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Children are not vessels to be filled but lamps to be lit.
- Swami Chinmayananda
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Jun 5, 2020 - Grade 4 (Friday)

HariOm Parents,

We had a great Friday with all your children. It was the BEST day for our class. All the children prayers were answered when we got a chance to do our monthly program to a group of

We were all dressed in beautiful costumes. Thank you to all the parents who dressed the children up so wonderfully and that too in such a short notice and the untiring effort of Viji aunty in working and preparing the children. All excited we started our class 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 children had screen time as we called out one child to lead one shloka

a.       Karagrevasathe Lakshmi

b.       Gangecha yamunechaiva

c.       Saraswati namstubyam

d.       Brahmarpanam

e.       Subhamkaroti kalyanam

f.        Karacharana kratamvaak

g.       Kayenavacha manasaindriyeyva


2. Practise of the play and recording the play : As per plan we did our final rehearsal of the virtual zoom session of the play.

3. Movie night : We all watched together the Krishna story for nearly 30 minutes but soon we had to join the combined zoom session to attend the monthly program.

4. Monthly program : We then logged into monthly program as we watched the Grade 1 play Bala Ramayana followed by our recording. 

Please make sure to enjoy the magazines which are now available online for the children http://ebalavihar.chinmayamission.com/

Please do register for the online summer camp. This is a 2 month program June 15 to August 15 where the children are guided by Acharya/Swamiji's and Brahmacharins. Timing is 11 AM to 1 PM EST. Every day starts with yoga followed by Satsang where the topic of the year is "Mahabharata" followed by other activities depending on the day. For details please click on the link https://cmdfw.z2systems.com/np/clients/cmdfw/event.jsp?event=1528&

Pranaam,
Meena and Viji