Archive for January 2008
When I count my blessings…Alhamdulillah
Posted by: coachsha on: January 30, 2008
- In: mi vida
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This is for you: Muhammad, Musa, Maryam & Sarah.
Endless love, Ummie & Abie
My Vocation
Posted by: coachsha on: January 30, 2008
Ummie as Coach Sha -
When not at home, I handle Spoken English Classes for kids at Janaminda and conduct English Sure Boleh! Seminars all over the country with my ‘podnah, Coach Ridz (aka Abie).
MyBIGwhiteVAN
Posted by: coachsha on: January 29, 2008
During the last few of weeks of carrying Sarah in my tummy, mi familia camped in Taiping. (Our Janaminda Training Center is there). Abie was busy with INFAQ shooting so I was in charge of the first few classes. Driving the big ‘gedebab’ hiace around town was fun and hefty..hahaaa. Home-class-home-lake [...]
GAMEofLIFE
Posted by: coachsha on: January 28, 2008
As English Coaches, both of us always look for ways to get students to talk. We’ve found one of the right switches – playing Game of Life in class. This game is best played with secondary school students up to adults (we conduct Spoken English for adults as well). When we play with [...]
escapade
Posted by: coachsha on: January 28, 2008
MINI VACATION (escape from confinement; day 3)
Where? Seri Malaysia Bagan Lalang. Had the pool to ourselves.
It was a weekday..people at work, we go play, hiphiphooray!!
CSI in the HOUSE
Posted by: coachsha on: January 28, 2008
- In: mi casa
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‘Crime’ scene: kitchen
Suspect-cum-victim: the girl
Evidence: bits and pieces of cili kering, a knife, a bleeding index finger (blood trickling..) and a little girl in terror
Investigator: the mother
Photographer/interrogator: the father
Sequence of events: The boys taking nap. The baby sleeping like a baby. The father [...]
Learning is Fun!
Posted by: coachsha on: January 28, 2008
Muhammad reading a poem, “The Boys’ Song” to Sarah while she’s being dressed by Umie. Alhamdulillah, Abang’s reading has improved tremendously once we’ve found the right switch. He loves maps, countries, factual stuff. He loves poem because poems have rhyme and they are songs without music, right?
Musa reading song lyric. Jefferson [...]
learning journey
Posted by: coachsha on: January 27, 2008
we are a travelling family. the white toyota hiace is our second crib. full of books, toys, crumbs of food, kiddos’s shoes, pillows etc.
when our english sure boleh seminar road tour is in full swing, we live in and out of the duffelbags n hop frm one hotel to another (2-3.5stars yeah!)
hence we make use [...]
homeschool’s cool
Posted by: coachsha on: January 16, 2008
Thank you to fellow homeschool mama, mamafiza (littlekittle.com) for her very organized time blocks for h-skuling.
I’m a ‘kalut’ type of mum (so many things to do at once)- though I prefer to call my style of managing my kids’ schooling as ‘organized chaos’ (gulp!). ‘Apa taknye, mengajar ikut dan je’. Ex: [...]
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