Balavihar Week 12- Section 2

January 13th, 2013

We started class today as usual, with 3 Oms, and Sahaanaavavatu. We had 1 minute of quiet meditation time, followed by the entire class chanting the Guru Stotram together.

We then went over Chapter 13 Bhagavad Gita Chanting, going up to sloka 10. Please remind your children to keep practicing what we go over in class. There is an online learning tool at http://www.chinmayavrindavan.org/GeetaChantingCompetition.php that they can use for help.

During story time, we reviewed the story of King Prthu. We also learned how the 4 Sanatkumaras came to King Prthu and taught him about the 6 "sharks" in the ocean of life. These 6 "sharks" or vices are lust, jealousy, greed, anger, pride, and delusions. We went over examples of each of these vices and also discussed the values that everyone should have instead of these vices. 

Afterwards, we combined both the 3rd grade classes together to discuss our play for annual day. Parents, please let us know at the next Balavihar class if your child will not be able to participate for annual day on June 9th. It is important that we know this before we hand out roles. Children participating in the play must also come to all the Balavihar classes because this is when we will be practicing. 

We finished up class with a game called Vishnu-Ball. All the children assembled in a circle and threw a ball around. Every time the ball was thrown, the child would have to say Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya, and anyone who messed up was out of the game.

Happy Pongal/Sankranti!

~Sanjana Didi and Indira Aunty