December 2nd, 2012 Class Journal

PreK  Class Journal - Teachers: Ramya and Sandhya

The class started with the prayers and shlokas.

Prayers/Shlokas

OM (3 times)
Om Sahanavavathu - Learned the meaning of this prayer.
Karaagre Vasate Lakhsmi (Early morning prayer to say each morning after waking up)
• Shuklabaradaram - first verse
  

Bhajans

• Ganesha Sharanam (first god to pray)

  

Yoga

The kids had a great time doing yoga.

Tree pose
 windmill
quiet mouse
lion pose, butterfly, bird, candle

Story 

Acted out Ramayana - repeating so as to make the story very familiar

Meditation

We practiced breathing deeply in and out with the proper posture and hand pose (three fingers straight and the thumb +forefinger in a circle)

SanskritWe covered the basic colors - red, yellow, green, blue, black, white

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K Class Journal

Today we combined K and 1st grade class as Deepa aunty and Meenakshi aunty were out.

Beginning Prayers : Shanti path Om Sahanavavatu

Daily Prayers : All

Gurustrotram : First two lines of Gurustrotram

Bhagvat Geeta chanting : First two lines

Sanskrit : Naming Colors and letters

Bhajan : Shree Ganaraya ,Subramanyam,Subramanyam

Yoga

Meditations

Story/lesson :

We learned letter C for cleanliness. Today we learned about cleanliness. We learned that it is important keep surroundings and body clean but more important is to keep mind clean. We discussed how our mind gets dirty and ways to keep mind clean. Vedant asked how to clean mind which is already dirty. We discussed only one technique use of Japa, importance of Llikhit japa. Next balavihar we will learn other techniques.

We thank Swati auntee for volunteering today .