My 2 boys are into soccer. I don’t understand much about the game but they love it. For the second time, Dwight School Seoul sent a team to this year’s Songdo 7 Soccer Tournament hosted by Chadwick International. International schools gathered for the weekend (October 22-23, 2016) with teams from as far as Jeju. The… Read More Ending Songdo 7 With Honours
Sulyapinoy is a Filipino publication that comes out monthly for the Filipino community here in South Korea. It is the official publication of the Filipino EPS Workers Association. But thanks to its Chairman of the Board and its Editor-in-Chief, my son had his first article published. LeRuof, my 9-year old Firstborn son, wrote about… Read More LeRuof’s First Published Article
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proclaimed every 21st of February as the International Mother Language Day “to promote the preservation and protection of all languages used by peoples of the world”. A take-off from this celebration, Dwight School Seoul annually celebrates VIP Reading Day. This year, Dwight’s VIP Reading Day was held last February… Read More VIP Reading Day at Dwight 2016
Another milestone happened last Monday for LeRuof, my firstborn. He is back to school! As a second-grader. Bus pick-up was changed for this school year and I am happy with the new location. Bus H is picking up my son at the corner where I could easily see them from my veranda: I watched… Read More Back to School for Second Grade
One thing I told LeRuof was, you can write about anything and everything around you. Be observant. Be inspired. One day he was drinking a hot choco. Write about it, I urged him. With the hot choco in front of him, he came up with these: Have a little hot choco You may have… Read More Inspired by a Cup of Hot Choco
After several days of going around for some simple introduction to photography, I began to realize my 7-year old LeRuof is internalizing every word I utter and every new learning he gets from me. This is what he got to say about his new interest: I am amused by his usage of “frame” and “angle”… Read More The Boy is Getting More and More Interested
I spent some time in Dwight School Seoul yesterday for LeRuof’s end-of-school year portfolio. He was especially excited to show to me the evaluation of his last composition for the school year where he got all 4 for first grader’s writing rubric. I’ve spent some time with LeRuof’s composition skills and I have observed that… Read More Dwight Portfolio Afternoon
LeRuof (I finally named him here in my blog), my firstborn, had been doing composition since last year. These were mostly journals of his memorable experiences. Last night, he was ready for another level (Mommy thinks so! hahahaha). And so I challenged him to make a poem. The boy complied:-)… insisting on his own… Read More Firstborn’s First Poem
Tuesdays are my son’s library day at school. This is when they should return last Tuesday’s borrowed book and get a new one. I usually urge him to return in advance the books he gets to finish before the due date but he opts to do it with is classmates. He had finished a number… Read More New Book Interest
My 6-year old boy has just started learning how to read and write Hangeul. It’s a little bit late, I know, considering that he has practically lived here in Seoul since he was 2 months old (minus his 12 months in the Philippines last year). My husband and I never thought that we… Read More Firstborn is Learning Hangeul
