Thursday, July 28, 2011

Populasyong Umaasa at Inaasahan

More Sibika songs...


Populasyong Umaasa at Inaasahan
(tune: Twinkle...Twinkle Little Star)

Populasyon ang tawag
sa kabuuang bilang
ng mga tao sa isang lugar
o di kaya sa pamayanan
Populasyong umaasa o inaasahan
Ating pag-aralan ang kaibahan.

Sanggol at mga bata 
pati kabataan
ay karaniwang inaalagaan.
Sila'y pumapasok pa sa paaralan
umaasa sa magulang sa pangangailangan.
Matatanda naman ay mahina na
kabilang sila sa umaasa.

Naghahanap buhay at inaasahan
upang matugunan mga pangangailangan
sila'y may husto nang gulang
at malakas ang pangangatawan.
Nagbibigay serbisyo o produkto man
kabilang sila sa inaasahan.


Be blessed.

Happy Homeschooling!


Yamang Tao


Just a quick sharing about our Sibika lessons for the quarter.
We have been singing our "Sibika" songs to review concepts as we prepare for the quarterly test. 


Yamang Tao
(tune: Bahay Kubo)

Mga mamamayan
mahalagang yaman
talino at lakas
ito'y yamang likas.

Sa sipag at tiyaga
lahat nagagawwa
natutugunan 
mga pangangailangan.

Tanod, bumbero
pulis at sundalo
sila'y nangangalaga
kaligtasan ng bansa.

Magsasaka, mangingisda
pagkain ang biyaya
doktor at nars naman
sagot ang kalusugan.

Kartero, panadero,
minero, sapatero,
dentista, tindera,
at may mananahi pa.

Guro, abogado,
arkitekto, enhinyero,
mga manggagawa
tunay na yaman ng bansa.


Sorry for not being able to post the past weeks. I have been very busy with some minor renovations in our home and I must admit that it is disrupting our daily routines.Few more weeks to go and hopefully we will be back in full swing though I am trying my best to slowly get back to our "normal" schedule.

Be blessed.

Happy Homeschooling!


Friday, July 1, 2011

Mga Uri ng Pamayanan


This week's Sibika lesson is all about - "Mga Uri ng Pamayanan". When planning for this week's lessons, I thought that it would be easier now since Joshua is showing great interest in learning Filipino words. He asks for the Filipino or English translations of words he could not understand. Since the "Ako ay Pilipino" song was a hit last week, I thought of making another song for this week. I find the lesson for this week more challenging than that of last week.  The Filipino words are longer and much harder to pronounce and understand. 

And the challenge continues....

If you have more suggestions on how to teach this subject effectively, please feel free to send me a message. I really do need a lot of ideas to help me make Sibika lessons exciting and easier for my children to understand. :)

Here is another song that hopefully would help you in introducing or reviewing the concept of "pamayanan".

Rural at Urban
(tune: Leron Leron Sinta)

Mga uri ng pamayanan
atin ngayo'y pag-aralan.
Ito'y maaring ayon
sa dami ng naninirahan.
Takbo ng pamumuhay
atin din titignan.
Ano kaya ang kaibahan
ng rural at urban?

Masikip at siksikan
madami ang naninirahan
makabagong pamamaraan
pati na kagamitan
matataas na mga gusali
iba't ibang mga sasakyan
modernong pamumuhay
sa pamayanang urban

Pamayanang rural naman
kaunti ang naninirahan
buhay dito ay simple lang
layu-layo ang tirahan
dito naman ay makaluma
pati kagamitan
maaaring may taniman
o pangisdaan


At first, the kids seemed interested just with the melody of the song. They were more interested with the guitar than the lesson. Hmmm... I made an effort to post the words on the board not just for the kids to read but actually, it is for me to remember what I wrote. There was resistance at first, showing lack of interest in what we were doing (ouch....that hurts!) So while playing the guitar and doing my own "revival" of the song "Leron leron Sinta", I raked my brain for ideas as to how to make the kids interested in our lesson. Thank God that I spotted our box of musical instruments.  I asked the kids to close their eyes for a surprise ( I was crossing my fingers that they would actually be surprised....) I opened the box and asked the kids to choose an instrument that they would want to use. We first worked with a steady beat. When I felt that their excitement was slowly building up, I asked them to again sing the song with me while we play our instruments to a steady beat. We played a little game of passing our instruments to the next person after each stanza so the kids were able to experiment with 3 different instruments.


I also made paper strips where I wrote phrases descriptive of each community. I posted "Pamayanang Rural" on one side of the table and "Pamayanang Urban" on the other side. Both kids were holding equal number of paper strips and  while humming the melody of the song, they chose which "pamayanan" was best described by the paper strip they were holding.




We played another round of the same game and this time they did it individually given 2 minutes to complete the game. The kids had so much fun and was trying to outdo each other and they requested to play the game a few more times. Hurray!




Mission accomplished!
Thank you, Lord for another fruitful week.
Need to start planning for next week's lessons....

Until next week....

Be blessed!

Happy Homeschooling!