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Balavihar class of 10-Nov-2002

Class

Segment

Teacher

Class details

Toddler

NA

Geeta Chitti

Banu Mahalingam

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Pre-K

NA

Indira Samudrala

Vaishali Bhatt

·          3 Oms

·          Draw a picture of what we did on Diwali + tell everyone what we did (Hopefully answers 1) Clean our room 2) Wear new clothes 3) Share sweets 4) Light lamps 5) Go to temple or do puja (Laxmi) 6) Rangoli on doorstep

·          Om Sahana Vavatu

·          Ganesha sharanam

·          Jaya Ganesha

·          New sloka today – Gajananam Bhootha Ganathi Sevitham

·          Color picture : Ram/Sita weddin

·          Story time 1) Ram – Shiva’s bow and marriage with Sita 2) Gopal the Invincible – about young Krishna – demon slayer

·          3 Oms

KG

Instruction

Usha Avva

·          Substitute teachers Vaijayanti and Kalpana

·          Om Art work

·          Ramayana play practice – 2 times

Bhajan/Sloka

Aparna Nair

·          Karagre Vasathe Lakshmi

·          Om Sahana Vavatu

·          Saraswathi namastubhyam

·          Brahmarpanam

·          Ganesha sharanam

·          Jai Ganesha

Grade 1

Instruction

Pushpa Rao

·          Continuing with alphabets – ‘H’ for Health, Happiness, Honesty

·          We asked the children to draw a picture regarding the words

·          We told a story about honesty

·          We are trying to learn the Chinmaya Mission pledge

Bhajan/Sloka

Nirmala Rajan

·          Sahana Vavatu

·          Ganesha sharanam

·          Ajam Nirvikalpam

·          Prem muditha mam se kaho (stanzas 1 and 2 from page 67 in ‘My prayers’)

Grade 2

Instruction

Sangita Patankar

·          Substitute teacher Jayanthi Basavanahally

·          Youth helper Aditi

·          Purandaradasa – How Srinivasa Nayak realized his greedy ways and became a changed man and spread his message of devotion to God through music

Bhajan/Sloka

Tara Shamsunder

·          Practiced with Suvarna and Tara for Dec-7 function

Grade 3

Instruction

Kalindi Shah

·          Combined with grade 4th to practice patriotic song for Dec-7 anniversary function

Bhajan/Sloka

Anjani Gharpure

·           

Grade 4

Instruction

Manorama Patel

·          See under grade 3 above – classes were combined

Bhajan/Sloka

Lata Narayan

·          Om Sahana Vavatu

·          Guru stothram – 8 slokas

·          Daily prayers

Grade 5

Instruction

Asha Das

·          Adi Shankaracharya

Bhajan/Sloka

Tara Shamsunder

·          Rehearsal for 7-Dec program

Grade 6

Instruction

Suvarna Gole

·          Practice for Anniversary program a) ‘Great God Ganapati’ b) ’Pahadi’ song – hailing the birth of Bhagwan Krishna. We will put the words for this on the web. Please have your child memorize these songs

·          Review with children – Dipawali

·          Mahabharat Chapter 3 – 1st para

·          Homework – Research significance of Kashi – the holy city

Bhajan/Sloka

Kasturi Iyer

·          Om Sahana Vavatu

·          Om trayambakam

Grade 7 & 8

Instruction

Savithri Raghavan

·          The four ‘Purushaarthas’ : Dharma, Artha, Kaama and Moksha (definition/discussion)

·          Exercise : Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘Seven Social Sins’

·          Devanagri alphabets

 

Bhajan/Sloka

Premananda

·          Beginning/Ending slokas

·          New : Lingastakam (first three verses)

Grade 9 to 10

Instruction

N.M.Sundar

·          Practicing play for Dec-7 program

Bhajan/Sloka

Radhika Manikonda

·          Lingastakam – 8 verses

·          Atmanivasi Ram

Grade 11 to 12

Instruction

Amrish Garg

·          Sushil Sikha spoke on Taoism

Bhajan/Sloka

Radhika Manikonda

·          Ganesha sharanam

·          Atmanivasi Ram

·          Prema muditha manse kaho

·          Lingastakam – entire 8 verses