Hari Om Parents,
Below is what we covered this week.
Shlokas:
Opening prayers, Sahanavavatu,
Nama Ramayanam - Sundarkandam (Page 137)
Geeta Chanting
Verses 17 & 18
(46) Verses 17-18 Ch.3 BG - YouTube
Lessons and activities
Ramayana Continued.
We recapped the previous class story of Hanuman's journey over the ocean to reach Lanka. Hanuman meets the guardian of the Lanka city, a demoness who stops him and challenges him. Hanuman defeats her with a blow of his left hand. The demoness remembers the prophecy that when a monkey defeats her, the end of Ravana is near and she lets Hanuman pass through. Hanuman marvels at the richness and grandeur of Lanka as he reaches the chambers of the palace. It is night and he sees many beautiful maidens sleeping. He also sees a sleeping maiden near Ravana but knows that Sita cannot be one of these women in the chambers of Ravana. He begins to lose hope when he sees Ashoka Vana, a beautiful garden and decides to look for Sita there. He sees a beautiful, pale and emancipated woman grieving and surrounded by demonesses. As he tries to get a better look, it is early morning and Ravana with his retinue comes to convince Sita to be his wife. He begs and pleads her and promises to make her his main queen but she holds up a blade of grass as if talking to it and tells him that he is committing a huge folly and he should return her to Rama if he wants his life to be spared. Ravana gets very angry and warns Sita that she has two more months to relent after which he will have his cooks cook her for breakfast.
Keys to success:
Life is a Boomerang:
What you throw in the world that alone returns to you. If you smile, people smile back. If you frown, people frown back at you. If you plant apple seeds, you get apple tree. Even your prayers cannot change apples to mangoes. The law is what goes around comes around. As you sow, so shall you reap in the "boomerang effect"
What is a Boomerang? How does it work?
A boomerang is a curved flat piece of wood that can be thrown so that the curved piece returns to the thrower. Most boomerangs that are designed to return to the thrower are made of two wings brought together with a slight twist at the junction. The wings design causes the necessary lift to make the boomerang sail through the air. The return is caused by the slight variation in the wind speed between two wings.
Below is the video to make your own Boomerang(roomrang). Please have kids make it and test it at home. Few were made and tested in the class.
(46) How to Make and Throw an Indoor Boomerang | WIRED - YouTube
Class Play:
All the kids have to read the script below and prepare for the enacting of a few roles. Based on these they will be assigned play characters.
Link for the shared play document:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PBcrwSoOgkjWjtVetGAY3XRDwaVbaU1OvAkO1RUOLgI/edit?usp=sharing
Pranams
Sirisha and Prarthana
