Jan 23, 2022 - Grade 3 (Sunday PM)

High Level Agenda:

• Opening Prayer
• Guru Stotram
• Geeta Chanting and Attendance
•  Recap of last class
• Topics for today:  King Prithu, the teachings of Sanat Kumaras & Unity in diversity           

• Craft activity
• Closing prayers

Today's Class in detail

Prayers:

·        We started by chanting OM three times, and our opening prayers

·        Guru Stotram:  we learnt verses 10, 11 & 12

·        Geeta Chanting:  Verses 47&48 from Chapter 2

Story time: - King Prithu, a descendant of Dhruva

 His Kingdom was prosperous and people were happy when he started ruling. The people were rejoicing for a very long time and had even stopped working. 

As time passed Mother Earth stopped giving, and there was a famine. 

The famine was not only of food, but also of arts, love and happiness. 

One day Mother Earth tells Prithu that although she can give more, all the seeds are buried inside. The people have to stop being lazy and work hard to bring them out, and she will then give all that her children desire. 

 Under King Prithu's guidance, all the people worked hard and soon the earth became green again and everyone became happy.

 The King embraced the earth and called her his daughter, "Prithivi"

Discussion time: 

We discussed how it's important to sow the seeds of hard work to achieve any goal we have. 

We also talked about how important it is to respect the Earth and her resources and as we say in our pledge, "producing more than what we consume and giving more than what we take".

Continuing with the story, 

One day the Sanat Kumaras, visit King Prithu and teach him many things as to how one should live. 

They talk about the six sharks that exist in the ocean of the samsara - lust, anger, greed, pride, delusion and jealousy. 

By trusting in God we can cross the ocean of the samsara with ease.

We then talked about what is the trick to get rid of these sharks in our mind -  the trick is to see unity in diversity. 

The feeling of oneness dissolves all differences and helps us get rid of the sharks. 

Diversity is what makes the world interesting and beautiful....if we are able to recognize the unity.

Craft & coloring time:

The children were given a sheet with 6 sharks and a ferryman. They colored, labelled all the 6 sharks as mentioned by Sanat kumaras and created an artwork as shown in the sample below.

Geeta Chanting links : @Parents, please help your child practice the following Geeta chanting verses and come to class next time

Verse 47-48: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkO2XPTyhc0&list=PLwv-WSJSokEORu2iEsVanXQhQHOoiiQIy&index=22&t=1s  Complete playlist of Link to all the  verses is here

 

We completed the class  with the pledge and closing prayers.

 

With sincere and warm regards,

Vasudha and Aruna

(Chinmaya Vrindavan Bala Vihar Grade 3 Teachers)