16th August 2018
This week we are beginning to think about Back to School - and we've started a long overdue revamp of our dinosaur pages! Our Famous Person of the Week has a link to dinosaurs, too.
We've also continued our travels around the Commonwealth - "visiting" Bangladesh and Barbados. That means two pretty new flower colouring pages too.
Finally, don't miss our latest guest blog posts. Shelly and her kids have made 4 really spectacular mobiles using some of our templates, and Sarah B and her children have been having some fabulous crafty fun with animals.
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What's New?
These fun school day diary writing prompts ask the kids to put themselves into the shoes of the people around them at school and write a diary for the day.
And we haven't stopped with school - we have all sorts of professions here in this brand new collection of "people who help us" diary writing prompts.
Here are some new size sorting activities with school and "back to school" in mind.
We've been learning about Mary Anning - fossil hunter and discoverer of dinosaurs.
Have some fun with the kids, learning to draw our friendly dinosaurs.
And here's a fun collection of new dinosaur tracing pages designed for younger children.
We continue our tour around the Commonwealth with these fun new resources on Bangladesh today. We've covered geography, food, wildlife, culture, climate and lots of facts...
and then we've moved on to our next stop, Barbados.
We've also added two new national flowers of Commonwealth countries - the water lily or shapla and the "Pride of Barbados"
Have You Seen?
Our boggler puzzles are great for playing solo, in small groups or in the classroom...and we've got all sorts to choose from - many more than pictured here!
Have you seen our Pirates collection? We've got something for all ages and lots for Talk Like A Pirate Day coming up in September, too.
Over to our Guest Bloggers...
Shelly and her kids get crafty and make 4 fabulous mobiles!
Sarah B and her kids have made a scrunchy paper plate lion and some oh-so-cute footprint sloths!
Something A Little Different ...
This week I thought it might be fun to include a few riddles that you can share and enjoy with the kids. Answers below.
Riddles:
1. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?
2. What type of cheese is made backwards?
3. What gets wetter as it dries?
4. What has to be broken before you can use it?
5. Why can’t a man living in London be buried in Manchester?
6. How many letters are there in the English alphabet?
7. Which month has 28 days?
8. What two things can you never eat for breakfast?
9. Seven frogs are sitting on a log. One of them decides to jump off of the log. How many frogs are on the log?
10. Everybody has me and nobody can lose me. What am I?
Answers:
1. Short
2. Edam
3. A towel
4. An egg
5. Because he is still living!
6. There are 18: 3 in ‘the’, 7 in ‘English’ and 8 in ‘alphabet’.
7. All of them of course!
8. Lunch and dinner!
9. Still seven. He decided but he hasn't jumped yet.
10. A shadow.
Coming Up Soon ...
August / September: Back to School
August / September: Not Back to School
21st - 25th August: Eid al-Adha
2nd September- Father's Day (Australia and New Zealand)
9th September: Grandparent's Day (US)
13th September: Roald Dahl Day
19th September: Talk Like A Pirate Day
21st September: Peace Day
September / October - Harvest Festival
4th October: World Animal Day
7th October: Grandparent's Day (UK)
8th October: Canadian Thanksgiving
8th October: Columbus Day
8th - 14th October: National Libraries Week (UK)
31st October: Halloween
And don't forget you can click through to our Holiday Calendar to explore our resources by upcoming holiday and event. Get your planning done and activities printed out in plenty of time!
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All the best until next time!
Lindsay Small
www.ActivityVillage.co.uk