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Balavihar class of 17-Nov-2002

Class

Segment

Teacher

Class details

Toddler

NA

Geeta Chitti

Banu Mahalingam

·          Om and about Saraswathi

·          Show and Tell

·          Snack

·          Review of slokas Saraswathi namastubhyam and Jai Ganesha

·          Amba Bhajans

·          Krishna Bhajan

·          Karagre Vasathe Lakshmi

Pre-K

NA

Indira Samudrala

Vaishali Bhatt

·          3 Oms

·          Name one God and something you know about that god

·          Discussion – God has many names/forms

·          Coloring picture ‘Lord Krishna’

·          Story continuation – Mahabharata- Pandavas (5), Kauravas (101), main character names, mothers Kunti/Gandhari, Uncle Shakuni

·          Slokas

o      Om Sahana Vavatu

o      Ganesha sharanam

o      Jaya Ganesha

o      Gajananam Bhootha ganathi sevitham

KG

Instruction

Usha Avva

·          Substitute teachers Vyjayanti and Kalpana

·          Read a story about the value of friendship and how much fun it is

·          We put music on and played ‘pass the parcel’. When the music stopped whoever had the parcel talked about what friendship and sharing means to them.

·          They drew some pictures about friendship

·          Nex we practiced the play for the 7-Dec program

Bhajan/Sloka

Aparna Nair

·          Karagre Vasathe Lakshmi

·          Om Sahana Vavatu

·          Saraswathi namastubhyam

·          Brahmarpanam

·          Ganesha sharanam

·          Jai Ganesha

Grade 1

Instruction

Pushpa Rao

·          Practice for dance for 7-Dec anniversary program

·          Continuing with alphabets – ‘I’ for Intelligence

·          Told a story on Intelligence

Bhajan/Sloka

Nirmala Rajan

·          Sahana Vavatu

·          Ganesha sharanam

·          Gauri nandana

·          Ajam Nirvikalpam

·          Saraswathi namastubhyam

·          Prem muditha mam se kaho (learnt stanza 3)

Grade 2

Instruction

Sangita Patankar

·          Youth helper Aditi

·          Anniversary program practice with other classes – CDs have been given – Please practice Bhajans and actions at home

·          Aditi held class for 30 minutes about Gurudev’s life story (Sangita had to go to help Kalindi/Manorama’s classes for dance practice)

Bhajan/Sloka

Tara Shamsunder

·          Not available - 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

·          Dress rehearsal on 24-Nov Balavihar

Bhajan/Sloka

Anjani Gharpure

·           

Grade 4

Instruction

Manorama Patel

·          See under grade 3 above – classes were combined

Bhajan/Sloka

Lata Narayan

 

Grade 5

Instruction

Asha Das

·          Hinduism – General ideas

·          Comment : Since the students were at the 7-Dec rehearsal, I had them only for half-an-hour

Bhajan/Sloka

Tara Shamsunder

·          Rehearsal for 7-Dec program

Grade 6

Instruction

Suvarna Gole

·          Practiced two songs for the anniversary program. Each child got  a CD of 2 songs. Please try to memorize at home

·          Mahabharat – Birth of Kauravas

Bhajan/Sloka

Kasturi Iyer

·          Om Sahana Vavatu

·          Om Trayambakam for birthday boy and father

Grade 7 & 8

Instruction

Savithri Raghavan

·          Stories

·          7-Dec program practice

·          four Purushaarthas review

Bhajan/Sloka

Premananda

·          Beginning/Ending slokas

·          New : Lingastakam (verses 4-6)

Grade 9 to 10

Instruction

N.M.Sundar

·          Practicing play for Dec-7 program

Bhajan/Sloka

Radhika Manikonda

 

Grade 11 to 12

Instruction

Amrish Garg

·          Ashwin Kamath spoke on Buddhism

·          Rajan and Ameet described projects

Bhajan/Sloka

Radhika Manikonda

·          Ganesha sharanam

·          Lingastakam – entire 8 verses

·          Tum he ho mata, pita tum he ho (Bhajan)