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Balavihar class of 27-Apr-2003
Class Segment Teacher Class Details
Toddler N/A Geeta Chitti
Uma Shankar
  • Played 'passing the parcel'
  • Story of cats and monkey
  • Karagre vasathe lakshmi
  • Saraswathi namastubhyam
  • Om Namas shivaya (bhajan)
  • Asathoma sadgamaya
  • Ambabajami
Pre-K N/A Indira Samudrala
Vaishali Bhatt
  • 3 OMs
  • Om Sahana Vavatu
  • Jaya Ganesha
  • Ganesha sharanam
  • Gajananam bootha ganathi sevitham
  • Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu
  • Saraswathi Namastubhyam
  • Practice Gita chapter 3 verses 1-4
  • Do 6 Krishna conquest puzzles in pairs (rotate each puzzle so that each kid gets a chance to do each puzzle one time)
K Instruction Usha Avva
  • Made Mother's Day planter
Bhajan/Sloka Aparna Nair
  • Om Sahanavavatu
  • Ganesha sharanam, Jai Ganesha
  • Gauri nandana
  • Om shiva Om shiva
  • Subramanyam
  • Ayodhya vasi Ram
Grade 1 Instruction Pushpa Rao
  • Youth helper Shravani
  • We did Balakanda of the Ramayana and told the story of Rama's childhood until Rama marries Sita.
  • We did a Ramayana quiz in the class. The children responded well
  • Shravani did an activity - We talked about what bad qualities Ravana has and contrasted them with Rama's good qualities. Then we hit a model of Ravana with paper air planes. Each head had a bad quality written on it. the hitting of each head represented the killing of the quality.
Bhajan/Sloka Nirmala Rajan
  • Gauri Nandana
  • Ajam Nirvikalpam
  • Atmarama Anandaramana
  • Om Shiva
  • Gopala Gopala
  • Radhe Radhe (completed)
  • Aditi (a student) taught 'Hari Bol' to the class
Grade 2 Instruction Sangita Patankar
  • Daily prayers
  • Swami Chinmayananda - life story
  • Letter writing
Bhajan/Sloka Tara Shamsunder
  • Sri Ganeshaya Namah
  • Geeta chapter-3 slokas 1-16 twice, practiced 14-16
  • Adi shesha ananta shayana
  • Dehi dehi sharada
Grade 3 Instruction Kalindi Shah
  • Youth helper Kavita Ragavan
  • Krishna symbolism - Krishna's name, blue color and flute
  • Mother's day : Divine mother in the from of Mother durga, Lakshmi and Saraswati. Mother's role in our life. Essay on "The best mother in the world"
Bhajan/Sloka Anjani Gharpure
  • Guru stothram
  • Guru Nam Sankirtanam ('My Prayers' page 98)
  • Page 94 concluding slokas
  • Keyena vacha
  • Om Asatoma Sadgamaya
Grade 4 Instruction Manorama Patel
  • Values - review
  • Stretching
  • Ahimsa - non-injury, non-violence, story
  • Activity
Bhajan/Sloka Lata Narayan
  • Om sahana vavatu
  • Gajanana he gajavadana
  • Gurustothram (verses 1 - 14)
  • Murali manohara radheshyam
  • Shri Shiva panchakshari stothram
  • Lingastakam (verses 1-4)
  • Geeta chanting chap-3, verses 1-13 (review), 14-17 learnt today
Grade 5 Instruction Asha Das
  • Tyagaraja
Bhajan/Sloka Tara Shamsunder
  • Sri Ganeshaya Namaha
  • Dehi dehi sharada
  • Geeta chanting chapter-3 - chanted 1-20, learnt 21-25f
Grade 6 Instruction Kasturi Iyer
Bhajan/Sloka Suvarna Gole
Grade 7 Instruction Savithri Ragavan
  • Discussion (contd.) on karma yoga concepts
  • Karma yoga crossword puzzle
Bhajan/Sloka Premananda Kamath
  • Beginning prayers
  • Ganesha sthavam
  • Geeta chapter 3 verses 26-30
  • Ending prayers
Grade 8 Instruction Vish Murthy
  • Method of "deconstruction" using Mahabharata 'Subha Parva"
Bhajan/Sloka Chetana Giyanani
  • Gurustothram
  • Gayatri mantra
  • Kauna bataye
  • Ham mo man ki shakti
  • Shanti path
Grade 9 and 10 Instruction N.M.Sundar
  • Substitute teacher Ameet Bhatt
  • Book "Introduction to Hindu culture" chapter 17
  • Characters of Mahabharata - Dhirtarashtra
Bhajan/Sloka Radhika Manikonda
  • Atma nivasi Ram
  • Guru stothram
  • Bhagwad Geeta chap-3 - practiced 5/31/2003 competition
Grade 11 and 12 Instruction Amrish Garg
  • Swamiji's discussion on "Yoga and Meditation"
Bhajan/Sloka Radhika Manikonda
  • Poorna madha