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When I visited Adgetize members, one of them was Cornymans Money-Blog that was offering the bloggers to participate as a sponsor for his contest. It was pretty interesting for me and I thought why not I gave it a try. I wonder how this contest would bring many traffics to my Blog and spread my blog to blogosphere.
If you're interested, there are still two days left until August 31 you have an opportunity to be a sponsor. You should visit this link and let him know that you're interested to be a sponsor for his contest by leaving a message there.
I'll preparing the first day of my daughter's school for tomorrow. There are still more forms need to be filled. I'm excited and nervous. about 1 minute ago from web
HOKI, an online Indonesian Daily News will be three years soon on November 11th, 2009. Now HOKI has more than 9.875 Indonesian Citizen Reporters from around the world in five continents; Australia, Asian, Erope, Africa and America.
As a great appreciation to reach those big numbers, HOKI would like to plan to give a special gift to a 10.000th Citizen Reporter. Is it you? If you're Indonesian, no matter where you live, love to share your writing to be read by thousands readers around the world, then you should register as a Citizen Reporter at KabarIndonesia.com
KabarIndonesia.com (HOKI/Harian Online KabarIndonesia) is a biggest online daily news in Indonesia based on Citizen Journalism. It is found by Yayasan Perduli Indonesia in Netherlands. Last year, in 2008 Simphoni Warta Media has taken over its management, located in Tangerang, Jateng.
More info about HOKI, you should visit these links in Wikipedia that are written in Indonesian, English, France, and Portuguese. In the next short time, HOKI will be listed in Wikipedia - Netherlands.
Message of the Day I got from church this morning, said:
Live is the Holy Spirit
Let Christ lives in you by replacing laziness with hard work, greed and selfishness with honesty, integrity and generosity, and faithless living with complete surrender.
What excited I am as my daughter will go to Kindergarten soon on August 31. I have been invited to attend for Kindergarten orientation on next Thursday.
Today I'm planning to bring her to Wal-Mart to take my paycheck and have shopping for food and her needs for school. It will be fun. As I have doing several things to prepare her for Kindergarten class, my focus is to teaching her to read. I don't need to worry about writing, drawing and other interactive activities because she is done those well.
Teaching to read is my focus as it needs more patient. I'm glad seeing many imrprovements. She can read most words that contain one syllable. I also found several good learning websites for kid's reading. This morning I'm impressed, she found herself on the internet through our favorite kid's links where she could learn reading by herself. She looked excited. Probably I don't need to worry about this anymore as long as she has interest to learn reading. I'm sure she can read soon before going to Elementary school next year, especially when I remember she can put all the letters puzzle just under 1 minute when she was 2 years old, writing her name when she was 3 years old and said 1 to 10 when she was 2 years old and A to Z when she was 2-3 years old, began playing online games when she was 2-3 years old and operate the mouse like an adult when she was 4 years old, making story with her toys when she was 2 years old, making story in her drawings when she was 4 years old, and pretending to read the bookstory as the given pictures on every page when she was 4-5 years old.
Though I have confidence about her ability, I never forget to give attention about these tips for parents to encourage reading and reading comprehension:
- Keep a supply of interesting books available in your car, sports bags, or beach tote. (Books are everywhere in my house)
- Take your child to the local library and get a library card. Return frequently. (I did, even she won summer reading contest and get 2 free tickets each for Dutch Wonderland and Hersheypark. Below is a picture when we used those ticktes to DW on last Monday.)
- Read for purpose. Maybe your child wants to bake a cake, or perform magic tricks. (She loves helping me in cooking, cleaning and washing the dishes)
- Find books or magazines that interest your child, and that she enjoys reading. (She loves to opening page by page of children magzines or princess books)
- Connect reading with other summer activities. Read about places you might visit. (Hmm she has known Wal-Mart very well, including its motto: YOU SAVE MONEY AND LIVE BETTER - and I never teach her at all, ha, ha...!!)
- Remember the strong connection between reading and writing. Encourage children to write letters to grandparents, relatives, friends; to write grocery list; to-do or to-see lists for trips. (I did it since she was 3 years old when she started having an ability to write her own name, especially in sending bithday cards to my family in Indonesia or making birthday card to every family/relative members in USA. She did grocery list with trying to draw what she needed while she was not able to write them, even my husband and I never taught her. It was her own inisiative. She is very smart girl.)
- Use the five finger method to be sure the book your child has chosen is at her 'just right' independent reading level. Open the book to a page near the middle and have the child read it silently. If she sees an unknown word, the child puts a finger on it. Continue to place a finger on each unfamiliar word. If our fingers and one thumb are used, the book may be too hard for the child to read independently. (I haven't tried this tip. I'll consider it someday.)
- If the book that your child is interested in reading is just too difficult, share the reading with her. Take turns reading aloud or read the book for her. Ask question to encourage thinking and conversation about the book. (I did it already.)
- Encourage your child to talk about what she is reading. Discuss the setting, the characters and their actions. (I did sometimes.)
- When finished, ask your child to retell the story, thinking about what happened first, next, then finally. (I seldom to do this because she will give comments without I ask for the pages that are interesting her then she will tell what will happen next as she knew its story before.)
First of all, Happy Independence Day to my country, Indonesia. Today all Indonesians around the world are celebrating their Independence Day.
Though I don't celebrate at all at home but I have special present for my country. I wrote a Chaiku Poem as my fifth Chaiku Poem I have written since last month. It is about my country, titled, The World Largest Archipelago. I wrote this on August 13, several days ago and I sent to my online writing community to get reviews from the members. In this poem I just wanted to express how my country looks like. I thought the title I gave was the best name to describe about it.
The World Largest Archipelago
Southeast Asian beautifully known from Sabang to Merauke
More seventeen thousands islands you might not know most are unnamed
On equator tropic weather most volcanic active regions
Important trade Eastern region a place where most the traders come
Thousands ethnics hundreds languages in one nation Indonesia
There are three reviews I got:
- I had no idea there were so many islands. Good for you writing about the place. I doubt I'll ever get there but it sounds great. The names of places alone could be poems. Sabang. Hundred of languages? Didn't know that either. Is it true that the Chinese do most of the work there? I enjoyed reading this. (Brosna11)
- Hi! What no mention of Surfing Aussies and Orangutans. I can shut my eyes and feel the sun, smell the air and hear the bustle of markets. Thank you for transporting me to such a beautiful place. This is definitely meant for the Chaiku comp. Love and Sunshine (Mariposa)
- Five quatrains in chaiku meter detailing the multifarious richness of the tropical islands which make up Indonesia. Many outstanding features of the region brought out vividly in few words. An intriguing travelogue. Compliments. (Sonny)
What big surprises!! This is the first time in my whole life won two Sweepstakes in two days in a row for my daughter, promoted by 6abc WPVI-TV Philadelphia, PA. On Wednesday, August 12, when I was writing my novel upstairs, I heard my daughter called me from downstairs that she won something. I run to downstairs and my husband showed me two Dutch Wonderland tickets, worth $ 30.95 for each ticket (Total $ 61.90), so we are planning to go on this Sunday if it isn't rain. It will be our second time after two last year we went there.
My daughter dream comes through as she wants to go to Dutch Wonderland this summer. She is so excited and we are happy.
My husband asked me how she won it. I explained to him when the first time we visited our local library, as one of my programs preparing her for her Kindergarten this year, I searched many informations there, from small to big brochures that they might be useful for me to take and learn as a Mom. The most interesting brochure was 2009 Summer Reading Club program. I took it and read the details in home. From the info they gave, I was planning to bring her for some special programs that I could attend because I didn't have schedule for work. Besides of those programs, I let her to have her first own library card and every time we went to the program, I let her to choose several books to borrow. Almost every night before bed time, I gave 15-30 minutes to read a book for her and marked the reading record calender and recorded the book titles. Then everytime we went to library, I entered every reading record (3 books/ week) in a form they prepared and earned one book buck for special contest or events.
Then yesterday, my husband took the mails and got another letter from the same sender. He gave it to me and I opened it. Wow,... two Hersheypark tickets, worth $ 52.95 for each ticket (Total $ 105.90). Cool!!
My husaband asked me again how could she won two sweepstakes. I answered, because I had a faith that she would win something from one of the contests and she had been a good girl listening what her Mom said, reading books and doing her homeworks. Those two credits she got to win two kinds of tickets. He smiled. He knew I was joking but it was true. First needs action, second needs faith, third is let it happens, won or not, it doesn't matter. She had fun already and learned many things.
Probably we will go to Hersheypark next month and it will be our second time after last year we went there.
Now, what next I'm gonna do is sending an email to 6abc and give a link to this post as our family appreciation to say great thanks.
Who doesn't love vacation? I think almost everybody loves to have vacation, including me. The last big vacation I had with my family was going to Washington DC for three days and two nights. I hope one day we will have another big vacation. The next places, it could be somewhere near the beach or mountain.
Although it is just our next planning, I still like to search something unussual. I found several interesting links that I would like to share with you, vacation rental. Probably you're also interested to take a look. Check these out: VacationRental.org, VRWD.com and DirectVacationRentals.com.
We can find thousands of vacation rentals in hundreds of great world destination that meet with our budget. It's great, isn't it? Don't forget to bookmark those links. I'm sure you will need them somedays.
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