The
last class saw a 50% turnout - guess it is the vacation season. Even if
you have not attended the class, please have the kids go through their
prayers and alphabet practice as we are proceeding with our syllabus.
Our class began with the Dhyaana
Shloka - Om Sahanavavatu (pg 9) followed by attendance. For the daily prayers (Karaagre
Vasate, Vakratunda, Saraswati Namastubhyam, Bramhaarpanam, Shubham Karoti, Kara
Charana - pages 14-17 of the My Prayer Book), we went around asking each child
to say the prayer out loud. We proceeded onto the 9th verse of the
Guru Sthothram (pg 85-86) and also sang the bhajans Rama Naama Thaarakam and
Atma Nivasi Ram. Parents are requested to please have the kids chant their
daily prayers as a few of them are still not comfortable with all the shlokas.
In story time, we covered the
chapters of everyone returning to Ayodhya after the marriage of Rama and Sita, the
four brothers and their wives settling into a routine with their
responsibilities and gaining the love and respect of the people of Ayodhya. We moved onto the story of Manthara poisoning
Kaikeyi’s mind when King Dashratha decided to crown Rama as the king. The kids
were pretty sad to hear about Dashratha granting Kaikeyi’s boon of crowning
Bharatha instead and banishing Rama to 14 years of exhile.
We discussed real life scenarios
(such as mom cancelling a pizza dinner due to unavoidable work or missing out
on a favorite movie) wherein the kids could react as calmly as Lord Rama did on
hearing that he had to go to the forest. We decided that even if we get upset,
we will not throw a tantrum but accept our parents’ decisions calmly and look
for alternate solutions.
I conducted a test of the Sanskrit
vowels. Amit scored the highest followed by Vedant. The kids still need to work
on their alphabets. We also learned to write the vowel “ऋ”.
For their homework, I have given out
a practice sheet for the vowels in Sanskrit, please have the kids complete it.
We did a quick revision of Sanskrit
colors and body parts. We concluded the class with the closing prayer - Om
Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinaha (pg-19)
See you at the next class.
Please be sure to bring you folders.
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