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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
bluebirdssoar
Jan 4, 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
Dec 8, 20181 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 7, 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
May 6, 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
Apr 27, 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 11, 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 8, 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
Mar 26, 20182 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 21, 20181 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
Dec 4, 20172 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
Oct 3, 20171 min read
Word games
I searched how children in other nations train their writing skills. I wanted to introduce some practices or practical games to our...
bluebirdssoar
Sep 16, 20171 min read
Self introduction
It was decided to start to support students from a secondary school in a poor community in addition to the current supporting area. A...
bluebirdssoar
Apr 10, 20171 min read
Letters
While about a half of our foster children write short letters to their foster parents, I can’t help noticing that most children write...
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