Oct 2019 - Kindergarten

Hari Om

We have continued studying Vedantic Alphabets and this month we covered Vedantic letters B, C, D and E.

B is for Brotherhood - Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam

• Brotherhood is a sense of togetherness and belonging among members of a family, neighborhood, organization and the world. 
• Brotherhood can be achieved by realizing that each one of us possess individual and unique characteristics that make the world interesting and special.
• We belong to Chinmaya Balavihar family. We should treat the entire world as one family. Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam. Vasudhaiva means earth and Kutumbakam means a family. Meaning, the whole earth the whole world is one family.

Tale: "The complete picture - This is the story of Box of Crayons that don't get along initially and after a while they understand and appreciated the special and unique qualities of the other crayon. 

Moral: we are like the box of crayons. Each one of us is special and unique. Only by appreciating one another's individuality and living in the brotherhood spirit, we will succeed in our life.

C is for Cleanliness - Cleaniless is Godliness

• Cleanliness is being free from dirt.
• Clean mind is a mind  that is full of good thoughts. 
• We learnt about living by Ghandhi Ji's favorite monkeyies (hear no evil,see no evil,speak no evil).
• 3 Types of Cleanliness
• Cleaning the surrounding (clean your room ,house,environment)
• Cleaning the body (brushing your teeth, bathe daily)
• Cleaning the mind (Saying no bad words, being nice to others, helping and loving everyone etc)

Tale:The Royal Horse
The king's Royal horse, always took bath in particular pond. One day a dirty horse was given bath there and it made pond filthy. So the kings horse don't want to get in the pond. The soldiers tried but the horse refused. The minister sent by king to check what happen found out that horse doesn't want to get down in the dirty pond. So the horse was sent to different pond and it happily took bath.

Moral: Even the royal horse likes to bathe in only clean water. We, the royal children of lord, should always keep our surrounding, body, and the mind clean.

D is for Daddy -  Pitrdevo Bhava

• Daddy is the head of the family. Daddy is the protector of the family just as God is the protector of the world. "Pitrdevo Bhava"

Tale: Father's Day
Once there was a girl name Sonara Dodd who lived in Washington. Sonara's mother had died while giving birth to her sixth child, Sonara. Her dad Civil war veteran, had to  raise by himself all six children, including the newborn. After Sonara grew up, she realised it took hard work and sacrifice of her father. In Sonara's eyes, her father was courageous, selfless and loving man. On Mother's day when she was listening to the celebrations and speeches, she thought,wouldn't be nice to honor her dad. So she wanted all the dads of America to be honored,so Sonara chose June 19th her father's birthday as the day to pay tribute. Almost sixty years later, President Lyndon Johnson, Sunday of June as Father's Day in America.

Activity Interview with Dad - Kids had great time with their Dad's by getting know their Dad's Favorite food, activity, sports, aspiration. Thank You!!!!

E is for Enthusiasm 

• Enthusiasm is to experience joy and excitement while striving for a goal. We cultivate enthusiasm by loving everything we do.

Activity - We learnt following song with actions. Kids loved it, you may ask the kids to show...

Go,go, go, and fly
Soar,soar in the sky
Work,work hard and try
You'll make it,just don't cry

Tale 1: Gitu's Place
How a small chipmunk by name Gitu, helped in getting the sand, by rolling down the hill, to construct the dam to prevent the forest being flooded. Later chipmunk was appreciated by the LORD himself.

Moral - "When we do things with enthusiasm, we can accomplish anything no matter what physical impediments we may have.

Tale 2: Make a Difference
A little boy walking on the beach and saw number of fish stranded on the beach. To save the fishes lives the boy determinedly picked them one at a time and throwed in the water. A man seeing the boy's enthusiasm to save the fish came and asked why are you wasting your time? There are so many fishes and there is no way you can save them all. what difference you can make?
The boy picked up one fish in his hand anfd threw it in the water and said I know for sure I made difference in the life of this fish. He continued his work.

Moral: Enthusiasm is the key to any action. Without it we may give up too soon.