I was about to leave a Daiso store in Japan when some Science kits caught my eye. Yes, you read it right, Science kits! At 100 yen (~S$1.40) each! One of the sets was on Animation. Today, El (5y10m) and I made a phenakistoscope and a zoetrope, which were invented by mathematicians Joseph Plateau and […]
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El (5y6m) has been really into Science recently. Today, he chose the atoms and molecules set from the shelf and asked for a lesson on how to build carbon dioxide. I showed him and then we moved to building water, oxygen and other simple molecules. While we were at the water molecule, he built two
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#2 Jae is 4y2m old and in a Chinese school K1 class. Every day, he gets a small page of writing homework. Though I’m not a fan of writing homework for little children, we just have to go along and I try to make things as easy as possible. Prior to this year, Jae has
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Day #2 of school – Vee P1: I just dropped him in school, confident he’d manage. Picked him up a bit later to avoid the chaotic jam. He was waiting patiently, having finished his pre-lunch snack. – Jae K1: Dropped him in school too. In fact, we did so for even Day 1, cos he’s
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