As global mobility and virtual learning expand, more children are raised in bilingual environments. Bilingual education not only helps children adapt to new cultures but also enhances cognitive skills and future career opportunities. At Kinder Academy, the Dual Language Immersion Model enables young learners to fluently use both English and Vietnamese in speaking, listening, and literacy. Through engaging activities in science, art, and physical development, children grow confident in both languages while maintaining cultural heritage. Though bilingual education requires extra effort, its long-term benefits in brain development and communication skills are well worth it.

Children naturally explore the world, and art supports this by allowing creative, unstructured learning. Artistic play builds problem-solving, observation, and critical thinking skills. While the popular right-brain/left-brain theory—suggesting right-brain dominance boosts creativity—has been debunked, it still inspired valuable teaching methods. Roger Sperry’s research led to widespread belief that the right brain handles intuition and creativity, while the left manages logic. Though both hemispheres work together, the theory helped artists develop new techniques. Books like Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain show how changing thinking patterns can enhance creativity. Ultimately, art remains a powerful tool for brain development and expression.

Teaching children age-appropriate decision-making builds confidence, creativity, and responsibility. Instead of overwhelming kids with too many options, offer two or three choices to help them think and choose wisely. Gradually, decisions can become more significant as they grow. Allowing children to decide fosters six key benefits: fewer tantrums, stronger self-esteem, a sense of self-worth, responsibility, creativity, and better problem-solving. Even small daily choices—like what to wear or eat—empower children and prepare them for adulthood. Encouraging their independence from a young age lays a strong foundation for confident, capable, and resilient future decision-makers.

Research shows a strong link between environmental factors and the rise in myopia (shortsightedness) among children. Spending more time outdoors reduces myopia risk, while indoor activities like gaming increase it. A study from King’s College London found additional risk factors: summer birth, highly educated mothers, and less outdoor time. Surprisingly, children born via fertility treatment had lower odds of myopia. While genetics play a role, the sharp rise in cases—especially in East Asia—points to modern lifestyle pressures. Experts stress the importance of outdoor activity in childhood to slow myopia progression and reduce risks of future vision-threatening conditions.

Kinder Academy emphasizes the importance of play both at school and home, highlighting 9 key benefits. Play helps grow bigger brains, enhances early development, boosts IQ, memory, and creativity. It strengthens communication, vocabulary, and emotional regulation. Through play, children develop social competence, empathy, better health, and the ability to cope with life challenges. Most importantly, play fosters stronger parent-child bonds. According to The Genius of Play, 92% of parents agree that play supports creativity, social skills, and learning, while also offering a valuable opportunity to bond with their children and teach important life lessons through joyful interactions.

The Pygmalion Effect, or Rosenthal Effect, shows how expectations influence outcomes. When children learn to walk, we encourage them with belief—they succeed. Rosenthal’s experiment involved students training rats they believed were either gifted or average. The "gifted" rats outperformed due to positive treatment. This was replicated with schoolchildren: randomly selected students were falsely reported as high-IQ. A year later, these students showed significant IQ gains. The study proves that belief and encouragement from others can shape a person's actual performance. Conclusion: the more we believe in and support our children, the more they grow and succeed.

The Reggio Emilia approach, founded by Loris Malaguzzi after World War II, emphasizes that children are the future and capable of expressing themselves in "a hundred languages." It promotes creativity, collaboration, and exploration, allowing children to learn through play, art, and interaction with peers, teachers, and the environment—seen as the "third teacher." Learning is interdisciplinary, emerging from children's interests and supported by strong community and parental involvement. This philosophy fosters autonomy, critical thinking, and social-emotional growth, preparing children for a complex, ever-changing world. Reggio Emilia remains a powerful model for 21st-century education focused on sustainability and human potential.

The IB Inquirer Busy Bees made an inquiry into how people use their senses to understand of scientific principles. Committed to discover the Central Idea of discovering interrelationships between living things and their environments we investigated our school area and looked for our own object of interest and presented them to the class.