Welcome "Dhairyam" Family 2015-16

Hari OM

Dear Parents and Children,

Durga and I welcome one and all to the Dhairyam Grade 2 at BBNJ Balavihar 2015-16. We hope and wish for a great fun filled Balavihar year.

Our Topic this year is "HanumanJI- The Superman Hanuman" We will be learning Values and stories of everyone's favorite Hanuman JI and also the great sloka Hanuman chalisa- all in kids friendly way- doing action bhajans, arts and crafts, telling stories.

It was so nice meeting each and everyone of you and it was great interacting with all the children and we had fun making the japa mala activity. We enjoyed as much as the kids did. Please have those safe at your home pooja place as announced in the assembly. We will need it sometime when we do Japa concept in Hanuman Ji's chapters and we will ask for it to be brought to class.

We will have regular sessions beginning the following Sunday, 27th. Please attend the assembly in the cafeteria at 9.30 AM(sharp) Please arrive at 9.25 as the doors will be closed at 9.30 once the prayer starts. The doors will be opened for announcements after the prayer songs are sung. The assembly usually will windup by 10 and then we proceed to our designated classrooms. Since next week will be the first day for the instructional lessons, there will be volunteers to guide you all to find our classroom.

The classroom schedule is between 10 am till 11.40 am. After which the students can proceed to their respective (optional) language classes. We will discuss more regarding the class proceedings (lessons, instructions, arts and crafts etc) more on Back to Balavihar day. Please await emails coming soon.

Supplies to be brought to class:

1. We ask all children to bring in their own box of crayons (a regular 12 pack) to avoid any sort of allergies if used any other brand or so.. (put along in the pencil case)

2. A Notebook

3. A two pocket folder

4.1. glue stick (packed well- not to miss)

5. Kid friendly art scissors

6. one or two pencils and one eraser (in a pencil case to avoid any missing)

All these in a Balavihar bag (you might have bought while getting the books)

Books required-

1. My prayers (Guru stotram we will do from there) this book is a one time investment, you might carry for the rest of the balavihar year and for life )

2. Superman Hanuman.

3. Hanuman Chalisa coloring book ( we recommend the coloring book along with the other books. By coloring the child recollects the story behind the picture, this is a kind of reinforcing them to understand the story even better)

Please buy these books. Thanks.

We have a quick snack time in our class.
1.Children may kindly bring in a snack- a cereal bar/fruit bar or a fruit. Let it be a healthy snack and kindly Please avoid nuts. Ours is a NUT FREE SCHOOL ZONE. We have a lot of kids with nut allergies and kindly avoid sending nuts with them to the campus.Also, Please AVOID JUICE as a snack.

2. Children may kindly bring in their own water bottle filled, labelled.

3. A small hand sanitizer for quick cleansing their palms before they eat their snack (Please send in your own as some children might be allergic to some brands)

Before concluding the session, we will say the closing prayers and then disperse.

We hope to see you all on 9/27/15. Thank you.

Regards

Vidhya Aiyer

Durga vemavarapu