# This post is part 2 of MyMessyBox Sensory Play Review. You can read part 1 of the review here. Today is officially the first day of the school holidays! Once he reached home from school yesterday, L exclaimed,  "Do you know that I am going to have 9 days of school holidays?",  and gave a big, satisfied grin. Yes, my son, I definitely...

Math model drawing. What's your first reaction when you saw that phrase? I believe many of us either love it or hate it. Love it as we see the beauty of using models to solve Math problem sums. Hate it because we don't know how to use this tool as we have never learnt Math using model drawing. Parents of my age probably...

It's Day 4 of the Year of the goat!  The kids (pun intended!) at Simply Lambchops wishes everyone a BLESSED CHINESE NEW YEAR! As I busied with the preparation for CNY, I also felt a tinge of uneasiness as each day past. It felt like something awful was going to happen. Perhaps that feeling was contributed by the fear that K might fall sick again. She...

Ch has always been afraid of heights. When she was a toddler, even if she was only 1m off the ground, she would freeze on the spot and asked to be carried down. She is still fairly afraid of heights, but she did herself proud recently by scaling right up this 8 metre wall at Climb Central. It was her strong determination that...

I have seen all types of learners in my 14 years of teaching Chemistry and Biology in school. Those who are motivated and love Science will naturally excel in the subject, and proceed on to do something related as their profession (like me!).  But for many, they come to me and lament, saying that Science is difficult to comprehend as a lot of...