Hari Om Parents!
Today was the eighteenth class of Balavihar!! 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. The opening prayers were led by one of the kids who chanted 'Om' three times and then chanted Sahana vavatu and we all joined.
2.All kids wore Blue - to represent Krishna's Cowboys for the House Spirit Day!!
3.To introduce kids to the house activity they need to participate in, we asked them to write their name in reverse, which they did. And asked to write a small sentence first and then write the same in reverse. Kids eagerly tried their best and succeeded in writing.
4. Then we introduced the House activity task, and gave them the first sentence, all of us together decoded the first sentence. By this time of the kids got a hang of it.
5. Then we provided each kid one sentence each, and all of the kids were engrossed in decoding the words and forming the correct sentence. At this time the House coordinator joined and watched the kids actively participating.
6. As they solved the first sentence assigned, they were given the next sentence, by this time all of the kids picked up speed and all of the 21 sentences were decoded.
7. Then we asked each kid to read the sentence they coded in the order provided and we all heard the beautiful story of Saint Mirabai and her love and devotion for Lord Krishna and how Lod Krishna always took care of Mirabai. And Mirabai was always engrossed in Krishna's thoughts and wrote beautiful bhajans on Lord Krishna. The House Coordinator asked kids questions from the story and was happy with their responses.
8. We identified one of the kids to represent KG class to read the story in the main Zoom session. And this kid did a wonderful job reading it in the main Zoom session.
9.After this, we read and discussed story of Saint Mirabai and asked kid's specific questions to check what they learnt from the story. All answered the questions enthusiastically and thoroughly enjoyed the activity.
10. Then today's attendance was taken as each kid was logging off to join the main session. In the main session, we heard wonderful stories of the various Saints from the other grades.
It was another wonderful session with kids actively participating and we had full attendance today. Kids did an amazing job in decoding the words and were quick to get a grasp of the activity we needed to do, and we finished unscrambling all the 21 sentences provided for KG in a short time. And sincere thanks to our parents for sitting through the session to help the kids and for their active participation.
Have a wonderful week ahead!!
Pranams
Selvi and Laxmi