Keep reading! Keep learning!

Internet, television... Most of the kids are familiar to several tv shows, hosts and tv personalities, facebook,  youtube or yahoo chats, but what about books? What was the last book that they have read (school books not included)? When was the last time that their parents sit down with them and read a book? 

An article published in 2010 remarks that "according to the Department of Education (DepEd), out of 2.7 million first-grade students in public schools, only 1.6 million can finish elementary, some of which passed English and Filipino subjects with below average or poor reading skills" This kind of data shows that despite programs as "Every Child a Reader (ECARP)" hold by DepEd, which has received P21 million funding support in 2011 "to equip elementary pupils in public schools with strategic reading and writing skills to make them independent young readers and writers"  or awareness campaigns as those that take place during the National Reading Month, which has been declared in November, reading is not an habit among Filipinos. And not only among Filipino kids, but also among Filipino adults. So what can we expect then? 

And we are not only "loosing" reading habits, we are loosing learning skills too. It is proven that reading stimulates children's creativity, improves their vocabulary and develops ther speaking and writing skills. Furthermore, reading in a second language helps to increse the benefits: memory improvement, cognitive enhancements and more future opportunities as well. 

Spending some time with our kids reading a book together or paying more attention to our students while they read (sometimes that is hard task, we know, especially in those overloaded classrooms) and trying to make the reading sessions funnier can help to improve kids' communication skills and their aptitude for learning, to uplift their self-esteem and of course, it will help them to appreciate the joy of reading.

If we all agree that a good education is one of the most important tools for our personal development, let's try to give our kids the best education.

Be positive!

via Savor Home

Happy Friday!!

Busy busy bees... ASPROFIL Team starts the week-end with a lot of work: our worshop, the artistic project that we are currently writing and the visit of our friend Emily on Sunday... Yes, such a lot of work, but we love it and we love working hard to make our dreams true... Always be positive!

Have a nice week-end!!

- ASPROFIL Team

April is for fairy tales!

Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, The Frog Prince... Do you remember these titles? 

April is for fairy tales in ASPROFIL, through these stories we want to introduce ASPROFIL kids to the world of fairy tales while they improve their English vocabulary and reading comprehension. 

Story tellings followed by comprehension activities and vocabulary games to learn and develop kids' skills in a funny way... This week Sleeping Beauty by Charles Perrault (original title La Belle au bois dormant - "The Beauty sleeping in the wood") has been the choosen story to approach kids to fairy tales and their basic vocabulary (in English) through a wordsearchpuzzle.

Enjoy your Sunday and do not forgett to answer our Facebook Poll!

1st Easter Sunday Party

Happy Easter Sunday!

Centro ASPROFIL has celebrated today its 1st Easter Sunday Party with a small program to aware kids about the Holly Week celebration: Why do we celebrate the Holly Week? What do we celebrate on Easter Sunday? Who is Easter Bunny? As the only Catholic country in Asia, Holly Week is celebrated nationwide in the Philippines and it became a part of the Filpinino culture.

The presentation was followed by a storytelling about Easter Bunny, "The Adventurous Bunny and Easter Island" about how Big Ears Bunny found the Eastera Island and decided to share their sweet harvest with all the kids in the world, and a craft activity where ASPROFIL kids learnt to make their own Easter mobile to decorate their rooms. Rabbits, eggs, flowers and chickens invaded the center with crayons, scissors and paste.

To finish the morning we organized a traditional egg hunting... Kids looked around the center and its garden for the colorful eggs to find their sweet surprise.

What about your Easter Sunday? Did the rabbit stop around?

Hope you all had a blessed Holly Week!

- ASPROFIL Team

Working on our Easter Sunday Party

Happy Easter everybody!!

Even in holidays we are busy and before going to Antipolo's Good Friday procession, ASPROFIL Team is working on our Easter Sunday Party.

A storytelling, a craft activity and of course, an Easter egg hunting will be held on Sunday, April 8 at 9 AM at Centro ASPROFIL.

Let's continue working for our 1st Easter Sunday Party!

February: All about mother's love | Mari Carmen Brugarolas

WEEK 2
MARI CARMEN BRUGAROLAS

Name: Mari Carmen Brugarolas
Children: Dennis, 8 years old.
Occupation: housewife / labour advisor
Hometown: Murcia (Spain)
Years and position in ASPROFIL: since 2006. Member and representative in Murcia.

5 Precious moments in motherhood:
  1.- His first "good morning" kiss and hug.

  2.- His smile when he finds me after school. 

  3.- When he hugs me without a specific reason.

  4.- When he comforts a friend that is sad.

  5.- His happiness when he finish a difficult homework.

An advice for your kids: 

Make things "with the heart"

A dream:

That kids will grow up happy.

[Mari and Dennis in Ávila (Spain) during a family trip]

February: All about mother's love | May Pioquinto

ASPROFIL focus this month is <mother's love for her children> so we want to introduce you some ASPROFIL super mothers

WEEK 1
MAY PIOQUINTO

Name: María May Pioquinto
Children: Álvaro and Lilia Fe Pérez
Occupation: business woman
Hometown: La Manga del Mar Menor, Murcia (Spain)
Years and position in ASPROFIL: 16 years. Founder and National President of ASPROFIL - Spain. Founder of ASPROFIL - Philippines.

5 Precious moments in motherhood:
  1.- When they were born

  2.- When they smile with one tooth and cry when were hungry or wet.

  3.- See them walking and running for the first time.

  4.- When they kiss and embrace you.

  5.- Every day is a precios moment for a mother to see that her children are well.

An advice for your kids: 

 Analize situation before making a decision.

A dream:

To be successful at their choosen career and life.

[With baby Alvarito in Manila (Philippines) and Lisbon (Portugal)]