Latest Balavihar class of 16-Mar-2003
Class	Segment	Teacher	Class Details
Toddler	N/A	Geeta Chitti Uma Shankar
Pre-K	N/A	Indira Samudrala Vaishali Bhatt	3 OMs Ganesha sharanam Jaya Ganesha Gajananam bootha ganathi sevitham Om Sahana Vavatu Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu Saraswathi Namastubhyam Aarti and pledge done in class Class picture taken Story : Festival of Holi, celebration with color, story of Prahlad, characters - Brahmadev, Hiranyakasipu, Prahlad, Vishnu, Holika (is why we celebrate Holi) Discussion of incarnation of Narasimha Kids acted out the story after we told them the details of the plot. They enjoyed being actors today!! They learnt that Prahlad never forgot God (Vishnu) and was his loyal disciple
K	Instruction	Usha Avva
	Bhajan/Sloka	Aparna Nair
Grade 1	Instruction	Pushpa Rao	Some children did show and tell regarding Krishna We told a story about Krishna We colored a picture of Babay Krishna We did aarti and pledge in the class
	Bhajan/Sloka	Nirmala Rajan	Om Sahana Vavatu Ganesha sharanam Atmarama Anandaramana Om Shiva Om Shiva Radhe Radhe Govinda verses 1 and 2 - 'My Prayers' page 60 Geeta chapter 3 verses 1&2
Grade 2	Instruction	Sangita Patankar	Script writing Story of Holi Pictures of class were taken Aarti and Pledge
	Bhajan/Sloka	Tara Shamsunder	Gajanana Geeta chapter-3 slokas 5-8
Grade 3	Instruction	Kalindi Shah
	Bhajan/Sloka	Anjani Gharpure
Grade 4	Instruction	Manorama Patel	Youth helper Preeta Ragavan Steadfast - Discussed and each child described their experience with the value
	Bhajan/Sloka	Lata Narayan	Bhagwad Gita chapter-3 (Karma Yoga) verses 3-5 Gajanana Guru stothram Subramanyam Subramanyam Shri Shiva Panchaksharee stothram verses 1-4 Brahma murari surarchita lingam verses 1-3
Grade 5	Instruction	Asha Das	Mirabai
	Bhajan/Sloka	Tara Shamsunder	Gajanana He Jagat tratha Geeta chapter-3 slokas 6 to 10
Grade 6	Instruction	Kasturi Iyer	Mahabharatha Chapter 10 Distributed prizes for Likhita japam Reminder to do likhita japam due June-2003 Further discussion on Varanasi Brief mention of Bali's Hindu heritage Aaarti
	Bhajan/Sloka	Suvarna Gole	Om Sahana Vavatu and meaning Jai Ganesha Shri Gurustothram Geeta chanting - recited chapter 3 verses 1-3. Also practiced verses 4-6 Geeta dhyanam (page 14-18) Chant verses 1-9 from handout, meaning of verse 4 - description of the knowledge contained in Geeta using analogy of cow, milk ahd Shree Krishna Discussion of Holi festival
Grade 7	Instruction	Savithri Ragavan	Mind, Intellect Traning the mind and the three paths Devanaagari consonants Activity : Identifying class members' names in Devanaagari, values crossword
	Bhajan/Sloka	Premananda Kamath	Beginning prayers Geeta chapter 3 verses 11-15 Ending prayers Aarti/Pledge
Grade 8	Instruction	Vish Murthy	Continuation of "Is there knowledge in Vedas?" Looked at time-cycles, geology, language
	Bhajan/Sloka	Chetana Giyanani	Gurustotram Hamko Man Ki Shakti Dena Hari Bol Hari Bol Aarti Pledge
Grade 9 and 10	Instruction	N.M.Sundar
	Bhajan/Sloka	Radhika Manikonda
Grade 11 and 12	Instruction	Amrish Garg	Swami Shantanandaji talked on Yoga
	Bhajan/Sloka	Radhika Manikonda	Prem Mudit Man Se Kaho