December 13th 2015----Class 10!!!!

Hari om parents!!!!

We had a very warm day to begin with. ALL kids complained about being warm (did I mention myself too?) so we opened few windows to cool things down.

So as I have been reaching out to few of you parents if your child happens to be a shy one or the one with special need to bring them early so I can work with them to open up a bit (if they are shy) and I can understand your child (if they have special need/s). Thank you for working with me as a team and we have made some progress with some children but that's NOT where it stops. So lets continue to do so, so they get acclimated to the teacher/s, balvihar (if they are new to balvihar), etc.

So to enhance the same concept, today we asked our special friend to do 3 Oms. We also gave an option to do the 3 oms, or say pass and the next friend can take the lead. Our friend didn't do the 3 Oms, so I gave another option to touch my finger, 1 being I will do the 3 Oms, 2 being I pass. Finally it was PASSED. So I passed it to another friend who also chose not to do the 3 Oms. I passed it to another friend (Arjun Ambat) who is also very quiet in the class and he turned out to be the ROCK"STAR" and lead us to do the 3 Oms. I gave him a STAR sticker to be the brave and lead the 3 Oms.

Yes, we did spend a lot of time doing this "exercise" but its worth every effort to make our children comfortable while learning in any environment.

We did Ganesha shloka, "Vakratunda mahakay....",
Saraswati shloka "Saraswati Namastubyam..."

By this time kids were still complaining about being warm (it really was not, anymore), wanted to go the bathroom, eat snack etc etc. They were just distracted today. So we talked about how we focus in school, we must do the same here in balvihar. Gave some examples where we follow the rules like we don't talk loud in library, why? They said the librarian would ask me to leave. I said why? Cause that's the library rule, you cant talk loud.

So we decided to do that BUT we brainstormed the G is for God and that's all we were able to accomplish. I held off the craft and the coloring cause I am a big believer that craft is to enhance the learning and didn't want it to be just an activity.

So we learned Ganesha Shloka:
"Ekdantam Mahakayam
Lambodaragajananam
Vignanashakaram devam
Herambam pranamamya-aham"

1st shloka: "Asota ma sadgamaya..."
2nd shloka: "Shri rama rameti...."
This is our 3rd Shloka for the year, so please practice with your children so we can keep moving forward with other planned shlokas for the year.

We plan to go over some important stuff next week so please don't miss it unless you are going to India or have travel plans.

Our next class is on December 20th and Anurag has signed up for snacks for the class. See you all then!!!!

Meena Arvind