Lessons from Pitaka Ko: A Game Based Activity to teach Financial Literacy

On September 2018, I went to Manila, Philippines for a day to attend a workshop on “Pitaka Ko”, a game-based learning activity for kids that aim to teach financial literacy. Financial Literacy as we all know is a very important life skill in order for humans to survive and live comfortably. That is why, this should

Organizing Learning Materials

Last week, we had an in-service training in our school for a week since it was a semestral break. At the last day of the training, we were told by our administrators to prepare instructional/learning materials for the upcoming grading periods. I immediately thought about how to organize my instructional materials since it has been

Lesson Idea: Teaching Action Words (with Video)

What better way to teach Action Verbs than letting the pupils do it themselves? After letting the pupils read the action words, I called some pupils to act the words in front. Not only they like and enjoy the activity as they see their classmates perform, I, as the teacher, also get to learn some

5 Mobile Apps to Teach Basic Math Skills

  Because of my advocacy in integrating technology in teaching and learning, I did a Continuous Improvement-Based Action Research Project entitled “The Use of Technology in Teaching Basic Math Skills to Pupils at Risk”. The research project won 3rd place in the Division Research Congress and I will be posting soon the details of the

Learning Material: My 123 Block Book

One of the learning materials I love to use in teaching basic math, especially the math operations, is the My 123 mini block books set. This learning material has 24 mini blocks from numbers 1-10 and the different mathematical symbols. Each block is actually a mini-book wherein when you flip the pages, you can see