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Davaoeños celebrates  Kadayawan Festival annually every month of August. The term "Kadayawan" is derived from the Mandaya word “madayaw”, a warm and friendly greeting used to explain a thing that is valuable, superior, beautiful, good, or profitable. The practice of thanksgiving or “pahinungod” long time ago by Davao’s ethnic tribes residing at the foot of Mount Apo is still practiced by modern day Dabawenyos nowadays. This tradition flourished and evolved into an annual festival of thanksgiving. The festival was first called "Apo Duwaling" created from the famous icons of Davao:  Mt. Apo, the country's highest peak; Durian, the king of fruits; and Waling-waling, the queen of orchids. But in the year 1988, City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte renamed the festival as "Kadayawan sa Dabaw".  This year's theme was "10 Tribes, 1 Vibe", which represents ten indigenous tribes of Davao City, the Ata, Matigsalug, Ovu-Manuvo, Kla...

Every month of July, elementary and secondary school celebrate "Nutrition Month". This years slogan theme "Pagkain ng Gulay ugaliin, Araw-Araw itong Ihain" which encourage parents to cook and serve vegetables to their kids everyday. In my daughters school, they encourage parents (but not required) to participate in costume making contest. I choose to participate my kids and I make a big grape costume. Front Portion Back Portion I wasn't able to take photos in their school, but I'm so proud my daughter won in their Costume Contest.

It's been a while since I haven't updated my blog, I've been busy with my personal life. We've moved to a new house and there's no connection yet since we haven't requested PLDT to transfer our internet connection. NO INTERNET CONNECTION! Yay! can't live without :( I miss doing stuff in front my lappy. How I wish it will transfered soon. =) Yesss!! I missss joining contestt hahaha

DepEd will now use level of proficiency in grading system stated below. Instead of using numerical values, grades will be letters under new K+12 education program. A - Advanced (grade of 90% and above) P - Proficient (85%-89%) AP - Approaching Proficiency (80%-84%) D - Developing (75%-79%) B - Beginning (74% and below)   Parents will now see letters in the report cards of their child instead of numerical values. In which A is the highest as expected, but B is the lowest as abbreviated above. But teachers will still measure students' progress with numerical values, and their letter equivalents as seen above will be used in report cards. Students whose proficiency level is B will be required to take remedial classes after class hours. A student with consistent B in one subject could mean repeating only in that subject while he/she can be promoted to the next grade in all other subjects. The performance of student will still be assessed at four levels: ...

K+12 means Kinder plus 12 years Elementary and High School Education. Most of the parents don't like the k+12 program of DepEd especially those who can't afford to send their child for 2 more years in school. But our country is one of the 3 countries left in the world having a 10 year duration for Elementary and Secondary Education and the rest is in Africa. DepEd implemented K+12 basic education curriculum to improve education system starting this school year 2012-2013. The implementation of the K-12 program is "phased". The first phase of the implementation will start on SY 2012-2013. During this school year, universal kindergarten will be finally offered, and will now be a part of the compulsory education system; and a new curriculum for Grade 1 and Grade 7 students would be introduced. By SY 2016-2017, Grade 11/Year 5 will be introduced, and Grade 12/Year 6 by SY 2017-2018; with the phased implementation of the new curriculum finished by the SY 2017-2018. ...

Last June 4, School officially starts. It's time to sleep & wake-up as early as possible, to prepare breakfast and baon & accompany my kids to school. They were both very excited to go to school and meet new classmates and friends.

Another text received from postmaster, I got another parcel waiting for me. And this time I'm more excited hahaha because I got not only 1 Firmoo glasses but 5, yes yes yes =) ...I receive another 5 eyewear from Ms. Paige of Fashion Clothing for Women and Firmoo Online Store . So lucky me, I got the fourth prize from her recently concluded Paige 1 year and Summer Giveaway .  The two pairs are for me, since I already have 1 pair.  I gave the other 3 glasses to my hubby.. =) I would really want to thank you all for this awesome glasses. Do check their site, they have wide selection of sunglasses (prescription or non-Rx) and follow them in facebook and twitter for the updates and promos: website: www.firmoo.com   Facebook fanpage: Firmoo Online Optical Store   Twitter: @firmoo You may also do check Ms. Paige blog: Fashion Clothing for Women Ms. Paige of Fashion Clothing for Women and of course! Firmoo Online Optical Store ...