Squeaks is getting ready to head back to school and he couldn’t be more excited! To make sure he’s all set for the first day, he and Jessi are watching some videos so he goes in confident and prepared!

Get rockin' with this back-to-school music activity to help make your first couple of weeks fun and engaging.

Here are five fluffy crafts you can do with pom poms! I’ll show you a simple way to make bright and multicoloured pom-poms and how to turn them into cute crafts. This is such a fun activity to make together! ⠀
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Sing along and learn with The Kiboomers Preschool Songs & Nursery Rhymes! This catchy back to school song helps children learn the lessons of friendship in a super fun way. Our preschool learning videos are a great supplement to any...

Need a break from the books? Give a quick brain break and stretch those muscles using the FlagHouse Active Classroom Kit and these awesome ideas from Coach John Each week we talk to Physical Education and Recreation experts to find new...

An eraser is usually used to correct mistakes in drawings, but what about using it to draw instead?

Send pom-poms flying with this simplest air cannon! This easy-to-do engineering project turned into a fun game for my boys.

Last week, we talked about why it's good for students' health to push school start times back to later in the morning. There's also an economic argument for it. Today, Aaron talks about how starting school later benefits the economy in...

In discussions and debates, many of us get too focused on our own opinion or on "winning" the argument and don't spend enough time really listening to what other people are saying. In this video, we demonstrate how to listen actively and...

Our parent blogger Adele Jennings of OurFamilylife.co.uk shares her experience of supporting her daughter through the move to secondary school as she navigated the challenges of getting a smartphone and becoming active on social media....

In this video Paul Andersen explains how the activation energy is a measure of the amount of energy required for a chemical reaction to occur. Due to the collision theory the activation energy requires proper energy and orientation of...

When the Taliban closed all the girls' schools in Afghanistan, Sakena Yacoobi set up new schools, in secret, educating thousands of women and men. In this fierce, funny talk, she tells the jaw-dropping story of two times when she was...

Kakenya Ntaiya made a deal with her father: She would undergo a traditional Maasai rite of passage, female circumcision, if he would let her go to high school. Ntaiya tells the fearless story of continuing on to college, and of working...

Accepting his 2008 TED Prize, author Dave Eggers asks the TED community to personally, creatively engage with local public schools. With spellbinding eagerness, he talks about how his 826 Valencia tutoring center inspired others around...

How do you raise money to get an idea off the ground, support a community, or help change the world? Take a crash course on the secret art of successful fundraising with development strategist Kara Logan Berlin as she shows how you can...

Rockets, the final frontier..... or so they seemed when I was 12 years old. I still remember sitting in the evenings in the workshop at Camp Sunapee being taught how to put my rocket together and watching the more experienced kids build...

Supporting the arts is Allison Stockel’s main passion in life. After graduating NYU with a BA in Television Production and Music, she went on to produce television specials and shows for the likes of CNN, ABC, The Food Network, MTV...

In 1993, Bill and Melinda Gates took a walk on the beach and made a big decision: to give their Microsoft wealth back to society. In conversation with Chris Anderson, the couple talks about their work at the Bill & Melinda Gates...

Here is a simple experiment for children at the kitchen that Alex loved. When a ping pong ball is placed straight under running water tap, it does not move away from the water stream. In fact, the ball sticks to it and follows it even...

Melanie Harwood is an education entrepreneur and self-styled 'disruptor', who has partnered with the United Nations to educate teachers about climate change. The Guardian's Richard Sprenger joined her on a trip to Dubai, to witness her...

Check out this fun ready-to-zoom-into-space DIY toy that we made.<br/>

Alex coloured paper with oil pastels and covered it with black paint mixed with a bit of dish soap for this DIY project. He had fun scratching his colourful drawings all over the page using a wooden skewer. I cannot describe how...

Jessi teaches Squeaks all about recycling, and together, they recycle his old crayons to make cool new ones!



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Jessi and Squeaks were supposed to go sledding today, but it's really cold outside! That won't stop them from having fun, though! Join them as they look back on some great experiments to do on a freezing cold day!