Class Review- 4 Grade Section B - 01/06/2013 - Class Room # A108

Hari Om Readers!

Happy New year to all of you and hope you had good time during winter break. We started our session with  breathing exercise and chanting Om 3 times. We recited Sree Ganapathi Stotram and  Sree Govinda Damodara Storam . You can listen to the recorded version sung by our class at this link Damodara Stotram. We also learnt the meaning of first two verses of Damodara stotram.
 We learnt the importance of slokas and revised 4 sloka's that we should recite every day - (Karagre vasathe - wakeup prayer, samudravasane --prayer to recite after getting up from bed,  Brahmarpanam- prayer to recite before we eat any meal, Sarasvathi Namasthubyam -- Prayer before we start our studies ) . All the kids were provided with hard copies of these slokas. We revised the birth of Krishna and Krishna Lila's that we learnt this year so far and continued with the new stories in Krishna Lila story time. We heard the story of salvation of Sudarshana - The python who caught Nand baba's foot in the temple. We learnt why it is important to control the senses. The reason why Sudharshana was cursed by rishi to become Python.. This week's home work is to keep a note of what senses you controlled and how you controlled. A one or 2 liners are good. We like to go over these in the next class.
After we brainstormed on the topic of controlling of senses we continued with story time and heard the story of Samkachuda-- an attendant of Kubera who abducted Gopis and was killed by Krishna. Then came the story of how Narada told Kamsa the secret of Krishna and Bala Rama 's abode- "Vrindavan"..Kamsa's wicked plan to invite the two boys for yagna and to kill them by stomping with elephant and inviting for wrestling match with top wrestlers in Kamsa's court..Kamsa asks Akrura to visit Vrindavan and bring the two brothers to Mathura.. Akrura's visit to Vrindavan and preparations of Yadava's travel to Mathura.
We ended our session with Arti and pledge.
See you all in our next Balavihar session on Jan 13th  2013 .
-Grade 4B teachers