Oct 19th Balavihar

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Hari OM Families!

As a practice I will be sending you email updates on what we did in class and how the kids are working together to learn. If you want to know about individual performance, please feel to reach out to me and I will respond confidentially. PLEASE SEND YOUR CHILD WITH WATER & A SNACK TO CLASS. They are still children, get thirsty and hungry and don't really want to leave during our discussions. Please register and get your free BV bag which they can use to carry water and snack.

Subbu- Please could you add Vaishnavi & Poornima's parents on this email list?

Class Theme: Bal Bhagwatam- 10 avatars of Lord Vishnu

Sloka: Om Sahanavavatu & meaning.

Revision: What is the Holy Trinity (Creater/Preserver/Destroyer)? What is an Avatara? How Minecraft and our avatars in Minecraft are similar to the real world?

Discussion: (since we had new students and some kids brought up this question)

What is BV? What do we come to BV? What do we like about BV? What do we not like about BV? All kids agreed that they like what they learn and they like the friends they meet and to learn in large groups! What they did not like it is that it is 2 hours and that they want to play. So we talked that actually the class is only 1hr15mins and that we must prioritize if we want to learn something. I also promised them 15 minutes of playtime in the classroom. They really liked that. Some children are very enthusiastic about the mid-year show in January and want to get started with rehearsals for their performance! If parents bring their kids regularly then we can do 10 minutes of rehearsal and get a head start on the show so please let me know if you all would be on board with that.

New Topic: What are the 10 avatars? The kids have been picking their favorite Vishnu Avatara each and they will be known by that name in the class. Previously they have made parachutes with their own avatars representing the Avatara "coming down" on the earth.

Poornima- Matsya

Raaghav- Narasimha

Neel- Parasurama

Vaishnavi- Rama

Yash- Krishna

Varun-Kalki

Story: How the Bhagwatam was written, how it was passed on from word of mouth and the Story of Naradmuni.

Activity: The avatars travelled the world and landed on where they wanted to go. The kids like this physical activity a lot and really look forward to it!

Homework: 10 minutes of Minecraft & research on their own avatara.

With Prem & OM!