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Chalk Art With Catherine and Grace

 Foundation Blog, Lead  1 Response »
Feb 102011
 

Wednesday 9th and our American friends Catherine and Grace returned in the late afternoon to spend time with the children.
They came armed with boxes of coloured chalk and soon had all the children brightening up our yard with Chalk art.
After taking dinner with us, they also helped out with homework time and when homework was done got some of the children making bead bracelets,which they also supplied the resources for.
Once again the children enjoyed the company, fun and chance to experience more English language.
Thanks girls and see you again soon.

Moodling

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Aug 162010
 

At last I am starting to get somewhere with the Thai Schools English project, aimed at helping to promote English language learning in local schools.

With help from my friend Ally I have been learning to use the Moodle learning Centre software in order to set up courses for local children to follow via the internet.

These courses will include multi-choice questions, speaking practice, using videos of both myself and the children themselves, speaking English and much much more.

Just this weekend we managed to get some very good videos of the Stratton House children practising basic introductory conversation.

Some of the videos will soon appear on Thai Schools English as a practise aid for other children in the community.

Bikes, Boxes, Lamyai and English

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Jul 182010
 
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Its been quite a busy week for me this week , applying for my work permit, going out with collection boxes and continuing work on promoting the Foundation; all inbetween doing my bit with taking care of the children.

Tai and Gu were both home 3 days this week, their school being closed due to testing.

That worked out quite well because they helped out on the two days I went out scouting for locations for our collection boxes.we would like to give big thanks to Tic Travel, Ratchadamnoen Rd and to Makro Chiang Mai(super highway), for accepting our boxes.

Local shops that have also accepted are our local pharmacy in Sarapee and the nearby Thai cafe located next to the railway line.

As usual the childrens spare time has been taken up by riding their bikes, games in the garden, doing homework and watching a little TV.

Right now the Lamyai buyers are in the village and on a couple of days Wasana has had the children helping to harvest our Lamyai. Not much to be made for us but it all helps with the childrens pocket money for school.

We have had a couple of very good English language sessions this week with the children learning Months and Days. Using his more advanced comprehension I got Tai to take a turn at being the teacher. This was partly to give him more confidence in actually speaking and also to show him that teaching is not easy for the teacher.

I have to say he did very well and now says he understands the difficulties teachers have when children don’t listen.

For lots more videos of life at Stratton House please visit our viddler account here.

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