Wishing you all a very Happy New Year!!!!. I hope you all got some much-needed break and staying safe and healthy. We are all very excited to be back in action for the New year and have some fun things planned for our kids for the remaining part of this balavihar year. Our Jan 9th class was a bit light due to next week's holiday and getting back to routine. We just recapped our teachings and conducted a knowledge quiz on concepts learned so far. We also went through the upcoming Makar Sankranti festival details and discussed how several Indian states celebrate it so differently from Lohri to Pongal to Bihu to Uttarayan.
We also showed the class a video speech by Pujya Gurudev talking about Hindu culture. Our constant dialogue with kids is to be proud of who they are and embrace their ethnicity, culture and their rich heritage. We also went through talking about how sometimes, things are just imposed on us to follow but Hinduism is rather, a way of life which you can question, debate and yet will come back to you to follow it. We sincerely hope these critical messages are absorbed and stay with them as they are growing up.
As a reminder there will be no class on Sunday Jan 16th so we will resume on the 23rd . If you have any questions, please feel free to email us.