12/7/14 class update

Dear parents and children,

On a very cold and a windy day we met after a couple of weeks' Thanksgiving break in Balavihar. 

FYI- next week (14th) in the assembly there will be a Bhagavad Gita quiz in jeopardy style (very simple and basic questions on Gita- sample sent out in emails past week, if missed, please check  http://www.bbnjbalavihar.com/doc/GitaQuizv2.pdf

Please try to be at the school at 9.30 for assembly. It will be nice fun :)

After the assembly, we got together in our classroom for our regular session. We had just 2 children present today. Hope all kids doing well and are staying away from cold and taking care.

We began with the usual opening OM chanting 3 times and did the Gajananam slokam. The two children marveled in reciting the slokam.

Since we had very few strength in class, we had a group class with amrutham. Our children answered questions asked and did a great job coloring! Good job kids, Parents please give them a hi5 from us and from you :)

The Amrutham teacher lead the class with the Saraswathy slokam- Saraswathy namasthubhyam (which we have covered in ours)

Some points about Goddess Saraswathy-

1. Blessing us with Knowledge and teaching us to write and learn

2. Playing musical instrument the Veena

3.Having 4 hands 

4.Holding a book in one of the hands and a mala in another.

5. sitting on a lotus

6. Swan is Her vehicle

We repeated the slokam a couple times and also learned 

Yadevi sarva bhutesu- 

Vidhya roopena samsthithaha-

Namastasyai namastasyai 

Namastasyai- namo namaha- 

Another slokam on saraswathy maata. (this second slokam is a little tricky for our little mouth and young talkers, we will eventually go through these slightly tougher ones towards the end of the school year... by then, they will be familiarized with the prime slokas, learning more is always merrier :)) )

A potty break and then yummy munchkins snack time and then got to color Saraswathy maata pic.

We concluded with the closing prayers and sticker rewards.

Our next class on 12/14/14.

Please send in- 

a box of crayons

water bottle and

a hand sanitizer

Hari OM

Rajesh and Vidhya

Madhuram