Running out of ideas for remote learning and activities to keep the kids engaged and busy? Check out the Breakthrough Junior Challenge... Khan Academy and the Breakthrough Junior Challenge have the following video contest for your child to … [Read more]
Melscience Chemistry Kits
It's MCO and we're stuck at home. We want the kids to learn something meaningful but we don't want them to throw their hands up in despair with boring home learning sessions. Enter: Melscience Chemistry Kits! Click on the image to play the … [Read more]
Music Resources for Home Learning
These are music resources from our music teacher that I have collated here to make them easier for my kids to access. Feel free to use them, too. Chrome Music LabMusic Play Online - login details in your email.Audacity: Free Audio Editor and … [Read more]
Work-From-Home Innovation Challenge
From the New York Academy of Sciences comes A Work-From-Home Innovation Challenge On the 18 March 2020, the New York Academy of Sciences launched a work-from-home student competition. Its goal is to help young people strengthen research and … [Read more]
Home Learning Resources
Someone sent me a list of home learning resources through Whatsapp that I thought was particularly useful during this time of school closures. I've compiled the list along with some other resources I've found through the years that we've enjoyed … [Read more]
LEGO Dots for Girls
When I was a child, LEGO was always very male-oriented. Most of the sets were designed with masculine themes - not that that ever stopped me from playing with them. I thought the boy LEGO sets were cooler than the girls' ones. I never knew why family … [Read more]
