Balabharati Updates - July 2017

Namaste ji 

Balabharati team shares with you the updates of the month.

August month Magazine and Yojana :   

The 57th edition of BB Magazine and the corresponding Yojana soft copy for August 2017 is updated in the resources blog home page ( right side ). Visit  http://balbharati-resources.blogspot.in/  Hope centers have contacted nearest Balabharati Pramukh and collected the hard copies for the kids. Magazine and Yojana soft copy also attached in this mail. 

Subhashita for August month with Audio is uploaded in resources blog at    http://balbharati-resources.blogspot.in/2017/07/subhashita-lets-fears-not-delude-you-be.html

A peep into August Magazine:

• Article on "Our Neighbours: Imbibing the spirit of seeing all in neighborhood as a family. 
• WHY DO WE article on "Why we worship our Gurus and how "
• Remembering our Heroes - Vikram Sarabhai, Bhikaji Cama, Bajirao-1
• Geet ( Kannada ) - Desh Desha 
• Colouring activity, Quiz and Puzzle
• Making NAMASTE CARD using hand tracing. To go with the theme of OUR NEIGHBOURS, children learning to Greet neighbours and give a card. 
• Little Heroes: Siya Vamanda Khode - how he saved his 2 year old brother from danger
• FUN Science - picking a potato using a straw
• Pancha Tantra story and Subhashita

Special activity in last week of the month (as in August YOJANA) :  

The special activity of August is how helping kids to experience the relationship with neighbours and know what role our neighbours play in our life? How they share our happy moments and not so happy moments?  Shikshikas shall introduce the topic may also wants to talk about interesting things in our BB neighbourhood, like gardens, any famous temple, statue, personality, market etc. Parents shall be invited and  BB kids can make a craft Namaste Ji cards (2-10) from this months magazine, try and visit our neighbours, greet them with Namaste, give them our beautiful card, introduce yourself, and also invite them to our BB. Kids can note down in a diary, their experience of meeting neighbour’s and narrate them in the special BB. Kids can have a healthy competition between them to visit as many neighbour’s as possible. Please encourage parents also to share their feeling about this activity, how kids prepared and how they felt after meeting/greeting their neighbours. Let’s remember to give more curiosity than the knowledge/Information to our kids!

It can be made as a game also by asking kids to tell how many neighbours they greeted and said Namaste, and kids should be able to tell about them ( a simple INTRO) to other kids, like, telling a good thing about them, or a skill that they have which they can teach to all kids. 

News and events:   

• New Balabharati has started in Rainbow drive layout on Sarjapur road ( HSR Khand ) 

• Concorde Manhattan BB team with active support from welfare association and Balabharati well wishers conducted a special Yoga session for domestic help persons ( maids)  and house keeping staff. Many Balabharati kids' parents, particularly mothers, actively involved in organizing the event. Yoga session was conducted with 90+ persons participating. Stationary and snacks were distributed by mothers to all the participants.

• Acas Crescent BB in Gottigere has been regularly making use of the FUN science activity to inculcate scientific temper in kids. Once in a while they involve the elder class girls in the apartment to demonstrate science experiment to kids. It could be a way to generate interest in them to have a separate activity for kishoris ( teenage girls ) also. 

• Royal hermitage BB in Arakere Khand ( Gottigere ) conducted a special Gurupurnima celebration. Few teachers and all parents were invited. There was a chart/picture demonstration and explanation by shikshika of various Guru/Shishya mahapurush personalities like Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda.  

• Craft activity is regularly conducted in Sarovar Balabharati. 

• SNN Niladri BB and Concorde BB in EC Khand conducted Raakhi ( Rakshe ) making activity for Balabharati kids. 

Shikshikas are requested to upload pictures of special activities in kids blog ( balbharati-kids.blogspot.in ). If you are new to the process of uploading, kindly contact us or nearest Balabharati pramukh for steps to upload. 

The monthly Balabharati updates is also available under the kids blog at     http://balbharati-kids.blogspot.in/search/label/bbnews    Since many of the parents' email ids may not be in this mailing list, shikshikas/shikshaks are requested to share the above link in whatsapp to all parents and other shikshikas who are not receiving this email. 

Shubham

Balabharati Team