Hari Om Parents!
Today was the seventh class of Balavihar 2021-2022!! Here is the summary of what we covered in class today:
After everyone joined the Zoom session :
1. We started the class with Opening prayers by chanting Om three times and then we all together chanted Opening prayers Sahana vavatu led by two kids.
2. Then we made each kid chant the Opening prayers individually to help them learn.
3. Most of the kids shared how they celebrated Deepavali festival.
4. Then we practiced Ganesh Bhajan, and made each kid chant couple of times to encourage them to learn it.
5. One kid on her own shared that today in India Children's Day is celebrated and its connection with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru ji and his love for children.
All kids listened keenly and we encouraged kids to share similar good information which we all can learn from.
6. For Yoga time, we did the Lion pose, tree pose and butterfly pose, and while doing the butterfly pose we flew to Mexico(as one kid expressed it)
and kids shared the various Mexican dishes they like.
7. Then we sang the Alphabet chant singing it until the Letter E and kids happily joined in by learning it.
8.After this, we introduced the next letter F - Friendship- is a feeling of mutual affection and respect. And we need to care and share with our friends.
9. For Brainstorming, we discussed couple of scenarios which show how to start and maintain good friendships, also understand how not to behave
which can hurt our friends and lose their friendship, Kids shared their views and got the essence of how a good friend needs to be.
10. For Story time, through the story of Krishna's Best Friend - Krishna and Sudama story, we learnt what true friendship is,
how we need to respect and care for our friend, and how we need to help our friends when they truly need something or are in trouble
without them specifically asking for our help. And that it does not matter how big or small you are to be good friend. 'A true friend helps without even being asked'.
11. After this, we said closing prayers and closed the session. Attendance was taken as each kid was exiting the session.
Today, we had an exciting session, kids actively participated by sharing their thoughts and by chanting bhajans. Thank you parents for sitting through the session to help the kids.
Have a wonderful week ahead!!
Pranams
Selvi and Mahalakshmi