Activity Village Newsletter 27th June 2008

Lindsay's Web Picks

Those of you who enjoy paper models will go wild over this site, which is absolutely packed full of wonderful printables, many educational (and some very difficult). Enough to fill up a year of rainy days, and use up quite a lot of printer ink too!
http://cp.c-ij.com/english/index.html

Very good site about bullying with advice and very useful downloadable booklets for both parents and kids
http://bullies2buddies.com/manual/kids/index.html

Excellent game for 8-12 year olds
http://www.globalgang.org/funandgames/
games/citizenship/game.htm
After a storm, children from around the world and very diverse backgrounds are lost at sea. Survival skills are needed to get the ‘Global Gang’ home safely. The only way back to land is by completing a series of tasks, including building a shelter, fishing for food, collecting water and navigating through dangerous waters. As each child has special skills which contribute to the team effort, the game cleverly introduces the concepts of respect and co-operation.

There are some very cute labels to print out here for Holly Hobbie fans
http://www.landolakes.com/promotions/
HHFreeGiftGivingLabels.cfm

99 ways to say "very good"
http://www.careerlab.com/99ways.htm

Free printable cards – choose your design and personalise your greeting before you print or email these cards for all occasions (includes some new coloring cards which we particularly like).
https://www.mycardmaker.com/flash.html?

Lots and lots and lots of nursery rhymes to print out
http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/
wil/rimes_and_rhymes.htm

Beautiful "capital letter" coloring pages for older kids featuring realistic animals and foliage.
http://www.everythingpreschool.com/
coloringpages/Alphabet-Coloring-Book.php

Four letter words – what to do about it when children start using them!
http://www.nncc.org/Guidance/
sac14_4letter.words.html

Wonderful bookplates to print for your children
http://www.myhomelibrary.org/bookplates.html

This is an animated maths dictionary for kids with over 600 definitions – well worth a look
http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/

(For seasonal and holiday links please also see: Summer links, Canada Day links and 4th of July links).

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Activity Village News

27th June 2008

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