Online Class | Week 3 | Last Day of Math Class

There was no online class yesterday, and today, is the last day of math class.  Their teacher is not around, so the class has a different teacher. It took a while before the class begins to allow extra time for other students to join. There were no new topics discussed, they only reviewed past topics. They were still given a home work though. The teacher asked the class to copy their homework shown on the screen. I asked my kid to copy the homework too which he did. He wrote it down on the white board. When the class is finished, everyone left Zoom. I took the whiteboard from him, there was nothing written. I asked him “Did you copy your homework?”. “Yes, I did, but I erased it.”.

Online Class | Week 2 | Day 5 | Possessive Pronouns

Like yesterday, today's class started a bit late as the teacher waited for other students to come in to Zoom. When all the students are in, the teacher lead the class in prayer and greeted everyone 'Good morning!'. I once again heard the rooster sounding off from other participant's audio.

The class officially started with a lively song to pump up the kids. 

Then the teacher reviewed the students with last session's topic, Pronoun. They also checked their homework which I forgot to attend to. I had to scramble a bit to open the word document and had my kid answer his homework, which he was able to finish quickly.

Their main topic today was about Possessive Pronouns.

My, Mine

His, Her,

Their, Theirs

Your, Yours

The students were taught how to properly use possessive pronouns and after which they had a short activity where they have to identify which possessive pronoun to use in each sentence.

Online classes will not be complete without technical errors. When the teacher's Zoom account experienced an issue and was dropped from the session, the students just simply carried on, it's like a new world has presented itself, suddenly it got loud and noisy when the students started talking all at the same time, making funny sounds and saying whatever comes to mind. When the teacher got back online, they continued with the activity and wrapped up.

Handwriting Practice Template | How to Install the Required Fonts and How to Edit the Template

Before you begin. Please take note that I used Chrome browser for this example. It will look different on other browsers like Firefox, IE and Safari. The fonts and template that you will download are saved in my Google Drive. They are scanned and virus free.

1. Click here to download the fonts and template. Click 'Download all'.

2. Wait for the zipping of file to complete.

3. When zipping is done, a pop-up will appear. Click 'Leave'.

4. Click the folder when download is done to open.

5. The zip file will open and you should see the 'Tracing' folder.

6. Copy & paste the 'Tracing' folder to your Desktop.

7. Open the 'Tracing' folder. Double-click 'AbcCursiveArrowDotted' to install the cursive font. Click 'Install'.

8. Double-click 'Trace-lxy0' to install the non-cursive font. Click 'Install'.

9. Make sure that the 'Tracing Template' file is not blocked. Right-click 'Tracing Template' and click 'Properties'.

10. Tick 'Unblock' then click 'Apply' and click 'Okay'. Then double-click 'Tracing Template' to open the document.

11. Click anywhere within the text box. Erase the text inside the text box and type in your own text.

12. Do the same for the rest. Click anywhere within the text box. Erase the text inside the text box and type in your own text.

13. The rest of the pages in the template has a blank text box for each line. Just click anywhere within the text box to type in your own desired text.

14. Take note of the font name. The font 'Trace' is non-cursive.

15. And the font 'AbcCursiveArrow' is cursive.

Online Class | Week 2 | Day 4 | Math | Quiz

The class started a bit late today to wait for other students to get in Zoom. When everyone is finally on board the teacher begins leading the students in prayer and greeting one another ‘good morning!’. They followed with a math song to further awaken the kids to get their heads on the game, after which they reviewed past topics like addition and subtraction.

As were announced last Tuesday, they will going to have a quiz today, Thursday. The first part of the quiz was for students to identify if the statements shown on the screen is True or False. They wrote down their answers on a piece of paper.

The next part of the quiz were about counting numbers, addition and subtraction. The answers written on a sheet paper will be photographed and we will send the photo to their teacher.

Funny sound I heard from other participant’s audio today was a rooster. ‘Tiktilaok!’, the rooster sounded off several times. 

Sharing of Printable Study Materials | Commons PH Facebook Group

In this time of crisis people will either extend help to others and some will take advantage of others. In the Commons PH Facebook Group many of the members are sharing love to other members by sharing  with them golden resources of printable study materials. I ran through several posts where the links to the resource folders are made available, some links are already broken (not working), while some links are still working. Have saved a huge chunk of these materials to my own Google Drive before I lose access to them. These materials are not mine and they are NOT FOR SALE.

If you need study materials for your kid please click  the link below. You may download the materials that you need. My simple request, PLEASE DO NOT SELL them. Instead, SHARE THEM.

Commons PH Printable Study Materials

If you haven't found the material you are looking for, you may join Commons PH Facebook Group and do a search for your self. Just be careful when downloading files as myself have encountered one file infected with virus. Make sure to scan the files with your anti-virus once downloaded to your computer.

A huge THANK YOU to everyone in Commons PH Facebook Group.

Online Class | Week 2 | Day 3 | English | Pronouns

The class started with a prayer. Then they sang ‘Happy Birthday’ for their classmate who turned 7. Then they check their home work.

The main topic today is about pronoun. A pronoun is a word that is used in place of a noun. The teacher discussed the types of pronouns together with examples.

I - is used when a person is referring to him or herself.

He - used for referring to males.

She - used for referring to females.

It - used for referring to animals or things.

We - used when talking about people along with ourselves.

You - used when referring to other person.

They - used when talking about other people, animals or things.

Then it is followed with an activity where students were shown photos and they were to identify the correct pronoun to use referring to the photos. On the second activity, the students were given random words and they were to group them according to the type of pronoun they belong. On the third activity, the students were given specific words and they were to identify the correct pronoun for each word. On the fourth activity the students were asked to read a sentence and identify the pronouns in the sentence. A group picture concludes today’s class.

Forever Living Supplements & Aloe Drink

So glad our order has arrived after just two days. We order some supplements at Forever Living with one aloe drink. Our stocks is low and these new arrivals will be good to last for at least two or three months.

What’s in the box:

1x Forever Kids

1x Absorbent-C

1x Forever Daily

1x Forever Aloe Bits N’ Peaches

Forever Kids is for Cas it is his daily supplement. The bottle contains 120 tablets. Chewable and tastes good. Retail price is 714.00 pesos. You may click this link to purchase https://tinyurl.com/yc72o8pz.

Absorbent-C is for Mia and myself. The bottle contains 100 tablets. Chewable and tastes good too. Retail price is 857.71 pesos. You may click this link to purchase https://tinyurl.com/yc72o8pz.

Forever Daily is for Mia and myself. The bottle contains 60 tablets. Chewable but needs water to drive it down. Retail price is 953.24 pesos. You may click this link to purchase https://tinyurl.com/yc72o8pz.

Forever Aloe Bits N’ Peaches is for Mia and myself. This aloe drink (1L) tastes good specially when chilled. Our purpose for taking this is for stomach cleansing. Retail price is 1,217.23 pesos. You may click this link to purchase https://tinyurl.com/yc72o8pz.

Generic USB Condenser Microphone

After a week it finally arrived in our doorsteps. We ordered at Shopee a generic USB condenser microphone (P875.00 pesos) we intend to use for online class. We will keep our plantronics headset as back up. We are really preparing for this as the online regular class will begin in August and will go on for months until the pandemic is fully resolved.

What’s inside the box:

1. USB cable

2. Mic stand tripod

3. Microphone

4. Product info

This microphone is very simple to setup. Just connect the USB cable to the microphone and connect the other end to the laptop’s USB port. On your computer sound settings or on Zoom audio settings, make sure to select ‘Microphone (USB PnP Sound Device). There is a volume control and light indicator on the mic itself. We tested the unit on Zoom and it works fine. The other party can hear me loud and clear.

Online Class | Week 2 | Day 2 | Math | Subtraction

Today’s class started with a prayer. It is very important to ask for God’s guidance before starting any activity. Then the class warms up with a short math song followed by a long review of last session’s topic which was about counting numbers and addition. Those who were able to answer the questions gets to have a ‘Magaling Clap’ from the class. Then they check their homework. Some students were not able to work on their assignment though.

The main topic was about subtraction. Minuend, the bigger number, followed by the minus sign, then followed by subtrahend, the smaller number, followed by the equal sign and followed by the difference, the answer. Then, they went through an answering activity where objects were used to represent the numbers to be subtracted. They also went through the vertical and horizontal way of subtracting numbers.

When students were asked to show their answer to the camera, my kid noticed that the numbers were shown backwards, so he made an initiative to write the numbers down backwards so that when it is shown in the camera the numbers will look correct.

On Thursday, they will have a quiz. We got some reviewing to do later.