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Activity Village News5th June 2009 A Message From LindsayWe've got some super new craft ideas this week, both for Father's Day and on a "summer" theme. You will also find new printables and some new outdoor group game ideas below. Don't forget we have a huge (and growing) database of kids games and activities for you to dip into over the summer holidays - always useful when you are stuck for inspiration! Don't forget to check out my web picks (in the right hand column) - there's plenty more in there this week to help you keep the kids busy! And I also wanted to draw your attention to one of the latest addition's to our Parenting Library, the article Aren't They All Our Children?, which moved me to tears when I read it. Finally, I'd like to tell you about an appeal/competition we are running this week to find 3 testers for a new product, "Vocabulary Busters", which we will be launching over the summer. Vocabulary Busters will be one of the few paid products at Activity Village, and is a subscription-based weekly vocabulary development kit - I can't tell you how excited I am about it!. Each week subscribers will receive a complete set of printables, worksheets and extension activities which will introduce themed words in a fun and hands-on way, with the aim of broadening and extending your child's vocabulary. There will be extra surprises every month to reinforce learning (we don't want to give away too much yet, but these will include online interactive quizzes to help kids review what they've learned) and we are aiming to keep the children interested and enjoying every minute! There will be Home and Teacher versions of Vocabulary Busters. The Home version, which will run for 52 weeks on a monthly subscription basis, will be launched first. Soon afterwards we will launch the Teacher version, a 36 week course available with a one-off payment. Both will be very good value! We will be adding different levels to Vocabulary Busters, too, so that you can work with children of different ages and abilities at the same time. If you have children aged 6-8, would like to receive the course for free, and would be willing to give us feedback on Vocabulary Busters as well as test the delivery system for us, please email me (editor-at-activityvillage.co.uk, replacing -at- with @) telling me your name, the age of your child/children, and which country you come from. Please email by Thursday 11th June. I will select three names out of a hat and inform the winners by next Friday, 12th June. Coming up soon:
21st June - Father's Day If your child has made use of our craft ideas or printables, we'd love to share the results here! Drop me a line by emailing editor-at-activityvillage.co.uk (replace -at- with @)
What's New At Activity Village?
We've also been continuing to update our popular Coloring Page Database, and the following pages have been checked, added to and otherwise refreshed: 101 Dalmatians
coloring pages
A Giggle!"A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women,
an occasional animal, and the common cold."
Have You Seen?
A Video To Enjoy With The Kids..
Something To Think About.."You can't use up creativity. Creative thinking builds on itself and
increases the creativity of the thinker... You can’t use up creativity.
The more you use, the more you have."
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Lindsay's Web PicksWonderful booklets to help children explore
nature during the four seasons from The Woodland Trust (and while you
are there, click around the sound for a huge collection of great nature
printables) A fantastic new resource - "gathering together
the very best films and photographs of the world's species into one
centralised digital library, to create a unique audio-visual record of
life on Earth. Preserved and maintained for future generations, ARKive
is making this key resource accessible to all, from scientists and
conservationists to the general public and school children, via its
award-winning website..." Free audio books for children to download I love this idea for making newspaper beads - an
excellent "recycling" project for a rainy afternoon! Type in your spelling list and use this online
"look cover write check" game to make learning them fun! Latest Articles...
Dealing With Difficult People
Help Your Child Cope With
Moving Away
How To Help Your Child
Overcome Anxiety
Helping Your Child Adjust
To Divorce
Frugal Family Entertainment - How to Have Low Cost Family Fun
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