April 7th, 2013 Balavihar Class Journal

PreK  Class Journal - Teachers: Sandhya & Ramya

The class started with the prayers and shlokas.

Prayers/Shlokas

·         OM (3 times)

·     Om Sahanavavathu

·     Karagre vasathe

Bhajans

·         Ganesha Sharanam

·         Subramaniyam Subramaniyam (pg 51)

·         Ganapati Ganapati 

Yoga

The kids practiced their usual yoga steps.

·  Tree pose

·   windmill

·   candle

·   lion

·   crane

·  quiet mouse

Three Gods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEnEDoXGkyg&feature=player_embedded

Story

We read Krishna's Butter Bash and had the kids act out parts with pieces of other slokas/bhajans they've been learning... i.e. when Krishan woke up, we added in a part about how he says "karagre vasathe", they pretended to tiptoe into a Gopi's house to steal butter, etc.

K  Class Journal - Teachers: Harshala

3xOm

Shanti Paath( Om Sahanavavatu

Gurustrotram 5 verses.

Bhajan( shree Ganaraya ,Subramaniyam)

Writing Ram ( Devanagari script ) 11 times as likhit japa

Writing Sanskrit vowels on dictation

Play practice 2 times.

Meditation

we could not have lesson on N as students needed lot of help with writing Sanskrit vowels. 

Please practice at home so more novel fun activities can be done in the classroom.