KUMON

I am supposed to start enrolling Juliana for Kumon September of 2013 but because of the busyness involved with moving at the new house, etc. I just found the time to bring her to Kumon center again last week of January. I attended the parents’ orientation months before and it got me convinced that Kumon program will be beneficial to Juliana. I enrolled her immediately and she already got her assignments that same day. The nearest center to us is the C. Raymundo branch.

The first thing that she requested from me when we arrived at the center is that she likes her teacher to be a girl. Juliana does not want a male teacher as she got traumatized when she had a strict male gym teacher at another school when I enrolled her there during summer. Goodluck when we finally go to big school on 2015. For the meantime, all her teachers happen to be females so I am not that worried pa.

Kumon has 2 subjects – Mathematics and Reading. Honestly, I wanted Juliana to enroll at Reading as she does not know how to read big words (she can only read limited 3-letter words) at age 5 and I fear she will have a hard time catching up when she goes to big school but I dont want to pressure her so I enrolled her at Mathematics which is her favorite subject. You can't enroll in 2 classes when its just your first time so we really have to choose between the 2 subjects. She told me that she can enroll at the Reading class naman daw when she turns 6.  I am paying Php 1,800/month for her Kumon class.

Actually, Juliana enjoys doing her assignments every day and even though we still struggle at addition and subtraction, i can feel that she is okay with having assignments everyday and that she is learning a lot from her 2x a week session with Teacher Gemma. She can write numbers know more legibly and we time her assignments. It should not take her more than 30 minutes to do the worksheet. I actually look forward on Saturdays when I bring her to the center in the morning but they changed schedules this summer so the class was now at Tuesdays & Wednesdays. Major bummer... No choice but to have Ate Ester bring her to the center as I cant go out of the office all the time.

What i like about the program is that Kumon allows the student to master a lesson first before moving on to the next level. That way, the student will have a better understanding of the lessons and since we just started, the pace is not that difficult though its me that is feeling the pressure when I see her assignments getting harder each week. So far, so good. I intend to continue enrolling her for as long as she is still enjoying it. Actually, Isabel has shown interest to do assignments alongside her Ate Hannah but she can’t sit still for 10 minutes straight. Your turn will come, my darling bunso.

July painted my previous laptop table which now serves as Juliana's study table. We just need to buy her a good chair along side the table.