"Let the children be brought into touch with the mighty minds of the past, and taught to approach these minds in the full consciousness of their own mental power. To consider that we have relations with all the great minds of all the ages, is to realize our kinship with all men." - Charlotte Mason
August 20, 2023
Roux and Paco met up with our Cluster Group to celebrate Buwan ng Wika last August 20, complete in traditional Filipino costumes.
All families prepared traditional Filipino food for potluck such as Pancit Palabok, Chicken Adobo, Puto Biñan, Lumpiang Shanghai, Ginisang Gulay at Paksiw na Bangus, Rice, Salsa, Dilis, Pritong Talong, Itlog na maalat with desserts or panghimagas such as Buko Pandan, Sorbetes (served by one of the boys, Timo ala Mamang Sorbetero style!), Turon, Palitaw, Puto/Polvoron, Kakanin, Kutsinta, Taho and inuming Sago’t Gulaman.
They made their own tirador/ saltik, played the trumpo, sipa and jackstones and learned how to dance the carinyosa after a Filipino Sign Language lesson of the Philippine National Anthem and a read-aloud about the life of National Hero, Jose Rizal.
This is the question I posed to my 5 and 8 year old this week when we began to ease into our Social Studies trifecta.
As our youngest begins 1st Grade we "come home" and begin our exploration of our nation's history from the very beginning using Buhay Aralan's Kasaysayan Ko Course 1: Noong Unang Panahon. It's a150-page easy, implementable, open-and-go study guide about Philippine History during the pre-colonial times. It comes with 2 versions of a 243-page Student Notebook (Roux uses the cursive copywork sheets while Paco uses the Manuscript tracing sheets). Each week, the Student Notebook has pages for a mapwork, timeline entries, a page for written or drawing narration using a fun sequencing comic-like strip and varied activities from recipes, biographies, picture studies, crossword puzzles and paper dolls! The Parent Guide gives an overview and summary of each assigned chapter reading from the recommended books and provides guide questions to prompt your child to think about his own place in the story of our history, his role in the world, and how to model empathy, compassion and love for country. The weekly copywork are taken from salawikains or Filipino proverbs to understand the values we hold as a nation or even challenge you to reinvent age-old pedagogical mindsets if you will consider them for your family. I’n particularly excited to present the opportunity to talk to our kids about the Rights of a Child in relation to old Kalantiaw laws or practices, leadership and justice in modern society, as well as how we’ll get to relate world religions from our study of Moro studies. I’m also curious how my kids will take-off from the art, fashion and culture lessons in Week 13 in relation to traditional tribal textiles and body tattoos. I further perosnalized the Philippine Timeline available on the shop to lead into the year today and my kids were shookt to see how they are indeed a part of this history study! I hope you consider adding this guide to your homeschool lessons or use it as a source of inspiration to spark deeper conversations with your Filipino children. 🇵🇭
We do this alongside Simply Charlotte Mason's Genesis-Deuteronomy & Ancient Egypt so that we can seamlessly connect the events elsewhere around the world before or around the same time as our nation's story begins and coincide with our Bible lessons too.
Finally, Myths & Legends accompany these historical accounts and how wonderful it was for the kids to compare creation and origin stories!
IMG_0753.MOVWriting Through Ancient History Narration
June 13, 2023Journal entries to follow as we begin our lessons this June!
mapwork
drawing narrations
timelines
favorite History & Geography resources
