We stumbled upon the website of Stuart Baum (www.StuartStories.com) who has an on-going contest for a 10-word story writing challenge. The premise is stories need not be lengthy in order to be creative and interesting. All a good story really needs is a beginning, middle and end. The writing activity/contest was inspired by the shortest [...]
Homeschooling lessons this month have been erratic. We weren’t able to keep to our regular schedule because it’s crunch time at work. The Studio where I work is shutting down on the 31st so we’ve been rushing to get all the orders done before then. To make up for the lack of organized lesson time, [...]
An e-vite to all parents out there!! You are invited to the 1st Scholastic Clearance Sale! August 27-30, Sept. 1-2, 2010 Friday to Monday, Wednesday to Thursday 8 am to 8 pm Scholastic Warehouse No. 70 C. Raymundo Avenue, Rosario, Pasig City Telephone Numbers: 900-1537; 628-4487 Mobile Number: 09175804784 Email address: scholasticbookfairs @ scholastic.com.ph (no [...]
Peace and Tolerance is an integral part of the Global Village School‘s philosophy. It is one of the reasons why I chose it for our homeschool provider. Religious, Cultural, “Racial” (although I believe “race” does not exist), and even Gay tolerance are important values I wish to instill in The Spawn even though for many, [...]
The Spawn had his first day of Arnis training today under the private instruction of Punong Lakan Tony Nicolas. In the video below, Sir Tony is shouting instructions while his assistant is doing the partner exercise with the Spawn. Arnis is the Philippine National Sport and Martial Art. Sir Tony mentioned that some parents are [...]
Dough Dots (also called Foam Clay) are being sold locally by my good highschool friend and former employer. This is not a paid ad and although I have not yet been able to try this product yet myself, I trust her opinion that this is a great art activity to use at schools and at [...]
Although the Spawn has been making a very good effort in trying to speak Filipino whenever he can (which is regrettably, just a word or two each day since he does not know many words or expressions), I’ve had to devise ways in order to help him actually remember the vocabulary words we are taking [...]
Scratch is a freeware program that allows you to create interactive games or animation. the Spawn and I fired it up for the first time last night and I am floored at how easy it was to use and the Spawn absolutely loves making his own cartoons with it. Within the first 15 minutes of [...]
Today was a very special day. The Spawn and I were able to watch President Noynoy Aquino’s Inauguration via llive web streaming (Thank god for the internet!) AND we “celebrated” our first month of homeschooling!! He spent the whole day writing this very special blog entry summarizing everything he learned this month. Please head on [...]
The Spawn was excited for the Homeschool Headstart Bazaar held yesterday. He had all the crafts he made packed and ready to go and help me arrange all our merchandise on our table. We were able to get a great spot — A corner table to the right side of the bazaar facing the main [...]
