Class Review- 4 Grade Section B - 01/18/2013 - Class Room # A108

Hari Om Readers!

Hope you all had a very  Happy Sankranthi/ Lohri/Pongal. We started our session with  breathing exercise ,chanting Om 3 times and morning prayer. We went over the significance of Sankranthi/Lohri/Pongal.  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 4 verses of Damodara Stotram. We went over the binders of each and every kid. Lot of kids have filed their slokas and other material that we gave in class. But there were some kids who lost their material and were not organised. It really helps if you can remind kids to keep their Balvihar supplies filed. If any sloka handout is missing, please take print out from the links provided in the blog.


In the Krishna Lila time, we listened to the tale of Krishna and Balarama's jouney to Mathura with Akrura. Krishna's miracles in Mathura -- how he turned Trivakra- the hunchback into a beautiful woman, how he blessed sudhama - the weaver, how he punished the wicked followers of Kamsa, how he and Balarama broke the bow and terrorized Kamsa. Next day Both the brothers go to Kings court and kill the mighty elephant who was sent to stomp them. They kill the world renowned wrestlers in Kamsa's court and finally with one blow Krishna kills Kamsa. Krishna , Balarama part with Nand baba and their friends of Vrindavan .They release Ugrasena, Devaki and King Vasudeva from prison. Devaki and Vasudeva were finally reunited with their beloved sons.

We practiced Geeta chanting 12 verses. We have seen amazing progress in the way kids were reciting Geeta. Please keep reminding them to practice. As Krishna lila stories are coming to end, we are planning to have a quiz/jeopardy in our next session. We asked kids to go through the Balabhagavatam when they have free time over these two weeks..

We ended our session with Arti and pledge.
See you all in our next Balavihar session on Jan 27th 2013 .
-Grade 4B teachers