Araling Panlipunan
Araling Panlipunan
THIRD QUARTER
ANG AKING PAMILYA
This pandemic has brought the kids closer to their cousins as they play online and start conversing with each other using group calls. I love the connection that they’ve finally made and look forward to coming home soon to have them spend time together.
Manu is learning how to speak Filipino and his first few words are pinsan, lolo, lola, tito, tita. He loves creating digital art so I asked him to make a family tree through an application that I used for work. I taught him how to search for templates and free graphics and he managed to do everything else on his own.
He doesn’t call his siblings ‘ate’ and ‘kuya’ but I am glad that he’s learning all these words now. I am certain that they will use this one day.
SECOND QUARTER
Manu’s Wowo Danny and Lolo Lolo Naning
We went a little out of topic during this activity but I felt that this was a great activity for Manu to get to know his great grandfather. On this day, Manu wanted to watch something about Japan and in one of the videos, The Bataan Death March was brought up. I briefly mentioned that his Lolo Lolo Naning was one of the soldiers who marched to Bataan. That piqued his curiosity and he wanted to know more about this. So we watched some videos on it too and I suggested he give his Wowo Danny a call to ask him more about it. His Wowo gamely talked about it and Manu was just fascinated. As we talked about this historical event, he also learned more about his family.
Doing household chores
Ang ‘pagtulong sa gawaing bahay’ is one important thing we learned in Araling Panlipunan. While Manu is probably the least receptive to housework, he still does it simply because we all do our part.
He is learning to clean the dishes but with supervision. As for other chores, he’s able to use the vacuum and rake leaves and actually enjoys these chores the most.
Fixing and clearing the table is something that they have always done since we moved to Indonesia and it has become natural to them now that they no longer whine when I call them to do it. They are learning that we do things around the house as a unit.
Giving Christmas Love
While social distancing makes gift giving a little less personal, we persisted in preparing goody bags for the workers in our cluster- or village as we call it in the Philippines. All the kids were a part of this and we asked them to go down whenever one of the sweepers or security guards would come to pick up their goody bag. Manu is especially enthusiastic about this as he is the most sociable of all the kids. So he would either go down or open the window upstairs and wave to the guards.