Ticket to Nashville- Solo Recital

Our homeschooling daughter Amrita Soon, will be turning 16 next February, and she would like to visit Nashville to attend the Country Music Festival there in June 2012. As a fundraiser for the trip, she is planning a singing gig:  

Ticket to Nashville

Ever since Amrita discovered Miley Ray Cyrus, Taylor Swift’s (eventually a host other musicians)  music at age 12, she was hooked on country music. She started learning the guitar (daddy taught her the only 3 chords that he knew – the rest, she figured them out herself with the help of YouTube!).  She spent hours in [...]

A – Z of Homeschooling: M is for movies, magic and music.

M is for movies, magic and music. Our kids are movie buffs, thanks to their dad.

Selamat Hari Raya

Here’s wishing you a very Selamat Hari Raya from us at CLiC. Enjoy your holidays with your family and do drive safely!

Teach students, not subjects

Learning Beyond Schooling to us is not just getting out of the school building. It is about taking a totally different mindset to a shift in paradigm. Learning beyond schooling is a process (learning process even) to redefine the whole concept of education and learning in relation to our children and their environment.  Sir Ken [...]

Making the Home a Positive Education Environment (Dr Latif Kamaluddin, 2000)

This was a paper presented the FamilyPlace Education Forum held on July 29, 2000 by Dr Latif Kamaluddin (Reported by Lydia Teh) *We hope you find this useful and insightful coming from a parent and educationist. KVWL I don’t have any solutions or recipes for you. But what might help is to look at two things. [...]

PARENT-INITIATED PLAYGROUPS (Chong Wai Leng, 2000)

  Continuing our previously published articles on FAMILYPLACE (a project funded by DAGS), might be useful to some. FamilyPlace was the predecessor of  Learning Beyond Schooling when our children were very young and reflected our thoughts as young(er parents). This article was a workshop paper delivered at the OMEP’s Asia & The Pacific Seminar & [...]

July 9, 2011 – great learning opportunity!

On 9 July, KV walked at the BERSIH 2.0 rally in KL. Witnessed Malaysian from all walks of life come together for a better Malaysia. Some braved teargas & brutal forces of the police, yet stood their ground. Lot’s of stories for the children and hopefully they learn that it is important to make a stand and [...]

Hey, we are in the running….

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR VOTE AND SUPPORT – EVEN IF WE DID NOT WIN, MORE PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT US AND OUR WORK THANK YOU!

Art @de Park

 CLiC kids have been spending time with nature and drawing and painting (parents included) It’s a time to just let go, explore and get in touch with your creativity! This is education, holistically You are welcome to join us for this sessions. It is held at the Kota Kemuning Park (unless otherwise stated) on Friday [...]

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