Hari OM Parents
Warm Welcome to all our Balavihar families both returning and new families. So happy to see all the children smiling and with excitement to begin this year,
We introduced ourselves and then had each of the children introduce themselves , their name, their favorite thing to do, and their favorite God/Goddess
After introducing ourselves, we did a short announcement to children on what this year will be about .Some of them already knew key characters of Ramayana. We went through some house rules as what they can do and what they cannot do in the class. Please talk to them about it.
We sang a short Bhajan - Atma Rama, which is in the my Prayers book.
We told them about the format of the class, with Shlokas, bhajans, story time, games, coloring and also marking the padukas on the India Map.
We straight went into the story to talk about who was King Dasharatha and how beautiful the placed they lived was. The placed was called Ayodhya which means no war. King Dasharatha had everything, he had three beautiful wives, a big kingdom, wonderful people in Ayodhya, but he was still very sad. The reason for that is he did not have any children. Sage Vashista is the Guru of King Dasaratha. Whenever we have a problem we reach to our Guru, and advised the children whenever they have a problem they should ask their Guru. So Guru Vasishta took him to sage Hrishyasrunga who advised them to perform the PutraKamesti Yagna.
With this we wrapped up the class to meet the parents.
Handbook was distributed , announcements about class timings, coloring book and Myprayers book for purchase were discussed. There is a WhatsApp group for this class as well. Hope all of the parents are in the group.
Looking forward to a great Balavihar year ahead.
Hari OM
Yamuna and Subha
