Elementary School Lessons

The younger daughter participated in yesterday’s Run United 1 (500 m dash) at the Bonifacio Global City.

We were all up half past 3am and on our way to the venue. The drizzles made me wary at first because we don’t want to get sick. However, since we already experienced a fun run with the rain falling in full blast, I knew my younger daughter is more than ready for this event.

After all, she’ll only do 500 meter dash which seems a walk in the park compared to last year’s Mommy Milkshake 3k run and Fun Run with Friends where she got a second place position after going around the UP Oval with some other kids including Kuya 😉

So how did the younger daughter do? She placed 71st among all 384 children, 34th among 183 females and 18th among 96 girls in the 6-9 years old category.

Here she is enjoying a post-race treat 😀

Woot!!!!

The kids, especially the younger daughter, love Foldabot.

This is a Foldabot Dinosaur that the younger daughter made without help.

Here is the Foldabot Dinosaur at another angle.

Paper folding is one important aspect of child development that seems forgotten these days, with the children busy with their hand-held gadgets and online games.

Children should be good with their finger dexterity for fine motor skills necessary for cutting, pasting, tearing, folding, coloring and writing later on.

The son brought home a hamster yesterday. It’s not his. It belongs to a classmate who brought it for the Science Week but forgot to bring it home last Thursday.

Friday was a holiday and they didn’t have school.

Saturday was rehearsal day for the Dramatics Club where the son is a member. He was the one brought home the hamster because he was a classmate of the owner.

We went to the supermarket to look for hamster food. We found none save for plastic containers of rabbit food. I have to say “no” because if he brings back the hamster and we still have heaps of rabbit food, the kids might ask for a hamster or a rabbit. Which I have to say “no” to again and they will feel sad.

We gave the hamster apple slices and it nibbled on the slices in no time. He was busy going round and round the wheel last night and was fast asleep in the morning.

Anyway…

Tomorrow, he will bring back the hamster and give it back to the owner.

My Boy Scout is going camping today. The scouts will have an over night camping. I’ve already prepped the things he will bring and hubby was shocked to see how much food I prepared: several brick boxes of milk, water bottles, bananas, a small loaf of bread, cookies, biscuits and even a can of pork and beans.

I also put several clothes to last him several days.

He is bringing a tent and a sleeping bag. His contribution to the group are several bags of charcoal for cooking.

I wanted to bring him to his pulmonologist first before the camping but we didn’t have time to visit the doctor. I hope he won’t have an asthma attack though he brought his inhaler with him, as he always does.

Here is what the son loves to watch and read during his free time:  Formula One Grand Prix which is having its last race for the season at the Abu Dhabi Race Track.

He not only watches the races, past and current, but watches the standings as well. He’d rattle off the statistics in the standings, names the drivers, quotes even more numbers from races a few years back and talk endlessly about Formula One.

He loves analyzing numbers, that’s for sure 🙂

We ran our first 3k, all the way from start to finish without shortcuts, under the pouring rain during the Mommy Milkshake Marathon year 4 for August as World Breastfeeding Month. Woohoo!

I know, 38mins is not a good time but with rains, a kid who tripped and ripped her jogging pants and another one who has to catch his breath and fears that he might have asthma attack later, it ain’t bad for us. At least, we finished 🙂

Watch a video from UNICEF about breastfeeding here.