idli, a white steamed UFO
A puzzle with tiny balls like that in Ball in a maze (we played the one where the balls had to be manoeuvred) puzzle to forms stars in the flag
Perplexus, a 3D version.

heard of this from a kid who likes books on snakes, sports. He is reading harry Potter too. Dragon one is his favourite so far.

Time Turner. She had done a nice sketch of a pony. I pointed to her kids T-shirt with Dr.Hooves on it.

Primary education

Mpuke

Lance of Kanana

The primary education talked of a truck farm in 1920 referring to industrial scale. But now a real Truck farm. over the weekend, I saw a hotdog metal box on wheels being driven on freeway as a tag along. At Hawaii festival they had chickens in rotisserie in what looked like the back of a low truck.

Parenting around the world

Tips for parenting by buying less

Japanese kids carry their own handkerchiefs

Primary education - a funny book from 1920
Blue's Clues
Doro dango

Pool opening ceremony Japan
Japanese- My first Errand
Forest kindergarten
pg-153 children learn by making and breaking their own rules.

Alice in the wonderland goes high school

Growing up, we enjoyed an ad for oil where a puri (fried/puffed mini tortilla) rolls down a heap, and a kid has to watch out for that. It was a feast on the table, but the change in the perspective like from the 'Honey, I shrunk the kids', awakens us to our surroundings.
Lenny, the son of scientists is in love with a girl and he's about to change her mind about him at the molecular level. With the power vested in sciences - physics, microbiology, he finds his way into his girl's blood and is hitch hiking to her brain. All the friends (Astrocyte) and foes, he meets on the way of crossing Blood brain barrier make up for a great imagination in progress. To learn and remember the stuff like Perforin in here would take a long time and wouldn't last long in the head if we were to do it from a science textbook. I am taken by the technical in the book. But there's a play going on. You know how it is, when a play is to happen in high school. Drama.
The book alternates with chapters from 3 different point of views. Dan Brown style going on in terms of the frenzy shift.
It reminded me of the 'natural history of things' by Diane Ackerman and 'stiff' by Mary Roach. While these books are static knowledge, the middles schoolers like some action with their vitamin K. If you like knowing things in general and insides of human body in particular, you are in for a read. Watch out for those NKs (natural Killers).
There's a reference to Lunching with sharks.

anti-war poetry and the oxymoron of liberal fathers