Pleco is very handy when helping your child with homework. Face it -we all struggle to recognise some words in children’s textbooks and story books from time to time. And, it gets even harder when they need to do a… Read More ›
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Building Bonds on Bus Journeys 5: Eurasian Excursions
For this Eurasian excursion, emerge from City Hall MRT station to take bus 16 from the Raffles Hotel bus stop. As you travel on Nicoll Highway, you will be able to see Benjamin Sheares Bridge in the distance. It’s named after an… Read More ›
Building Bonds on Bus Journeys 4: In Pursuit of All Things Peranakan
Bus 12 can bring you all the way from the Peranakan Museum (from the bus stop at Armenian Church on Hill Street) to East Coast Road where you can set off on foot to explore the Joo Chiat / Katong neighbourhood. Start at… Read More ›
Add these Apps 2: Overdrive and NLB Multi-Lingual E-resources
Overdrive and Audiobooks As this is a series on applications, it’s a pity to miss out on introducing Overdrive and the multi-lingual e-resources easily available from the National Library Board. First, Overdrive opens wide your door to an extensive range of audiobooks… Read More ›
Add these Apps 1: Photofunia
Have fun with your kids! With Photofunia you can do lots of cool and crazy things with individual and family photographs, using only two clicks. With hundreds of effects to choose from, you will share bountiful chuckles for hours. The… Read More ›
Building Bonds on Bus Journeys 3: From Chinatown to Little India
Travel this exotic journey with your kids that starts at the Chinatown MRT and ends at the Little India MRT stations. While you can complete the journey by train in minutes, there’s much to explore by bus and on foot…. Read More ›
Building Bonds on Bus Journeys 2: From Clifford Pier to Kampong Glam
This bus ride will bring you on “journeys within a journey” as it travels through two significant places where masses of people entered and left Singapore in the early 1900s. Head down to Raffles Place MRT station and cross over… Read More ›
Videos for Dads and Kids 4: Astounding Athletic Quadcopters
Watch this 16-minute video of flying quadrocopters (quads) with your family! Tweens and teenagers will be particularly captivated by these robots that think like athletes and solve physical problems with algorithms that help them learn. A video like this might… Read More ›
Building Bonds on Bus Journeys 1: Down Memory Lane
Is there a bus journey that you enjoyed taking as a child with a parent, grandparent, aunt or uncle? What was it for? Was it to visit a relative, buy something special or run an errand? All these may have… Read More ›
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