31st May 2018 (Just!)
This week it's been mostly about the upcoming FIFA World Cup, with a few extra bits and pieces thrown in too...
Activity Village Membership ...
We now have over 29,095 printable activities available to our Activity Village Members - and we are adding more nearly every day (over 2595 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 ...
By special request, we've created an A5 version of last week's 3D Alphabet Posters . Print at A4 size and then slice in half!
An abundance of football mazes! We've added 2 packs of 10 mazes each - enough to keep the kids busy for a while!
We've been adding to our collection of soccer puzzles...
...and created some new World Cup puzzles too.
We've added some exciting new World Cup printables, including bookmarks, bunting, great fact-finding booklets and lots more besides!
We've got some great new World Cup games to play - including an exciting "tournament" game with spinners or dice and lots of scoring that will keep the kids busy for a while!
We've also added some fun general soccer themed printable games for you to tackle.
We've updated and expanded our Lionel Messi page ...
... and our David Beckham page ...
... and our Cristiano Ronaldo page!
This week we've added to our Illuminated alphabet colouring pages and cards with letters A and T
And finally, we've been learning about measuring the weather
This Week's Guest Post
This week Shelly shares with us how she and her kids have been enjoying some of our Famous People pages, and what they have discovered...
Footballers' Words of Wisdom ...
"You can't score a goal if you don't take a shot."
Johan Cruyff
Johan Cruyff
"Scoring goals is a great feeling, but the most important thing to me is that the team is successful - it doesn't matter who scores the goals as long as we're winning."
Christiano Ronaldo
Christiano Ronaldo
"True heroes are made of hard work and integrity."
Hope Solo (US female goalkeeper)
Hope Solo (US female goalkeeper)
"I don't need the best hairstyle or the best body, just give me a ball at my feet and I'll show you what I can do."
Lionel Messi
Lionel Messi
"Work hard to get good, then work harder to get better."
Jose Mourinho
Jose Mourinho
"Football is a simple game .Twenty-two men (or women) chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win."
Gary Linekar
Gary Linekar
"The secret is to believe in your dreams; in your potential that you can be like your star, keep searching, keep believing and don’t lose faith in yourself."
Neymar
Neymar
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