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Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.
- Swami Chinmayananda
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Dec 20, 2019 - Sishu Vihar (Friday)

HariOm Parents,

Hope you all are having a wonderful weekend and gearing up for Christmas/New Year Celebration. Our class started with opening prayers (3 Oms followed by Sahana Bhavtu), stretches and yoga. In this class we learned a new pose called Turtle pose and we will continue it in next class as well.
 As a class, we did the following:
 Chanted/repeated the below 3 chants
o   Om Sri Ganeshaya namaha, 
o   Om Sri Saraswathye namaha, 
o   Om Sri Sat Gurubyoh namaha
 Reinforced – Saraswati Namastubhyam and Karaagre
Saraswati Namastubhyam

Sarasvati Namastubhyam Varade Kaama-Ruupinni |
Vidyaarambham Karissyaami Siddhir-Bhavatu Me Sadaa ||

Karaagre
Karaagre Vasate Lakssmih Karamule Sarasvati |
Karamadhyae Tu Govindah Prabhaate Karadarshanam ||

Recited following two Bhajan
Subrahmanyam Subrahmanyam
> Shanmukhanatha Subrahmanyam
Subrahmanyam Sai Naatha Subrahmanyam
Shiva Shiva Shiva Shiva Subrahmanyam
> Hara Hara Hara Hara Subrahmanyam
Shiva Shiva Hara Hara Subrahmanyam
> Hara Hara Shiva Shiva Subrahmanyam
Shiva Sharavanabhava Subrahmanyam
> Guru Saravanabhava Subrahmanyam
Shiva Shiva Hara Hara Subrahmanyam
> Hara Hara Shiva Shiva Subrahmanyam

O Great God Ganapati

Great God Ganapati, I bow to Thee,
Elephant faced one, I bow to Thee,
Delight of Lord Shiva, I take refuge in Thee,
O big Belly Son of Mother Parvati,
Infinite Om, Oh I bow to Thee,
You ride on a mouse and Win Victory.

Story 

We learnt about a hardworking and honest boy who was a woodcutter and how fairy helped him finding his axe and gave him golden and silver axe for his honesty.

Activities 

We did a fairy craft. 

We played Color game in Sanskrit and also played Krishan vadati. 

Please practice  Chapter 1 verse 1,2 ,3, 4 and you can use following google drive  

We completed our class by closing prayer.

Our next class will be on Jan 3rd 2020 and until then we wish you Merry Christmas and a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2020!!!!

Unto him our best,

Priya, Sirisha and Sanjay