St. Francis of Assisi Montessori School of Cainta Updates
This is a recording of Teacher Luchie with her Senior Casa 1 (Preschool 4-year-olds) last February 15, 2022. The topic of the lesson is The Life Cycle of the Butterfly. Keep your child safe while having fun studying online!
We are a fully online preschool, grade school, and junior high. Now open for enrolment for SY 2022-2023. To enroll, instruction visit our enrolment page!
Dear SFAMSC Family
We hope you and your family are doing well. Thanks to the grace of God, Covid cases have been gradually declining and our nation is slowly opening up again. Several schools even announced they will be returning to face-to-face classes next school year, however, we prefer to be extra cautious and continue our online classes for SY 2022-2023.
We based our decision on the uncertainty and risks of face-to-face classes, and the overall sentiment of the SFAMSC community. In an internal survey with our parents, guardians, teachers, and students - an overwhelming 406 of 580, or 70% of the respondents answered we should continue online classes for the next school year.
We hope for everyone’s understanding and cooperation. Let us always care for each other and continue to pray for the healing of our nation.
Here is a recording of one of our Language/English Class with the grade 2 students taught by the charming Teacher Frances Peralta. This is to give everyone a sample of how our online classes work at St. Francis Cainta.
In this age of online classes, many parents and guardians are doing their best to help their children cope online. This is good because teaching your child is an excellent opportunity to bond and spend time with them. Unfortunately, a few guardians or parents take it too far and end up doing two things that may harm their children's learning and character.
First, teachers have observed that some parents or guardians spoon-feed their children answers behind the scene during online class discussions. Teachers have reported that they can hear an adult's whispers telling the student answers during their class recitations. Sometimes they see adult hands visibly typing the answers for them.
Another concern among teachers is that there is a discrepancy between the homework and online class performance among some students. There are students always get perfect marks on their homework. However, during online classes, the teacher finds out that they haven't mastered the lesson yet. This begs the question, did the student really answer the homework themselves?
When this happens it has several harmful effects on the child’s academic and moral character such as:
It teaches dishonesty.
Dishonesty and cheating is usually not a one time thing. It can become a habit that may spread to other areas of the child's life and cause them to disregard others and face trouble in the future.
When the child makes dishonesty a habit, it may bring trouble in their adult lives. For example, you can fail the course and eventually expelled if you are caught cheating in many schools and universities. Dishonesty in the workplace can easily get you fired.
Dishonesty hampers progress and leads to failure. How can the child learn when someone else is answering the assignment for them? It is a waste of everyone’s time.
It makes it more difficult for the teacher to properly assess the child's abilities, making progress difficult and slower.
It robs children of the satisfaction of doing a job well done.
It damages you children's self-confidence. When someone else answers the assignment, it is subconsciously telling the child that "You are not good enough to do it. That is why I will do it instead!"
It causes embarrassment and kills trust. Any teacher can quickly tell if someone else has answered their students' homework because they know their own students' abilities.
If classmates see parents help their child cheat, your child will lose the respect and trust of their classmates.
We strongly discourage all forms of dishonesty. News everywhere shows us that we do not progress as a nation because of the dishonest people in power. We cannot change our country's direction if we raise a generation of dishonest men and women. As educators, parents, and guardians, our sacred duty to the Lord Jesus Christ and our children is to emphasize the importance of honesty and integrity to our children in every part of our lives.
It is essential to have a dedicated space where you can study every day. Stay in a peaceful and quiet environment so that you can hear everything your teachers and classmates share during online classes. Also, sitting in a quiet and comfortable place keeps you relaxed and sharpens your mind because it improves concentration.
The place must also be well lit so that you can easily read your notebooks and textbooks. A bright room will also help your teachers and classmates can see your face clearly through the webcam during online classes.
Here is a quick and easy tip to look good on your webcam. Never put the light behind you when you face the webcam; going against the light will cast a shadow on your face, and no one will see you. Instead, position yourself where the light source is directly in front of you. One right way to get good lighting is to simply use a lamp and place it in front of you or face towards a window.
One more thing, avoid viewing at a bright screen in a dark room because it can cause eye strain and give you a headache. Always use your computer or tablet in a well-lit room.
Tidy up your study area and remove all distractions:
Put away your toys and unnecessary gadgets
Move aways your pets
Send your brothers and sisters to another room
Stay away or turn off the TV, Radio, and Music Players.
A clean and tidy room will help you stay focus and looks good on camera. While A messy room is embarrassing and can be distracting to the classmates. The neatness of your background will also be a part of your deportment grade.
Students are required to wear their uniforms because we want to instill discipline in them and train them to act like professionals when they attend an online meeting. According to Forbes magazine's 8 Cardinal Rules of Running A Virtual Meeting, - professionals must "Work from home, but dress for work." This is what they have to say:
"You will work better if you are dressed for it. On top of that, people on the other end of your call will take you more seriously. The bottom line, if you want to be treated like a professional, follow your team's dress code even while working from home. This is super important in sales meetings and cardinal in interviews."
Wearing a school uniform will develop the habits of proper grooming and good appearance when working with others online. When they grow up and become professionals, their presence will create good impressions with their clients. And people who create good impressions are more persuasive and successful.
There are three things you need to take care of when preparing for our online school
First, prepare your body and mind
Second, prepare your school materials
Third, test your computer equipment.
Get enough sleep for the night so that your mind is clear, and your body is rested ready for study when you wake up. Also, always take a morning shower. A morning shower will wake you up and make you more alert by improving your blood circulation.
If you are in the morning section, have a good breakfast, and if you are in the afternoon section, have a hearty lunch so that you will have enough energy and not go hungry during class.
Always prepare your notebooks, pencils, rulers, textbooks, and modules before classes. Arrange your digital assignment and files so that they are easy to find. We suggest arranging them in an easy-to-access folder and labeling them properly so that they are easy to find. When prepared, you are less stressed and more focused because a prepared person knows what to do.
Do not wait until the last few minutes before the class. Always test at least an hour before your online classes begin. Test your computer, check your tablet, test your internet connection, and test your apps beforehand. We will go with this in more detail in our next video: The 11 Technology Rules and Responsibilities of a Franciscan.
The great Saint Mother Teresa once said, "Just show up, and things will happen." The great American director and actor Woody Allen once said, "80 percent of success is just showing up."
Just like in a regular classroom, your attendance is essential in the online classroom. To become a successful student, the first step you must do to always show up for class. When you attend your class, you learn, develop your skills, and form good habits that will make you an excellent student. This is also an excellent opportunity for you to see you, teachers and classmates, every day.
Attending your classes also teaches you two important values: commitment and consistency. When you have commitment and consistency, you will become a reliable person, and people will trust and respect you. When you have commitment and consistency you develop good habits that will make you successful in life.
When you are in an online class, always focus on classroom conversations and activities. Do not talk while the teachers and your classmates are talking. Listen and learn from them. Take notes with your computer or your notebook so that you can review them later. If you want to speak or participate, click on the "raise your hand" button and wait for the teacher to call you. When it is your turn to talk, always stay on topic, don't talk about irrelevant things.
Be as active as you can and always join class activities like games, recitations, and discussions. If you are active in your online classes, you will learn a lot, get good grades, and enjoy your studies.
In both the real and online world, you need to follow the golden rule: "Treat others the way you want to be treated." If you are kind and respectful to your teachers and classmates, they will also treat you with kindness and respect.
What are the things you must do to be respectful and kind? Here are a few guidelines
First, no yelling during class
Wait for your turn
When you want to say something, raise your hand or press the "raise your hand button."
Do not say bad words, only kind words.
Always encourage your classmates and support them.
If your classmates make mistakes, tell them its okay, we learn from our mistakes.
If a classmate hurts your feeling, forgive them because we all make mistakes.
Always wait for your turn. Always wait for the teacher's approval.
Be a good listener when others are talking.
Respect the opinions of your classmates even if you do not agree with them. If you need to disagree, do so respectfully.
Remember to say "Please" and "Thank you" when asking for help from your teachers and classmates.
It is easy to cheat online, you can just search for something on Google, and you can answer any question. However, as a Franciscan, we trust you to be honest because it is the right thing to do. Accomplishing something feels good and helps build your self-confidence. When you cheat, you are telling yourself that you do not believe in your own abilities. You may get a 90% in an exam, but deep in your heart, you did not earn or deserve it. Cheating is no different from lying or stealing. Every time you cheated on a test and submitted it, you tell the teacher you did it on your own, lying. Cheating is stealing because you are taking someone else work and claiming it as your own.
If it becomes a habit, cheating also leads to failure because it discourages you from working hard. Without honest effort, you will never develop the critical values of persistence, hard work, and sacrifice - important values you must have to become successful in life.
Dishonest people like corrupt politicians who steal money from our country were once students who cheated. Do not be like them. Someday when you become leaders yourselves, be honest leaders so that you can change the Philippines for the better. You are Franciscans, the future of the Philippines.
Diligence means determination and hard work. Your purpose as a student is to learn so that someday you will use the knowledge and values you gained from your teachers to make your dreams come true. So do your very best to become a good student.
Listen attentively to your teacher
Submit your assignments and projects on time
Review your lessons daily,
Practice your equations, practice your reading, practice your speaking, practice your skills, practice practice practice
Participate in your school activities
If you do all this, you develop good habits, good knowledge, good values, and good skills. Essential values that will help you become successful in whatever career or business you choose someday. All successful men and women in the world are diligent because they are determined and work very hard.
If you have any problems, concerns, or questions with your lessons, or your device or your app, feel free always to ask your teacher, daddy, or mommy for help. If you want to know how to do something online, the teacher will be there to help and advise you, ask them during online class or send them a private message. Its also okay to have an adult besides you, helping you during class.
Join Teacher Abie's online science class with the grade 4 students as they discuss the parts of the human brain. This record is one of the many demo classes ongoing as we prepare for the new normal. Stay safe during the pandemic and study at home with us at St. Francis Cainta.
For today's update, here is a 40-minute online demo class recording of Teacher Ellen giving the grade 6 students a Health subject lecture. Today's topic is the basics of Covid19, what are the symptoms, and how to protect ourselves during this pandemic. We posted this video to give parents a look and feel of what our online video classes will look and feel like.
