About Learning

All children want to learn. They do learn. They learn at their own paces. This is my teaching/learning philosophy. I am a perfect example.

1. I wanted to play the piano when I was a child...I couldn't back then. Now I am able to play simple music. (I just need to practice continuously.) 

2. As a third grader, I had a terrible experience with mobiles...They always got tangled up. For my master's course, I took a class, Art in Education, where I made a solar system stand up mobile. 

3. In high school I was petrified of Math- Pre-Algebra, Algebra, Geometry and Trigonometry. Three years ago, I conquered my fear of Math. I read books on Algebra and learned it. I also went into inclusion Math classrooms where I learned more "tricks of the trade" on Pre-Algebra, Algebra, and Geometry. I learned that Math is a skill, an algorithm. Math is a pattern. Math is fun!  Now, I am confidently teaching a Pull Out Pre-Algebra class.

4. We had home economics class in high school where we had cooking, electronics, and sewing instructions. Cooking was easy since the kitchen has been my haven since I was eight years old. However, my sewing skills were pitiful. As much as I was good in cooking, my sewing abilities were limited to mending socks and sewing buttons. I did not produce a single crocheted project. My crocheted doilies always looked funny.  The  loop and the first layer, looked decent but  somehow,halfway through, they always ended up looking  like a baby bonnet. 

Now I am happy to share my  accomplishment- a pillow doily. 
I just started with it.  I am quite amazed with what I have come up with. (so far)

 

start of the project


 

After about 2 hours of work: I have the choice to stop or to continue using a different color. Hmm... choices

This is the first segment of the project; still no bonnet

I decided to use  the burnt red yarn for the second part of the project.

This is the ninth layer

I am very pleased with the pillow doily.

and now the finished project!

Conclusion:  

"Never" should not be a part of our vocabulary. Never is a harsh word. In life, we are always given opportunities to rise above obstacles, those that seem to be unattainable goals. In anything we do, so long as we have the Faith in God and in the talents that He has given us, how could we go wrong.