24th May 2018
With the FIFA World Cup now drawing closer, we've gone a bit footie mad. You can see the first results in the newsletter below. If your kids are footie mad too, keep checking the website over the next few days because we've got lots more to come.
You'll also find some fun new alphabet printables, the next two in our new "illuminated alphabet" colouring collection, weather puzzles and dot to dots and a really remarkable "famous person" of the week - Mae Jemison. And Shelly has some great ideas for Ice Cream Maths in this week's guest post!
If you are wondering why you've had so many emails this week about GDPR and Privacy Policies, it's because we legally have to tell you by 25th May what we've done. So here goes...
We've updated our Privacy Statement to comply with the EU's new General Data Protection Regulation. Having looked into everything very carefully we have decided to go above and beyond what's required, reduced cookies to the bare minimum and simplified our Privacy Statement, Cookie Policy and Terms and Conditions too. For us it has all about keeping your personal information as safe and private as possible and making the website as useful for you as we can.
And now, on with what's new this week!
Activity Village Membership ...
We now have over 28,915 printable activities available to our Activity Village Members - and we are adding more nearly every day (2405 this year already!) If you haven't joined up yet, you can browse the website to see what we offer and find out about becoming a member here.
What happens when your Membership year is up? We don't renew automatically but we dosend an email alerting you when your year expires. After expiry, simply log in to the website and you will find a link to our renewal page.
What's New at Activity Village ...
These 3D Alphabet Posters are big and bold and cheerful and fun and 3D! The posters are all capital letters and each one has a boy or a girl standing next to the letter.
We've chosen the letters S and F for this week's illuminated alphabet colouring pages
We've added 3 new word sudoku puzzles for our weather topic
We've added even more weather word puzzles - 3 new word searches this week
Learning about the remarkable Mae Jemison
Explore our new World Cup group kit printables - Home and Away kits for 32 countries! Use them with ...
... our World Cup kit worksheets - a fun way to practise following instructions!
We've added to our collection with these new football handwriting worksheets
And finally this week, we've put together an interesting collection of World Cup 2018 worksheets.
This Week's Guest Post
In her latest Guest Post, Shelly shows us lots of fun ways to work on maths with our ice cream cones - from simple counting to number bonds and times tables!
A Little Bit of Fun ...
"When your mother asks "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or not, you're going to get it anyway."
Erma Bombeck
Erma Bombeck
"It's amazing how quickly kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower or vaccuum cleaner..."
Ben Bergor
Ben Bergor
"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
Franklin P Jones
Franklin P Jones
New Parent Idea:
1. Take pictures of you pulling baby out of spacecraft in forest.
2. Hide pictures in attic for kids to find when he's 10.
Matt Roller
1. Take pictures of you pulling baby out of spacecraft in forest.
2. Hide pictures in attic for kids to find when he's 10.
Matt Roller
Recipe for Iced Coffee:
1. Have kids
2. Make coffee
3. Forget you made coffee
4. Drink it cold
Toni Hammer
1. Have kids
2. Make coffee
3. Forget you made coffee
4. Drink it cold
Toni Hammer
"When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you."
Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron
Coming Up Soon ...
8th June: World Oceans Day
9th June: The Queen's Birthday (official)
14th June - 15th July: FIFA World Cup
17th June: Father's Day
14th June: Eid al-Fitr
1st July: Canada Day
4th July: Fourth of July
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