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Balavihar class of 12-May-2002

Class

Segment

Teacher

Class details

Toddler

NA

Vaishali Bhatt

Geeta Chitti

·          Three OMs

·          Review : What have you learnt in Balavihar

·          Mother’s day – What did they do already to celebrate and what will you do later?

·          Sloka ‘Shuklam baradaram’, ‘Gajananm bootha ganathi sevitham’

·          Discussion - ‘Why are moms important?’

·          Draw pictures on blackboard – explain your picture, what did you draw?

·          Make cards for Mom – drawing/coloring

·          Story – “The magic cat”

·          Snack time

·          Pictures – Gods and goddesses – identify

·          Alphabet review : A to Q, R = Rama, S = Sita, T = Temple

·          Three OMs

Pre-K/KG

Instruction

Pushpa Rao

·          We talked about our mother and discussed about Mother’s day

·          We discussed the letter ‘M’ in our alphabet song

·          We colored two pictures for our Ramayana booklet

Bhajan/Sloka

Nirmala Rajan

·          Sahana Vavatu

·          Sarva mangala Mangalye

·          We said and repeated the full Maatrustavanam

Grade 1& 2

Instruction

Sangita Patankar

·          Mother’s day celebration and congratulations to Geeta chanting participants

·          Made mother’s day gifts

·          Matrustothram – sang and told meaning

Bhajan/Sloka

Radhika Manikonda

·          Ganesha sharanam

·          Saraswathi namastubhyam

·          Akhanda mandalakaram

·          Kayena vaacha and meaning

·          Hari Bol and Subramanyam group competition

Grade 3 &4

Instruction

Manorama Patel

·          Quiz on Lakshman and crossword puzzle

Bhajan/Sloka

Lata Narayan

·          Guru stothram

·          Bhajans from ‘My Prayers’

·          Rama nama sankirtanam

Grade 5

Instruction

Asha Das

·          Sri Ramji and Gautam Buddha

Bhajan/Sloka

Tara Shamsunder

·          Ganesha Stothram

·          Guru stothram

·          Dashavatara stothram

·          Geeta Chapter 15

Grade 6

Instruction

Suvarna Gole

·          Mother’s day – prepared a craft gift for mom

·          ‘My Prayers’ page 47 – Prayer to mother – recitation and meaning

·          Reminder – To the next class Please bring the ‘OM Shivayah namah’ and ‘Shri Rama jaya Ram’ that the children wrote

Bhajan/Sloka

Kasturi Iyer

·          OM Sahana Vavatu

·          Ganesha sharanam

Grade 7 & 8

Instruction

Dilip Gole

·          Meditation

·          Mother’s day promissory note

Bhajan/Sloka

Savitri Raghavan

·          Vishnu Sahasranaamam – verses 36-45 

Grade 9 to 10

Instruction

N.M.Sundar

Class combined with Grade 11-12 class

Bhajan/Sloka

Bharati Badrinath

Grade 11 to 12

Instruction

Amrish Garg

Sundar N.M

Ameet Bhatt

·          ‘Growing up in America as an Indian youth’ – part 2 by Ameet Bhatt

·          Expectation of kids for parents and kids for themselves

Bhajan/Sloka

Bharati Badrinath

·          Guru stothram