Trip to Vigan

On Friday, we went to Vigan. It is an old city retaining building from around 500 years ago as its tourist attraction. It took 7 hours by bus to arrive there. The first place we visited was Don Marino Marcos Memorial State University. The university president welcomed us and gave explanation about the facilities of the university. We stopped at the Sure Ilocos Sur beach and had our late lunch because it’s already 4 PM.

We bought some souvenir in the souvenir market. We also took picture in front of the market which is surrounded by old buildings. In the evening, we sit around a big pool in the city center to watch dancing fountains. It was really beautiful. We arrived in our dorm at 3 AM and we all were exhausted.

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Assisting Day #4

I assisted Mam Mae Anne in grade 7 to teach Dewey Decimal System. In the beginning of the lesson, I explained about library card catalogue is. What information they find in it and how it helps them in their visit to library.

Mam Mae Anne continued by explaining Dewey Decimal System and the number under which certain book will be categorized. I then lead an activity to check their understanding. We made 4 groups and played a game. I mentioned a title of the book and the quickest group to answer the right call number and the category gained 100 as their score. The group with the highest score was the winner. The students were excited even thought there was not any prize for the winner.

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Assisting Day #3

High school teachers had a meeting today. Ani and I was asked to replace Mam Anne to teach grade 7 and 8. At 8:00 we came to grade 8 Quartz and discuss about the moral lesson of “The Hands of the Blacks”. Then, students categorized list of adjectives based on the function. The same activities were done in grade 8 Granite from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM. In grade 7 for both classes, we administered quiz on short and long vowel I. 

After lunch I worked on my lesson plan. I decided to use "Kbo Iwo" as my parallel text in the first lesson plan after I revised the text a little bit. For the second day, I studied the curriculum to find the focus of the lesson. The topic was content and function words. It was actually under Listening Comprehension domain (DepEd English Curriculum for Grade 8). I began to design the activities and find the media.

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