Easing the Back to School Blues
CyberMaxBy Tatin Yang
With the start of another schoolyear lurking in the next corner, what else can you do but savor the last days of summer?
With the start of another schoolyear lurking in the next corner, what else can you do but savor the last days of summer?
At Kolisko Waldorf School (KWS), children are given space and time for unstructured play and discovery, art, music and movement which instill in them a love for learning.
If it wasn’t for her love of reading, Miss Universe 2011 third runner-up Shamcey Supsup would not have achieved everything she has achieved so far: a Magna Cum Laude graduate from the University of the Philippines, an architecture licensure exam topnotcher, and a world-renowned beauty queen.
I thought the staff was sick and tired of doing the Christmas wish list. Apparently, except for one or two, they’re not. It is, as one of them chuckled—joking, get that clear—that time of the year “we can be self-serving,” and it’s “our aspiration to leave a legacy.” (Now you know why sometimes it’s good not to take them that seriously.)
Something bizarre happened the other day: All the clothespins were missing from the laundry bin, while an installation of a variety of forms from shelters, buildings, ships to robots were assembled on my son’s table. Apparently, our wooden clips have transformed!
The museum is not a playground, a place to let your kids loose. But The Mind Museum at Taguig (TMMT), which will open to the public March 16, seeks to make science accessible and interesting to kids; it seeks to be both educational and fun for kids.
