December 20th 2015--Class 11th!!!!!

Hari om parents!!!!

We had a GREAT LAST class of the year 2015!!!!! Children came well prepared, ready to learn and lots of enthusiasm.

As always we started our class with:
3 Om's
Ganesha Shloka---"Vakratunda mahakaya...."
Saraswati Shloka----"Saraswati namastubyam..."

We brainstormed about what we talked about last class. We started with G is for God but couldn't finish it as they said because they were not focused. Continued asking questions what can God do? What does he give us? Where is God?

God can make impossible things possible. Like how a brown cow can eat green grass yet we get white milk. It is a miracle by God. God gives me many gifts some we don't even account for, for eg. Air, eyes to see, nose to smell, ears to hear, etc etc. God also gives us many other gifts. We discussed some of the things that we are really thankful for. Home, clothes, toys, family, and food. We did a project where we glued God's gift in the center of the page and glued all gifts we thought we think are gifts and we need to be thankful for that. Please check your children's folder to see their work.

We all agreed that God gives us many gifts and we need to thank Him for that. How do we thank God? We thank Him by saying Shlokas and doing prayers. How do we perform prayers? We discussed that in detail on how to bathe God and how to dress God. And how we do aarti on special days and shloka everyday. Taught them the ingredients that goes into making God's soap so we can bathe Him. Panchamrat----Milk, Yogurt, honey, sugar and ghee!

Steps:
Take God's clothes off (by removing flowers, actual clothes etc.)
Pour water on
Put panchamrat on
Rinse
Put kum-kum/sandlewood, and flowers

Pop quiz time----Give me the 5 ingredients that goes in the panchamrat? Taalin earned the "Rock star sticker" as he answered the question correctly...:-)

Next week yet again they will get a chance to earn Rock star sticker but this time I am giving them ALL a chance to do so. I told them whoever recites ALL 3 shlokas learned so far correctly will earn the ROCK star sticker next class.

Sloka #1
"Asota ma sadgamaya
Tamaso ma jyotir gamaya
Mrytyor ma amrutam gamaya"

Shloka#2 
"Shri Ram ram rameti
rame rame manorame
sahastranama tattulyam
rama nama varanane"

Shloka #3
"Ekdantam Mahakayam
Lambodaragajananam
Vignanashakaram devam
Herambam pranamamya-aham"

Have a GREAT holiday break!!!! No classes for the next two Sundays.
Next class is on January 10th. Arjun's family is signed up for snacks for that class.

See you in 2016!!!!! Be blessed!
Meena Arvind