Wetsipon Workshop : Homeschool Journeys

I never had this experience of living life in a community, not that our community is a perfect place to do this but this is the first time i had work, school (daughter's) home in one baranggay.  In primary school thru high school, it was 2 municipalities and maybe 15 baranggays apart living in philam talon 2, las pinas and studying in la huerta paranaque.  Later in college was worst living in las pinas and studying in espana, manila... During the time of flyover constructions that made my commute a good 2 hours (or more more)  1 way.  Office for a while was also las pinas-makati, mandaluyong-qc, qc-makati and i had some moments of home office that was actually more travelling than staying at home.  Today i have my office so near that the gps circle would touch the tip of the office door when i am at home in my bedroom.  About 150 steps away just because the entrace of the compound is than farther my house that the actual office is. My daughters school, ...

For a digital native like J,  one of the learning milestone challenges we are having is handwriting.  We have been giving her workbooks, coloring books,  new and pretty crayons,  different types of pens just to encourage her to write or start to love writing.  We have allow her to write on walls because she seems to be interested in writing with chalk but that eventually graduated to all other writing implements only on walls and other surfaces except paper.  There has to be major patience (and detergent and vinegar wiping on walls) to be applied here but we know it would pass.   At 3,  she already reads even big words,  tough words (huh by the way i will try her out later to check if she can decipher tough.. tough is tough) like advertisement,  wellness, Bible, Psalms, business,  she can mentally spell small words, type in words and do youtube, spotify and google searches,  do word play like...

Anywhere is a chance for learning.  Daddy and J have this errand bonding tradition at the supermarket.  Daddy will let J ride the pushcart and tours her in the produce section.  They name each and every item on shelf so J can see the fruits and vegetables in its raw form.  This beats just hanging posters and pointing to her pictures and objects,  beats doing powerpoints of the same.  I know this is still artificial but this is just the only way she will encounter the stuff in the urban setting.  Great venues would be sm hypers, rustans  and puregold.  The bigger the better,  so there would be more cart space because the sessions can take minutes to go around.   Enjoy!

My J have this selfie phase of her life.  Some kids like to see themselves in the mirror, unfortunately most of our mirrors are high and uncomfortable for her to do her facial experimentation comfortably so her phone or tablets’ camera would be her pseudo mirror.    Every so often that i archive and clean up my memory there would be some small heartbreaks for me chasing to delete which photos to keep.  There are just too many of them.  Her favorite app would be the Photo Booth and CamWow both iOS because of the presets or filters she often play with along with playing with her face.   And then she snaps a photo of me with this... This reminds me of circa 1990’s where achieving the Warhol like effects would need a town to achieve!  In those day and age of color separations that would need days to develop, a print ad was done with a whole lot of departments and a whole lot of job functions plus a who...

Nakakakilig,  right before bedtime as she was cooling down to prepare for sleep with her iPhone in tow,  i took a peek at what she was doing.  She was doing searches on her own thru google.   These are her usual search words  cookies www.facebook.com > as in! she types in the www for real barney stoorys (stories) pig chair glass door greendoor I understand that the internet may be harmful and all,  but I just like it that she is exploring and practicing to spell and type words on her own. Just to share.. This is one of her first time I notice her typing (I don't even know how to get those emoticons :).. Actual screen grab J @ 3 years 1 month