Lucky were the learners who had the opportunity to enjoy learning: with all the necessary support from stakeholders, a journey to learning was truly fun and meaningful.

With a healthy curriculum that addresses their needs for authentic learning, life skills were taught through lessons/activities in and out of the classroom provided by a conscientious and effective classroom teacher.

Parental support and maximum attention to their needs were provided, such as books, technology, among others: students had the opportunity to develop their expected skills, showing their passion; thus, making a huge impact on your learning.

I had always been concerned that each lesson, project or assignment was within the learning environment/experience of my students. The following learning activities tell us all about how I translated the K-12 curriculum into authentic, relevant, and impactful learning:

Mini City Tour

Familiarization with the community :with the help of parents agile the children were able to see different places in San José del Monte, from the welcome marker to SM town, Nolasco market, San Pedro church, Gumaok East, Central and West Barangay offices, the generic pharmacy, the Grotto Vista Resort and St Joseph the Worker. Church to the Old Town Hall to the Sanctuary of the Grotto of Lourdes.

sculpted dioramas

To show their knowledge about their neighborhood, students had the opportunity to create a diorama representation of their health center, basketball court, daycare center, sari-sari shop etc.

writing big books

Write stories about your experiences, showing your writing style, from reflecting on the mini tour to other learning activities. My students wrote over a hundred books. He asked them to share their written work with their classmates.

Tame Your Dragon Presentation Video

Giving them the opportunity to use technology to create ideas on how negative emotions can be managed, showing them the essence of social emotional intelligence in action. I think by doing this they would have empathy and be well-adjusted human beings later in life.

good deeds for the week

An activity sheet in which they wrote down the good deeds they had observed during the day. Not only did they have the opportunity to be aware of their behaviors when dealing with the people around them, but they were also able to develop their language skills, particularly in the use of grammar, let’s say the past tense of the verb: I listened carefully, spoke quietly, did not intimidate a seatmate, to mention just a few.

weekly celebration

The students were always ready to show off their dancing skills and singing prowess whenever we had a classroom program like Nutrition Month, Linggo ng Wikaetc.

parade

A regular culminating activity where parents join in the fun and excitement by preparing costumes or props to make the celebration meaningful and memorable for the children.

resource person

During the celebration of the Month of Nutrition we had invited a lactating mother to answer questions from the students about breastfeeding, proper care of the baby, among others.

game cards

Verb cards were part of the lesson where they had fun learning sight words in sentence, sentence… and paragraph. Few had difficulty building sentences, others with paragraphs.

Urban Gardening

Instill in their young minds the value of planting vegetables, caring for seeds or young plants, etc. we had gardening at home.

Bangkang Tsinelas

To instill the value of caring for our environment, in particular the importance of clean water flowing in watercourses, the students had bangkang tsinelas race in which they could see the state of their to know and do the necessary actions within their capacity as small defenders of the environment.

Exhibit

As a way to show their love for their culture and that of others, they held a great exhibition of different provinces in Region 3 where the people, their culture and their arts were highlighted.

Quarterly Classroom Based Awards/Recognitions

Recognizing exemplary works, performances and all…selected students received ribbons and certificates; his always supportive parents were also recognized.

I would like to take this opportunity to extend my sincere thanks to all agile parents who, in one way or another, have supported their children’s learning journey, with me. Along with other great stakeholders, may you continue to be enthusiastically involved in your child’s education.