tends to learn efficiently and effortless-y.

We had slightly distracted class either due to the breaks in between due to the snow or the children missing the class. We still managed to cover our learning plan for the day.

As always we started our class with 3 Om's. (We also learned  the meaning of saying Om--Oh Lord, morning day and night, I love YOU) We often tell our children, our parents through out the day how much we love them, but tend to forget to show the love and gratitude to God.

We did opening shloka..."Sahana vavatu....."

We called upon Ganesha to help remove any obstacles from our learning for the day. We recited the shloka "Vakratunda mahakay......."

Once we were focused and ready to learn we called upon Saraswati maa to gives us knowledge and help us learn. We recited the shloka "Saraswati namastubhyam....."

Today we revised and talked more on our Hindu Temples  --

We showed  the picture of Bridgewater temple and asked the students to recognize the temple. Most of them were not able to recognize it but they were curious to tell the temples they visited .

We also learnt different parts of the temple like  Gajastambam ,Prakaram ,Mantapam , etc.. .and also the importance of temple. Kids were really excited about it .

We did temple coloring sheet  and snacks .
I told them the story of Markendaya and how he was saved by Loard Shiva .

We introduced new shloka  to kids  :

"
asato mā sadgamaya
tamasomā jyotir gamaya
mrityormāamritam gamaya
Oṁ śhānti śhānti śhāntiḥ" 



We ate our snack (gold fish and water) and did bathroom rounds. 

We ended our class with closing prayers "Om purna midah....."

Few reminders:

•  Please continue to recite shlokas with your children. When we introduce a new shloka to the class we recite each shlokas for 5 times.
• Continue to ask your children about their class lessons on your way hometo emphasize the learning process.

• Some of the children in our class are GREAT at reciting shloka/s and we would highly recommend to sign them up for Shlokathon. Please ask Dharani  or me for more information on it and we will guide you in the right direction.

Next class is on February 21 st .....See you then!!!!



Shubha Kishore