6/14/2015

Our last class of this Balavihar year.
We had an early assembly, where we had our Dear Swami Ji joining us and blessed us. There was a beautiful Graduation ceremony. About 8 12th graders graduated from balavihar this year and they were honored. Followed by all the teachers were felicitated. Then we had few presentations by Language classes, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Sanskrit. It was so nice to see all these programs and we then proceeded to our classes.

As usual, we started with OM chanting 3 times and followed by the slokas we learned this year- Gajananam, Saraswathy namasthubyam, Guru Brahma Guru Vishnu, Sivam Sivakaram and Sarva mangala. Each and every child did an awesome job by chanting and reciting all the slokas.
We are so proud of all of you, children!

We then had a potty break and then had a nice end of year party with chocolate chip cookies, juice and lolly pops!
The parents expressed their happiness and how they have started liking the balavihar as the year progressed. We are extremely thankful to everyone of them.

The children gave all of us warm good bye hugs before leaving. We concluded with the closing Prayers- Poornamadha poornamidham.

We hope to see our present Madhuram families to come back in fall and be a part of Balavihar in the coming year as well.

Take care. Have a great Summer.
Hari OM

Regards
Rajesh Ramamoorthy
Vidhya Aiyer

6/7/2015

On June 7th, the Kindergartners and the 8th graders did class presentations at the morning assembly. 

After which we got to our classes and started our regular routine with OM chant 3 times and then followed by Ganesa slokam, Saraswathy slokam and Guru slokam one after the other in a fast manner. Then we slowed down for the Siva and the Parvathy slokam. The 4 kids who were present that day, did a remarkable job by saying loud and clear and with enthusiasm.

We did some yoga and some fun physical activities- the jumping jack was real fun. We also learned the tree pose is called the vruksha pose. Tree is Vruksha in Sanskrit. 

We then got to our seat to color a beautiful Siva Parvathy image. The kids outsmarted each other in coloring. Good job children! proud of all of you!

A little walk stretch in the hallway for a potty break and got back with clean hands to much the yummy snacks, given by Sidhu. Thank you Sidhu.

Rajesh uncle, then shared an interesting story from the Mahabharatha. Dronacharya teaching the princes the archery, and about focusing the target- shoot an arrow/aim at the birds' eye. This was the base taken by the 8th graders and presented in a contemporary way!

At the end of the session, we concluded with the closing prayers- The shanthi mantra. Kids were given sticker rewards.

Next class on the 14th is our last Balavihar for this School year and we hope to see all of you and go into summer. The assembly starts at 9 AM that day and we request everyone to please come by 8.45 and take seats in the auditorium. There are a few programs lined up after which we get a few minutes in our class.

We hope all children will get back to Balavihar this fall- with the Madhuram (the sweetness) they have, they seem all set to enter the Amrutham. (the nectar)

Sweetness from this year to more sweetness of the nectar coming year, will make them happy and inclined towards building rapport with the mankind as Hinduism preaches.

Hari OM

Thank you.

Best Regards

Rajesh Ramamoorthy

Vidhya Aiyer

Madhuram teachers