Do you know how many times in one day we have to clean up the children’s home classroom?
The answer is: I lost count.
We started putting together our home classroom in March after Jeff and I started our discussion about homeschooling the children. We decided not to. We will enrol them in a regular school that offers online and modular learning.
Since March 2020, when home quarantine was mandated, the children and I have accomplished the following:
- Started a vegetable garden 🥬
- Made organic compost 🌿
- Started two businesses (Tindahan ni Tonya and Karinderya ni Tonya) 🖌️
- Attended an online space camp 🌎
- Learned a new language 🀄
- Improved their coloring skills after sessions with teacher-uncle-architect Hendrix 🖍️
- Posted cooking videos on our Youtube channel 🍳
- Initiated the 50 Kits Project (which gives free school supplies and art materials to children) ✉️
- Read a loooot of books which improved their vocabulary, comprehension, and grammar 📖
One of their favorite activities is arts and crafts. We colored art sheets, made slime from glue, and folded sheets of paper to make origami puppies. It is even more exciting these days that Uncle Hendrix is around.
Hendrix, my younger brother, is an architect by profession. He draws, he paints, and he makes accessories from gemstones.
Because the twins just celebrated their 7th birthday and Uncle Hendrix is here, we decided to open an online poster making contest to the children here in our neighborhood: Villa Lorena Dos Subdivision in Barangay San Vicente, Liloan, Cebu.
If you are our neighbors and you have children between the ages of nine (9) and 12, please check the guidelines and mechanics below for details:
Here is the fine print:
📍The contest is open to children, who are 9 to 12 years old, and residing in Villa Lorena Dos Subdivision in San Vicente, Liloan, Cebu. One child equals one entry.
📍This is an online poster making contest with the theme: “What do you love most about staying at home?”
📍The artwork should be done on white cartolina or bond paper (either long or short size).
📍Any kind of medium (e.g. crayons, watercolor, pastel) is allowed but please take note that the artwork should be done by hand using drawing materials. Digital work is NOT allowed.
📍Criteria for judging are as follows:
🖌️ Relevance to the theme: 25%
🖌️ Creativity: 25%
🖌️ Originality: 20%
🖌️ Visual Impact: 20%
🖌️ Audience Engagement (10%)
📍Participants DO NOT NEED to submit the physical copies of their artworks. Each participant should take clear or high resolution photos of the artwork and send them to readingruffolos@gmail.com along with his/her photo and the following details:
🖊️Name
🖊️Age
🖊️ Street Address
🖊️ Brief description of the artwork (two to three sentences)
📍 The entries will be judged by esteemed and award-winning artists.
📍 The top three entries will win art materials, certificates, and will be featured in the Reading Ruffolos’ website.
📍 Deadline of submission is on July 31, 2020.
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Parents, I know it is a huge challenge to be our children’s teachers at this time. But the thing is, and this is the truth, we, parents, SHOULD be our children’s first teachers. Many of us, myself included, have avoided this responsibility because it was convenient to just send them to a physical school and have the teachers become their primary educators.
Many will argue: “Well, I paid a lot of money for their education!”
True and valid BUT teaching our children is not the sole job of the teacher. The millions of pesos (or dollars!) you have in the bank cannot replace the time and effort that you spend with your children.
Pandemic or not, parents need to step up and become more active players in our children’s learning journey.
Our dear neighbors, please, if you can, guide your children in making their artworks for this contest. Take note: guide them. Do not make the artwork yourself. 😂
I hope that you will have a wonderful time in making your posters. We are very excited to see all of them.
