Parenting, Schooling

Homeschooling Preparations

Remember that in one of the 30 Things About Me, I mentioned that I was contemplating to transfer my five-year old daughter to homeschooling. Dear Husband and I have been discussing and praying about this matter for months now. Our desire to protect our daughter’s welfare and spirit and the circumstances we faced for the previous months led us to…

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Schooling

Student’s Office

If you think only office workers have cubicles, think again because students too can also have their own cubicles in school. This is one of the differences of the School of Tomorrow curriculum from a teacher-centered curriculum. School of Tomorrow curriculum is also known as Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) or PACE system. With School of Tomorrow’s curriculum, each student has their own…

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Parenting, Schooling

Back To School

Back to school time for my eldest daughter, Jyma Sciezka. The classes officially started last Monday but it was just an orientation day for both parents and students. She has started reporting to school last Tuesday and continued working on the PACEs she left last March. The additional set of PACEs for Level 1 is still coming this Saturday. By the way, PACEs stands for Packets of…

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Schooling

A Review of Phonics-in-Reading

I am happy that finally, I have now the complete set of Series 1 and 2 of Phonics – in – Reading by May S.M. Mah. I have an added blessing because the books are in yellow tags. I only got them  for Php 35.00 per book. My daughter received the first five books of Series 1 last January from…

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Parenting, Schooling, Sciezka

Progress In School

Hubby and I attended the 3rd Parent-Teacher-Fellowship at my daughter’s school this afternoon. I always see to it that I attend this meeting because this is my chance to know my daughter’s behavior and performance in school. This is the time I could talk to her supervisor (this is how they call their teachers in school) about her attitude in…

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