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Our 4th Gawad Alternatibo Selection

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  Wetsitales Celebrates 4th Gawad Alternatibo Selection with Wetsitales : Agyu from Ayuman (Omnibus Version)   Wetsipon Workshop proudly celebrates another milestone as Wetsitales: Agyu from Ayuman (Omnibus Version) has been selected for Gawad Alternatibo, marking the fourth time Jade Dandan Evangelista’s Wetsitales series has been presented in the festival’s programming.   Since 2022, Wetsitales has brought Philippine oral traditions, folktales, and regional stories to screen through short animated films created by the daughter-mother team of Jade and Nina Dandan Evangelista. The series began its Gawad Alternatibo journey in 2022, when Jade, then 10 years old, had three films screened: Wetsitales : Aponibolinayen and the Sun (Official Selection , ) Wetsitales : How the Moon and Stars Came to Be , and Wetsitales : The Flood Story .   In 2023, three more Wetsitales films followed: The Monkey and the Turtle , The Story of Kanag (Official Selection , ) an...
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Our Music Journey So Far

W hen I was young,  I was lucky to have access to music in different forms and styles.  It was so accessible we actually took it for granted and for a time,  wasted the opportunity.   My mother was a piano teacher,  the best basic piano teacher in our small town.  She knows how to make a person play a musical instrument with information that sticks as a core memory.  Not just the easy playing style that would make you copy playing a piece and when the session ends you will never play the instrument again.  She is good in theory and possibly child psychology or people reading she can customize a curriculum so that you can eventually play the instrument,  find your own time to go back again, and still could play and progress even after the session.    However,  she was my mother and I never was into making music as a passion so I didn't like my Saturday playtime and TV time stopped by piano practice and lessons during my you...
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And then I saw 2 cats

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W etsipon's development happened this way,  she read at around 2, could keyboard type an actual word with corresponding emoji pre-playschool (around 3,) and then struggled for her to write on pen and paper at playschool.  We had to push her for pencil skills as we did not want her to do another playschool and be accepted in Kinder. Glad that I had a sister who is into child dev and asked us one question.  Is anybody at home writing on paper?  Being with 2 adults,  our household needed a lifestyle change,  we made an effort to forget Onenote, and Evernote and made an extra effort to write on paper.  I was a phone - tablet - laptop yielding corporate mom.  My hubby also only uses the phone, tablet, and desktop.  Things had to change.  Monkey sees monkey does.   I was lucky to have an office near a paper warehouse where they consider manila paper-sized cuts of  (beautiful)  paper as spoilage I can take home.  My ink...
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Preparations before the plunge

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 I really made thorough research on this matter.  Even when she was in regular school,  I checked casually on resources that is on the internet.  I notice that the community was filled with generous mothers who offer tips and tricks.    I was interested in the lifestyle and personalities of some homeschool vloggers,  one of which is Janina Vela  (in her makeup phase,) since I do not have anyone I personally know who does homeschool,  she was a peg.  I once encountered a colleague client who mentioned she was, I had a conversation with her about education since I think we both have same-age children and we were embarking on decisions on which school to choose, so that started a spark,  my kid was about 4 y.o. about to start schooling,  (she could already read but was not into using the pencil yet,) being a corporate mother,  this was not an option. Then came a lifestyle change and we decided for me to stop corporate work,...
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Back to Blogging : Our Homeschool Journey

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Wetsipon digital drawing on iPad notepad doodle circa 2018.  Representing her new found friends now that she is homeschooling,  Bien and Blocky. W elcome back to my blog.. and welcome back to me.. hehe.  I have been thinking about going back to blogging with the current advocacy much worth my mumblings.   This time I will be sharing our homeschool journey after being a veteran of 4 years completing a milestone and having my daughter recently finish elementary. What started me from homeschooling?  Many things,  but mostly because I realize learning is not a one size fits all.   It is a long story to tell,  it is not just one reason.  It may need to take up a whole blog session.   I saw that my daughter has potential but I can see that regular school needs to maintain a certain speed for most to follow.  The speed seems to be a pace that my daughter gets bored with,  to allow her to be within the speed limit, the school...
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Turn Over

BB : It has been a while since I blogged.  I have gathered a lot of unused content that it is hard to curate and organize it.  I have changed a lot in my voice,  my content, my opinions and focus have updated.  This "blog container" used to be about an infant, ff toddler, ff pre-school and with a batt of an eyelash she is now making content of her own.  Maybe just like mommy,  the topics will be flying all over the place.  It has to settle back to a voice,  this time it will be another voice.  Mommy will be doing the technicals of posting,  maybe a bit of backgrounder chit chats,  but this blog will now be about, BBB,  establishing herself more as Wetsipon.  It's now all from J or all about J.  Ladies and Gentlemen,  this is now Wetsipon Workshop's blog.
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Wetsipon @ Hey Kessy

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August 19 may be a milestone of sorts for J.   Today we have delivered our first batch of merchandise to a legit artisan store that hosts creations of acknowledged artists, crafters and makers.  Hey Kessy with branches in Alabang Town Center and UP Town Center is her debut store.   We am so proud because her works have been getting positive feedbacks from her little Instagram space where we initially wanted to archive her doodles that eventually became projects that are Hey Kessy worthy! After the delivery we were in our usual mall.  Usual shops which includes a local daisho shop.  J actually wanted to go immediately and we didn't know that she had a specific plan in mind.  To read the labels and boxes and practice his newfound skill from doing Duo Lingo and attentively going thru youtube upon youtube of Hiragana or Katakana as well as doing Japanese emoji faces called kaomoji or Lenny faces.. slowly but surely she was just like when she was learning ho...
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