How to teach your child Chinese at home
What? Teach Chinese at home? Myself? No way! Yeap, that's what I got from most parents when we talked about teaching Chinese to their own child. They will shudder at…
How to make a baby chick using popsicle sticks
Arts and crafts are without doubt one of the best way for children to learn and grow in a creative and fun way. Not only does it develop their fine…
Young Smarties Science Experiment: fizzle rocks
Fun Science Experiment: Fizzle Rocks
Since the start of this year, we have been faithfully going to the library every week. Yes, every week! It has become such a habit that if we ever skipped…
Teaching your child that failure is a success!
Most of us hate failures and most of the times the fear of failures prevented us from moving forward. Frankly speaking, we’re afraid to fail because we’re afraid to look…
Holiday playdate at the National Gallery Singapore
Everyone was raving about National Gallery Singapore and how could we missed that especially now is the month long June school holiday? Yes, we joined the crowd and headed over…
Home Learning Trip Part 2: Learning more about turtles and nature (with home learning and travel tips)
One of the reasons we chose to go Bubbles Dive Resort is because it is blessed with nesting turtles and a house reef. Best of all, they run a conservation…
Home Learning Trip Part 1: Learning more about turtles and nature (with home learning and travel tips)
I've been wanting to have a chance to watch at least once how turtle lay eggs in front of my eyes since young. Yeah, strange as it may sound but…
How to make a Rubber Band Powered Boat!
Smarties always love boats. When they were younger, we (especially their grandpa) will always make a paper boat for them to play with during their bathtime. Now that they are…
An Educational Trip to Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre
Have you been to the Pasir Panjang Wholesale Centre that is located south of the West Coast Highway (yes, it means west of Singapore)? It's a place known for its bustling…
Using super simple, mini motor to create patterns
Patterns are all around us! Do you realise there are patterns in days of weeks, months of the year, in a song, in a dance? Some see it, some don't. Or,…
Amazing Science Experiment: Travelling Water
Have you ever seen water travels? Do you know you can do this really really simple Science experiment at home with really really easily found materials at home? Materials: -…
Read Storybooks Like a Professional Story Teller
We would like to say a big thank you to Andrew Reniers for being our first ever guest blogger. He's an English teacher and he wrote this article on how to…