Announcements

Balavihar for the year 2012-13 are at Cross Roads South Middle School at 10 a.m.

For registering online, visit http://chinmayavrindavan.org/

We are looking forward for a fun filled year of learning and growing at our balavihar!

Friday, December 13, 2013

Class Review- 4 Grade Section B – 12/08/2013 - Sangeeta & Suma 's Class

HariOm EveryOne! We started our class with breathing exercises and chanting Om 3 times. We did our morning prayers and Gurustotram. In the Krishna Lila story 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 continued story time with the stories of Krishna and Bala Rama’s gurukula days.. Tale of Sudhama , Krishna's friend..How Krishna gifted Sudhama with unasked riches. We recited Sri Govinda Damodara stotram and chanted first 8 verses of Geeta. Next session is our last session for this calendar year. We are planning for some fun activities in the class!! Please come prepared for jeopardy on Krishna Lilas we learnt so far. See you all on Dec 15.

Sunday, December 8, 2013

Nirmala and Lakshmi's class                                                                           Dec. 8th 2013



Hari Om,

We started with our breathing exercises and our beginning prayers. We also 2 more new verses of Govinda Damodara Stotram. So we now we have completed 4 verses of the same. Finally we learned 2 new verses from Chapter 14 of the Bhagavad Gita. We have completed up to verse 10. Every Bal Vihar class we do chant and practice all the previous verses. We would like the children to practice at home.

Then we went on to the stories of Lord Krishna. We did a recap of the stories from the previous class. Then we learned about how the lord married Rukmini. Also how the lord killed Jarasandha, Mura and Narakasura and rid the earth of many asuras. We then went to tell the famous story of Sudama and Krishna. We talked of material wealth and spiritual wealth based on this story. The children really loved that story. Finally we told the story of the lord returning to his heavenly abode after completing his work on the earth. We reminded the children of King Parikshit, and the beginning of the Dashavatars and how the king became one with the lord.
The children have been really enjoying all the stories of Lord Krishna and we have also enjoyed telling the stories.We would highly encourage the children to read the Bala Bhagavatam book. The children also promised they would.
Next week will be the last class for this year. We are going to do some fun stuff and are looking forward to it.
See you next week.

Pranams

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Class Review- 4 Grade Section B - 11/29/2013 - Sangeeta & Suma 's Class

HariOm! We started our session with breathing exercise,morning prayers and chanting Om 3 times. We recited Sree Ganapathi Stotram, Guru stotram and learnt one more verse of Sree Govinda Damodara Storam . To make it more interesting, we formed boys and girls teams and did independent chanting. In Geeta chanting, we learnt 7th verse and practiced all the 7 verses and went over any pronunciation issues. In this week's kid's story time, Ayush shared a story. We went over several questions kids had and explained the reason behind Krishna wearing a peacock feather on his head. In the Krishna Lila story time, we heard the story of Akrura - the great krishna bhakta, whom Kamsa sends to Vrindava on the task of bringing Krishna, BalaRama to Mathura..How sad Yashoda was as Krishna was departing.. Krishna, Balarama's trip to Mathura.. Hope you all have a great time in our thanks giving break! See you all in our next session on Dec 8 2013.