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, [...]
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, [...]
Today marks the 112th anniversary of Philippine Independence. In commemoration of this, I leave you with this poem by Aurelio Alvero 1896 – The Cry of Balintawak Freedom! The cry awoke Balintawak, And the echoes answered back:”Freedom!” All the four winds listened long To the shrieking of that song; Every poet struck its lyre With [...]
Just a cute hand poem I remembered from when I was a kid. (starting at the thumb) This is the Father, short and stout This is the Mother with children all about This is the Brother, tall you see This is the Sister with a dolly on her knee This is the Baby still to [...]
The Spawn and I did some Reading Comprehension, Arts and Crafts, and Science yesterday. He wrote his first book report on Pa Jinglebob And the Grabble Gang by Mary Arrigan and Korky Paul. He chose his own activity from one of the exercises in my Creative Teacher book. He made cut-out character report. The face [...]
It’s election day! I hope you’ve all cast you’re votes already. Whoever you voted for, I hope you exercised your right and voted for whoever you believe is right for the job. The Spawn kept asking people who they voted for and gave out a shout of glee every time someone said Noy Noy. Personally, [...]
I like playing around with Keynote and iMovie in my free time and I’ve made a whole bunch of presentations to help teach the Spawn about different artists. I’ve converted some of the into short videos and/or PDF files which you can download and use for your own “classes.” This lesson was all about American [...]
Generations in the past that had penmanship classes in school had such gorgeous writing it could make any document looks so romantic you could cry. These days, some schools still push a particular writing style but not with as much strict enforcement as before. The Spawn’s previous school seemed to be pushing for D’Nealian style [...]
I’m lucky that at 6 years old, the Spawn is an avid reader already. Although he much prefers being read to by myself at bedtime, he is also eager to read to himself selections from his book of “365 Stories and Rhymes for Boys: A Story a Day” and has even been trying to read [...]
