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

Teaching Prepositions To and From (With Integration of EPP lesson)

Hello, everyone! It’s been awhile since my last post. That’s because I got so busy with lots of paperwork since the school year is about to end. Also, we started to adopt a new teacher evaluation form as required by the Results-Based Performance Management System (RPMS) and so, we are still adjusting and trying to cope

Lesson Idea on Values Education: Pagtanggap ng Puna (Accepting Criticims)

Teaching values to kids might somehow be difficult but with fun and engaging activities, it becomes easier. Recently, the lesson in our Values Education subject was about Pagtanggap ng Puna (Accepting Criticisms). It’s one of the lessons that is difficult to teach since in reality, we get hurt when we receive criticisms.  I was thinking what kind

Performance Task for Sequencing Events

Sequencing Events is a very important reading skill for this aids reading comprehension. By sequencing events, teachers will know if the students  are able to understand what happened in the story, as well as note some details from it. If the students are able to practice and master sequencing events, they can tell the story

Use Body Movements to teach Musical Notes

How would you know if the pupils can associate musical notes to a given song? There are many ways to do it but I found one amazing strategy and that is through using body movements. You can simple assign an action to a particular note. You may use a very simple, repetitive song like We’re

Get to Know Your Students using Chocolate-filled Goodness!

It’s the 2nd week of classes and I am still in the stage of getting to know my pupils. It’s really challenging to get to know each of them since they’re almost 50 in my class. You wouldn’t expect me to know them deeply in just a span of few days, right? Imagine more or

Sakay! Lakbay! Salakay! A Fun Game To Teach A New Lesson

Sakay! Lakbay! Salakay! (Ride! Travel! Conquer!) is a fun, interactive game to teach any kind of lesson. I actually found this game in my Araling Panlipunan (Grade 4) Teachers’ Guide (Kudos to the one who created this game!) and I just made a variation to it so it would be suitable to my lesson and the

Download this interactive presentation to teach Reality and Fantasy

If you are/will be introducing Reality and Fantasy, you may use this powerpoint which I created to teach the lesson to my pupils. The powerpoint includes an interactive game. Once you’re done downloading the presentation, read the instructions below to be guided on how to use the presentation. Slides 5 -9: Vocabulary words that can be found in the story.

Download: Game Board for teaching Time Expressions

If you are looking for a fun activity to reinforce and practice concepts on Time Expressions, you might want to do this very simple board game. Prepare the following materials. Dice (For this activity, I just created the dice from cardboard. The number of dice you need to prepare will depend on how many groups of

Download: DEAL or NO DEAL Powerpoint Presentation to teach Noting Details

Noting Details is a skill very much needed for reading comprehension. That is why this is being taught repeatedly. Every time a story is introduced or being taught in class, noting details will come right after. To note details begins with answering simple WH questions (who, what, when, where, why). Recently, I created an interactive