Places to go with Kids
Bond, play, eat and have fun! There is much more to life than studying and kids learn best when they are getting enough outdoor time and excercise.
Visiting a museum or a place of interest can give us a more in depth experience and teach us more about art, history or science than just reading about it.
Unleashing your little one in a park, garden or playground often leads to hours of fun and learning. Some Singapore parks offer the opportunity to see fauna and flora that you don’t usually get to see in the concrete jungle we are so accustomed to.
Many parks and shopping malls have playgrounds build within the park. These are excellent for developing the motor skills of a child. Very often this is the place where children made friends and built up their social skills. Some of these playgrounds offer a little variety that is more than our usual neighborhood flare and kids role play and explore an in their “ships” and “trains” and encourage their creativity.
Solid learning in Fun Learning Yard
I am an ex-science teacher who likes to go to different places to get new ideas to teach my tuition kids. I happened to visit Fun Learning Yard (FLY) in the June holidays and saw a course which they organised. It gave me a totally new idea of science education.
The course uses BBQ as a platform to introduce various thermal physics concepts which includes : difference between heat and temperature, expansion and contraction of matter, conductivity of different materials, melting vs freezing, boiling vs condensing, 3 methods of heat transfer, etc.
Due to the hands-on nature of the course, i could see that young kids easily understood all these so call "very abstract concepts". FLY provided opportunity for kids to use their 5 senses to remember things while having fun.
A group of young kids (7 - 12 years old) were required to start their own fire after a detailed demonstration and explanation. When the fire was ready, they got to see different science experiments and given opportunities to conduct the experiment themselves. Throughout the course, the kids were supervised by a few FLY instructors who constantly prompt the kids when they were not on the right track. The kids were given the maximum opportunities to do things themselves. During the course, kids got to grill their own food and made their own dessert. I could see that they (including their parents) were really enjoying themselves.
In my opinion, the students were on task and highly motivated not just because the activities were fun but the things they were doing were relevantly useful. They got to apply their knowledge and furthermore kept exploring new knowledge out of it.
I think you should be able to find out more from their website : www.funlearners.com
Many thanks!
Hi Chief & all contributors!
Many thanks for this "Place to go with Kids". Was feeling a bit desperate already dunno where to bring our kid. Feel so bored and thought SG really boring. But hey no! So many interesting places especially those fabulous outdoor playgrounds! Now I am so excited, couldn't wait to go!
Really happy, hee...hee...hee!