Elementary School Lessons

Two Saturdays ago, our little Tenderfoot Scout had an all-day City-wide Scouting Movement with his fellow scouters from The Boy Scouts of the Philippines Quezon City Council.

The activities were held at the Quezon Memorial Circle and attended by many schools from Quezon City.

There was a parade of colors before the activities were given. The scouters played games, got acquainted and played more games.

It was a tiring but super fun activity not just for the scouters but for their families as well.

Mabuhay!

The youngest daughter’s weekend project consists of making a house and backyard with lots of trees and flowers.

I was able to get a lot of ideas in the web when I searched for patterns. In the afternoon I tried to do a house and a tree.

The daughter loved it! She can’t wait for the print outs for the detailed outline so she can make her own.

Here’s what I made: presenting my low-cost housing unit and a tree, ta-da!

The youngest daughter enjoyed “decorating” the outside walls of the house when they came home from school:

I “copied” this pattern but I used my own measurement. For the 4th wall, I had difficulty adjusting it to be able to get a square. I obviously ran out of paper which made the house pink in front and white on the sides and back.

Am excited to get more supplies at the bookstore for this project. Can’t wait for tomorrow to come

LEGO Pilipinas, Tara Na exhibit is happening at the SM Mall of Asia from August 12 - 27, 2011.

Here is the Philippine map (photo taken from our photo blog, Photo Stories) in its entirety:

View the photos here.

Read the blogpost here.

Vitamin A Food Mobile project:

Used egg tray for mixing the paint, water color paints in tube (ugh! the smell was bad), craft glue, scissors, paper for the drawing, long native baskets for the food (from last year’s Christmas gift “boxes”), and puncher. Not in photo is the hanger, round clips (from the notepads project of teacher mom), yarn from projects I can’t remember and native tray (from two Christmases ago where food gifts were given).

Vitamin A rich food: egg, spinach, carrot and cheese (not in the photo yet).

Most of the food mobiles submitted were made of “plastic” fruits and vegetables. I see nothing wrong because these are more colorful and livelier to look at but I think it is better that the children learn to do these art projects from scratch because it not only enhances their imagination and creativity, it also promotes the use of whatever materials one has in the home.

Event date: August 21, 2011
Time: 5am to 8 am
Venue: SM Mall of Asia Grounds

ANCOP GLOBAL WALK 2011

Last year, I wrote about Global Art Philippines and the national art competition they held last year.

Last month, the younger daughter availed of the gift certificate I have forgotten about have long buried in my bag. Good thing Miss Yen, the directress of Global Art Philippines was accommodating and gave us the chance to redeem the free services. We got eight hours of free lessons plus materials.

The younger daughter was scheduled to have four 2-hour sessions.

Below is her art work, which was done last Saturday, her second from the 4 two hour sessions:

Nice eh?

Thank you Global Art Philippines, especially Global Art Ortigas (Main) for giving my daughter a chance to have these lessons in your center.

Global Art Philippines Facebook page

Ortigas branch (Main):

Unit 101 Sekai Center, 368 Ortigas Avenue, corner Madison Street, San Juan
Tel: 515-7005; 726-0435

This is the entrance gate of Sunlight Resort. As we can see, it is quite busy with cars coming in after others went in.

The two younger kids had a great time playing with their toys when the photo was taken. They were savoring the last days of summer vacation during the time the photo was taken.