class on 9/21/14

Opening the session with OM chanting 3 times. We then recited Gajananam sloka and checked Ganesha's other names hidden in the sloka. (Gajanana, Uma suta) We chanted this in the Circle time. Kids had lots of fun coming to a circle than seated in their chairs.

We learned a new bhajan with action "Come here my dear Ganapathy" We did a couple of lines of the same. Aiming to complete in forth coming classes.

Story time- The writing of mahabharatha story as Mahrishi Vyas Ji says and ganesh Ji writes breaking a single tusk, gaining the name "Eka Danta"

Physical activities included 10 jumping jacks, a couple of deep breathing exercise and striking a tree pose (yoga)

Snack time

Practiced Ganapathy bhajan learned from the morning assembly. Kids learned another Ganesh ji's name "ganapathy" through the song. Aiming to complete it in the forth coming classes.

We would like parents to reinforce the learning at home. At this level, we ask parents to talk to the kids about the story, the balavihar class in general, what they like. 

The parents signed up to take turns bringing snack for the class and we concluded with the closing prayers "poornamadha poornamidam".  

Next Balavihar class on 10/5/14. Happy Dussera everyone.

Thanks

Rajesh and Vidhya

Sept 14, 2014 Class

HariOm,

The Madhuram class (toddlers) is a parent-child classroom. Every session one parent visits and gets to know in and out what's going on in the class.

Class on 9/14/14

We had an introduction as to what "Madhuram" class is all about. This was discussed by the teachers with the parents. We started with a simple Ganesha sloka. (gajananam)

Story time - we told the story of how the Lord gained the name "Eka Danta" through the Mahabharat writing story. 

We also saw the names (Gajanana and Uma suta) hidden in the sloka Gajananam.

Art time - we had the children color a big beautiful Ganesha on paper.

Snack time- we had a short snack time to pep up the toddlers.

We ended with our concluding sloka.

Requirements for forth coming classes:

1. Crayons

2. water bottle

3. hand sanitizer (to cleanse before the snack time)

Next session 9/21/14

- Teachers: Vidhya Aiyer and Rajesh Ramamoorthy