SitioPaglaum Receives Multipurpose Hall

The MariquitaSalimbangon Yeung Charitable Foundation, Inc., together with The Social Company UK, and the Yellow Boat of Hope Foundation, last Saturday, April 7, formally turned over the multipurpose covered hall to the community of  PurokTambis, SitioPaglaum, Umapad, in Mandaue City. The project was funded by Mr. and Mrs. Jason Atherton of the Social Company in the UK.

This project was done to ensure sustainable assistance and evident growth to the life of each kid in the community. This community lives on a dumpsite before its relocation last year. Obviously, the new site is way better and promising. As much as they are hopeful to have a better life on the new site, the struggle to attain it will still go far. The community is also very near to the Umapad Elementary School.

Aside from the newly turned over multipurpose hall, the community has a chapel, a classroom and an open space where to play basketball. The donated hall will serve as the community`s shelter in case of heavy downpour, center for everyday activities, extension of chapel, alternate classroom for the growing preparatory classes, and  center for livelihood training and skills development.

Aside from the multipurpose hall, during the turnover the community was also served with snacks and given hygiene kits, which were distributed to more than 400 kids.

A heartfelt thanks was given Mr. Ace Pierra, IB CAS Coordinator of Cebu International School and its teachers and students for organizing and volunteering for this project. CIS is continuously pursuing a sustainable partnership with the community through their Service Learning program.

Most of all, heartfelt thanks was also extended to Mr. Jason Atherton and Mrs. Irha Atherton for coming to Cebu and sharing their blessings to the less privileged community. Other organizations are invited to reach out to this community as well as empower them and give them hope for a better life.

How to Read Textbooks Effectively

The goal of a textbook is simple: inform and educate.The goal of the “Harry Potter” books is very different. Novels tell stories. Textbooks communicate ideas through explanations of information. Because of this, you need a different strategy for reading textbooks. Follow these four easy steps to get on your way.

1. Read backwards.Reading a textbook chapter front-to-back ensures that you will waste time.It may seem counter-intuitive to not read a book front-to-back, but don’t do it. Mystery novels stink when you read the back first, as do good thriller movies. If you read the last page of a Sherlock Holmes novel before you read the story, it’ll be lame. If you know Bruce Willis is dead, don’t watch “The 6th Sense.”

But textbooks are rarely building to a suspenseful twist at the end. They don’t come with surprise endings. “And then, Abraham Lincoln dodged the bullet!” Yep, that’s never going to be that in a textbook.

With textbooks, go to the questions at the end first. Read them, answer them to the best of your ability, and then begin your actual reading strategies. This will sort of “prime the engine” of retention.Next, read the final summary of the chapter. This will give you a general background as to the ‘big ideas’ in the chapter.

2. Read for big ideas.Textbooks are extremely thorough. While needing thoroughness, you are not going to be able to absorb every tiny detail found in a chapter. You have to focus on what’s most important.

Textbooks are great because they explain those big ideas in context, but make sure you don’t get lost in the minutiae. Read for the big ideas first and foremost, and you’ll be able to sift through the mountain of information available. In textbooks, big ideas are easy to spot because they are often in bold print or section headings. Look for the complete sentence thought that summarizes and drives each subdivision and you’ll have identified the big ideas.

3. Read for key details.Big ideas need support, otherwise they’re just opinions. After you identify each big idea, make note of the supporting details that fill out and help the big idea make sense.While this looks different in each subject, they should be relatively easy to pick out.

Key people, places, and events often make up the key details in history books. Grammar rules are the important details frequently in grammar books. For languages, vocabulary are some of the most important key details of the chapter. Check your notes against the questions at the end of the chapter. If they reflect the same key details, you know you are barking up the right tree.

4. Read the book just once.Theoretically, you should never have to read a chapter more than once, but your notes repeatedly. If you’ve done your reading well and taken notes as you read, you have a record of the thoughts being communicated.It sure takes a while to adapt to this approach. Don’t be upset if you have a time of adjustment before being able to read a chapter only once.

But if you put in the work now to get used to reading a textbook more effectively, consider the time you’ll save in the long-run. You’ll see the benefits quickly. 

(www.studyright.net)