Educations Matters: Diverse Children's Book Reviews
Science non fictions books and fun experiments for kids to do at home.
I received an email from CWIST, a free website for parents and kids, and was intrigued by their idea: Challenges or “cwists” are crowd-sourced from parents, educators, mom bloggers and experts and posted in the cwist library. The cwists can be anything from organizing a community clean-up, researching fun facts for an upcoming family trip, completing a summer reading…
This sounds fun for kids who like to create with K’NEX. The K’NEXpert Search challenges young builders to design & submit a creative, original model made entirely from K’NEX parts and are judged on creativity, uniqueness and detail. The contest will have 4 grand-prize winners from four different age groups: 5-6 years old 7-8 years old 9-11 years…
Thank goodness a shipment of K’NEX came this past week. We are trying to cut back on screens for Screen Free Week and my biggest challenge is my 8-year-old son who likes to simultaneously play video games on the computer while watching TV and eating a snack. I need more screen-free week ideas! I met…
Roller coaster physics for kids using K’nex Atomic Roller Coaster and Coaster Physics apps to make science fun and intuitive for kids!
Best blocks and play structures for open ended creative play.