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Dec 2, 2012









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Announcements
Next Class: Dec 9, 2012

@ Crossroads Middle School at 10:00 AM

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Class Review:
Just a quick recap of what we did today:
Yoga: 
  • Basic stretches
  • Turtle pose
  • Butterfly pose
  • Tree pose
Shlokas:
Story:
The Elephant and the dog
Bhajan: 

Gita Chanting:
  • Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 13, Shloka 1, 2

Vedic Chanting:
Om Gam Ganapathaye Namah
Om Sri Saraswathye namaha 
Om Sri Sat Gurubyoh namaha

Craft/Activity:

 Friendship bracelet

Game: 
 
Comments:  
Long gaps usually makes us forgetful but our kids remember all their lessons. They remember all the shlokas and all the yoga poses we do. We love the stretching exercises and it just gets us into the right mood. Thank you Rupa Aunty for making it so much fun. Parents this is a good opportunity for you to get stretching with your kids, try it in the class you will love it.

This week we learnt some new shlokas. We learnt about Lord Hanuman and what a great powerful god he is, just remembering him once gives us so much strength, don't you think we should remember him more? If we remember him often we will get strength, intellect and fame. I think we should memorize this shloka really fast. 

We  practiced some more Gita chanting and next week we will move on to the next shloka. Please make sure your kids hear the chanting whenever they can and this will help them memorize faster. Please check the link below for more help.
http://www.geetachanting.net/bvg13v01-10/

This week the theme was about Friendship. This was a good way to remember our friends and also to understand what friendship is? Is it about sharing or fighting? We heard a wonderful story about how Elephant and Dog became such good friends that no one could separate them. When we are friends does the size matter? All that matters is our friend. Parents you can review this wonderful with your kids to remind them about the values of friendship.  

We further talked about the theme when we were making the beautiful friendship bracelet. This bracelet is a beautiful way to show our love for our friends and to show how even a small gesture like this will make a big difference.You can share this bracelet with anyone you want to.

We counted till 10 in Sanskrit and also played a fun game in Sanskrit. 
For counting sheet please the link below.  

 http://www.scribd.com/doc/27343066/Numbers-in-Sanskrit

The game is a Sanskrit version of Simon says, we call it 'Hanuman vadati', the kids enjoyed this game a lot. A link is provided below for this game. The link talks about krsna vadati but you can replace it with any god. We learnt a lot of Sanskrit words, list is provided below:

उपविशतु
उत्तिष्ठतु
उत्पततु
भ्रमतु
नृत्यतु
तरतु
धावतु 
    
http://cmtots.blogspot.com/2005/10/krishah-vadati.html 
  
Questions for this week.
  • What kind of friends were the Elephant and the dog?
  • What would they do together everyday? Fight?
  • What is 'धावतु'
  • Numbers from 1-10 in Sanskrit.
Also special thanks to  parents for bringing a tasty snack. We also gave our ‘धन्यवाद’ in Sanskrit.
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