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, Aarati Randeria Forum Joshi, Sangita Thapa
KG N 105 The Alphabet Safari Vandana Sharma, Amitha Bhat Jolly Datta, Suvarna Mahadasyam, 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 Megha Rao, Rupali Tandon
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
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
Grade 9 S 109 Hindu Culture Deepthi Raju, Radhika Koppanur,  Jasmin Patel, Madhu Mittal
Grade 10 S 203 Gita For Me Padmashree Rao, Sreedevi Gundamaraju Manasa Kethireddipalli, Asha Kohli
Grade 11 N 202/3 Gita For Me Mamatha Narra, Priti Parikh  
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 Hema Pandya, Sipala Shah    
Hindi 1B   N 203 Padmasree Ventrapragada, Ami Tyagi    
Hindi 2 N 204 Malini Udtha, Shweta Saxena    
Hindi 3 N 105 Sunita Dawar, Mona Uppal    
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        
Adult Chanting S 117 Shravan Arra    
GCC  

Shravan Arra