Posted in watchamacallits on Mar 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Wednesday is my third favorite day. ( Sunday and Saturdays are first and second, of course). It is a bit different in a sense that we still work on our regular chores and lessons for the day. But a lady comes to help with the chores which makes it lighter for me, giving me […]
Posted in watchamacallits on Mar 24th, 2008 No Comments »
I get a dose of the daily news from the Philippines online through Inquirer.net. Newsworthy articles about great people are a gem. Stories about these people inspire our younger generation and provide good models of hard work and success. We seldom find ones that give the Filipinos a good boost, and this is what we need these days. Aside from the Bible […]
Posted in watchamacallits on Mar 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Homeschooling isn’t new in the Philippines. Our National Hero Dr. Jose Rizal was first homeschooled by his mother, Teodora Alonzo Rizal in his early childhood years before being sent to Ateneo De Manila to continue studies. And that was in the 1860s!
Anyway, as I know, homeschooling later was introduced (or perhaps adapted) from the foreign missionaries […]
Posted in watchamacallits on Mar 16th, 2008 No Comments »
This movie,Story of Stuff, is just exactly what I would like to view with my children. I am thinking of a unit study about it - an immersion and have it as spine in learning about the earth today, science, health, economy, and environment. I have started exploring the site and looking for the recommended materials. Maybe, we […]
Posted in watchamacallits on Mar 7th, 2008 No Comments »
This is late i know but I feel it is very important and I do not want to skip it nor forget about it years after.
3 things…
1. I went through laparoscopic cholecystectomy on this date. It is a routine surgery, and quite common, where my gall bladder was extracted. Despite the effort to have the […]