Ultimate Collection of Practical Life Activities (Part Two)
Friday, July 31, 2015
I’m sharing another set of practical life activities that we do at home! If you enjoyed the first part of my post, well, here are more exciting stuff to do with your kids.
FREE Baby and Child First Aid App from British Red Cross
Wednesday, July 29, 2015
Dear parents, I have good news for you! Our friends from the British Red Cross (BRC) have a handy and must have emergency go to app for parents! It’s the British Red Cross (BRC) Baby and Child First Aid App, and you can download this mobile app for FREE. Yes, you heard it right, it’s for FREE, and it perfectly runs in Android or Apple mobiles. Now why am I sharing this? It’s important that we educate ourselves with first aid skills, especially with the knowledge on how to administer it to our children. As a mom, I consider the knowledge of “what to do in an emergency” as a very important life skill that could save my children’s life and that of others. And if you are someone who likes to be prepared and armed with this vital ability, there is no better way to learn this than through the BRC Baby and Child App.
What is the BRC First Baby and Child First Aid App?
This app is packed with useful and reliable information on how to properly and correctly administer first aid to children. Any parent can easily learn and acquire skills from this app as it has been meticulously designed and crafted to help parents learn how to take proper action when an emergency at home arises. In short, they were thinking about us parents when they made this!
Why I consider the Baby and Child First Aid App important
I have two hyperactive boys in the house and we never ran out of injuries due to minor accidents. Not to mention there are occasional attacks of asthma, high fever, allergies, cuts, bumps… you name it! I spend a great deal of time searching all over the web for immediate remedies whenever I have problems with my kids’ health. But with the BRC Baby and Child App, I don’t have to do that! I can educate myself ahead of time and be ready in case of emergency. With the knowledge, I can minimise the consequences of my child’s injury, reduce the pain until professional help arrives. And I feel confident and secured because the ones who provided the solutions are highly trained medical professionals with expertise on children.
A walkthrough of the features
Here are the three most important features of the app:
Learn – select this tab if you want to learn how to administer first aid to children. There are lots of options to choose from and each lesson is accompanied by a video, animation and tips. Pictures below show how the app looks like in a smartphone and a tablet.
This is how it looks like when you press any of the tabbed selections. The picture below falls under “Bleeding heavily”. As you can see, there’s a procedural instruction on how to respond when your child is bleeding profusely and it is coupled with an animation to demonstrate the first aid further. For your convenience, I provided screenshots taken in an iPad and tablet.
Prepare – this section contains prevention tips and how to prepare in case of accidents
Emergency – this section provides parents of the basic first aid that should be administered in case of an emergency situation. Buttons for emergency numbers are also provided whenever you need a professional help.
The picture below shows what to do in case your child is suffering from burns. I am so impressed of the step by step process they provided (even included a timer!) and how amazing that they included a speed dial for professional help.
I want to learn more, what will I do?
It is a good idea to take a proper First Aid training to cope up with an emergency. British Red Cross is offering a baby and child first aid course to parents, especially those with children from 0 to 12 years old. Your entire family will benefit on this very important life skills!
And to add more colour to BRC’s campaign on First Aid education, they have created this super cool video on simple first aid techniques for parents about child poisoning. Come take a look!
It is time that we should invest on preventive and primary healthcare. Knowing that we have British Red Cross, you know where to go when you need help. So don’t forget to download your free baby and child first aid app now.
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by the British Red Cross
The Tooth Cross Section
Saturday, July 25, 2015
Mavi just had his first visit to the dentist (he is cavity free!) and I’m going to have one of my molar tooth extracted. So there’s been some talks about teeth in the house and how to avoid tooth extraction like mine.
Fortunately, we have this dental learning set at home which I got from the local store, and we used this to learn more about the tooth anatomy. This is a closer look of the tooth model and its internal parts.
We used our Tooth Cross Section nomenclature cards to learn about the essential parts of the tooth.
The description cards that you see below is actually part of a booklet which I created.
The sole purpose of the definition cards for reading practise and vocabulary, the reason why I always integrate it in our activities.
Mavi is actually exploring this on his own. What I do is set up the learning table and have him work on the materials. He examines, compare, read and ask questions. For the presentation, I would place the nomenclature cards in this wooden box I purchased years ago in the Absorbent Minds UK.
Tooth cross section is part of our dental unit, which I will post later on. I hope this will inspire you for further exploration of dental study.
By the way, I have a free Teeth Developmental Cards which you can download from here.
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The Annelids: Earthworms and {Learn & Play Link Up}
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Lately, we've been noticing a lot of worms in the yard. I have to admit, I've never been a fan of them! In fact, I'm terrified of worms. However, the boys seem to find these creatures quite amusing. While we were observing them in the garden, I decided to bring out the earthworm life cycle figures that my Aunt had brought when she visited.
Before learning about the life cycle of worms, Mavi and I researched earthworms on the internet. Here are some fascinating facts we found about worms!
1. There are 6,000 species of worms worldwide.
2. Worms breathe through their skin as they have no lungs.
3. They are hermaphrodites, meaning they are both male and female and can produce sperm and eggs.
4. Worms need water to survive. If their skin dries out, they will die.
5. Earthworms are made up of mostly water, about 90%.
I also created similar learning materials for my Animal Life Cycle resources. I find this approach helpful as Mavi can retain a lot of information by presenting the life cycle this way.
You can download a copy of the Worm Life Cycle here.
Because I can’t take earthworms indoors or conduct hands-on learning on earthworm anatomy, we used our worm figure instead to examine the parts of an earthworm. Click here for a copy of the Worm Nomenclature Cards.
Because I wanted to integrate Vito into our activities, we made some wormy meal (unhealthy!). I made Vito hammer a few Oreo cookies… and use them as soil.
Then we added some wormy jellies for everyone to feast on!
Welcome to the Learn & Play Link Party!
For this week, I’d like to feature amazing printables that I’d like to try for my kids! These are created by generous mothers who wanted to share with us what they are currently using in their own home school. Thank you so much for these Moms!
Galapagos Animals 3 Part Cards by In Our Pond
France 3 Part Cards by Welcome to Mommyhood
Ocean Animals Clip Card by A Little Pinch of Perfect
Planets Learning Pack by 3 Dinosaurs
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South America in a Nutshell
Monday, July 20, 2015
If you have been following my blog, you know that we love studying geography! This month, I am happy to share my South America in a Nutshell learning material. And just like its predecessors (Asia in a Nutshell and Africa in a Nutshell), this is packed with lots of information about South America, its flora and fauna, culture and people. Here’s a walkthrough of the learning material.
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