Last month, the younger daughter availed of the gift certificate I have forgotten about have long buried in my bag. Good thing Miss Yen, the directress of Global Art Philippines was accommodating and gave us the chance to redeem the free services. We got eight hours of free lessons plus materials.
The younger daughter was scheduled to have four 2-hour sessions.
Below is her art work, which was done last Saturday, her second from the 4 two hour sessions:
Nice eh?
Thank you Global Art Philippines, especially Global Art Ortigas (Main) for giving my daughter a chance to have these lessons in your center.
Markers are wonderful sources of information about historical places.
Below is a Dauis Church Complex Marker that informs visitors about the place and among the information are: it was built in 1697, Jesuits lived in the convent during 1753 – 1768, 1768 was also the year when Recoletos priests took over.
The design of the church is that of neo-Gothic and neo-Classic.
I am a believer in non-traditional school setups so when mommy blogger friends and I were invited to visit Active Ambassadors Academy, I did not hesitate to go because this is a school that has a part-traditional and part-progressive approach to teaching.
Based from the experiences of my mommy blogger friend iMom whose youngest son goes to Active Ambassadors Academy, I pretty much surmised that this school is different.
Active Ambassadors Academy:
is committed to nurture and educate children to be globally competitive with skills and knowledge that will make them successful ambassadors of positive change
has two supplementary education providers: Active Brain Inc (ABI) and Dash Cultural Educational Institute (DCEI)
preschool curriculum aiming for competencies in English and Chinese
“Handiworx” a life skills program which aims to develop independence, creativity and practical life skills
believes in developmental approach to learning and thereby espousing a holistic and developmental approach to teaching
AAA Graduates are:
Ambassadors of Wisdom and Knowledge
Ambassadors of Excellence and Service
Ambassadors of Love and Peace
AAA Core Values:
Resilient (I can do it)
Determined (Practice makes perfect)
Global Thinkers, Proactive Leaders (Possibilities are Endless)
Generous (Care and Share)
Environmental (Think clean, think green)
Humble Servants (Love your neighbor)
Christ-like (Live for Christ)
The AAA Program is composed of the following:
DASH CEI Chinese language program
MIKIDS Multiple Intelligences Program for English
Handiworx Life Skills Program
Supplemental programs of Chinese Character Canon and SIP Abacus and Mental Math Brain Training Center
Children wowing us with their Mental Math skills made possible through SIP Abacus and Mental Math Brain Training Center<.
Active Brain Inc. is Philippines sole distributor of SIP Abacus Brain Training Program and Mikids Multimedia Intelligence Program.
Dash Cultural and Educational Instituteis the sole distributor for the Chinese Character Canon program and has developed their own Chinese language etymology course. Chinese teachers are native speakers of Mandarin and came from China. And yes, adults can learn mandarin here too.
Active Ambassadors Academy is located at #35 Dona Hemady Avenue cor 5th Street, New Manila QC. Contact numbers: 02-4755576/02-5248195
Homeschooling does not just mean that the learning takes place within the confines of one’s home. Homeschooling means having the option to choose from among the many learning enrichment centers that provide more skills and new things to learn for homeschoolers.
When my children were still homeschooling, I considered daily tasks as avenues for learning: Science and Math concepts at the supermarket; scheduling and time management for the day to day activities; practical life skills (plus home-making skills) with the household chores; good moral and right conduct with how we deal with the people we encounter throughout the day; honing creativity and imagination through arts and crafts. The list of possibilities and opportunities to learn are endless, if only parents are resourceful and have the “energy” to pursue extra-curricular activities.
I’ve recently been introduced to a not-so-new concept of teaching children academic concepts in an enriching manner, through NumberWorks’nWords, an international learning center for Math and English. What I meant by not-so-new is that I also do the process NumberWorks’Words do with the students: assess, make a program and do a progress report.
What sets the centers apart from the usual tutorial centers is that there are individualized programs for Math and Reading available in NumberWorks’nWords. The centers have evolving learning computer software that they have been developing for years to meet the students learning needs. These learning modules have been developed by educators and software engineers.
Professor Dan Handy, the Managing Director of NumberWorks’nWords explained that their centers want the children to love learning through their programs. The Math Programs are being continually developed by experts while the English programs are geared toward reading, comprehension, writing, spelling and grammar.
NumberWorks’nWords provide assessment process to be able to create individualized programs for the children enrolled with them. They also provide progress reports. All these in an atmosphere where learning is enjoyable.