Essay on Enhanced Community Quarantine

[As part of their learning from home activities, and to keep them from gadgets and TV, I asked my two boys to write an essay on the effect of the Enhanced Community Quarantine. Here are their compositions (unedited).]

The ECQ Essay
by: Khane Kits C. Launio (12yo)

The Covid-19 Pandemic has forced our government to implement the so called Extended Community Quarantine. The ECQ means that people will only stay in their corresponding municipalities and will only go out of their houses once a week. The ECQ has given us a suspension of classes. But what are its real effects on us? What are the positive and negative effects of ECQ in our daily lives?

This pandemic makes us stay in our homes, so what are its positive effects. First, it lets the family have a closer connection with each other given that they are all locked up in their house 6 and a half days each week. Second, the family learns more about each other like sharing their problems and sharing their achievements. Third, each and every one of them will learn how to balance their chores so that not only one or two family members will work at home while on regular days some of them just become couch potatoes. Lastly, it gives the family a time to bond with each other.

This pandemic also gives us some negative effects in just staying home. First, our daily schedules will be ruined and might let us have difficulties after all of this. For example, on regular days, we wake up at 6:00 am and now we wake up 7:30 am just because nothing important is gonna happen. then when every thing goes back to normal, we will have difficulties in waking up at 6:00 am. Another problem with this ECQ is that people might just be all-day computer sitting people. Some people might just take advantage of this ECQ and use it to just play or have fun all day long in front of their gadgets.

Overall, the ECQ is a good idea to keep this pandemic from spreading. I think that we should all spend our time wisely. We should all use our time to bond or get close with our family or do responsible acts. I don't think we should waster our time being couch potatoes, or computer addicts or gadget addicts. We should be careful of the pandemic while enjoying wisely using this time with our family while we still can.

The Effect of ECQ to Our Daily Lives
by chairo (8yo)

The effect of Covid, the government told us to stay inside our house. Inside our house, we were very bored. So what we did is cleaning the house every saturday. After cleaning, we get our notes and review. The government gave online learning, it was named commons deped, we did it we did quizziz, flashcards. And if we have nothing to do we take care of our sister.

More effects of ECQ. the effect is we cant go out so we just eat pancakes, chocolates, breverages. So what we do is everything we can do. at home, we are like in school learning, eating, playing we do. We also write, color, do paragraph, constrac sentences, we read our notes. We do lots of things, its just sad because we cannot go outside and play, go near someone outside because of ecq.

We have more. Every friday we have prayer meeting. every Sunday we praise the Lord online because we are at home. we miss our freinds our teachers everybody.