Hari Om Parents,
It was a cold Sunday morning today. We had very low attendance as well. Nevertheless we started with our usual enthusiasm and energy. After our morning chants and meditation, we continued with our story.
Rama announced the battle with Ravana. The vanar sena marched towards the beautiful city of Lanka. The grand city was going to get destroyed by the war between the two parties.One after the other rakshas came to fight and everybody got defeated by the great vanar sena. Ultimately Ravana came into the battlefield but lost his chariot, crown and weapons fighting with Rama. Rama was so kind and fair that he granted Ravana to leave the battle field and come back the next day after taking rest and getting new weapons. Ravana was terrified and thought that only Kumbhkarna could save him and Lanka. Kumbhkarna was awaken from his slumber. The students really enjoyed the description of how Kumbkarna was woken up. Once he was awake he came to know Ravana's deeds. He said to Ravana that he had done wrong by abducting Rama's wife by force. But since Ravana was his brother he agreed to help him. He went to the battlefield and destroyed and killed many vanaras. But at the end he could not stand the power of Sri Rama and died.
After the story we all marched around the class chanting and screaming " Long live Rama" and "Victory to Rama". We jumped and hopped like monkeys and pretended to uproot trees and boulders while we marched. We also pretended that we were Kumbkarana and woke up with loud roar.
Today we reviewed the pages of our coloring book. We looked at the map and discussed the trail that Rama had taken from Ayodhya to Lanka. We also looked at the drawings in each chapter and discussed various incidents that occurred throughout the story.
We sang "Atma Nivasi Ram". We finished with aarti and pledge. There will be no balvihar class for next two weeks. We will see you on April 7th. Thank You.
It was a cold Sunday morning today. We had very low attendance as well. Nevertheless we started with our usual enthusiasm and energy. After our morning chants and meditation, we continued with our story.
Rama announced the battle with Ravana. The vanar sena marched towards the beautiful city of Lanka. The grand city was going to get destroyed by the war between the two parties.One after the other rakshas came to fight and everybody got defeated by the great vanar sena. Ultimately Ravana came into the battlefield but lost his chariot, crown and weapons fighting with Rama. Rama was so kind and fair that he granted Ravana to leave the battle field and come back the next day after taking rest and getting new weapons. Ravana was terrified and thought that only Kumbhkarna could save him and Lanka. Kumbhkarna was awaken from his slumber. The students really enjoyed the description of how Kumbkarna was woken up. Once he was awake he came to know Ravana's deeds. He said to Ravana that he had done wrong by abducting Rama's wife by force. But since Ravana was his brother he agreed to help him. He went to the battlefield and destroyed and killed many vanaras. But at the end he could not stand the power of Sri Rama and died.
After the story we all marched around the class chanting and screaming " Long live Rama" and "Victory to Rama". We jumped and hopped like monkeys and pretended to uproot trees and boulders while we marched. We also pretended that we were Kumbkarana and woke up with loud roar.
Today we reviewed the pages of our coloring book. We looked at the map and discussed the trail that Rama had taken from Ayodhya to Lanka. We also looked at the drawings in each chapter and discussed various incidents that occurred throughout the story.
We sang "Atma Nivasi Ram". We finished with aarti and pledge. There will be no balvihar class for next two weeks. We will see you on April 7th. Thank You.
