Nov 2019 - Kindergarten

Hari Om

We have continued studying Vedantic Alphabets and started learning new Ganesha Shloka Krishna Sloka.

Ganehsa Sloka 
Ekadantam Mahakayam, Lambodara Gajananam |
Vighna Nashakaram Devam, Herambam Pranamamyaham ||

Krishna Sloka 
Muukam Karoti Vaacaalam Panggum Langghayate Girim |
Yat-Krpaa Tamaham Vande Param-Aananda Maadhavam ||


F is  for Friendship - A friend in need is a friend indeed
Friendship is a feeling of mutual affection and respect. A true friend is one who helps without being asked. We maintain friendship by helping our friends, being nice and being happy for them.

We discussed about

• 10 ways to start a friendship - Smile at others often - Treat others nicely - Take turns in playing - Give complements frequently - Offer help in times of need - Invite others to join in your activities - spend time with family - always be forgiving - be a good listener - be happy for others 
• 10 ways how we end the friendship.  - Always expect to have your way - try to be bossy - expect to be the only friend - complain a lot - Spread gossip - force friends in doing things they don't like to do - listen to ugly things about a friend - ignore your friend on purpose - behave in a rude manner - refuse to share. 

Tale: Krishna's Best Fried - Krishna and Sudama's friendship.

Activity 1 - Kids were asked to draw their best friend picture on a paper and were asked to crumpled. They were asked to slowly unfold the crumpled up paper and asked if they can make the picture neat and nice again without any crumples. Inference -- Just as wrinkles remain in the paper, an unkind word or hurtful act does permanent damage. Every time we are mean to our friends, we are putting a crease in our friendship.

Gurudev's Quote - Learn to always speak softly, words of love and affection, then friends multiply. 

Activity 2 - Kids enjoyed doing the flower project - flower with the qualities of good friend as petals along with coloring.

G is for God
God is "The Father" who loves and cares for all of us. He lives everywhere and he protects us and gives us everything we need . We should thank him by praying to him every day.

We brainstormed on Who is God", revised the story of "King and his minister - three questions" from first lesson. God is He who can do what no one else can do . He can make a brown cow eat green grass, and make her produce white milk.

We performed a Puja in the class and each child was made to come perform arathi and offer flowers to the altar.

We learnt the following Bhajan with different Gods Name by actions (Krishna - flute, Ganesha - Trunk , Shiva - Ganga flowing from head, Saraswathi devi - Book)

Krishna here, Krishna there,
Krishna Krishna everywhere.
God is one, God is one.
God is one for everyone

H is for happiness - Happiness is an attitude. 
Happiness is a state of mind. When we are content,we are happy. We can be happy by accepting things as they are and making the best of what we have.

Exploration - Happiness is a state of mind - We asked kids few questions about how they feel (happy or sad)doing certain things. We made a note of them on paper. We concluded that not same object will make all happy and even the same object will not make same person happy all the time.

Activity - Happy Train:
The objective of this activity is that kids should be happy no matter what they encounter. We said to kids we will take them to playground but instead took them to a corner in class and asked them to be silent. Kids were still happy. We inferred that Happiness is a choice and state of mind.  Happiness is an attitude.

I for Intelligence - Think Before you Talk and Think Before you Act
Intelligence is the mental ability of understanding and learning few facts. We possess a well developed mind and an intellect, while animals do not. We use our intellect wisely by making right choices. We talked to kids why we are different from animals. We also talked that we use mind to think and intellect to make right choices.

Tale: The celestial fruit.(Lord Shiva, Lord Ganesh, Lord Karthikeya and Sage Narada story - Be likw Lord Ganesha who used his intellect to be victorious)

Next sunday we dont have Balavihar on the eve of Thanksgiving. Lets us take this opportunity to thank along with our kids the A's (Articles) B's (Beings) and C's (Circumstances) of our life and The Creator.

With Love,
K - Sevaks