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The Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 14.
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The Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 14.
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Next Class Nov, 24
Pre-K 1 Rm 110
Pre-K 2 Rm 109
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Opening Prayer:
- OM Sahanaa vavatu
- Om sri Ganeshaya namaha, Om sri Saraswathye namaha, Om sri Sat Gurubyoh namaha
Stotras:
Quiet Time/Activity: Shell Dropping Game
Bhajan: Ganapathi Ganapathi
Gita Chanting: Chapter 14, Shloka 1 & 2
Story: Master Man
Deity Recognition: Ram Parivar
Sanskrit Learning: Numbers in Sanskrit
Activity: Connect by Number Activity Sheets (in Sanskrit)
Likhita Japa: Learning how to write ऊँ.
(To help the children remember how to properly write ऊँ, explained that there are four steps: First you write a "3," then you must add Lord Hanuman's tail, next comes the moon, and then the last thing you draw is a bindu.
Comments:
We started the class today with chanting Om and doing some warm up yoga stretches. We then did our opening prayers followed by our chant "Om Ganeshaye Namaha". After we settled in, we reviewed the stotra "Subham Karoti" that we had learnt last week and also learnt "Guru Brahma" and spoke about the significance of this prayer.
Quiet time was followed by chanting the first shloka from chapter 14 in the Bhagvad Geeta. We learnt the whole the second shloka today. The kids are doing amazing with their chanting. Thank you parents for helping them practice through the week.
After all this leaning, it was the perfect time for a little socializing! We did this by going around the circle introducing ourselves but we had to do this in Sanskrit :-) It was a lot of fun. We learnt all our names and made some new friends!
We continued to practice the Bhajan "Ganapathi Ganapthi" that we learnt last week and the children had fun clapping and singing to this new song with lots of rhyming words. The children had loads of fun trying to sing it faster and faster....
During Sanskrit learning we practiced our counting in Sanskrit and also learnt to recognize our numbers from 1-10. For deity recognition we reviewed the pictures of Ram Parivar that we had seen last week. We spent some on the seeing special features of Hanumanji and spoke about two other names we know him by: Anjaneya & Maruti.
At story time we heard the story of 'Master Man'. We saw that nothing good can ever come from boasting and bragging. The kids enjoyed the theatrics in the story! We also did a connect the dots (with Sanskrit numbers) and made colorful of pictures of the pot from our story.
We hope the kids had a great time. We surely did!!!
We ended our class with the Aarthi and closing prayers.
Before we sign off, we would like to remind you about the Seva Project for the Pre-K class. Emails with the following information were sent out last week. Thank you to all the parents who have already brought in their donations. We will continue to collect $5 this week as well. So for those of you who did not have a chance to bring it in last week.....please do on Nov 24.
CORD works locally with Trenton Area Soup Kitchen(TASK) on various local Seva projects such as winter coat drive, Thanks giving baskets, school supplies drive etc. In connection with this, our class has been allotted the Seva project of donating socks to the homeless shelter. We are required to donate unisex tube socks. We have decided to take monetary contribution from the parents and buy the socks. They work out to $5.00/2pairs. We are planning to purchase the socks and give it to the CORD team by December. Please bring in your contribution of $5.00 when you come on 17th. Thank you very much. Your help and support are much appreciated.
Have a fabulous week!
