The Filipino Homeschooler website started as our family’s venue in documenting our homeschool journey. We shared resources in teaching our son at home and parenting tips that worked for our family.
While there were so many free Math and English resources in the internet, there is a limited materials for learning Filipino.
Teaching Filipino, or the Tagalog language as mostly calls it, is a challenge for us to teach as our son’s primary language is English. He also converses in our local dialect, Hiligaynon or Ilonggo. We wanted to make learning Filipino fun and easy, just like with other subjects. We want him to enjoy learning Filipino as much as he enjoy learning Math and Sciences.
This is the case with most, if not all, families. Students have no interest or parents find teaching Filipino taxing. We shared what worked for us, mostly personalized activities we made, to make our lessons more interesting and engaging.
These include easy Filipino songs, recommended Filipino books for early readers, Filipino flashcards for common words, tracing sheets for Filipino alphabets, audio books with stories in Filipino, and more.
In March 2020, the country has been placed in a lockdown due to the pandemic. Without certainty on when the restrictions will be lifted, parents worry about their children’s education. Most parents then decided to explore the not so common path of homeschooling.
This is when the website got even busier. Aside from the homeschool families visiting the site for the free learning resources, more parents have been looking for resources on how to shift to homeschooling.
With the influx of inquiries, we made several articles and infographics to help new families who are interested and are new to homeschooling. We collaborated with private organizations for talks as keynote speaker or as an influencer for homeschooling and distance learning for their employees. The talks covered differences between homeschooling and distance learning or learning from home, how to start homeschooling, how to choose a homeschool provider, how to choose books or curriculum, or how parents can still teach their children while working at home.
The site grew and is now home to worksheets, activity pages, clip cards, and other printable learning materials. These includes several subjects for preschool to grade-schoolers and it covers topics aligned with the DepEd’s curriculum for Filipino, Philippine Money, Araling Panlipunan, Social Studies, English, Character Education, Bible, Math and Sciences.
The best part, all of these can be accessed and downloaded for free. Anyone – parents, school or volunteer teachers, do not have to spend even a single centavo to get these resources.
These times, when kids are learning from home, free online resources give parents and educators the convenience and the flexibility for their kid’s education.
We continue to make more contents for home learning. We continue to focus on what is needed and now, it is still learning materials in the Filipino language. These includes the Filipino and Araling Panlipunan (Social Studies).
We continue to widen our reach as we also write articles related to education in Twinkl and homeschooling in Smart Parenting.
