Blog Posts on child learning

Earth Day Ideas - What Kids and Adults Can Do? by Stay at Home Blessings on Apr 22, 2012April 22 is Earth Day 2012. It's a day dedicated to spreading awareness about taking care of the Earth's environment. It's actually been celebrated since its foundation in 1970 . Watch the video below to have a one-minute overview of the history of E...

4 Simple Art and Craft Projects for Kids (4) - Working with Crayons by Stay at Home Blessings on Mar 30, 2012It's summer vacation once again and I see lots of paper everyday with colored drawings made by my three daughters. Janel, especially, likes to draw and color and she's getting better and better at it. This post is dedicated to some art activities...

Thank God for the Awards by Stay at Home Blessings on Mar 24, 2012It's been more than a week since I last posted. We've been busy attending the year end recognition day of our children.  Since the school programmed the recognition day in 4 days time categorized as to preschool, primary, intermediate and high s...

Introduce Your Kids to Origami Fun by Stay at Home Blessings on Mar 12, 2012Last year, when we had our summer vacation in the Philippines, we had to leave my children under the care of my sister for one day. They did together some activities like drawing and water coloring; animal clay models (I was not able to take pictures...

Singing in the Rain Kids Video by Stay at Home Blessings on Feb 25, 2012One of the good things I look forward to every year is to watch my kids do some creative presentation in school. Last year, my kids surprised me with their talent in dancing. Well, this year, I'm sad that I did not see my two boys perform because the...

Fruit Salad Exercise Song by Stay at Home Blessings on Jan 30, 2012Here's a simple song my kids learned in school mentioning 3 different fruits. It kinda works as a massage and exercise song, too. See Kristel and Janel on video. We really should have shot the video on a bigger space. Anyway... The Lyrics:...

Three Little Monkeys Nursery Rhyme by Stay at Home Blessings on Jan 25, 2012This is another song, a nursery rhyme, which Janel learned in school.  This can be taught as well when teaching the concept of subtraction.  The child will learn to count backwards from 3-2-1 in a fun way. Three little monkeys jump...

This is the Farmer Poem by Stay at Home Blessings on Jan 20, 2012I have uploaded a video of Janel sharing a poem she learned in Kindergarten class. It is about the farmer. If you're teaching or homeschooling your children, you can use this in the lessons about community helpers. This video was taken by her sister,...

Pokemon Clay Models by Stay at Home Blessings on Jan 18, 2012Playing with clay is really a good way of enhancing the child's creativity. Just look at how nice the fruit and vegetable clay models my son, Yuan, did 2 years ago. It's also a way of relieving stress - stress from school and from parent pressure, he...

Books on Parenting and Child Care for Special Needs Children by Stay at Home Blessings on Jan 5, 2012I saw these books by Jolene Philo from the First Wild Card Tours, of which I am a member, but I didn't request them for review. However, upon reading the free chapters (embedded below), I was touched and decided to share it here. Image from Wikipe...