Hari Om Parents and Children!
Welcome to our 2021-2022 Balavihar Sun 9.15am Toddler/Pre K ( Sishu Vihar) session!! It was lovely seeing some of our returning families and also meeting all our new families. We look forward to a fun and exciting year learning along with all our kids. Parents, please look out for my emails every week, giving a short summary of what we covered.
Below is a summary of what we did in our very first Sunday morning session.
- We started our class with 3 Oms followed by Sahana vavatu
- OM saha nāvavatu saha nau bhunaktuand then also said the following 3 Chants listed below
saha vīryam karavāvahai
tejasvināvadhītamastu
mā vidviṣāvahai
OM śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ
Om Sri Ganeshaya namaha, Om Sri Saraswathye namaha, Om Sri Sat Gurubyoh namaha
- As this was our first class we spent our time getting to know each other. We did a round of introductions and also heard about each of our favorite food and activity to do. We loved getting to meet and greet all our kids!! We also briefly talked about guidelines and class format for our newer parents.
- We then moved to learning a bit about Lord Ganesha. We observed Lord Ganesha's image on screen and talked a little bit about how Ganesha looks and described him. We then learnt one shloka for Lord Ganesha-
Vakratunda Mahaakaaya sooryakoti samaprabha
nirvighnam kurume deva sarva karyeshu sarvada
- It was time to then move on to a few Yoga stretches and poses. Once Yoga had us all energized we learnt and sang one bhajan of Ganesha---
gaṇeśa śaraṇam, śaraṇam gaṇeśa. gaṇeśa śaraṇam, śaraṇam gaṇeśa.
- After bhajans we played an I Spy game of spotting the different images of Gods and their favorite foods. All our kids did amazing spotting Ganesha and his modaks.
- We also did an activity of tracing where we traced and discovered the picture to be that of Lord Ganesha.
- We wrapped up our class with our closing prayers.
We really enjoyed getting to meet and know all our kids and parents and hope all of you enjoyed our first class. Looking forward to seeing all of you at our next class where we will have many more learning to do and stories to hear and crafts to do.
Our next class is on Sunday 26th @ 9.15am. Zoom link is the same as our last class and we will send out via email and via our class whatsapp ahead of the class day. Attached is link to our Bala Vihar handbook for this year.
Pranams,
Vidya and Pramila