Immeasurable Joy of Christmas

Waking up late in the morning, I proceeded to the sala (visitor's lounge) to look for my wife. She's not there. Only my two grandchildren, Toto Bryan and Adgel who were there, preoccupied playing on my laptop and our youngest daughter, Geeree.

I went outside the house and saw her busy attending her plants in the garden, especially her orchids. She jokingly told me from afar that I have failed to greet her this Christmas.

I got nearer, greeted her "Merry Christmas:, and gave her a morning Christmas hug as we laughed out loud for the joy we had of being together in this Christmas Day though some of our children were not around. Some were abroad working. Other within the country. And some had their own family to tender to.

Geeree who was tending a Christmas music played on her cellphone connected to a 32-inch TV monitor, was on the alert to observe us outside her mother's garden.. While overhearing us laughing out loud and seemed to be enjoying, she took her cellphone, and captured the following momentous actions we did.

Reading - The Foundation of Knowledge

Kids love to listen to Storytelling before they learn to read. They're too curious, inquisitive as they listen to story told either by their parents, grandparents, and even their teachers while they're in school.

The month of November has been declared by the Department of Education as National Reading Month of every year to stress the importance of reading as the foundation of knowledge.

It is enjoined that every school in the Division of La Carlota must conduct reading session activities storytelling, Read-A-Thon, Drop Everything and Read (DEAR), among others in celebration of the national reading month.

Our school has conducted a storytelling to the pupils of kindergarten, grades one, two and three by different representatives from the pupils’ parent, guardian and local government unit, who volunteered to read stories with respective moral lesson to the pupils. They used the big books for their reading session.

CES INSET Paves the Way

The recent In-Service Training for the teachers of Cubay Elementary School leads them to do the appropriate series of actions to let their pupils learned. Technology, diversity of learners and community linkages are the identified major factors for the academic development of the pupils.

Technology

The teachers must know how to operate the different media in enhancing their teaching strategies to make their pupils learned.

Information and communication technology (ICT) is the major concern of the teachers of Cubay Eementary School. In their teaching profeciency need, ICT tops as indicated in their NCBTCS - TSNA.

Teachers in their Hands-on training conducted by Mr. Gilbor D. Camporazo,Jr., a programming instructor of Technical Found Institute(TFI) of Bago City, Negros Occidental, PH.

La Carlota District Commemorates 2013 National Family Week

"Unity Across Generation: a Strong Family, a Strong Nation", this year's National Family Week theme has inspired all the saints of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, La Carlota Philippines District as they culminate their week-long family celebration.

A Strong Family, A Strong Nation

The 8 units under the La Carlota District of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints led by their respective branch presidents joined together in the culmination of  the week-long national family week celebration at the La Carlota meetinghouse.

Activities was ushered by caravan of the members of San Enrique, Ayungon, La Carlota first, La Carlota second, Masville, Manggapsang, La Castellana and Moises Padilla. The caravan paraded around the main city streets with the drums and bugle corps of Doña Hortencia Salas Benedicto National High School.

Short program ensued after the parade. During lunch time, "Kainang Pampamilya Mahalaga" was applied by every member having a lunch together with their family member, serving lechon manok as symbol of thanksgiving and unity among the member as they eat together.

Cubay Elementary School Improving Physically

CES Logo

In the division of La Carlota, Cubay Elementary School plant is gaining momentum for her periodic physical improvement through the efforts of her active external stakeholders.

Funds were derived from donations of education friends and supporters like the parents, the barangay council members, the government officials and the monthly budget of the school prepared for the minor repair and maintenance.

CES, in a recent Brigada Eskwela, a national school maintenance week, before the formal opening of regular classes, has more than 200 volunteers representing the different sectors in the community, took their time in cleaning the school surroundings, repainting the externals walls of the classrooms, mowing the lawn, and repairing some defective blackboards, chairs, doors and windows. BE has contributed a lot in making the school ready for the school opening.

La Carlota ALS Joins Tree Planting

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) of La Carlota City conducted recently a tree planting activity at the protected area of Kanlaon Park at the upper Sitio Nailab, Brgy. Ara-al, La Carlota City. This is in connection with its national greening program of the government.

Alternative Learning System (ALS) mobile teacher, Ms. Corazon Aloro organized her group with a nod from their education program supervisor Avelino N. Santillan. Eleven ALS representatives composed of the learners and their respective instructional managers and mobile teachers to participate to this one-day tree planting.

The involvement of ALS to this NGP of DENR is the realization of the Department of Education commitment to the PNOY 1-Billion Project of the Aquino administration to protect the environment by planting trees.

Cubay Elem. School Earthquake Drill

My school, Cubay Elementary School as a routine activity on disaster preparedness and consciousness conducted an earthquake drill Thursday, July 11, 2013.

Earthquake drill

Before this is done, we have to satisfy first the four stages of the earthquake like planning or organizing the earthquake drill, developing the school earthquake evacuation plan, orientation prior to the conduct of earthquake drill, and the actual conduct of earthquake drill.

These stages where already discussed to the members of the school disaster management committee and to the pupils last year. This year's activity is a follow-up. We the school heads do understand that this earthquake drill would only be effective if it is done regularly. Not only done, when some parts of the country is experiencing a calamity like the earthquake. "Constant practice makes perfect" so to speak.

Phases of Earthquake Drill (PageWise, 2002)

In conducting the earthquake drill, there are 6 phases of self-explanatory things to comply with, such as Phase 1 - Alarm, Phase 2 - Response, Phase 3 - Evacuation, Phase 4 - Assembly, Phase 5 - Head count, and Phase 6 - Evaluate.

Many goes to Cubay Elementary School

June 3 is the opening of regular classes in elementary and secondary schools in the division of La Carlota in this school year 2013-2014. In this day, Cubay Elementary School has nearly got 100% pupils' attendance. This means most of the pupils and even the parents and guardians of the children know the value of school attendance, especially in the first day of the opening of classes.

The pupils in their proper school uniform went to school early and attended their first flag ceremony.

Best Artworks of TMAG

Best of works of Tib-ong Mangkas Art Group (TMAG) need to be discovered and promoted for the artists to become motivated, encouraged to excel more in their artistic skills.

Recently formed group of artists who are residents of La Carlota City joined the Agro-Trade Fair of La Carlota Pasalamat festival.

Best Crafts

They displayed their best art crafts, paintings and relief sculpturing in their humble booth. They were as follows:

TMAG is composed of four natives of Mangkas. They're Abraham Obero, 35; Alfred Chavez, 35; Raffie Salazar, 29; and Redmond Nazareno, 25.

La Carlota Agro-Trade Fair 2013

Local produce of La Carlota City from root crops, fruits, vegetables, ornamental plants, among others are displayed and even offered for sale in an affordable prices in this business fair.

This agro trade fair is a part of the various activities in the week-long La Carlota Pasalamat Festival which kicks off, Apri 22 and culminates on April 25.

Other wholesome feature and family fun-filled togetherness which could be seen and be enjoyed in this week-long activities may include the following: horse back riding, laro ng lahi, and many more.

Yo may take your time and visit the place, La Carlota City and enjoy the fun of this festival.

Indigenization of School Curriculum

The Philippines is rich in cultural heritage in various field like historical events, places, people, traditional beliefs and values, produce and products all over the archipelago.

Along this premise, the Department of Education "aims to make the curriculum responsive to the needs of the people in various locations of the country." To this effect, therefore, education program specialists of different region had come up with a series of local data and pieces of information in a seminar/workshop of local curriculum integration.

Moreover, iIn compliance with the DepED goal: "Decentralize the formulation and development of certain parts of the curriculum in order to foster national cohesiveness, and to respond to needs of different regions and ethnic groups" (BSE, DECS 1998), those EPS conducted an echo seminar.

In so doing, School Principal Gil Camporazo, the author, of Cubay Elementary School, after attending an echo seminar conducted by the Division of La Calota City relayed to his 14 teachers in a one-day workshop which was held at the school learning resource center in March 22, 2013.

Family Outing at New Year's Day 2013

Every first day of the new year, we went to the beach for an outing. This is our tradition to celebrate the coming of the new year and also for a thanksgiving of the goodness of the Lord He has given us in the previous year. This year 2013, we were still at local beach in our place.

Family arriving at the beach

We spent for almost 8 hours at the beach. We brought our extra food in our media noche (midnight supper) for the whole family to partake.

Fruits Are God's Bounty

A day before the year 2013 sets, I go early to the market place to take some pictures of the different fruits from different kind of trees. I am able to document a huge of stock of these fruit trees produce.

I have realized that the bounty of fruits that the Lord has given us to survive our existence here on this earth is one of the important things we should be thankful to Him They are for our subsistence. They are good food. They are like meat, good to eat. They are sweet to taste.

God has created everything including these different fruits from different kind of fruit bearing trees.

In the Bible, we found it there: "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so." (Genesis 1:11)

Temple Marriage of Gilbor and Carissa

Temple marriage is one of the most sacred ordinances performed inside the temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

And this new and everlasting covenant of marriage was entered in by Gilbor Demabildo Camporazo, Jr. of La Carlota First Branch and Ma. Carissa Padios Trenuela of La Castellana Branch.

This was the momentous event for their life. They got married in the Cebu Philippine Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on the 20th day of November 2012.

Temple first counselor Gomez Sialdy officiated the nuptial rites of Gilbor and Carissa in a solemn and reverent, sealing room of the temple.

Now Gilbor Jr. and Ma. Carissa are now one. They're both husband and wife. And they've to abide with this new and everlasting covenant of marriage, which is temple marriage.

2012 CES In-Service Training, a Success!

The 3-day In-Service Training of Cubay Elementary School, Division of La Carlota successfully enhanced its 13 teachers' teaching competence and skills particularly in dealing with various types of learners, familiarizing and enriching the learning types of every learner, and acquiring skill in utilizing technology technique in facilitating learning among their pupils.

Teachers in group activity

The resource speakers spent much time in giving them the needed data, skills and techniques especially in dealing with their learners of various types.

Miss Gloria G. Tionsay, CES foster parent, monitored the second day of the session. She discussed with the teachers the effective way or approach  of making pupils at risk taken care and be given an appropriate attention for them to learn and be retained in school.

Ms. Emelyn A. Asin, records officer II of the Division of La Carlota City updated the teachers on the legal points as stipulated in Republic Act 9470, the National Archive of the Philippines Act of 2007 and also she stressed on the proper way of handling school records and disposing them when needed.

Another invited resource speaker was Gilbor D. Camporazo, Jr., a LaSalTech 2nd-year programmer student who imparted the teachers the basic methods of using the PowerPoint Presentation to aid the transfer of learning to the pupils via modern technology. Teachers with their respective laptop followed in toto their hands-on activity for two-and-a-half hours session.

Gil & Rebing - 61st Synchronous Birthday

Artwork done by Gilbor Junior

October 13 marks our 61st synchronous birthday with my wife, Rebecca Demabildo-Camporazo, who is fondly called as Rebing.

In the previous year we'd spent our birthday by visiting our former lover's place in the campus of La Carlota City College.

This year we just stay at home and enjoy our simple birthday celebration with a birthday cake for the first time in our life.

Our 3rd eldest daughter provided the cake for us, spaghetti, maja blanca, bihon guisado, softdrinks.

These simple food preparations are enough for our family members to enjoy like our 4 grandchildren, 5 children and two visitors of Gingging.

La Carlota Teachers' Day: More Frolics & Fun

More than seven hundred teachers of the Division of La Carlota did enjoy so much in their one-day teachers' day which they celebrated it too on October 5, World Teachers' Day.

• The Opening Program Speakers

La Carlota LDS Observes 2012 National Family Week

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of La Carlota District observed the 2012 National Family Week Celebration with parade, program, display of exhibits and income-generating products, contests and games. Kainang Pampamilya highlighted the said national event.

Family is number one priority - Ferrer

"Cooperation and unity among the family members are very important factors," said Jeffrey P. Ferrer, the ever supporter of The Church activities ever since he was still a city councilor, then a mayor of the city, and now as the house representative of the 4th district in Negros Occidental.

"My family and my children are my number one priority," he further stressed.

Catching the program which was about to close, he shared his short inspiring message on the importance of family and how he managed his family in spite of his hectic schedule.

He also exchanged some pleasantries with the congregation of members and other invited guests by relating his closed tie up with the Church before and even in the present.

La Carlota LDS All Set To Celebrate Family Week

The La Carlota District of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) is busy preparing for the yearly celebration of Family Week as mandated by law.

The branch presidents of different units like President Christopher Milendres of Ayungon, President Jousha Solquillo of San Enrique, President Johndill Parreño of Masville, President Carlo Rebelde of Manggapsang, President Noel Oliverio La Castellana, President Andres Samolde of Moises Padilla, President Jimboy Loreto of La Carlota First and President Rodolfo Banghaon of La Carlota Second are all-out supporting this family activities.

President Mario Malacaman Presiding the meeting on Family Week preparation

President Mario A. Malacaman presided the recent meeting about this activity. His two counselor: President Zandiv Abonado ang President Rino Salvador M, Ilangga were also supporting this wholesome family affairs.

ANHS Journalism Workshop | Inspiring, Informative Journalism Attempt

The recent journalism workshop for 19 staff members of the school paper of Antipolo National High School, ANHS ECHO was a success.  The participants were able to enhance their journalistic skills.

ANHS is a national high school located at the District II of Pontevedra, Negros Occidental, PH.

These promising, budding young writers generally claimed that their workshop was inspiring, enjoyable, and informative.

They said the journalistic skills have been enhanced, enriched and even improved so that they could come up with their maiden issue before the end of this July 2012.

Young Journalists Writing Their Articles as part of their workshop

Humble Transformation of Cubay Elementary School

Cubay Elementary School in the Division of La Carlota was physically facelift and transformed into a well-maintained school, conducive for learning since the conduct of Brigada Eskwela, a national maintenance program of the Department of Education every 3rd week of the month of May in which concerned volunteers jointly and severally donated their generous time, efforts and service to what it is now.

As the school principal of this school, I took the following pictures after recess period between 9:45 a.m. to 10:40 a.m. while classes are going on. You couldn't see any pupil loitering around during class hour. They're all inside their classrooms. Only the school principal is going around, observing classes, checking teachers' lesson plans, school forms and other pupils' records.

Visiting Nature's Village Resort for the First Time

My fellow school administrators of the Department of Education, Division of La Carlota and I spent two days and two nights in Nature's Village Resort, Hotel and Restaurant at Talisay City, Negros Occidental, PH to attend the Pantawid Pamilya Orientation of the City Action Team conducted by the Social Workers of the Department of Social Worker Development (DSWD).

Most of us were first timers to the said place and we were impressed of the ambiance, the accommodations and everything. No wonder why that NVR got ASEAN Green Hotel Award!

The seminar/workshop

La Carlota High School 65th General Homecoming: a Success!

Sixty-seven members of the alumni of class 1970 of La Carlota City High school participated in the 65th general alumni homecoming of La Carlota High School.

In our particular class of 1970, we consider this grand reunion of our classmates and schoolmates after 42 years that we graduated from our dear Alma Mater.

To our beloved Alma Mater, we hail thee. We hail thee.

The momentous events that transpired in this whole class reunion were the following:

The Motorcade