Our Homeschool Room

I’ve posted earlier what my daughter wanted to be.. she had a variety of ambitions from a surfer to a preacher. It was like she wanted to be everything except to be a business person, but I think that would be okay since she won’t have to think about Employee Purchase Program Events . But seriously though she changed her ambition. Recently, she has been telling everyone about it and she said it ‘final’ and she won’t change. This is what she wants to do when she grows up. ” I want to build a home for the children. Every morning before breakfast, I’m... 

Last month, I registered my daughter in Postcrossing.com for her to send and receive postcards from all over the world. I wanted her to build up on her writing skills and at the same time be exposed to different countries in the world through post cards. It has only been a month since I registered her and we’re so happy because she already sent 10 postcards and received 8! The postcards are beautiful and the messages written for her are quite encouraging too. So far she has received a postcard from USA, Canada, Finland, China, France, Japan, Portugal and Germany. Amazing huh! The postcard... 

Both my kids are playing right now. I just love to see them play together. I never though Polly pocket dolls and Power ranger action figures can be ‘friends’. That’s how they play together, daughter still gets to play with her dolls while my son still gets to play with his robots and ‘boys’ toys. Our kids are really blessed these days, aside from us buying toys during special occasions, they also get to receive toys as gifts. I’ve even come to a point when I decided to stop buying toys for them. Aside from saving up money in doing this and not worry everytime... 

We already bought my son’s homeschool materials a couple of months ago. I then attempted to start the curriculum with him but it does seem he is not quite ready yet. So, I just let his books sit for awhile while I try other informal activities for him. As of now, I’m letting him to a few pre writing activities a day and introducing 1 letter a week. He’s enjoying it a lot. In a few days time, I’ll be reading to him the simpler books from his program. I’m in no rush to ‘school’ him, since he’s not even four years old.  

I really admire how other moms can strictly forbid watching TV for their kids. Some moms hide the tv remote control with the wii remote controller . I just couldn’t do that because I consider the TV as my ‘helper’. It keeps my kids occupied while I cook or do other chores. But for the past days, I’ve noticed that my kids haven’t been very interested with TV anymore. They were more engaged with the toys or books. It’s indeed a joy for me to see them quietly sitting without the ‘magic’ of the tube. I think my kids have just grown older now.