Welcome to this special episode 🎥 in the series by Little Rainbow Academy Ireland to inspire thinking together at home. Today we present a story from ancient China, inspired by the book Adventures in Philosophy. To celebrate this year's Cruinniú na nÓg we ask you (children age 9-12) to interpret the story with some art medium (drawing, clay, lego blocks, recycled materials) and send the picture of it to us before 13th June and we'll invite you to an online Zoom session to talk about your work AND we'll draw a winner of the book presented in our video. #CreativeIreland All details on how to participate here: https://www.littlerainbowireland.com/cruinniu-na-nog-2020

Welcome to episode 7 🎥 in the series by Little Rainbow Academy Ireland to inspire thinking together at home. Today the boys will take you on a journey through time when they come across a time machine in our garden. We've listed all the questions at the end of the video for you so you can come back to them after finishing the video and discuss later. Some of the questions were inspired by Peter Worley's "40 lessons to get children thinking". Read about how to discuss philosophical questions with your child on our blog: https://www.littlerainbowireland.com/post/how-to-ask-your-child-philosophy-question If you and your family did come up with any cool answers please send us a message or comment on our FB page. Stay tuned for some more videos to inspire thinking. Please like, share, and subscribe to our channel to not miss out on the new videos. Visit our website to learn more about us www.littlerainbowireland.com

What's the most important job in the world? Can you do nothing? Welcome to episode 6 🎥 in the series by Little Rainbow Academy Ireland to inspire thinking together at home. Today's topic is working and doing nothing, inspired by children's story "Frederick" by Leo Lionni. As usual we've listed all the questions at the end of the video for you so you can come back to them after finishing the video and discuss later. Some of the questions were inspired by Peter Worley's "The If Machine" and "40 lessons to get children thinking". If you and your family did come up with any cool answers please send us a message or comment on our FB page. Stay tuned for some more videos to inspire thinking. Please like, share and subscribe to our channel to not miss out on the new videos.Visit our website to learn more about us www.littlerainbowireland.com

Episode 5 🎥 in the series by Little Rainbow Academy Ireland to inspire thinking together at home. Today's topic is lying. In my own book Filozofuj z dziećmi (Philosophise with children), published last year, I wrote few short stories to start conversations on philosophical topics. Instead of reading the story from the book, the boys will play out a little drama and then I'll ask you some questions about lying. As usual we've listed all the questions at the end of the video for you so you can come back to them after finishing the video and discuss later. If you and your family did come up with any cool answers please send us a message or comment on our FB page. Stay tuned for some more videos to inspire thinking. Please like, share and subscribe to our channel to not miss out on the new videos.Visit our website to learn more about us www.littlerainbowireland.com

Episode 4 🎥 in the series by Little Rainbow Academy Ireland to inspire thinking together at home. Today, let's look at a story without words "La forêt en mon coeur" (the forest in my heart) with wonderful illustrations by Adolfo Serra. Together with the boys, we'll consider some serious questions about nature and some less serious too. We've listed all the questions at the end of the video for the parents so you can come back to them after finishing the video. If you and your family did come up with any cool answers please add them in the comment section. Stay tuned for some more videos to inspire thinking. Subscribe to our channel to not miss out on the new videos.

The third video 🎥 in the series by Little Rainbow Academy Ireland to inspire thinking together at home. Today, inspired by a classic children story, Dragons and Giants from the series Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel, we're going to think about what does it mean being brave. We've listed all the questions at the end of the video for the parents so you can come back to them after finishing the video. If you and your family did come up with any cool answers please add them in the comment section. Stay tuned for some more videos to inspire thinking. Subscribe to our channel to not miss out on the new videos.

Our second video 🎥 in the series by Little Rainbow Academy Ireland to inspire thinking together at home. In this episode, it'ss all about a very important question - Why?. The story tells us bout a little girl whose curiosity saves the world from aliens' invasion. As usual, we ask you some questions too. So if you and your family did come up with any cool answers please add them in the comment section. Stay tuned for some more videos to inspire thinking. Subscribe to our channel to not miss out on the new videos.

Here is the first video 🎥 in the series (please be forgiving) to inspire thinking together at home. We've based this one on the lovely little book we got at Tertulia Books Westport "I have an idea" by Herve Tullet. We'll start by thinking about what is an idea 💡 as this the main concern of this book and then we invite you to discuss some questions with your family with a little activity. 🤓 Enjoy! And stay tuned for the next video in the coming days.