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Word play with cards (1)
A word play with local children as an educational support program, together with a foreign volunteer group.

bluebirdssoar
Sep 23, 20231 min read


Handmade bookmarks – Purpose
This program aims to stimulate children’s artistic sensibilities and to help expand the boundaries of their expression.

bluebirdssoar
Sep 18, 20231 min read


Handmade bookmarks – Overview
An arts-and-crafts program with our foster children. We made pretty bookmarks to make it more fun to open the textbooks!

bluebirdssoar
Sep 15, 20232 min read


Watercolor paint for the first time
The children experienced a new sensation of painting with watercolors.

bluebirdssoar
Jul 23, 20232 min read


What is detailed description (2)
We made question sheets for all of our foster children. Several children wrote the similar things on their New Year's cards, such as...

bluebirdssoar
Jul 16, 20232 min read


What is detailed description (1)
We decided to ask children to practice explaining their last year memories in a little more detail.

bluebirdssoar
Jul 15, 20232 min read


Pictures of the New Year cards
The drawings really show the individuality of the children. To give some ideas to children, I printed out an easy-to-understand sample...

bluebirdssoar
Feb 25, 20231 min read


Consideration of making New Year cards (3)
This time again, there were new foster/sponsor parents, and we were able to add new foster children to our child sponsorship program......

bluebirdssoar
Feb 22, 20231 min read


Consideration of making New Year cards (2)
The most impressed or memorable experience... it doesn't have to be always a happy event. Anyway, there were various responses, various...

bluebirdssoar
Feb 19, 20231 min read


Consideration of making New Year cards (1)
Currently we are supporting children in 2 provinces and sometimes we do the same activities in both while some other times we conduct...

bluebirdssoar
Feb 16, 20232 min read


New Year greeting card
Our foster children created New Year greeting cards in January. We’ve already introduced to them about the foreign custom (in the US,...

bluebirdssoar
Feb 12, 20231 min read


Craft card making
This summer we made craft cards with our foster children in a different supporting area from the one where we made greeting cards in...

bluebirdssoar
Aug 23, 20222 min read


Writings of upper grades
During the program, we set some time for children to write, too, after the name panel-making. This summer (before new children join the...

bluebirdssoar
Oct 20, 20211 min read


Decorating a name panel
Children hold their name panels when we take group or individual photos so that their foster parents easily find them out in photos. The...

bluebirdssoar
Oct 16, 20211 min read


Sentence-making game, key point
The key to make this game more effective is to have children write as long a sentence as possible. When we did this game in a different...

bluebirdssoar
Feb 22, 20212 min read


Sentence-making game, preparation
In the next activity with our foster children in the island, we are planning to play a word game. Each child draws a few cards of...

bluebirdssoar
Feb 20, 20212 min read


Sense the beauty
We visited children of another area, in an island. Over here, too, we’d like to gradually start educational activities such as writing,...

bluebirdssoar
Dec 15, 20202 min read


Future dream 2020
Several years ago, or even in recent years in remote areas, children would often answer “teacher” or “doctor” as their future dreams....

bluebirdssoar
Dec 11, 20201 min read


What was achieved and what couldn’t
As for the children’s essay, its theme was the most favorite (or boring) lesson content at school and its reason. We asked children not...

bluebirdssoar
Dec 10, 20201 min read


To continue
Translations of children’s essays have returned. I was personally paying attention to the children whom we started to support in recent...

bluebirdssoar
Dec 6, 20201 min read
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