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Khmer New Year 2019
Cambodian New Year holiday has started. The angel of the year of wild pig comes down and takes place with the angel of the year of dog. ...

bluebirdssoar
Apr 14, 20191 min read


Contact network
Another program on that day was to make a contact network. Until now 1 native staff has been contacting each child, but of course it’s...

bluebirdssoar
Jan 8, 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


From describing pictures
We are preparing pictures to use for a description game. It is for children to practice to verbalize a certain item in as many ways as...

bluebirdssoar
Dec 7, 20181 min read


Concept
In many communities in this nation teachers and study materials are still insufficient at schools. There are many schools where only the...

bluebirdssoar
Aug 30, 20181 min read


Letter-writing instruction
At our last visitation, we prepared 2 staffs who were good at languages to help children write responding letters to their foster...

bluebirdssoar
Aug 12, 20181 min read


To be pleased
We have found there shall be some budget available to prepare gifts to our foster children for our next visitation. It would have been...

bluebirdssoar
Aug 10, 20181 min read
Concentrate
Because this work was not an obligation, it seems some small children couldn’t much concentrate on it. A few just wrote down Khmer...

bluebirdssoar
Aug 3, 20181 min read


There have been some changes
During our visitation we asked children who had got letters from their foster parents to write a reply. I asked volunteer staffs to take...

bluebirdssoar
Jul 3, 20181 min read


Way to exchange letters
We changed a system for foster parents and children to correspond each other. Until now, about half of our foster children had been...

bluebirdssoar
Jun 28, 20181 min read


Writing work (3)
Many of those who usually write letters with a rich content were also describing well how everyone in the family lives every day. There...

bluebirdssoar
May 6, 20181 min read
Writing work (2)
Children's writing works are returning to me from translators. Â They wrote about their families. Â By seeing those, some points caught my...

bluebirdssoar
Apr 27, 20181 min read
Writing work (1)
As for compositions, I can easily guess that most children don’t like to write. And I thought they would surely feel bored to do with...

bluebirdssoar
Apr 11, 20181 min read


Qualifying sentences to create stories
We visited our foster children and we carried out language programs. Many children were bewildered at first with the 5w1h-practice, a...

bluebirdssoar
Apr 8, 20181 min read


Picture books lending out
A charitable organization in the US kindly donated a box-full of English picture books and easy novels to our children. Books are really...

bluebirdssoar
Apr 7, 20181 min read


Mind map
There was another discovery from the meeting. At our visitation, after practicing to make sentences orally we also want children to...

bluebirdssoar
Mar 26, 20182 min read


Writing basics
For the next visitation, I think I want to tell 2 things to our children. As for the first point, as I can find a lot in children’s...

bluebirdssoar
Mar 21, 20181 min read


Word game played
Thinking of those children who just froze with our request to write about themselves, we sincerely felt the importance to grow their...

bluebirdssoar
Dec 4, 20172 min read


Opportunity of handicraft
Our foster children usually use their notebook pages to write a letter. And mostly they put letters in an ordinary envelops sold in a...

bluebirdssoar
Oct 22, 20172 min read
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