Growing up in Manila N8 aug 2005

Growing up in Manila Magellan Learning Center Newsletter N°8, august 2005 April, and Philippines summer time starts. . . Our little angels had left their school bench for a while and in Magellan we adjust ourselves. We organized summer activities that... More

Growing up in Manila Magellan Learning Center Newsletter N°8, august 2005 April, and Philippines summer time starts. . . Our little angels had left their school bench for a while and in Magellan we adjust ourselves. We organized summer activities that were more fun and less formal. But being fun and less formal are not necessarily the opposite of educational. Indeed each activity had specific goals. We focused a lot on the development of a sense of responsibility and fostering. Another important concern was the autonomy of the child in his/her work and especially in researching for pieces of information. We also prepared activities centered on discovery to heighten the children’s desire to learn, to increase this taste for travels in the land of knowledge. Children learned about many different physical phenomena through playful activities and creative manual work. They had the responsibility to organize film showing for all the students, to organize video games competition. T Less