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Balavihar class of 16-Sept-2001

Class

Segment

Teacher

Class details

Toddler

NA

Vaishali Bhatt

Geeta Chitti

·          Art project – make cards with pictures of Gurudev and Krishna

·          Prayer – how do we sit and pray, why do we pray, Gayatri mantra and lighting of lamp

·          Gayatri Mantra recitation

Pre-K/KG

Instruction

Pushpa Rao

·          Discussed Lord Ganesha and stories related to him

·          Ganesha related craft

Bhajan/Sloka

Nirmala Rajan

·           

Grade 1& 2

Instruction

Sangita Patankar

·          Swami Shantanandaji visits class

·          Last weeks knowledge brush-up

·          Alphabets ‘B’ for ‘Brotherhood’

·          Good qualities – story of Bharat

·          First 2 slokas from ‘daily Prayers’

·          Shanti mantra

Bhajan/Sloka

Radhika Manikonda

·          Ganesha slokam and Bhajan

·          Saraswathi slokam

·          Guru stothram

·          Subramanyam stothram

·          Rama Bhajan

Grade 3 &4

Instruction

Manorama Patel

·          Two minute silence for tragic events

·          Review of last class - Dasaratha

·          Laughter – Garden of Life, medicine, keeps our mood,spirit

·          Talked about children’s feelings about tragic events

Bhajan/Sloka

Lata Narayan

·          Hari OM

·          Ganesha Bhajan

·          Nama Sankeertanam

·          Krishna and Radhe Bhajan

·          Shiva Bhajan

·          Rama Bhajan

·          Shanti Path

Grade 5

Instruction

Asha Das

·          King Dasaratha and characters from Ramayana

Bhajan/Sloka

Tara Shamsunder

·          Ganesha stotra – pronunciation

Grade 6

Instruction

Suvarna Gole

·          Recap of last week

·          Mahabharat Chapter 1-3

·          Symbolism of ‘Ganesha’

Bhajan/Sloka

Kasturi Iyer

·          Ganesha bhajan

·          Madhurastakam

·          Guru stothram

Grade 7 & 8

Instruction

Dilip Gole

·          Hinduism continued

·          Dharma

·          Satsang

Bhajan/Sloka

Savitri Raghavan

·          Acquaint students with beginning prayers to be recited at every class (handout given)

·          Sri Ganesha Pacharatnam (handout given)

Grade 9 to 12

Instruction

Amrish Garg

·          Why Bhagwad Geeta?

·          Geeta Chapter 1 (review)

·          Geeta Chapter 2 (review)

·          Benefits of prayer

Bhajan/Sloka

Bharati Badrinath

·          Subramanyam  Subramanyam

·          Ganesha sharanam

·          Akhanda mandalakaram