Class Review- 4 Grade Section B - 02/10/2013- Class Room # A108

Hari Om Readers!

We started our session with  breathing exercise ,chanting Om 3 times and morning prayers.  We recited Sree Ganapathi Stotram and  Sree Govinda Damodara Storam. We practiced Rama Hare Krishna Hare bhajan.

In the story time, continuing our 24 Guru's story we learnt about 2 more Guru's - Fire & Moon. Fire teaches us to be bright, brilliant , accept good/bad things equally, stay pure and not get contaminated by the company of bad people. We heard the stories of Buddha & Elephant , Story of Tapovan Maharaj( The Faith), Greedy jackal, Discovery of fire tale and the story of Chinmayananda ("He accepts All") . We did a small experiment  "No contamination" -- The lesson learned from oil.

Moon teaches to be accept the change and not to be too happy or too sad. We listened a funny story "This too shall Pass". This week's topic of discussion was " Now is the Time" . We concluded that "now" is the only time to accomplish anything and we can't postpone our tasks. We discussed following quote of Swami Chinmayananda

"Today belongs to us .Yesterday was.Tomorrow will be. Only Today belongs to us.So let us do our best today. " 

We practiced Geeta chanting 17 verses. We ended our session with Arti and pledge in auditorium.
See you all in our next Balavihar session on Feb 24th  2013 .
-Grade 4B teachers

Class Review- 4 Grade Section B - 02/03/2013 - Class Room # A108

Hari Om Readers!

We started our session with  breathing exercise ,chanting Om 3 times and morning prayers. We practiced Geeta chanting 17 verses. We recited Sree Ganapathi Stotram and  Sree Govinda Damodara Storam. Learnt the meaning of Damodara Stotram from verse 4th.

In the story time, since we completed our first book on Krishna Lila's, we moved on to the second book  "My 24 teachers" which was adapted from 11th chapter of Bhagavatam.  We listened to the story of the wandering saint "Dattareya" and king "Yadu". When Yadu asked the saint the secret of his happiness, Dattatreya said that he learnt his art of living happily from his 24 teachers. In this session we learnt about his first 4 teachers - Earth, Air, Space and water.
Earth - patience,forgiveness.
Air - Freedom, Focus, purity.
Space -no boundaries ,vast , unbroken
Water -purifies, cool, refreshing
We discussed the importance of the teacher. We are going to learn about all the 24 teachers , the elements of nature in coming sessions.

We ended our session with Arti and pledge.
See you all in our next Balavihar session on Feb 10th  2013 .
-Grade 4B teachers

Class Review- 4 Grade Section B - 01/27/2013 - Class Room # A108

Hari Om Readers!

We started our session with  breathing exercise ,chanting Om 3 times and morning prayer. We practiced Geeta chanting 15 verses. 

In the Krishna Lila time, we listened to the stories of Krishna and Bala Rama gurukula days..  tale of Sudhama , Krishna's friend..How Krishna gifted Sudhama with unasked riches. We concluded our story time with Narakasura Vadha and demolition of other demons. 

We played  jeopardy game on Krishna. Divided kids in two groups ( Krishna, BalaRama) .Kids had lot of fun and both the groups performed really well. Finally Krishna group answered the tie breaker and won the game.

We ended our session with Arti and pledge.
See you all in our next Balavihar session on Feb 3rd 2013 .
-Grade 4B teachers