Elementary School Lessons

The youngest child’s class was asked to make a “backyard” consisting of a house, trees and ornamental plants.

We decided to use paper materials for this one. It was tempting to use toys of course because that would be easier to do and accomplish though not necessarily a better option because of the expenses it will occur.

We mostly used colored construction paper and scrapbook embellishments from Filstar which we bought from a nearby bookstore. Since I still have some embellishments for my handmade notepads, we only got what we needed for this project.

Materials:

• 2 feet by 1 foot styro board
• green velvet paper for the “ground”
• a big bottle of glue
• scrapbook embellishments like shimmery flowers, chipboard embellishments and foam shapes among others.
• ruler
• scissors
• toothpick
• patterns for the houses 
• creativity/creative ideas
• lots of patience

It was difficult at first to “see” how we like to have her backyard but eventually, after we brainstormed ideas and gathered materials we might need, we came up with a plan. I had no problem with the younger daughter accomplishing a lot, she is the artsy one who can do arts and crafts with very little supervision. She did a big chunk of the project herself including putting together the parts that make up the house.

Here is a glimpse of what we put in the backyard.

More photos to be published soon. Photos and post published here.

October 24 is United Nations Day.

I’m so glad we go to a school that supports this special day. If truth be told, I am disappointed with schools that celebrate Halloween but NOT United Nations Day. Harrumph.

Here is a photo of the younger daughter with her classmates all dressed up with the country of their choice.

She chose China. The husband at first suggested that we get her a Chinese dress but the daughter insisted we should not buy: RECYCLE was the teacher’s tall order.

We had her wear the husband’s red silk Chinese polo (am thankful we still had this in the closet), with the long sleeves rolled up and a belt to make it look smaller than it actually is. Black leggings and her school shoes that look like the traditional Mary Jane Chinese shoes completed the get-up along with a long white scarf and a bond paper with the word China stapled on it to make it look like a sash.

The children were asked to bring food that represent the country they chose.  We brought shumai or siomai for the class while others brought a lot of different food.

The youngest daughter’s weekend project consists of making a house and backyard with lots of trees and flowers.

I was able to get a lot of ideas in the web when I searched for patterns. In the afternoon I tried to do a house and a tree.

The daughter loved it! She can’t wait for the print outs for the detailed outline so she can make her own.

Here’s what I made: presenting my low-cost housing unit and a tree, ta-da!

The youngest daughter enjoyed “decorating” the outside walls of the house when they came home from school:

I “copied” this pattern but I used my own measurement. For the 4th wall, I had difficulty adjusting it to be able to get a square. I obviously ran out of paper which made the house pink in front and white on the sides and back.

Am excited to get more supplies at the bookstore for this project. Can’t wait for tomorrow to come 😀

Vitamin A Food Mobile project:

Used egg tray for mixing the paint, water color paints in tube (ugh! the smell was bad), craft glue, scissors, paper for the drawing, long native baskets for the food (from last year’s Christmas gift “boxes”), and puncher. Not in photo is the hanger, round clips (from the notepads project of teacher mom), yarn from projects I can’t remember and native tray (from two Christmases ago where food gifts were given).

Vitamin A rich food: egg, spinach, carrot and cheese (not in the photo yet).

Most of the food mobiles submitted were made of “plastic” fruits and vegetables. I see nothing wrong because these are more colorful and livelier to look at but I think it is better that the children learn to do these art projects from scratch because it not only enhances their imagination and creativity, it also promotes the use of whatever materials one has in the home.

Pantig -ay ang bawat bukas ng labi sa pagbigkas ng salita.

-ang bawat pantig ay binubuo ng titik o kombinasyon ng mga titik.

Patinig

• anak
• elepante
• ulan
• utos
• unan

Patinig/Katinig

• itlog
• isla
• isda
• aklat
• antok

Katinig/Patinig

• bata
• puno
• kamay
• guro
• timog

KPK Katinig/patinig/katinig

• kalmot
• bagyo
• kanluran
• baryo
• kalbo

PKK Patinig/Katinig/Katinig

• ekstra
• angkan
• angkin

KKPK Katinig/Katinig/Patinig/Katinig

• trumpo
• dram
• presko
• plantsa

KPKK Katinig/Patinig/Katinig/Katinig

• nars
• kard,
• airport

Payak

• pulo
• sariwa
• gubat

Maylapi

• kapuluan
• napakasariwa
• kagubatan

Inuulit

• punung-puno
• pira-piraso

Tambalan

• bahaghari
• balikbayan
• silid-aralan

Rounding Off Numbers

• Rounding off is estimation of numbers.

How to round off numerals

1. Identify the digit to be rounded off.

2.If the digit to the right of the number to be rounded is below 5.

3. If the digit to the right of the number to be rounded is 5 and above round up the number. When you:

A. Round Up

-add 1 to the digit to be rounded off and replace all digits to the right of the number to be rounded with zero.

B. Round Down

-copy the digit to be rounded off and replace all the digits on the right with zero.