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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


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


It’s the ability to read from.
Letter from foster parents to their foster children have also arrived after a long interval. We ask the children who receive letters to...

bluebirdssoar
Nov 15, 20201 min read


Glancing at children’s essays
We are going to translate children’s essays from now, but a quick look revealed one tendency. As you can see in the picture, many...

bluebirdssoar
Nov 14, 20201 min read


Writing work after a long absence
Children wouldn’t have had a chance to write compositions while their schools were closed. So we conducted a writing program at our...

bluebirdssoar
Nov 11, 20201 min read


Next theme in Takeo
Regarding the visit by foreign staffs, it was the first visit in 10 months to see children in Kratie province. It’s been 10 months to...

bluebirdssoar
Nov 6, 20201 min read


Significance of prizes
The internationally selected child also had only a certificate because it was not a big prize. With the advice of the locals, we prepared...

bluebirdssoar
Oct 5, 20202 min read


Experiences have begun to take shape
We’ve received crayons and colored pencils as a donation, so I thought I should bring those next if children like to draw. When asked,...

bluebirdssoar
Sep 20, 20201 min read


Reading and creativity
A literature teacher came to Cambodia from Japan. We visited together to a school that possesses a library (library room/ space) so that...

bluebirdssoar
Dec 14, 20191 min read


Getting used to?
We visited our foster children. We take photos of the children every time in order to report their parents abroad. Each one of them...

bluebirdssoar
Nov 3, 20191 min read


Practical skills
The volunteer group taught some practical skills to secondary school children. At schools in countryside and remote areas especially,...

bluebirdssoar
Jul 18, 20191 min read


Bring their imaginations into drawings
In the elder children’s sentence-making game, we also asked them for some writings. We asked them to write which words they drew and what...

bluebirdssoar
Apr 21, 20191 min read


Creative sentence-making
For elder children, we introduced a game to make up a sentence from random words. Each child draws 2 cards from a word card deck, and...

bluebirdssoar
Apr 19, 20191 min read


Express with color pens
After we read a story, we talked about the story in a group. And we asked children to write about the story. It’s not a reflection. It...

bluebirdssoar
Apr 17, 20191 min read


Book-reading in Cambodia
It was one of precious opportunities to meet our foster children, so we also carried out some language programs at the same time. For...

bluebirdssoar
Apr 15, 20192 min read


Result of December
Our language program for December was word-chain game and description game. As for the word-chain game, it was the 2nd time for most of...

bluebirdssoar
Jan 4, 20192 min read
From describing pictures (2)
It usually takes time when children grab how to play a new game. So for the description game, we tried to choose something that children...

bluebirdssoar
Dec 8, 20181 min read
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