Balavihar Week 11- Section 2

Happy New Year!

We began class by chanting 3 oms and sahaanaavavatu. We then proceeded to have 5 minutes of meditation time.

We continued by learning the last 3 slokas of Guru Stotram.

Next we reviewed Bhagavad Gita chanting slokas 1-7. We then learned the new slokas 8-9. Please encourage your children to keep up the good word and practice/memorize at home!


We also all sang the bhajan Radhe Radhe together.

During story time today, we learned the story of King Prthu, a descendent of Dhruva. His kingdom had an abundance of everything, but the people were only interested in partying, eating, dancing, and having fun. Thus, the kingdom slowly lost all their luxuries, including food and water. Seeing the plight of his kingdom, King Prthu prayed to mother Earth. She advised him the plough the land. Once everyone started doing that, they land started providing vegetables and and herbs again, giving all the citizens what they wanted.

To review the previous stories we learned, we played a game where the class was split into 2 groups. Then Indira Aunty and Sanjana Didi gave each group questions to answer from the past stories and the kids had a limited amount of time to discuss and tell us the correct answer. The kids proved that they really know the stories quite well and answered all the questions!

The children continued writing Sri Krishna Saranam Mama in their new Likhita Japa notebooks.

We ended class with Arati and pledge.

See you next week!
~Sanjana Didi and Indira Aunty