{"id":359,"date":"2019-06-11T06:45:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T13:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmportland.com\/HariPatrika2019\/?p=359"},"modified":"2019-06-12T23:06:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T06:06:24","slug":"the-alphabet-safari-kindergarten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2019\/the-alphabet-safari-kindergarten\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alphabet Safari &#8211; Kindergarten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Haritha Kajjam, Rashmi Bhalla, &amp; Mallika Warrier<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmportland.com\/HariPatrika2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/HP_2019_KG_Grade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-681\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cmportland.com\/HariPatrika2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/HP_2019_KG_Grade-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/HP_2019_KG_Grade-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/HP_2019_KG_Grade-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/HP_2019_KG_Grade-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/HP_2019_KG_Grade-1200x798.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/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>Haritha Kajjam, Rashmi Bhalla, &amp; Mallika Warrier &nbsp; 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, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2019\/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":4,"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\/HariPatrika2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmportland.org\/HariPatrika2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}