by Captain Melon (3rd Grade How-to Article) Pointillism is a painting technique in which small dots of color form an image. We are going to make a Metro Manila map full of colorful dots. Just follow these easy steps. Materials An empty map of Metro Manila Cotton buds Paint (yellow, blue, green, red, and brown) […]
How to Do a Breakout Room in Your Homeschool
We celebrated Captain Melon‘s birthday today with a game of Breakout. A breakout room is a game wherein players are locked inside a room and they need to find/solve a series of clues to locate the key that will set them free. It’s a timed game, set at about an hour to an hour and […]
How We Celebrated Buwan ng Wika at Home
by Captain Melon (Personal Narrative 3rd Grade) Buwan ng Wika is a celebration to make the Filipinos proud of their culture. It is celebrated every August. In school, we celebrate Buwan ng Wika with games, a feast, songs, videos, and dancing. We decided to do the same thing here at home last Friday, August 21. […]
How to Make a Garden Trellis
The community quarantine has made us all into something, wouldn’t you say? Some have turned into gourmet chefs, some into barbers, and still some into gardeners. I’ve recently taken up gardening myself, transforming our tiny balcony into pots of greens. I started out just collecting seeds from the fruits that we ate and germinating them. […]
How to Send Money to Smart Padala with Paymaya
Update: April 3, 2020. Added also instructions on how to send money to Palawan Express (see last part) With the enhanced quarantine casted over the whole metro, life, as we know it, has changed. A whole lot! In an effort to flatten the curve, we are all strictly following the Stay at Home protocol. One of the challenges, apart from sourcing food and supplies however, has been how the household staff […]
5 Reasons to Watch (and Rewatch) CLOY
If you still haven’t heard of CLOY or Crash Landing on You, which rock have you been under?? For the uninitiated, Crash Landing on You is a 2019-2020 Korean TV series that is about a South Korean heiress who crash landed into North Korea while on a paragliding trip. There, she would meet Ri Jeong-hyuk, […]
8 Items Worth Getting at the Big Bad Wolf 2020
And the Big Bad Wolf is back! Truth be told, I tried really really hard to steer clear from it. We don’t need any more books, I tried to convince myself. There were still so many unopened books from last year’s haul, WE DON”T NEED ANY MORE!!! Oh well, I’ll just go take a quick […]
5 Reasons Why You’ll Love ShopSM too!
Whew! The Holidays are finally over! After all the Christmas parties we’ve organized, gifts for classmates, officemates, kuya guards, ate helpers, inaanaks, and family members that we’ve prepared, trips that we’ve packed for and unpacked from, we moms, deserve a gift! I, for one, got myself mine already and they came today! Yipee! ShopSM You […]
4 Historical Sites to Visit On your Next Trip to the USA
Visiting historical sites are always a nice add-on for the young learners of History. It adds life to the boring pages, color to the battles and passion to the victories. In case you find yourself in a city for business or for real estate search, perhaps among the Princeton homes for sale, make sure to plan […]
8 Gift Ideas for Kids Ages 5 to 10
Christmas is just around the corner! I can tell by the number of hours I’m stuck in traffic! LOL! Kidding aside, that time of gift-giving is indeed quite near. Have you thought of what to get the young ones yet? I made this guide with the sentiment of many moms in mind, don’t give the […]