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Our Bala Vihar Teachers

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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         Datta Mehta,  Forum Joshi, Prathyusha Veruva  Surya Kantipudi , Rita Mistry, Deepti Addepalli, Jolly Datta
KG N 105 The Alphabet Safari Dhara Surati, Rekha Trivedi, Vandana Sharma Shilpa Byrichetty, Deepa Suresh
Grade 1 S 110 Bala Ramayana Veena Nayak, Sandhya Harpavat, Akshima Labroo Megha Rao, Sushila Patel
Grade 2 N 103 Sri Hanuman The Super Superman        Ruchira Shah, Purvi Dhutia, Mamta Kamnani, Anu Sankhavaram Priya Mohan, Rupali Tandon
Grade 3 S 107 Bala Bhagavatam Namrata Kamalapuri, Shreya Sheth, Sujatha Prabhakaran Harsha Odhav, Kanan Mehta
Grade 4 S 112 Krsna Krsna Everywhere, My Twenty-Four Teachers Kalpana Lalloo,  Mrudula Madireddy Karuna Tailor,  Padmaja Reddy, Nisha Mehta
Grade 5 N 204 Symbolism In Hinduism Sarita Sheth, Param Moothath Parvathi Sriramt, Vivek Chitale
Grade 6 S 202 India, The Sacred Land Shivanee Sheth, Ravi Chawla Shobha Shekhar, Smita Agrawal
Grade 7 N 202 P.O. Box Mr. God, Key To Success Manasa Kethireddipalli, Shreevani Rao Priya Jayashankar, Viji Chakravarthy
Grade 8 N 104 Yato Dharmah Tato Jayah Shobha Ravishankar,  Jasmin Patel Radhika Koppanur, Shalini Somaraj
Grade 9 S 109 Hindu Culture Padmashree Rao, Sreedevi Gundamaraju Deepthi Raju
Grade 10 S 203 Gita For Me Priti Parikh, Madhu Mittal Asha Kohli, Sreedevi Gundamaraju
Grade 11 N 203 Gita For Me Jayshri Naik, Mamatha Narra  
Grade 12/CHYK S 108 Self Unfoldment Anil Sheth, Sameer Murali  

Language, Bhajana, Orchestra, Slokathon Teachers

Grade Room No Session 1 Teachers    
Hindi 1A                               N 202 Hema Pandya, Mahima Shukla    
Hindi 1B   N 203 Usha Vasu, Alka Veerissetty    
Hindi 2 N 204 Lalita Khemka, Shweta Saxena    
Hindi 3 N 105 Sunita Dawar    
Hindi 4 S 117 Poonam Bhateja    
Hindi 5 S 117 Malini Udtha    
Telugu 1 S 203 Nagasirisha Uppalapati    
Telugu 2 S 203 Saritha Gutha    
Telugu 3 S 204 Anitha Devireddy    
Telugu 4 S 204 Veera Kambala    
Gujarati 1 S 110 Smita Pandya    
Gujarati 2 S 110 Smita Pandya    
Marathi 1 S 108 Gauri Nadkarni    
Marathi 2 S 108 Sangita Mankar    
Bhajan 1 &
Orchestra 1
N 103 Nalini Modi, Brindha Ganesh, Nithya Giridhar    
Bhajan 2A  &
Orchestra 2A
N 104 Anjali Pandit    
Bhajan 2B &
Orchestra 2B
S 109 Jamuna Murali, Sucheta Karandikar    
Slokathon-1A N 205A Rucha Sheth    
Slokathon-1B S 202 Suchitra Ramachandran        
Adult Chanting S 107 Shravan Arra    
GCC  

Shravan Arra, Sreedevi Gundamaraju