{"id":359,"date":"2018-06-15T06:45:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T13:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmportland.com\/HariPatrika2018\/?p=359"},"modified":"2018-06-15T07:58:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T14:58:35","slug":"the-alphabet-safari-kindergarten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2018\/the-alphabet-safari-kindergarten\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alphabet Safari &#8211; Kindergarten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Janaki Kolady &amp; Mallika Warrier<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-360\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmportland.com\/HariPatrika2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/KG.Small_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cmportland.com\/HariPatrika2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/KG.Small_-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/KG.Small_.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/KG.Small_-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/KG.Small_-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kindergarten Class 2018<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After a hiatus of 4 years I resumed teaching at bala vihar last year. As<br \/>\nthe year passed by I realized how much I had missed teaching. Kinder<br \/>\ngarten has always been my favourite age group to teach due to many<br \/>\nreasons. The unconditional love and affection that the kids shower on me<br \/>\nis my biggest motivation. Also, I&#8217;ve discovered that children are extremely receptive and curious at this age. I started teaching thinking that I was going to impart so much knowledge to my students but at the end of the year I was truly humbled that my KG class had taught me so much more, whether it be to honestly question concepts, or to come up with a brilliant alternative or to just show pure love and kindness. I&#8217;m truly grateful to poojya Gurudev and Chinmaya mission portland for giving me the opportunity to serve and God willing will continue to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Our syllabus in KG is the Vedantic Alphabet and the Chinmaya Mission pledge.In the Vedantic Alphabet each alphabet stands for a value.For example instead of &#8220;A is for apple and B is for Ball&#8221; we teach that &#8220;A is for Aspiration,B is for Brotherhood, C is for Cleanliness and so on&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>By imbibing and living by these values we get a sweet mind with which we can see God.The concepts in the pledge are also explained with stories and fun activities.The hope is that our students will get a strong foundation upon which they continue to build during their sojourn in Bala Vihar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Janaki Kolady &amp; Mallika Warrier After a hiatus of 4 years I resumed teaching at bala vihar last year. As the year passed by I realized how much I had missed teaching. Kinder garten has always been my favourite age group to teach due to many reasons. The unconditional love and affection that the kids &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2018\/the-alphabet-safari-kindergarten\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Alphabet Safari &#8211; Kindergarten&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contents","category-teachersreflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}