Today we celebrated Swami’s birthday. Everyone loved our skit, dances and our song. Moreover we all enjoyed being on the stage and doing our part. We all learnt that Swami is inside all of us. We should have confidence that Swami will help us, guide us wherever we go, whatever we do.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving weekend with your parents.

Note to Parents from parents discussion group:  

Discussed the word bank and how watching your words has impacted everyone

Lesson Plan:

Started with 3 om’s and silent sitting.

Practised 3 slokas and 1 bhajan.

The kids shared if they were putting Sairam chits in their watch box. They also shared how watching their words and using sweet words made them feel happy or sometimes prevented them from getting into trouble. We encouraged the kids to continue putting sairam chits in their watch box and those who have forgotten please start to do so starting today. If they have lost their WATCH box, they can use any other empty box at home to start their word bank.

The class prepared for the study circle presentation we are giving next week about the lessons learnt this quarter. The kids practised the games and role play for the presentation.

Homework : Parents please continue to encourage your children to put Sairam chits in their WATCH box whenever they resist the temptation to use unpleasant words or if they have used sweet words.

CLASS DATE: 12/08/2019

Summary:Emotional self awareness. kindness

ATTENDANCE: 15

Sairam,

We started the class with 3 Om’s, Gayatri mantra and light meditation. We reviewed last weeks life application.This Sunday we talked about kindness. 

You can find  class presentation   here.

Life application: Color your world by doing kind acts at home,school and community. Observe yourself how you feel when you do kind acts.

2. continue doing what your parents ask you first time.  Write down 3 good deeds that you did for this week.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION TO PARENTS:

1. We would like all the students to be on time by 3.25pm we are staritng the class by 3.30pm.

Class room door closes at 3.30pm.

If any students come late they have to wait outside the door till we finish prayers and meditation.

2. As a parent your responsibility to check the home work ( life application ) which we give them to follow through the week.

Once you as a parent commit to the follow up with your kids the results are impactful.

3. Treat this spiritual learning as a beautiful foundation to your kids who are the future generations of leaders.

Swami has given us the opportunity to be the part of this huge responsibility. Let’s stand up to build this great future leaders.

12/08/2019 Class Summary

Today we did an activity based on  “Gratitude”. First, all the students were asked to list names of  top 10 people/things  they want to thank for shaping their lives. Then they were asked to list names of 10 people/things they want to say “sorry”.

This activity made them think deep and express their gratitude towards all the comforts they have.

All the students were asked to present what they learnt from this exercise. 

Finally, class ended with a story of how Swami expressed His gratitude.

11/03/2019 Class Summary

We were fortunate to have an expert in vedanta, Dr. Sethu Raman (Retired Climatologist) to share his knowledge on “scriptures of Sanathana Dharma” in our class today. 

He explained the 6 layers of scriptures and explained the importance and profundity of each layer coupled with insights gained through his own experience. 

Thank you for all the parents who could attend this session. For those who couldn’t make it, here is the link to PPT.

10/27/2019 Class Summary

• Importance of Deepawali, inner significance, stories behind the festival & what other religions celebrate same festival and why were shared with students.
• We drew a picture of how we are caught up in action & reaction thru many lifetimes forgetting where we originated from.
• As we discussed in last class, we can break the chain of actions & reaction when our actions are God actions.
• When we start practicing God actions (practice God qualities), it invokes God’s grace. What can God’s grace do for us?
• We shared story of a Swami student, whose mother was saved by Swami’s grace. Swami walked into his room, used a cream to give points from good deeds & used that to save his mother. 

10/20/2019 Class Summary

• Continued from where we left after watching a video of Swami’s student experience sharing regarding sports meet, what they thought could have been the reason why the boy got saved (Video link -starting from 7:32min)
• We had very interactive discussion about cause and effect; actions and reactions; law of attraction.
• Every action performed thru mind, body or senses will have a return.
• This is a vicious cycle of actions & reactions thru many lifetimes.
• Only way to break that chain is if we our actions are what God would do. 
• We asked each student to write down one quality of God; they came up with kind, compassionate, loving, unbiased, non judgmental, ever loving etc. God & God qualities are not separate.
• To get closer to God is to adopt God qualities which are not impossible to practice.
• Our duty is to give 100% effort and leave the result on the GOD
• But learn from every experience either success or failure. 

Note to Parents:

One practice to take up for unity of thought word & deed is to ask them to understand the meaning of the songs they are singing/playing. We will practice this as a class for upcoming bhajan opportunities our class gets.

Movie Day – Home Alone

Main topic:

This week, G4 watched the movie Home Alone. We will be continuing the movie next class, followed by a discussion on the themes of the movie and its connection to our class.

Note to Parents:

Sairam Parents –

Group 4 will have the next class on Sunday, Dec. 15th. 

Jai Sai Ram!

-Group 4 Gurus