I love history, especially Philippine history. But it wasn't a love that took root and blossomed at school, with its emphasis on dates, names, places, and exams that asked me to "enumerate xyz." No. It was a love awakened at home by Ambeth Ocampo's wit and humor in “Rizal Without The Overcoat” when I was in high school. It was a fascination that grew with Sionil F. Jose’s … [Read more...]
Fun Filipino Books for Babies, Toddlers, and Beginning Readers
I’ve kept my two older children’s board books from when they were young. They enjoyed “Good Night, Moon”, Eric Carle’s “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?”, and other classics. (For more book ideas for babies, click here.) Baby Bumblebee is also enjoying those same books now, reciting or singing along with each one. Experience has taught me, though, that it’s best to … [Read more...]
Living books… books that live in your heart
I’ve always loved books, old ones especially. I treasured the classics that I grew up with. I've even started to pass some of them on to my daughter, yellowed pages and all. See above! In homeschooling my kids, I was naturally and inevitably drawn to materials and curricula that make use of books with great literary power. We gobbled up the books in "Five in a Row" (FIAR). We … [Read more...]
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