ClubNAKO ... where only fun matters

We wanted to spend a longer time at the animal farm but unfortunately, it started to drizzle. We had no choice but to leave without feeding...

Everyone loves this white and black rabbit. Leo insists that this rabbit can recgonize him as he has been here before. Linus loves it as i...

No outing to an animal farm is complete without feeding the animals. Ever wondered why children loves feeding animals than feeding themselv...

Yes, this is the outing that everyone has been looking forward to ! After two days of learning about animals and plants' life cycles, i...

Measuring mass seems straight forward. You just put the object on a weighing scale and you have it ! How about measuring volume ? First, you...

Matter is anything that has mass and occupies space. What is mass ? Mass is a measure of the amount of substance an object has. What is w...

After a whole day of seeds, seedlings and plants, its time for the buys to relax and have some fun before heading home. Today, we managed to...

Linus is showing off his seeds which he can't wait for them to germinate. First, the roots will grow so that the young seedling can get ...

Here, the children are learning how to germinate a seed. Each of them picked 4 seeds of their favourite flowers and pushed them into a pot o...

Today, the children learnt that there are also female and male parts of a flower. As flowers cannot move, how do they get fertilized ? They ...

The children are watching a video clip on the life cycle of a frog. Frogs do not fertilize their eggs internally like chicken. They fertiliz...

Egg -> Chick -> Adult Chicken and the cycle repeats itself.. Egg -> Chick -> Adult Chicken -> Roast Chicken ??? What will ...

Leo, Linus and Marcus are watching a video clip on the "Life cycle of a chicken". Ever wondered why we have never cracked an egg...

Ever wondered how does a chick breathe in the egg ? A chick can breathe in an egg because the egg shell is porous. This means that exchang...

Today is the first day of our P4 Headstart Science Camp. Boys love science and everyone has been looking forward to this. The topic today is...

In the blink of an eye, we have come to the end of our P4 Headstart Math Camp. Here are the boys smiling from ear to ear, showing off their...

The boys were extremely focused on their mission. They will be able to bring home everything they would like to buy if they get all the sums...

As usual, our camps always end with an Outdoor Classroom session. This time, the children were given a challenge to apply what they have le...

Leo was very excited to teach Marcus how to do a 2-digit division. He was so full of confidence and immediately wrote "Leo Cheong - Tea...

Today, the boys learnt factors, which is a totally new concept to them. They both picked it up right away and were also more comfortable wi...

After a whole day of divisor, quotient, remainder, divisibility and LCM, the boys had a well deserved game of badminton before Leo heads  ho...

What are they looking at ? With internet access easily available these days, the boys are exposed to anything imaginable under the sun. The...

What is the lower common multiple of 3, 8 and 7 ? Do we have any common multiple yet ? We need to find the lowest common multiple. Are we...

Quick rules to remember: A number is divisible by 2 if the last digit is an even number. It is divisible by 3 if the sum of all digits is...

Today, the boys learnt a new concept of rounding off. Numbers can be round off to the nearest 10, 100  or 1000 so that they can do mental c...

In P3, the boys have learnt numbers up to 10 000. Next year, they will be learning numbers up to 100 000. Yes, its only one more zero, no bi...

Noticed the ignored football and snooker games which the boys once loved ? They are now forgotten and left aside, at least for the moment.....

Today is the start of our P4 Headstart Holiday Camp. After a long November holiday break during which some of the lucky boys went to Japan w...

Yes, we have come to the end of our Math session today. Leo, Marcus and Linus were having a whale of a time playing in the pool. The smiles ...

Yes, today is children's day. We have decided to give the children a special treat today. Yes, we are going swimming in the pool, arme...

After teabreak, Leo joined Marcus to do the worksheets for Mass. Mass is not a difficult topic as long as they get their kilograms and gram...

Leo was having a bowl of fishball noodle while Marcus was having his favourite chwee kueh. Linus ditched his favourite chee cheong fun and ...

After an intensive morning of Math, the boys were given a break and had a game of snooker to relax their minds ! This is really important so...

Today, we have Leo, Marcus and Linus with us doing Math. Leo was concentrating more on Division, getting his quotients and remainders right...

And that marks the end of our session on Our Body Systems today. The boys are now able to rattle off the parts of our digestive system easil...

Some of our bones are joined together with ball and socket joints so that we can rotate our arms and swing our legs. The boys were putting t...

Yes, seeing is indeed believing. With teaching aids, the boys were able to use their sense of sight and touch to appreciate our body system...

No ! This is not true ! The Skeletal System can perform 3 functions. It supports the body and gives it shape. It helps protect the organs...

After the lesson on Our Body Systems, the boys sat together to answer the questions in their worksheets designed to test their process skill...

Joining us today are Leo and Marcus. After a quick shower to freshen up, both boys sat down to a delicious meal of oven roasted chicken win...

Today, we are looking at our body systems. Our body consists of 5 main systems. They are the Circulatory System, the Respiratory System, t...

Yes, time flies ! Very soon, we have come to the end of our half-day Math camp on "Money" on 18th Sep. Everyone obviously knows t...

Marcus' favourite task is to give out the rewards from the redemption basket to the boys. Max chosed a pack of cards and Royce picked o...

Everyone was very focused on their work today. Great hair cut too ! They all had something in the redemption basket which they were eyeing ...

Money is a topic which the boys have to differentiate "Value" and "Number". For example, what is the value of 2 five-dol...

Yes, the world famous "To Arthur !" got stuck on them. Got to get a carafe for them to do this all the time.. The boys were off ...

Today, we have Max and Royce come in for a half-day Math Camp on "Money". Look who is there ? Wedged between his new found frien...

Very soon, we have come to the end of our afternoon with Leo. It took only an afternoon for them to fill one YYC card, when previously they...

Look what is on the table in front ot Leo ? Yes ! His model ruler !! Leo has refused to use his model ruler during the Math & Science ...

After working from 2.45pm to 4pm, the boys went for their well deserved fun break. This time, the favourite game of the day turned out to b...

Both Leo and Marcus were able to read the clock pretty well. They have learnt that you cannot add and subtract time directly. You have to c...

Leo came in today in the afternoon directly from school. After a quick shower to freshen up, both Leo and Marcus were starving ! They enjo...

Yes, time flies.. Before we know it, we have come to the end of ClubNAKO's 3-Day Math and Science Camp. It has been a great 3 days of ...

As everyone has worked so hard and completed their "Multiplication" worksheet, they get to pick out a dessert of their choice from...

Today's lunch was fried rice and everyone was looking forward to it since Max found the menu and announced it two days ago. Rice was fri...

Today, we brought the white board out to give everyone a revision on repeating models before we start working on the worksheets. Repeating m...

Teabreak was honey baked ham and cheese sandwhiches and the ever popular Ritz biscuits topped with ham and cheese. However, the ham was pili...

After the BBC documentary on "Plants", we started on "Multiplication" today. As today is the last day of the camp, ever...

Day 3 started with the BBC Documentary "Plants". This is complementary to the Learning Journey at the Botanical Gardens and the c...

That marks the end of day 2 with a Learning Journey to the Botanical Gardens. Here, Max, Royce, Leo and Marcus learnt about "Plant Sys...

Why do flowers grow in clusters ? Flowers grow in clusters because they are very small. They need to attract pollinators like bees and butt...

Yes, those are roots ! Some roots are above the ground. They do not stay only underground as we expected. In swarms, roots under the wat...

Do you know how a network leaf and a parallel leaf look like ? Leo is looking at a parallel leaf, whereby the veins of the leaf run parall...

Finally, its time to head to the Botanical Garden for an outdoor lesson on "Plant System". Armed with sausage buns, the boys pack...

Guess what they were doing ? Finally, this is the moment everyone has been waiting for. Yes, everyone has completed their YYC Card and the...

Yes, to Arthur ! Who is Arthur ? Royce said he invented Guiness. Amazing, the power of advertisement.. The boys got into the habit of ch...

Lunch time was homemade Chicken Soup with Japanese Udon. Max has a very good sense of smell. He could smell the soup brewing in the kitchen ...

The table football game is the all time favourite game of the camp. Leo would scoot out immediately after teabreak or lunch to play it on h...

The ClubNAKO YYC card serves to motivate the children to do their best. They will eventually realize that speed is not everything and their...

Most of the boys have forgotten how to draw their models. Models are really important because they help you to solve more complex problems ...

We started day 2 with a continuation of the BBC documentary "Mammals". Today, we will be doing "Plant System" at the Bo...

Last but not least, the boys classified a bucket of animals which belonged to Linus according to mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishe...

The BBC Life series is an excellent documentary program on plants and animals. Having completed the worksheet on "Diversity of Animals...

By late afternoon, everyone had enough of math for the day and we switched to Science. We were doing "Diversity of Animals" and h...

Leo was working hard again after lunch. He was eating apples at the same time, great multi-tasking ! Leo is a playful boy but he is very q...

Lunch was spaghetti with beef bolognaise. Everybody loved it except Max. Max said tomatoes are his lifelong enemies. To my surprise, he f...

Royce is a very quick learner. He said he hates models in the beginning of the camp but at the end of it, he was producing such great models...

Having the addition and subtraction worksheets, the boys went for their well-deserved fun break. Max was challenging Marcus to a game of ch...

This is Max working very hard. He is the most conscientious of the lot and he is also very fast in math ! He has no problem with Numbers to...

Very soon, it was time for tea break. Everyone had home made freshly baked garlic & parsley bread. The spread is made from garlic, par...

After an orientation, the boys were settling down to start on their worksheets. We started with a simple game of "Where to place my di...

Marcus is showing everyone the redemption basket, from which they can pick a reward of their choice once their YYC card is completely filled...

Welcome to ClubNAKO's 3-Day Math & Science Camp ! As the year end examination is coming soon, the objective of this 3-Day Math ...

And that marks the end of our Learning Journey to the IBN Open House. I'm  sure the boys will remember the broken bones of the pig and ...

So, hands up anyone who wants to be a scientist ? No hands ? The tour guide who brought us around was really good. He was very patient wi...

The boys were visibly tired after almost 3 hours of lab tours. We saw how tissues were built like a construction scaffolding, how artifical...

Due to confidentiality of the scientists' research, no photographs were allowed inside the labs. We first stopped at Biosensors and Bi...

There were many primary schools here today with the auditorium almost filled to the brim. They all came in big groups from ACS, St. Margare...

Through presentation and exciting lab tours, students will be able to discover IBN's interdisciplinary research, which integrates scienc...

Joshua is having nuggets, Marcus is having his usual fish fillet and Max is having Mcwings. Max said he can eat eight at a go ! Spicy, aren...

Joining us today to the Open House at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology are Joshua, Marcus and Max. The IBN open house ai...

Linus: What is this ? Where is your NEWater bottle ? Royce: Oh, my maid accidentally threw it away, luckily, I still have the strap.. Li...

See what I mean between Royce and Linus ? Royce is such a sweet boy. He has been taking care of Linus all night. That includes tieing hi...

And that concludes our Friday Kids Night Out at the Singapore Art Museum. I hope everyone had a good time and we hope to see you again. W...

Max is working on another puzzle. They were racing each other to see who can complete the puzzle first. Its two against one, so no prize ...

After our thoughts provocative visit to The Learning Gallery, we thanked our musuem guide and went on to the hands on exhibits. Royce and ...

If you had noticed, Linus has been around Royce all night. These two have really taken an affinity to each other. Perhaps Royce finds him c...

Linus wants to know how the woman in the picture can be young and old at the same time. Valid question.. Why is there a cake ? Is she cel...

This is an artwork showing a young woman on the left and the same woman on the right who has grown old. It attempts to show us the cycle of ...

What does the banana remind you of ? Yes, a smile ! The clowns on top of the banana are trying to remind you to smile. You do not need gol...

Our museum  guide is really good. You can tell that she is really passionate about art and very eager to share it with the children. She ...

Benjamin was still looking at the hybrid. What was he thinking of ? There are many hybrids around us in  everyday lives. Recently, a ...

The next exhibit explained to the children is "The Hybrid". "The hybrid" is a human body with a rabbit's head. Thi...

Listening to the museum guide, Royce seems to be in deep thoughts. What is he thinking of ? It turned out that "The Bird Cage" ...

This exhibit shows a family made from paper shreds caged in a bird cage. It encouraged the children to think if we are also living in a bird...

This is a very good group of students from Catholic High. You can see that they are listening attentively to the museum guide and thinking ...

The current show is on "Everyday Objects". It provokes the children to take a second look at the familiar things around them. T...

This is the first time Bai Qi, Royce, Max & Benjamin are visiting the Singapore Art Museum. We started with The Learning Gallery as it i...

Bai Qi appears to be the most popular boy in class as he has so many of his friends' telephone numbers. Marcus is trying to key them in ...

Linus is joining out trip for the first time. He has been looking forward to it as he is also going to Catholic High next year and he can...

Max and Royce checking out Marcus' new handphone on the way to the Singapore Art Museum. Kids are very tech-savvy these days. They fig...

Joining us today on our Friday Kids' Night Out to the Singapore Art Museum are Bai Qi, Benjamin, Royce, Max, Marcus and Linus. We are ta...