Holiday Homecoming Part II

The highlights of our stay at my parents house were the New Year's celebration and our island beach escapade.  Mavi enjoyed celebrating the New Year at home with grandparents and relatives.  He's like "We're having a big big part!".

After the New Year, we headed out to an island beACH resort which is 4 hrs drive from home.  We ate, relaxed, swim and had an island advventure... we had a blas!

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Holiday Homecoming Part I

As you all know, family and I went home last month to celebrate Christmas and New Year with the family in our homeland.  I've always wanted Mavi to experience how it's like to celebrate the holidays at home, to be with grandparents, cousins and relatives and to enjoy the local sights and festivities.

So allow me to share some pictures from our trip. First stop, husband's place. Yes, we live worlds apart in the Philippines!

Zoocobia
We always visit the zoo. And we’re so lucky that there’s a new zoo located near my in-laws place.  Because we were considered as “VIP”, we get to have our own tour guide and had a close encounter with most of the animals in the zoo. 

Here we get to….

Hold a parrot

   

Get lost in the Garden Maze

          

Go Carting

Feed the ostrich

 

Feed the monkey

 

Feed a camel, goat, and donkey

And see in person the animal that produces one of the most expensive coffees in the world, the wild civet. 

Sky Ranch
We love that there was a night carnival in town!  First time for Mavi to be out at night (not in the cold), and enjoying the carnival ride!

Dinosaur Island
Saving the best for last, we visited the newly established Dinosaur Island just a few minutes from hubby's place.  Mavi was ecstatic! He's obsessed with dinosaurs and he was ecstatic upon arrival!

The Dinosaur Island is right in the middle of a rainforest, and that dinosaur statues were so impressive! It's like an outdoor museum of dinosaurs, and even if their animation and sound effects were limited, Mavi and the entire had a wonderful time vieiwing the elect... dinosaurs.

Aside from these sights, we get to visit relatives as well. After celebrating Christmas at my in-laws house, we travelled again for a day via a domestic flight going to my folk’s house to spend the New Year. Pictures coming up for Part II!

Holiday Homecoming Part I

As you all know, family and I went home last month to celebrate Christmas and New Year with the family in our homeland.  I've always wanted Mavi to experience how it's like to celebrate the holidays at home. To be with this grandparents, cousins and relatives... to enjoy the local sights and festivities.

So allow me to share some pictures from our trip. First stop, husband's place. Yes, we live worlds apart in the Philippines!

Zoocobia
After battling with jetlag, we get to visit the closest zoo there is, that's in Clark Pampanga. At Zoocobia, Mavi gets to...

Hold a parrot

Feed the ostrich

Feed the monkey

Feed a camel, goat, and donkey

And see in person the cat that produces the most expensive coffee int he world.

Sky Ranch
We love that there was a night carnival in town!  First time for Mavi to be out at night (not in the cold), and enjoying the carnival ride!

Dinosaur Island
Saving the best for last, we visited the newly established Dinosaur Island just a few minutes from hubby's place.  Mavi was ecstatic! He's obsessed with dinosaurs and he was ecstatic upon arrival!

The Dinosaur Island is right in the middle of a rainforest, and that dinosaur statues were so impressive! It's like an outdoor museum of dinosaurs, and even if their animation and sound effects were limited, Mavi and the entire had a wonderful time vieiwing the elect... dinosaurs.

Aside from these sights, we get to visit relatives as well. After celebrating Christmas at my in-laws house, we travelled again for a day via a domestic flight this time to spend the New Year at my folk's place.

Montessori Practical Life: Folding Clothes

We're back from our 3 weeks vacation and it was amazing! Now I'll save details on a separate post, for now allow me to show you how Mavi has been very helpful for the past few days.  I give credit to the years of training of practical life activities based on Maria Montessori philosophy.

The traditional work in the family is known as the practical life work and is the most important area of an education for  life. These practical life activities provides children the  groundwork for physical, mental and social development.   And what’s more important is that it’ll teach them the work habits that will lead to success in academic and in all aspects of life later.

One of the chores I dread doing is folding the laundry.  My husband usually do this for me, but since he's busy most of the time, the folding doesn't get done and the laundry would pile up at times.  Now this is where Mavi comes in handy.  I gave him the responsibility of folding his own clothes, sort and put them directly in his closet.

To start with,  Mavi would sort his own clothes from the pile of laundry.

I placed masking tape on his shirt, pants and underpants and these serves as a guide for folding.  There's a number on the tape to indicate which one he will fold first. 

He enjoys folding as he finds the approach “scientific” due to the order of how you fold a piece.

For now, I’m giving him the task to fold his own clothes. Once he masters this, then he can fold his little brother’s clothes.

   

At the end, he's happy that he was able to help, felt accomplished and proud that he was able to contribute something for Mommy.

More practical life activities can viewed in my Pinterest Board:

 

This post is part of the 12 Months of Montessori Learning which is hosted by Natural Living and The Natural Homeschool.

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Folding Clothes is So Much Fun

We're back from our 3 weeks vacation and it was amazing! Now I'll save details on a separate post, for now allow me to show you how Mavi has been very helpful for the past few days.  I give credit to the years of training of practical life activities based on Maria Montessori philosophy. 

One of the chores I dread doing is folding the laundry.  My husband usually do this for me, but since he's busy most of the time, the folding doesn't get done and the laundry would pile up at times.  Now this is where Mavi comes in handy.  I gave him the responsibility of folding his own clothes, sort and put them directly in his closet.

To start with, I placed masking tape on his shirt, pants and underpants and these serves as a guide for folding.  There's a number on the tape to indicate which one he will fold first.

Now we've been doing this activity a lot of times, so he will perfect this ability of folding clothes.

At the end, he's happy that he was able to help, felt accomplished and proud that he was able to contribute something for he family.

Now that he's 6, we're doing serious levels of work. Next would be to master washing dishes and learn the basic of cooking (Asian foods!).