Would you like to do more science activities with your kids, but are not sure where to start? These Easy Science Activities for Preschoolers are fun and easy, even if you are not so ‘sciencey’ yourself! Easy Preschool Science Experiments These preschool science activities are a great way to introduce young children to science. Even though […]
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Need to entertain the kids during the school break? There are loads of free educational resources online to keep the kids busy at home – from ebooks and singalongs to colouring pages and games. Here are 20 to get you started! #1 Music maestros Introduce young ones to classical music on Classics for Kids. The site has a variety of lesson plans, podcasts, articles, activity sheets and games to make learning fun. classicsforkids.com #2 Spoken books Got little bookworms at home? Change things up by listening to stories being read at Storyline Online. There are loads of free storytelling videos by popular personalities such as Oprah Winfrey and Kristen Bell. storylineonline.net #3 Weather report At We Love Weather TV,...
Magic Cubes are brilliant magnetic cubes that can be used for free play or in the case of this set, learning to read and recognise words. The cubes feel like great quality and although my 3 year old is not at the stage of reading words yet, he has very much enjoyed free building with the cubes and adding the pictures. I’m looking forward to using them more as he grows up. Children can match words to a picture, search for words, build around the vowels which are a different colour to consonants, build words over the top of each other and even create 2D and 3D words. What is a magicube? The cubes can be attached on any side...
Editor’s note: As the travel industry reopens following COVID-19 shutdowns, TPG suggests that you talk to your doctor, follow health officials’ guidance and research local travel restrictions before booking that next trip. We will be here to help you prepare, whether it is next month or next year. The last month has been a great personal experiment. I’ve flown to Florida twice, first for the Universal Orlando re-opening day and then stayed in a socially distanced Marriott Vacation Club. After watching COVID-19 cases skyrocket around the country since my trip to Florida, my risk tolerance for my typical travel patterns has rapidly decreased. Looking forward to the rest of 2020, in my novice opinion, I don’t see anything getting any...
Time seems to pass differently now. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, many parents have fewer places to go, and yet the work doesn’t slow. In an article for The Washington Post, Suzanne M. Edwards and Larry Snyder, both university professors and parents to young children, wrote, “On most days, it feels as if we get a reasonable amount of time to devote to our professional tasks. And yet we are unable to concentrate enough to complete the work.” Although Edwards and Snyder say that they have enough time to accomplish what they need to, successfully managing their newfound hybrid duties as full-time, do-it-all parents/working professionals/teachers has been a real challenge. So, they developed a system where each parent would rotate tending...
