HariOm Parents,
Happy New Year 2020!!
We had a wonderful Friday yesterday with all your children. As we had children coming in we got the children start the day with Likhita Japa.
Thank you for making sure quite a few children started doing Likhita Japa at home. We will continue collecting the sheets filled with Likhita Japa so our team Krishnas cowboys points. Please turn in once the sheet has likhita japa done both sides of the pages. Japa also helps them focus and relaxes them. So, this is a good daily routine they can practise every evening for 10 mins.
We then proceeded to our routine. We said Om 3 times and then starting class with our Opening Prayers(Om Sahanavavatu).
1. Chanting My Prayers: Since all the kids who attended 3rd grade were already taught the My Daily Prayers we chanted it. For the benefit of the newcomers, the Daily prayers are in My Prayers Pg,11 of green book. The following are the shlokas
a. Karagrevasathe Lakshmi
b. Gangecha yamunechaiva
c. Saraswati namstubyam
d. Brahmarpanam
e. Subhamkaroti kalyanam
f. Karacharana kratamvaak
g. Kayenavacha manasaindriyeyva
We are near the half year mark of the year session and our children are not yet good to go with their Krishnaashtakam and Bhagawat Gita. So, we decided to spend more time on shlokas today.
Krishnashtakam : We chanted it 5 times chanting 2 shlokas at a time so we get our pronounciation our flow and also get ready to practise at home with the flow. We did notice handful of kids about 4/5 children who knew the shloka memorised. We need everyone to have it memorised the 2 shlokas that we are doing this year along with Bhagawat Gita. Children who are having problems please meet us before class so we can help.
Bhagawat Gita : We chanted first 8 verses of Bhagawat Gita. 4 verses at a time for 5 times. We then recorded the 8 verses 4 at a time so we Krishna cowboys start getting points for our team. This is the way we are encouraging in the class and enabling the kids who cannot attend gita special class to learn gita and also be prepared to participate in the competition. Please follow through with them on memorising Gita at home.
Once they start having the yearning to do it. They will do it automatically. So, please play the youtube playlist everyday even if they dont sit and chant everyday. Listening will help. Another great time is when you are driving in the car.
3. Bhagawat Gita : We did Bhagawat Gita chanting verse 17 and 18. Please bookmark Swamiji's Bhagawat Gita teaching videos. Please chant regularly. Bookmark the youtube video
4. Mangala Arati : Last week as they chanted aarati and pledge at the temple we realised lot of kids have trouble singing Mangala arati. So, we decided to sing in class mangala arati so we can teach them and we can help with pronounciation of the bhajan.
This week we did not do any lesson from our syllabus so that children do other parts of the syllabus Shloka/Bhajan/Aarti. Please try and insist on practise atleast Saturday and Sunday if you dont do it everyday of the week. This will make sure they are ready for Shlokathon and Gita competition at end of year.
Next Balavihar will be on 1/10/2010.
Pranaam,
Meena and Viji
