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

5 Ways Early Childhood Education Can Benefit Students

5 Ways Early Childhood Education Can Benefit Students by Lama Chivi ========== Educators and parents alike understand that children can benefit from every encounter since these serve as an avenue for learning. Through their experiences, children — especially those in their first five years of life — can learn important life skills like socialization, cooperation,

My 5 New Year’s Resolution as a Teacher

Another new year has just began and we all make resolutions year after year. This year, I have listed down some resolutions to do as a teacher and here are 5 of them. I will stay positive.  In 2018, I’ve had my own share of stress and disappointments from all the work that I do.

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

Download: I am Hiphop.

I am HIPHOP is an initiative of DepEd – Cagayan de Oro City under the leadership of SDS Jonathan S. Dela Peña. It aims to strengthen and foster the lessons in Edukasyon sa Pagpakatao or Values Education by reminding pupils through school-based initiatives and projects. Some of these activities are also student-driven. HIPHOP is an

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

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