Mother's Day

by 

Katherine Caye C. Pablo

May 1, 2015

We read a Mother's Day poem, together with other poems. When it was time for the children to write, I didn't tell them to write a Mother's Day poem. When I was a kid, I always felt "pressured" to write one and I thought whatever I wrote lacked sincerity.

The poem which Kat wrote is straight from the heart, I'm sure. She wrote it on lined pad paper, then she drew a heart on two sheets of lined pad paper. She asked me to help her cut the hearts. Then she taped them together which gave her a heart-shaped card. And last, she cut what she had written and taped it on the inner heart.


Mother's Day is a 
time for Moms everywere (sic) 
too (sic) rest, Have fun and enjoy 
their family time together.
Especially you, Mom.
So please take a brake! (sic)

Putting Together a Story

by 

Katherine Caye C. Pablo

April 18, 2015

I gave the kids a mini-lecture on how to put together a story:

1.There must be a setting in which the main characters are introduced. 

2. Then a problem crops up which the characters try to solve. 

3. Finally, the problem is solved and the story ends.

This was what Kat wrote: 

Taeyon breaks her leg and cant (sic) perform in the concert unles (sic) she rests her legs for 3 days. Then she rested for 3 days and is able to perform in the concert in the Philippine Arena in Malolos.

I told Kat that her readers need to know how the story began. What is the setting? Who are the other main characters? What brought about Taeyon's accident? 

Kat wrote two more paragraphs:

Taeyon took her dog for a walk.Then she got hungry. She looked for a food store. When she found one she went their (sic). While buying, Taeyon's dog ran away.

She chased after her dog and fell down. When she fell, she twisted her leg and went to the hospital.

I was impressed with Kat's ability to put together her story's beginning, middle, and end. But she began with the end. Don't we all do that sometimes? 

Lovely City

by

Katherine Caye C. Pablo

April 18, 2015

Kat is Sam's younger sister. Kat's 1st free writing output was very short. It was probably her first time to do free writing. This one, her second free writing output, was much longer. She seems to be frugal with written words. (definitely not when she has someone to talk to!)  Take note of the nobility of her innocent vision. Ah, if only...

In a lovely city, their (sic) was a big pile of dump. One day, a child said let's clean up the dump. The next morning, people came to the dump and started cleaning up the dump. The dump started getting smaller until it's clean and they turned it into a park!

Acrostic Poems

                                                                  Samantha Kaye
                                                                               
                                                                                  by
                                                                   Samantha Kaye C. Pablo
                                                                            May 1, 2015

S    - sane
A   - awesome
M  - math wizard
A   - alpha
N   - nice
T   - talkative
H  - hopeful 
A  - approachable


K - K-popper
A - artistic
Y - young
E - e.l.f.


                                          KATHERINE    

                                                   by
                                                               Katherine Caye C. Pablo
                                                                         May 1, 2015


K - K-pop
A - adorable
T - tearific
H - honorable
E - excelent (sic)
R - remarkable
I  - interesting
N - neet (sic)
E - exciting                              

Speaking to Learn: Kat and Lucas Chats, Laughs, Problem-Solves, Negotiates, etc.!

The children had been assigned to write and illustrate a comic strip. Individually. 

It was the first session of our Creative Writing Class for Kids last April 11, 2015. But Kat and Lucas wanted to work together. And they got the go-signal to do so.

Are they disobedient? Disruptive? Of course not. They're creative!

But they were "noisy."  The other kids who were working individually and quietly were irritated. Solution? I told Kat and Lucas to work in another corner of the room. Not a solution; they were still "noisy."

Better solution? I asked someone to lift the kiddy table and take it just outside our classroom which has a glass door. 

So we all worked in peace. 

Kat and Lucas actually had a blast while working together. They chatted away, laughed, solved their little clashes and their characters' problems, negotiated, divided the work between them, and completed four frames with dialogue and color illustration!

Lesson Learned? Some young children's learning style is cooperative and interactive. They speak to learn.

The Fab Four Goes to the Zoo!

Sam, Kat, Bella and Lucas went to the zoo on Saturday, April 11, 2015.  The zoo is located at the Bernabe Ninja Headquarters.  They were expecting lots of fun but they got lost... They fell into a book, a BIIIIIIIIIIG bad book!

What happened to the children?  What did they do to get back home?

Simple.  They wrote a rescue appeal and drew a path back home to their waiting dads and moms.