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bluebirdssoar
Sep 15, 20232 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!
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bluebirdssoar
Feb 22, 20212 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...
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bluebirdssoar
Feb 20, 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...
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bluebirdssoar
Dec 15, 20202 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,...
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bluebirdssoar
Dec 11, 20201 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....
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bluebirdssoar
Dec 10, 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...
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bluebirdssoar
Dec 6, 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...
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bluebirdssoar
Nov 17, 20201 min read
Significance of letters
I wrote about a letter-writing a few days ago, but the letter is a way to convey our feelings and it isn’t necessarily a means of...
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bluebirdssoar
Nov 15, 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...
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bluebirdssoar
Nov 14, 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...
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bluebirdssoar
Nov 11, 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...
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bluebirdssoar
Nov 6, 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...
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bluebirdssoar
Oct 17, 20201 min read
Visiting Prey Veng after 9 months
We met our foster children in Peam Ro, Prey Veng. It’s been 9 months to meet them in person as a foreigner. They looked fine, but there...
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bluebirdssoar
Sep 19, 20202 min read
What do you like?
I interviewed each of our foster children on the island. I asked them what they like so that we can refer to it when we could bring...
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bluebirdssoar
Sep 8, 20201 min read
Preparing to visit children after 10 months
We couldn't go to see our foster children this year due to the covid-19 confusion. Schools were closed from March, and interstate traffic...
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bluebirdssoar
Nov 3, 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...
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bluebirdssoar
Apr 21, 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...
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bluebirdssoar
Apr 19, 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...
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bluebirdssoar
Apr 17, 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...
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bluebirdssoar
Apr 15, 20192 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...
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