Reading Is An Essential Life Skill
One of the most vital activities you can do on a daily basis is to read stories with your children. In fact is an essential activity after the basics of giving them food, water, clothing, shelter and...
View ArticleEffective Ways to Get Children Engaging in Stories Daily
Here are some great ways to weave stories into your child’s days. Create a special daily time to read a book with your child In our home, our special group reading time is just before bedtime. While...
View ArticleComputer Brings Painting To Life
Who would have dreamed of a painting, in the style of Raphael’s Renaissance fresco, “The School of Athens”, or Rembrant’s “The Night Watch” could be used as a history lesson in a classroom? The 2006...
View ArticleChildren and Photos
Spring is well and truly here in this part of the world (which is Australia – in case you’re reading from other parts of the world). To prove the arrival of the season, wild flowers have sprung up in...
View ArticleCooking: Icing Biscuits
Icing biscuits is a very easy and simple cooking experience to do with children. If you purchase a packet of plain biscuits, you don’t even need to do any baking! All you need to do is create some...
View ArticleWorld’s Top 12 Unsolved Mysteries
1. Antikythera Recovered from the Antikythera wreck in 1900, the complexity of the ancient Greek mechanical computer was not discovered until decades later. Dated around the 1st century BC, the...
View ArticleMona Lisa Double
The iconic painting of the Mona Lisa is now under threat from a second and younger Mona Lisa that has recently surfaced. It is believed the younger Mona Lisa was painted around the same time as the...
View ArticleThe Mighty Mekong River Under Threat
As of July 2010 there were 11 hydroelectric dams planned for the lower Mekong. While it would greatly boost the electricity supply, it would seriously endanger the giants of the Mekong, the only river...
View ArticleArguing Female Elephants
The officials at Ohio’s Columbus Zoo and Aquarium reported that a fight broke out between two adult female elephants, as the result of a disagreement over the discipline of a young herd member. The...
View ArticlePet Tourists
According to a recent survey 27% of the world’s population prefer to travel with their pets, with the laws being relaxed between nations. Owner of Puppy Travel, Barbara DeBry, says “The percentage of...
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