30th August 2018
This week we are full of calendars and planners - for the year ahead and for home ed / homeschool planning too. We continue our tour of the Commonwealth, get lost in a bundle of school mazes, try some size sorting, play Sarah's football tournament game (genius!) and lots more.
And last but not least, Shelly's guest post this week has some great ideas for an All About Me topic with the kids. Explore below!
Activity Village Membership ...
We now have over 30,755 printable activities available to our Activity Village Members - and we are adding more nearly every day (over 3870 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.
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What's New?
For those of you who start planning early, we've just added our 2019 planner pages to the website.
Sort by size order and by "big" and "small" with these pretty new size sorting activities with a weather theme.
Grandparents' Day is coming up soon. Stay in touch with these lovely new Grandparents' Day cards!
Those of you who have enjoyed Sarah's World Cup football tournament game over the years will be very pleased to hear that she has turned her hand to a new football tournament game which can be played year round, year in and year out!
Great for "back to school" but fun for any time, really, these two new packs of school themed mazes include 10 mazes each, starting easy and working up progressively until they are very hard indeed.
We've added to our collection of school scrapbook paper designs
Learn all about our Famous Person of the Week - Alexander Fleming
We've been adding to our collection of home education planners with a big range of termly planning pages...
... and these useful planning pages (some perfect for home, library and classroom use too)
Our tour of the Commonwealth takes us first to Brunei this week ...
and we've also been learning about Cameroon.
That means we have two new colouring pages of the national flowers of Commonwealthcountries too, perfect for adults or older kids to colour. Featuring Brunei's simpur and Cameroon's red stinkwood (prettier than its name!)
Have You Seen?
Extra cute Kokeshi Doll activities!
This Week's Guest Post
Shelly's guest post features some great ideas in action for an "All About Me" post, including "things that make me happy", descriptive words, measurements, family tree and our kids' passport...
Something A Little Different ...
A third week of riddles to share with the kids.
Riddles:
1. How high do you have to count before you can see the letter A in the spelling of the number?
2. There is an ancient invention still used in some parts of the world today that allows people to see through walls. What is it?
3. How do you make the number one disappear by adding to it?
4. What is the only question you can't answer yes to?
5. What comes first, chicken or egg?
6. There are several books on a bookshelf. If one book is the 4th from the left and 6th from the right, how many books are on the shelf?
7. What goes up and never comes down?
8. What word of the following list is the odd one out.
cat hat sat bat rat splat fat or flat
Answers:
1. One thousand.
2. A window.
3. Add a G to make "gone".
4. Are you dead? (if you are!)
5. Chicken - in the dictionary!
6. Nine. Try making a sketch to see how it works.
7. Your age.
8. Or - it doesn't end in "at".
Coming Up Soon ...
August / September: Back to School
August / September: Not Back to School
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