Balavihar class of 9-Mar-2003
Class	Segment	Teacher	Class Details
Toddler	N/A	Geeta Chitti Uma Shankar	Om 3 times Revised Identification of different gods Talked about Shiva and identification of Shiva linga and Trishul Craft - Made a Trishul and talked about the Trishul Bhajan/slokas Karagre Vasathe Lakshmi Saraswathi Om Namas Shivaya (Bhajan) - 3 times Asatoma Sadgamaya
Pre-K	N/A	Indira Samudrala Vaishali Bhatt	3 OMs - Om Sahana Vavatu Ganesha sharanam Jaya Ganesha Gajananam bootha ganathi sevitham Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu New sloka - Saraswathi Namastubhyam Lesson - "Telling the truth" - discuss 'why is it important', everyone gives an example of truth and when they told it Story - "Telling the truth", "The boy who cried wolf" Questions to review points of the story Why is it wrong to lie? How do you feel when you tell the truth? Discuss : body, family, earth, the snow, world, water, air, food, rain, animals, plants, sky, moon
K	Instruction	Usha Avva	Youth helper Hardevi Shah Sita and Rama Vanavasam Who is Guru? Why we say Gurubhyo Namah?
	Bhajan/Sloka	Aparna Nair	Ganesha sharanam Jaya Ganesha Gauri Nandana Om Shiva Om Shiva All 5 daily prayers 1st sloka from Geeta Karma Yoga (chapter 3)
Grade 1	Instruction	Pushpa Rao	Youth helper Shravani We continued with the alphabets : 'T' for Truth and 'U' for Unity We told many stories The children also related their experiences with Truth and Unity 'Unity' - We tried to build a home with cards and told them to work in a group
	Bhajan/Sloka	Nirmala Rajan	Om Sahana Vavatu Ajam Nirvikalpam Prema muditha Om Shiva Om Shiva Atmarama Anandaramana New : Radhe Radhe Govinda - 'My Prayers' page 60 New : Gopala Gopala - page 53
Grade 2	Instruction	Sangita Patankar	Youth helper Aditi Daily Prayers Importance and significance of 'Holi' Interview for Yearbook Coloring activity
	Bhajan/Sloka	Tara Shamsunder	Gajanana Geeta chapter-3 slokas 1-4
Grade 3	Instruction	Kalindi Shah	Youth helper Kavita Ragavan Value for the day - 'Forgiveness' Why do we say 'Namaste' in Hindu culture? Symbolism of Shri Krishna Krishna's dark-blue color and yellow clothes
	Bhajan/Sloka	Anjani Gharpure	Shri Guru stothram, slokas 1-14 Geeta chapter-3 slokas 1 to 4
Grade 4	Instruction	Manorama Patel	Youth helper Preeta Ragavan Forgiveness and Vanity - discussion, examples from kids and stories
	Bhajan/Sloka	Lata Narayan	Bhagwad Gita chapter-3 (Karma Yoga) verses 1-2 Guru stothram verses 1 to 14 Hari Bolo Hari Bolo - revision Subramanyam Subramanyam - revision
Grade 5	Instruction	Asha Das	Mirabai
	Bhajan/Sloka	Tara Shamsunder	Gajanana He Jagat tratha Geeta chapter-3 slokas 1 to 5
Grade 6	Instruction	Kasturi Iyer	Introduction to Geeta chanting competition - explain why we chant Geeta, format of the competition We reviewed significance of Shiva linga Collected the Likhita japam from the children Holy places in India and USA Homework : Memorize 3 verses from the handout. Also suggest parents to buy Swami Brahmananda's tapes
	Bhajan/Sloka	Suvarna Gole	Ganesha sharanam Om Sahana Vavatu ('My Prayers' page 6) Geeta dhyanam page 14-18 Homework : Memorize Geeta dhyanam page 14-18 of 'My Prayers'
Grade 7	Instruction	Savithri Ragavan	We had the interviews in class for the Yearbook Worked on Balavihar journal Practical application of values
	Bhajan/Sloka	Premananda Kamath	Beginning prayers Geeta Dhyanam Geeta chapter 3 verses 5-10 Ending prayers
Grade 8	Instruction	Vish Murthy	What are the Vedas and is there any knowledge in them? (Answering critics)
	Bhajan/Sloka	Chetana Giyanani	Guru Stotram Humko Man Ki Shakti Dena
Grade 9 and 10	Instruction	N.M.Sundar
	Bhajan/Sloka	Radhika Manikonda
Grade 11 and 12	Instruction	Amrish Garg
	Bhajan/Sloka	Radhika Manikonda