Our Bala Vihar Teachers
Chinmaya Mission Houston Bala Vihar provides a structured and consistent Sunday activity that binds a family towards a common cause of all round spiritual growth for the entire family. It provides families a common frame of reference founded on the Vedanta’s millennia tested principles, to discuss and navigate the world that children face every day. It allows parents to convey to their children their respect and love for the culture of India and strengthen their children’s spiritual foundation. In a true tradition of Guru-Shishya Parampara – children get to observe the results of hundreds of volunteers at Mission working in a Karmayoga spirit of dedication to Gurudeva Swami Chinmayananda.
A team of specially trained, experienced, and dedicated teachers conduct the Bala Vihar program. Through games, arts, crafts, stories, and other unique techniques, the Bala Vihar program teaches and reinforces spiritual and cultural values. The curriculum designed for all grade levels (Pre-KG through Grade 12) is creative and dynamic and covers a wide range of topics.
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Grade/ Subject |
Room No. | Topic | Session 1 | Session 2 |
Pre-KG | S 117 | Miscellaneous | Prathyusha Veruva, Forum Joshi, Keerti Srivastava |
Surya Kantipudi, Sangita Thapa |
KG | N 105 | The Alphabet Safari | Vandana Sharma, Amitha Bhat | Jolly Datta, Hinal Parikh |
Grade 1 | S 110 | Bala Ramayana | Akshima Labroo, Surya Kantipudi, Ramya Badala | Vaishali Chaubal, Nehal Dave |
Grade 2 | N 103 | Sri Hanuman The Super Superman | Purvi Dhutia, Sushila Patel, Param Moothath | Priya Mohan, Namrata Kamalapuri, Sunita Bhat |
Grade 3 | S 107 | Bala Bhagavatam | Sandhya Harpavat, Kanan Mehta, Sujatha Prabhakaran (S) | Megha Rao, Rupali Tandon, Sai Aakarsha Saridey, Karuna Tailor (S) |
Grade 4 | S 112 | Krsna Krsna Everywhere, My Twenty-Four Teachers | Kalpana Lalloo, Ravi Chawla | Nisha Mehta, Mrudula Madireddy, Ashwini Aglave |
Grade 5 | N 204 | Symbolism In Hinduism | Manasi Scott, Shreya Sheth | Shreevani Rao, Harsha Odhav |
Grade 6 | S 202 | India, The Sacred Land | Shivanee Sheth, Sweety Trivedi | Smita Agrawal, Vivek Chitale, Padmaja Reddy (S) |
Grade 7 | S 204 | P.O. Box Mr. God, Key To Success | Sarita Sheth, Sruthi Parameswaran | Shilpa Byrichetty, Rekha Trivedi |
Grade 8 | S 201 | Yato Dharmah Tato Jayah | Shobha Ravishankar, Priya Jayashankar | Deepa Suresh, Dhara Shah, Viji Chakravarthy (S) |
Grade 9 | S 109 | Hindu Culture | Deepthi Raju, Radhika Koppanur, Manasa Kethireddipalli (S) | Jasmin Patel, Madhu Mittal, Sreedevi Gundamaraju (S) |
Grade 10 | S 203 | Gita For Me | Padmashree Rao, Sreedevi Gundamaraju | Manasa Kethireddipalli, Asha Kohli, Mamatha Narra (S) |
Grade 11 | N 202/3 | Gita For Me | Mamatha Narra, Dhara Shah, Jayshri Naik (S) | Priti Parikh, Madhu Mittal |
Grade 12/CHYK | S 108 | Self Unfoldment | Anil Sheth, Varun Mittal |
Language, Bhajana, Orchestra, Slokathon Teachers
Grade | Room No | Session 1 Teachers | ||||
Hindi 1A | N 202 | Padmasree Ventrapragada, Mona Uppal | ||||
Hindi 1B | N 203 | Hema Pandya, Sipala Shah | ||||
Hindi 2 | N 204 | Malini Udtha, Shweta Saxena | ||||
Hindi 3 | N 105 | Sunita Dawar | ||||
Hindi 4 | N 104 | Ravindra Aglave | ||||
Hindi 5 | N 104 | Poonam Bhateja | ||||
Telugu 1 | S 203 | Nagasirisha Uppalapati, Swetha Rachamadugu | ||||
Telugu 2 | S 203 | Aparna Mirayala | ||||
Telugu 3 | S 204 | Srilatha Aluru | ||||
Telugu 4 | S 204 | Veera Kambala, Vineel Kota | ||||
Gujarati 1 | S 110 | Smita Pandya, Kalpesh Divecha | ||||
Gujarati 2 | S 110 | Bhavana Patel, Jay Mehta | ||||
Marathi 1 | S 107 | Gauri Nadkarni | ||||
Marathi 2 | S 107 | Sangita Mankar | ||||
Bhajan 1 & Orchestra 1 |
N 103 | Brindha Ganesh, Ashmi Kesaria, Pooja Bhat | ||||
Bhajan 2A & Orchestra 2A |
S 108 | Sucheta Karandikar, Nithya Giridhar | ||||
Bhajan 2B & Orchestra 2B |
S 109 | Jamuna Murali, Anjali Pandit | ||||
Slokathon-1A | N 201 | Jai Ganesh, Mithil Rana | ||||
Slokathon-1B | S 202 | Rucha Sheth, Disha Rana, Dileep Rao (S) | ||||
Adult Chanting | S 117 | Shravan Arra | ||||
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Shravan Arra |
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