Hari Om Parents!
Today was the Eighth 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 Sahana vavatu, led by one of the kids.
2. Each kid individually chanted the Ganesha Bhajan and was made to repeat it couple of times. Also, explained the meaning of Ganesha bhajan again.
3. Then we introduced the Krishna bhajan with meaning and made the kids repeat it word by word. And chanted it couple of times.
6. Kids were then introduced to the next letter 'G' - it stands for God. God loves us and protects us and is everywhere. God gives us everything we need and we should thank him for all these gifts and pray to God. Our Saints know him and see him as they have sweet mind. And when we have a sweet mind we can see and feel the presence of God.
7. In the Brainstorming session, we discussed about who is God and what does God do? God is everywhere and God gives us lot of gifts, like Sunshine, rain, snow, air, flowers, birds, animals, fruits, food, clothes, the whole universe and God gives us everything. God can do what no one can do and makes impossible things possible. Kids shared the various things God gives us .
8. During Exploration time, we discussed that for all the gifts God gives us, we should thank him and kids were taught the Bhajan -
"Krishna here, Krishna there, Krishna Krishna everywhere, God is one, God is one, God is for everyone. "
And told kids to repeat this using their favorite God's name and that we can express our gratefulness and gratitude to God by
'praying'.
9. And then we discussed about the various ways to pray to God : by chanting slokhas, singing bhajans, reciting God's name, doing abhishekam, meditation etc. And then we discussed what abhishekam is and how to do it. We shared a small YouTube -Ganesha abhishekam video performed at home showing all the various steps involved.
10. Then we did the Alphabet chant together covering all the letters we learnt so far.
11. For Yoga time, we did Tree pose, Jumping jacks, Lion pose and stretching exercise.
12. After this we recited the poem 'All things Bright and Beautiful' by Cecil Francis Alexander which talks about all the beautiful gifts given by God to all of us.
13. Then we discussed that 'Dhyana -meditation' is one more form of praying to God and we did the Body scan yoga and mediated on our favorite God for few mins.
14. Attendance was taken and each kid responded by saying HariOm when their name was called
15. Lastly, we said the closing prayers and concluded the session.
Another exciting interactive session with our wonderful kids. And thank you parents for sitting through the session to help the kids and making them actively respond to our questions and helping with the bhajans.
Have a wonderful week ahead!!
Pranams
Selvi and Mahalaxmi