McDo Kiddie Crew

by: Zek Santos

We clean, we help and we eat at McDonalds. Kuya JC is also there and we have a great time.

Happy Easter Day

By: Zek Santos

After we eat breakfast, we go to church so I can learn something that you call a kids' inn. I always love kid's inn. We go to Jollibee. We buy cars, foods and drinks. I painted the easter egg with mommy later.

My G2 Moving Up

By: Zek Santos

We go to my Moving Up with kuya JC and Tito Remir. My teacher gave me a medal (Best in English), then we decided to go home. Tito Remir left JC at the condo and we eat and sleep.

My String Instrument

By: Zek Santos

First, we need an empty shoe box. Second, you need a decoration. Then third, you need a string. Now you can play your new instrument.

A Day in Robinson's Galleria

By: Zek Santos

After my Enopi, we go to Robinson's. We buy choco and muffins. Next we buy bread too. And then we go home to eat and watch TV and we go to sleep.

Nido Science Museum

By: Zek Santos

We go to SM (Mall of Asia) and we go to Toy Kingdom. After, we go to Nido Science Museum and we watch Wonders of the Universe on the movie. Then we go to Jollibee and eat. Then we go home.

Karate-Do

by: Zek Santos

We go to Robinsons to my karate-do. I go to play-area before karate-do. And after that we go home to eat and rest.

CFA G2-Q4 Progress Report

Student Name: Matt Ezekiel C. Santos
Level: Grade 2

Sessions/Activities:

For our fourth quarter activities, Zek joined the Catechism every Sunday and Choir Practice for mass songs every first and last Saturday of the month. We also enrolled him at Karate-Do class for additional physical education.

Our usual routine of doing lessons for the day is about 2 hours in the morning and 2 more hours in the afternoon. He also goes swimming during his noon time break every other day.

Progress per subject:

CLE: To provide more church activities for Zek, we let him join the Catechism every Sunday and ask him to write his short story about the experience.

One time when he got sick, he was very sad thinking that God is punishing him and he was crying while asking for forgiveness for all the mistakes he has done. When it was my turn to get sick he lays his hand to me and pray over for my healing very quietly.

Math: Telling time gets easy for Zek this quarter since he receives a wrist watch gift for Christmas though it was digital we ask him to compare time with our analogue clock on the wall. He also learns a lot about the calendar year, number of days and name of the months.

For more practice about money, we play monopoly and visionary game boards once in a while.

Language: Practice writing a letter is one of Zek favorite lesson to do since we ask him to write letters for his friends, playmates and families during the Christmas time. He also exchanges letters with his friends who lives nearby our apartment then we let him write a story of his daily activities too.

Reading: Zek enjoys more now in reading books, we provide him story books that has activity or worksheets every after story that he can answer and do by himself during his free time and ask him to retell the story to us then we do some question and answer portion after. Spelling is still a struggle for him somehow, so every time he asks about spelling a word for him we do pronounce it to him and let him do the spelling as we say try to dissect the word in syllables.

Science: Zek appreciates now the stages of growing, he keeps on measuring his height and his baby brother. We’ve been showing him all his milestones photos and videos for more familiarization and he has a lot of questions popping up on his mind as he watches every stages.

We also do exercise every morning as much as possible and explain to him the benefits, we go to gym sometime too for his additional orientation and include the healthy foods that goes with it.

Filipino: Natutuhan naming ang mga salitang kilos at mga Gawain na sa araw-araw na maaring ihatihati sa bawat miyembro ng pamilya at pagtutulungan sa tahanan.

Nahihirapan pa si Zek sa paggawa ng sulat sa salitang tagalog at pagsasalita ng tuwid sa Filipino kaya ginagamit nmin ngaun ng madalas ang salitang tagalog sa pag-uusap araw-araw sa loob ng tahanan.

Sibika: Nadagdag sa aming kaalaman ang mga tanyag na pinunong Filipino ngayong ikapat na aralin at natutuhang pag-usapan at alamin ang kakayahan ng bawat isa o katalinuhan taglay na maaaring maibahagi at gamitin upang makatulong sa ating bansa.

MUSIC: Zek learns about the Filipino native songs in his lessons and get familiarize with them as we sing and dance every song. Though, we have some difficulty remembering pitch name and Cleft for the keyboard including the symbols.

ARTS: Famous Filipino people in relation with arts and remembering their names not easy for Zek to recognize this time but he finds it easy to identify different occasions and greeting cards that goes with it. He makes one in every occasion as we celebrate it.

PE: We practice a lot of our folk games and songs this quarter. We also play with him the game mentioned in the book for more fun learning and easily recognition. Names of every game in tagalog is still not easy for Zek to say or remember this time.

Problems Encountered / Solutions:

1. Zek attention span is still our concern.

At the end of the day, we ask Zek to write a story about his activity just to provide additional seat work for him besides regular work sheets that makes him bored. This will improve his patience and improve his creativity in expressing himself in writing letters.

2. Some mathematics lesson gets confusing.

Especially when it comes to money, peso is still new to him since we stay out of the country most of the time of his growing years and it’s still a lot of learning process for us. To practice, we explain that the value stays the same wherever we go and only the currencies are changing depending on the country and that PESO is called the Philippine money. We do practice somehow during our time to buy groceries or food outside.

Measurement is also a difficult one for him, he still gets confused. We familiarize him by using actual height, weight scale and ruler though names are hard to remember for him.

Aim-Pod

by: Zek Santos

Aim is trying the Ipod in the mall.

Aim Learns to Walk

by: Zek Santos

Mommy put the bed on the floor so Aim and I can play then he can practice his walking. We play a lot with each other also.

Aim went Swimming

by: Zek Santos


When Aim was 4 month old, mommy let him go swimming and he enjoyed it a lot. Then he was also massaged by the Chinese Ayi.

Fun and Arts at McDo

by: Zek Santos

Every Sunday, we go to McDonalds and we make colorful bags, halloween mask, painted t-shirts, Chinese New Year red envelop, picture frames and a lot more. Its cool and I learn a lot.

Aim is with us too. He drinks milk and sleeps in his stroller :)

Life in the Fast Train

January 1, 2012
by : Zek Santos

We ride the fast train to Guangzhou and it was fun. I drink the chocolate also and Aim is with us even if he is always sleeping. We go to the church and go back home at night.

Brgy. China Christmas Party

December 17,2011
by: Zek Santos

We go Shenzhen and meet a lot of friends and we play and eat a lot. We play games and sing songs also. We sleep in a hotel and I got a lot of gifts. It's Christmas time.

Happy Birthday, Papa Jesus!

CFA: G2-Q3 Progress Report

Student Name: Matt Ezekiel C. Santos
Level: Grade 2

Sessions/Activities:

After breakfast, Zek plays football game or basketball game with his Daddy before he leaves for work. Then he does the problem solving exercises on the white board that his Daddy gives to him too as his quizzes for Math. He can easily get bored in doing sit down worksheets for all the daily subjects. They also practice 1-2 songs in the morning with guitar accompaniment of his Daddy.

At the start of the day, we also schedule all physical activities and do Zek’s favorite subjects after wards so we still have the energy to do it and finish all as required.

On this 3^rd quarter, Zek goes to soft hockey ball game every Saturday and McDo kids club art classes every other Friday for DIY projects for our MAPE activities alternating with our DIY ceramic figure paintings.

Progress per subject:

CLE: This quarter, Zek learns more about the gifts of the Holy Spirit, The Sacrament of Baptism, The Sacrament of Confirmations and The Sacraments of Communion that helps us to spread the Gospel in one’s own way. But somehow, he is still having some difficulty remembering names from the Bible stories and relating them into our real life. He still can’t believe why God is in heaven and all the people stays here on earth.

Math: Math is a difficult subject for us now to master so we give more exercises to Zek on a white board than on the book worksheets that bores him a lot and takes him the entire day to finish. He becomes more interested now in fractions because pizza is his favorite food that we use for solving problems instead of saying it as pie graph. He is still confused with arranging the fractions from ascending to descending and vise versa.

Language: One of Zek favorite subject this time is his English, he can easily understand the lessons and finish the worksheets fast. He knows how to write, describe and compare things now using adjectives. Identifying adverbs of place and time in sentences with proper use and explaining how actions are done.

Reading: Zek is getting more and more accurate now in describing and comparing things, people and places. For his reference too, we let him watch DVDs that related on every topic that he can relate somehow to our topics. We read stories for him that given in the book and ask him to re-tell it according to his own words as how he understands it then we let him compare and describe each character mentioned in the stories.

Science: Zek learns about Physical properties of Matter and he is interested to know more about it especially when we did cfaonlinemodules.com how glass can be breakable and luminous. He likes the lessons about sounds also and how it is produced. Somehow he cannot grasp yet the idea that the earth is like a big magnet with the gravity that moves the object towards the ground.

Filipino: Natutuhan at nalaman ni Zek ngayon aralin ang mga karapatang at tungkulin ng bawat tao sa pamayanan. Kasama din sa aralin ang kaantasan ng pang-uri, mga bilang na ordinal at mga pang-uri na isinasalin naming sa English para sa mas madaling pang-unawa nya. Medyo nahihirapan pa si Zek sa pagsusulat ng dikit-sikit at patuloy na nagsasanay upang maging maayos at maintindihan ang mga salitang kanyang isinusulat.

Sibika: Ang mga pagdiriwang pambansa, panrelihiyon at pansibiko ang tinalakay sa aming aralin kasama na ang pagkilala sa ating pamahalaan na hindi naging madali sa aming pag-aaral sapagkat madalas ay naninirahan kami sa ibang bansa kaya hindi naging pamilyar sa mga pangalan ng tao at petsa ng araw na isinasaad sa libro si Zek.

MUSIC: Zek loves singing but notes and musical alphabet still sounds a little bit out of range for him. Though he is more familiar now with identifying pitch names, staff lines and spaces, G-clef and F-clef and learns the meaning of melody. He sings songs with his Dad playing the guitar every morning for him to be more familiar with so-fa syllables.

ARTS: Zek have more interest in arts, drawings and paintings. This 3^rd quarter he learns more about the names of festivities in our country, shows more creativity in doing his work of art, becomes more careful in handling sharp objects used and appreciates his work of art.

PE: Zek easily learns most of all the ball game techniques in relation to his soft hockey ball game. He is able to play regularly this 3^rd quarter every Saturday where he acquires and learns control with hand, eye, feet coordination during the game with the help of the coach. He was able to improve locomotors through participation in simple relays and foster value of honesty with sportsmanship through simple game.

Problems Encountered / Solutions:

1. Zek is easily get bored on sit down worksheets and reading books.

We give him more exercises on the white board or on glass windows or table that he can write and be interested in doing to more quickly than on the book or paper.

And for all our reading activities, we read together the stories then talk about like we just telling stories to each other about a movie we watch together. This way, he can easily understand what we read about and get to express his own ideas too in retelling the story and how he understand it on his own words.

2. Mathematics is hard for him to master which equation to use.

Morning exercises on the white board or glass window helps him grasp the idea and operations applied on each problem. We also show him and apply to our daily routine like eating pizzas the fractions needed for him to master. We also supply him other materials with more colorful pictures for additional activities and practices. In addition too, we play mental math together during our long trip or going out for mall.

3. Sit down worksheet takes too long for Zek to finish or even to start working on it.

We do our activities mostly orally as much as possible as long as he gets the ideas then we do worksheets later when we get him to sit down or if he’s in the mood to do writing. This way he can accomplish more work than forcing him to doing it regularly.