You Can Do A Graphic Novel! Or Maybe Your Kid Can!

Yazan: CanCan | 13 July 2011 | No Comments
Categories: Books for children, Educational products, Reviews

Do you have a child who loves to draw? Jojo has been so inspired by Diary of a Wimpy Kid and his other favorite, Calvin and Hobbes, that he is always drawing and journaling.
Graphic Novels are so popular (finally), maybe your child (or even you!) might want to create one.
If you are a "beginner" [...]

My First Scholastic Storybook Treasures DVDs for Preschoolers

Yazan: CanCan | 01 June 2011 | 1 Comment
Categories: Children's DVD, Educational products, Reviews

You might know that I am possibly the #1 SuperFan of Scholastic Storybook Treasures DVDs.
I use them both at home and in my classroom. Well. Brace yourselves.
Scholastic Storybook Treasures has a brand new My First Scholastic Storybook Treasures DVD Collection series, an exciting new line of DVDs created specifically to support early literacy skills [...]

Kid-Made Gifts For Mom: Red Toolbox Carpentry Tools

Yazan: CanCan | 07 May 2011 | 2 Comments
Categories: Educational products, Favorite Things, Jojo, Reviews

Mother’s Day is just around the corner, and this year, kids can give mom a gift that lasts longer than macaroni and glue.
Red Toolbox makes a line of carpentry of tools ergonomically designed to fit a child’s grip as well as original carpentry kits that kids and parents can create together.
You know how we always [...]

Into the Great Outdoors with Chipper!

Yazan: CanCan | 02 April 2011 | No Comments
Categories: Children's DVD, Educational products, Reviews

Award-winning independent children’s label Music for Little People and IAGmedia, Inc. recently released an eco-educational animated and live-action DVD called Let’s Go Chipper: Into the Great Outdoors.
This DVD already won iParenting’s "Hot Product" Award and Family Fun/Disney.com’s “Top Ten Video” Award, for the fun and playful way it teaches children about nature and the [...]

This Child, Every Child

Yazan: CanCan | 25 March 2011 | No Comments
Categories: Books for children, Educational products, Reviews

There is an eye-opening book by David J. Smith and illustrator Shelagh Armstrong for children aged 9 to 12 called If the World Were a Village.
It was highlighted in a workshop for inquiry-based teaching that I attended called “Making the PYP Happen” (the elementary track of the IB program).
In February, Daid J. Smith and [...]

The Best Family USA Destinations

Yazan: CanCan | 13 February 2011 | 1 Comment
Categories: Educational products, Reviews, Travel with children, Traveling baby

When I was growing up, before the internet was accessible to the common man, my parents did a pretty good job of planning our family vacations.
They relied on AAA and trip-ticks (is that how you spell it?), and while we did have some “duds” in our day (I’m looking at you, Santa Land), [...]

The Blessing Bank

Yazan: CanCan | 16 January 2011 | 1 Comment
Categories: Educational products, Favorite Things, Reviews

The Blessing Bank is a beautiful piggy bank designed to teach kids to give back and help others.
The handmade hardwood keepsake banks are to be filled with the goal of giving the money to someone in need.
Inspired by the biblical quote "it is more blessed to give than to receive", teach [...]

H is for Hong Kong

Yazan: CanCan | 09 January 2011 | 1 Comment
Categories: Books for children, Educational products, Favorite Things, Reviews, Teaching kids different cultures, Travel with children

A few months ago I was in Bangkok and had the opportunity to hang out with travel artist Elizabeth Briel.
Not only did she enlighten me about @BKKFatty (we ate a lot together), Barcamp Bangkok, and her interesting experiences as a traveler, she gifted me a children’s book that she illustrated with her cyanotype prints.
H [...]

Coghlan’s Kid’s Bug-Eye Headlight

Yazan: CanCan | 02 January 2011 | No Comments
Categories: Educational products, Reviews, Toys, Travel with children

Spending time outdoors has health and cognitive benefits for kids.
My 6-year-old loves to have outside “adventures”, and he is even more motivated to spend time outdoors when he has special gear.
Coghlan’s Kid’s Bug-Eye Headlight is a low-cost (Retail $9) way to see nature in a different light (5 points for the pun!!).
No Child Left [...]

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to….Hard Stuffs

Yazan: CanCan | 31 December 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Educational products, Reviews

I will confess, I never took Physics in high school because it sounded scary.

I ended up taking Anatomy and having to dissect a cat. Now what sounds scary?
I excelled in Algebra II but after that things got fuzzy.
I teach preschool. Papa Most Traveled teaches higher level maths and physics. I won’t even pretend I [...]