Back to school tips and experiences

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Back to school brings excitement to both parents and students but it also needs finances and adjustments.

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My son's first day of school was last August 29, 2023. It was one of the most memorable day for him and to me as well. It is the first day that he went to the Big school as a kindergarten pupil or we call it here as kinder 2.

Going back to school means preparations and adjustments. For today's blog let me share how I do the preparation and what adjustments we had:

Choosing school

Before enrollment, my husband and I talked about where we will sent our son. It is either in public or private school.

In public school, many students were there. The tuition is free and we only have some minimal fees or things to provide.

In private school, less students, teachers can focused well on the students but with a high tuition fees.

Public school is just a walking distance from where we are living right now while private school is afar and we need to ride tricycle back and forth.

Thinking about our finances, we decided to enroll our son at public school.

Enrollment

After choosing the school, I then inquire about their enrollment and I learned that there are screening for advance class. Advance class are those student who excel among others. They are also limited in one classroom which they choose only top 25 students while in regular class some are up to 30 students in one classroom.

I enrolled my son as early as possible and applied for screening. Screening is free so why not try my son to take an exam.

Screening was scheduled, I let my son reviewed his learnings and prayed for him before we went to school.

Fortunately he passed and we are so happy.

Buying school supplies

Buying school supplies really need finances. During summer breaks we started to save for our son's school supplies but it is not enough to buy all the requirements. I still have to buy other things that it is not needed yet. I bought first those things that really needed.

We buy two weeks before classes start, not during weekends, not after pay day to avoid a lot of people in mall or stores. This is also to avoid spending a lot of time in queueing.

Preparing uniforms

My son's previous uniform (polo, short and shoes) still fit to him so I didn't worry much. This is the advantage when you buy clothes a little bigger to him because it will still fit to them in the following years.

As an excited mam, I ironed his uniform a day before their first day of school.

Preparing my son mentally

Before the classes starts, I really talked to him and told him that he will be going to big school and it means parents or mother is not allowed to stay at their classroom or school unlike in his previous school.

I told him to behave, to listen to their teacher, do their activities first before playing and above all be a good student and a good classmate.

Waking up adjustments

Being in kinder 1, their classes starts at 8am and now at Kinder 2, their classes starts at 7:30 in the morning and every Monday and at the beginning of the school year they need to go to school before 7 in the morning to attend the flag raising ceremony.

On the first day, my son is also excited, he wokes up so early and asked me to take him a bath so early. We went to school early too.

On the second day, it is still okay, the excitement is still there but in the following days, I already had the hard time waking him up.

He really need to sleep early so that he can wake up early too. If he could sleep late, I will really had a hard time waking him up in the morning.

As a mother, it is my responsibility to ensure that he could sleep early and wake him up early so he won't be late in school.

Those are our back to school experiences. I hope you learn something.


This is my participation for the Motherhood community writing challenge - back to school craziness.

Thank you so much for reading.



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k1 is kinder and k2 is preschool or lahi ang k2 sa preschool sis ky sa public diri kinder ug preschool ra man gud

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Diri Kay k1 kindergarten japon, K2 kindergarten japon pero Ang k2 is under na sa deped. Sa elementary school na Sila.

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so pilay age sa k1 and k2?

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K1 is 4
K2 is 5

Ang cut off here is October. My son is 5 now and going six on November pero K2 pa sya kasi October Ang cut off. Sya ata Ang Pinaka kuya sa lahat hehehe

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so next sa k2 is Grade 1 na?

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Yes sis. Grade 1

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I see so k2 is preschool..usually sa private school ang k1 and k2

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Sa public Ra jud mi sis. Di afford Ang private heheeh.

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mahal jud ang private sis..sa catholic school where nagschool akong eldest ky mga 1300 ang monthly sa k1

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Dakua sis oi.. di jud ma afford ana ai.

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kaya man naho ky naa man koy extra income pero I am trying to save para sa among bedrooms expansion ky wala py room among house hehehe.gusto unta nako sa private school akong bunso ky labon english speaking na siya daan ba hehehe..

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Kung makaya sa private why not sis pero if Dili public na lang sa jud.

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lagi mas priority nako nga mahuman among balay this time.pohon na basin ra ma-monetize na akong fb heheh

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Nag reels diay ka, hays gikapoy ko oi Kay not recommendable Ako profile hahaha

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yes sis..niagi sad not recommendable akong profile saona sis pero nagsend ko report ni meta naokay naman pud

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Keep it up sis. Hapit na nimu mahuman Ang 60k?

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ay dugay pa sis oi tagsa rako mag live..sa ads on reels nalang ko muasa ani basin ra ma invite ni Meta diay pohon2x

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Kahit ako hindi ina..
Dati sa pinas pa ko.. I'm always excited kung magstart na class.. Gusto ko ako magprepare mga gamit ng mga kapatid ko..nakakaexcite

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Yes sis una2 nakaka excite talaga pero kapag magtagal na parang nakakapagod na Rin hahaha but we need to restore the excitement day by day para di malate Ang anak hehehe.

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Public school has many advantages over private school; our children can interact with a variety of people and learn to be more alert.
I wish you guys luck. Your son looks excited, and he must be as he wanted to be ready early in the morning. That's cute!

Cheers, @jenthoughts 💕

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He still have the excitement after almost a month in school but sometimes I had a hard time waking him up especially if the weather is so cold.

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That's funny. It's cold over there, while the sun is cooking us alive over here.

Keep healthy, my friend 🙏

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We are now in wet season and it rained almost everyday. Like this morning the weather is so favorable, the sun is shining brightly but in the afternoon or noon time the rain will be coming.

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Wooow!!! reading through your post was so interesting. Generally private schools are mostly more expensive than the public schools. Here we had to go for the private school despite the cost because the public schools are nothing to write home about.

Am glad your son is excited to resume and he is among the best.

I pray for more super supply to care for his needs and yours too

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Thank you for your well wishes and prayers for me and my family. God bless you too.

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Hello, everything will be fine. Cheers 😊

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Reading through your story is so interesting. Children can be so funny though

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Pag back to school dami talaga gastos sis no. Dito samin thankful na din di ako gaano bumili ng mga supplies niya kasi may mga namimigay na sponsor. Ito rin reason ko bat di ko pa sya ineenroll sa private, madami din kasi gastos dun.

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Dito Wala akong natanggap na sponsor kaya Malaki din talaga Ang needs di ko pa nabilin lahat.

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Ok lang yan sis basta para sa anak ba naman gagawin natin lahat basta mag aral lang sila mabuti diba?

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