Hello!
This is Cris Evert.
My day just ended. It was long one that involved writing two articles and one research proposal. I also drafted a thesis title and went to the supermarket to bondpaper and vegetables.
Before “working,” I taught the children Math and Filipino. I read the “Story of the Turnip” with Jeffrey and discuss the presence of garden-thieves.
The rest of the subjects, the children worked on their own.
In the last three/four years, this is how we’ve been doing Filipino.
- We focus on one Filipino storybook per quarter (nine weeks);
- We read the story orally four times a week;
- In one week, each child writes down five words in Filipino and then writes/recites the meaning in English;
- Once a week, they do copywriting of passages/lines from that Filipino storybook; and
- Quarterly assessment is in readers’ theater format and we love to dress up or wear silly hats and masks.
We tried watching a Filipino movie once a month but we haven’t been successful in keeping this up. Antoinette, however, speaks and reads the language better because she made it a point to watch KathNiel movies and series.
The boys have improved by leaps and bounds. It is still a challenge for them to say “ng” but the accent and pronunciation are getting there. If you saw videos of them from 2020, you won’t believe that they’ll get to this point.
We are reading “Ang Karterong Pusa” (story by Genajo Gojo Cruz and illustration Mark Jeffrey Santos).
Thank you Canvas PH for making this available for us to download and print for free. There are several titles there that you can download on your tablets and/or print for personal use. If you can, buy the printed copies too. The books are wonderful. One day, when I grow up, I wish to write stories for Canvas too.
I am not exhausted today but my lower back hurts. It’s 12:48 and I am still hanging out in my daughter’s room.
